“I would probably pitch a different pantheon…”. Monolith Productions — the company behind games like No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor — once pitched a video game adaptation of John Carpenter’s 1986 film Big Trouble In Little China to Fox. That’s according to a recent interview between Time Extension and…
Dune: Awakening’s PvP meta has evolved—on the sand-blasted lands of Arrakis, one weapon has been dominating all others. That weapon is ‘let’s repeatedly try and squish someone with our ornithopters like we’re the world’s most inefficient flock of seagulls fighting over a single chip’. As observed by Bombe18 on the game’s subreddit, vehicles in Dune:…
Co-authored. In many ways, Split Fiction feels like the culmination of everything Hazelight Studios has accomplished in the co-op space. The journey began with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, a charming fantasy that required solo players to coordinate both thumbs to control two characters simultaneously. The studio then progressed to A Way Out, a…
A brand new world? Mario Kart World is finally out, making it the first proper new mainline entry in over a decade. Chances are if you’ve bought a Switch 2, then you’ve probably bought Mario Kart World too, so we’re eager to see exactly what you make of it so far. Before we do, however,…
You’re probably not meant to do that. It’s a hectic old time, is this new console business. There are new games, new hardware, new bits and bobs of every description to read up on, buy and, if you’re a delivery driver, to get safely from warehouse to customers’ homes. Of course, not all delivery drivers…
How does it hold up? Given the improved specs in the recently released Switch 2, it’s not entirely surprising that the system’s battery can’t quite keep up with its predecessor’s (though with the increased size, one has to imagine that Nintendo could stuff a bigger one in there). But just how good / bad is…
AI summaries are all up in our search engines these days, and I think it’s fair to say the response has been varied to date. The Wikipedia editor community, however, appears to have taken a strong stance on a recently proposed experiment by the Wikimedia Foundation to add AI-generated summaries at the top of Wiki…
Cities: Skylines 2’s latest patch includes a bunch of new fixes, and introduces actual quays and piers, which means players no longer need to play Frankenstein with their shoreline. “We’ve seen how you have used the cut-and-fill roads to create makeshift quays in your cities, but we also know how challenging they can be to…
Steel meets shadow! Having recently been slated for a July 31st release date on Nintendo Switch, the upcoming — and very exciting — Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound will now also receive two physical editions. Get in! Silver Lining Interactive has an assortment of physical editions of this Dotemu/The Game Kitchen collaboration (just two of the best…
“There is no way to make that make sense”. Earlier this year, it was announced that on-demand book publisher Unbound had slipped into administration following “cash-flow” problems, an event which led to many of its authors not getting paid royalties from book sales. Unbound, founded in 2011, produced books using a crowdfunding system, where customers…