What’s the audience like for a light-touch remaster of a 21-year-old RTS? Especially one that’s being sold for full price? (Though owners of the original do get a 30% launch discount, to be fair.) Turns out, it’s pretty decent. As Relic boasted on Twitter, Dawn of War’s remaster sold 150,000 copies in less than 24…
In a recent interview with MrMattyPlays, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah talked about how player expectations for Dragon Age 2 as a full sequel to Dragon Age: Origins may have damaged the more experimental RPG’s reception at launch. “In terms of the project I was most proud of, in a lot of ways I would…
By the end of my brief time playing The Children of Clay, a free horror game available on Steam, I had taken my headphones off and was holding myself away from the screen as I selected each action. It was a bright and cheery morning around 11 AM, the sun was shining, my coffee warm,…
“I had the surreal experience of building an open-world, post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game in the Wasteland universe for Brian Fargo,” says Brian Hicks. “Not knowing that Fallout 76 was a thing and coming.” The announcement of Bethesda’s Fallout MMO was just the first bomb to detonate over the development of InXile’s survival game. When the…
We’d give our right Joy-Con 2. The first months of Switch 2’s life have seen plenty of multiplatform games arrive on Nintendo’s newest console — winners like Cyberpunk 2077, No Man’s Sky, Apex Legends, and Yakuza 0 to name a handful — and its extra power affords devs the chance to bring newer, bigger, more…
Old Tom’s Well was never so quaint as its name suggested. I reflected on this fact as I fell into its depths, which had so far refused to provide the full stop of death. A spiralling green vortex, the well had long been a terrifying blot of ink in the story of my journey across…
Season 17 of Sea of Thieves has sailed silently into port, using the moonless night as cover while it unloads its contraband cargo of new features. The latest iteration of Rare’s multiplayer pirate sim introduces The Smugglers League, a furtive new faction that operates from six secret hideouts dotted across the game’s treacherous archipelago, offering…
Here’s a monster deal sure to be of interest to any wannabe Witcher. Humble Bundle is offering six of the Witcher’s RPG gamebooks—amounting to $170’s worth of roleplaying tomes—for just $15. The bundle gets you The Witcher TTRPG core rulebook, letting you play as nine different classes including bards, mages, merchants and doctors as well…
Get up, get up, get out of here! Though it may feel like the ‘quirky’ branch of indie JRPGs has become a played out trope by now, it wasn’t too long ago that a confusing, humorous, and parodying take on the standard template was seen as a novel concept. One of the most significant examples…