The creator of X-Com isn’t worried about old fans not vibing with his new game: ‘It’s successful for people who have maybe not played any strategy at all’

“If they’re into the traditional turn-based hardcore stuff, it might not be for them,” says Julian Gollop, the man who gave us X-Com and ushered in decades of tense turn-based tactical challenges. He’s talking about his new game, the colourful, easy going Chip ‘N Clawz vs The Brainoids. With its Fortnite-adjacent aesthetic and focus on…

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Borderlands 4 shed its iconic UI and all it got was this stupid live service-y inventory that doesn’t let me filter my crap properly

In true looter shooter fashion, Borderlands 4 never stops throwing guns, shields, grenades, and weapon enhancements in my face. Loadout experimentation has always been the name of the game, which means regular pit stops to rifle through my backpack and decide what’ll get added to my arsenal and what’ll fund my future respawns. For a…

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I don’t want to give horror game devs any ideas but this chilling ‘sphere o’ mouths’ lip-syncing robot is haunting my dreams and I want it to stop

There I was last night, idly scrolling on my phone looking for interesting hardware news, when I stumbled across this absolute monstrosity, this dream-haunter, this affront to all that is good in this world. Okay, so it’s a pretty cool lip-syncing robot mouth project, but the results are so horrifying I demand that it be…

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