I practically heard the monkey’s paw curling a finger when Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow was revealed back in June. Here after more than a decade, was an honest-to-god new Thief game, one that brings back Stephen Russell to lend his gravelly tones to Garrett. “But you don’t get to play as him”, the antique…
Remedy Entertainment’s woes continue with FBC: Firebreak. The cooperative shooter proved a disappointment when it released in June, launching in an anaemic state, lacking basic features like in-game voice chat and a tutorial, and generally seeming like a compromised vision despite a few novel ideas. Its first major update, Breakpoint, went some way to addressing…
Someone’s Nooking at your door. Testing, testing. Is the Animalese-to-English translator up and running? It is? Good. Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we put Metroid Prime 2: Echoes under the microscope, and it was a pretty close-run contest. The North American / European design just clinched the win, in…
Online Arcade is also “coming soon”. Digital Eclipse launched its Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection this week, and while it’s a good history lesson, there are already plans to improve certain aspects of the game. This starts with a patch dropping today on Steam, with “other platforms” to follow next week. It will come with audio…
Drop into… Springfield! Epic’s free-to-play battle royale Fortnite has hosted all sorts of exciting collabs over the years, but this latest one, focused on the long-running cartoon series The Simpsons, arguably goes above and beyond. Players will be dropping into an 80-player cel-shaded Springfield Island, featuring a “back-to-basics” style Battle Royale experience. Each week will…
Remember Agent? After first mentioning it in 2007, Rockstar formally announced it in 2009—an espionage game in an open world, GTA meets James Bond, with all the cars-turning-into-submarines gadgetry that implies. After bouncing between different Rockstar studios for a while, Agent vanished off the radar, with its death finally being confirmed in 2021. In a…
Doom level designer Sandy Petersen has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to explain the closure of Ensemble Studios, where he worked in the 2000s. According to Petersen, Ensemble and its in-development Halo MMO were scuttled by Xbox boss Don Mattrick to protect a short-term, profit-based bonus he was elligible to receive. “In 2008, Ensemble Studios…
Draknek and Friends is a pretty reliable puzzle-maker, dropping a new worth-playing gem every few years. Now they’ve released Spooky Express, an update of their delightful 2017 Cosmic Express, just in time for a little spooky-themed fall puzzling. In a round of Spooky Express, your job is to lay out train tracks so that you…
Andrzej Sapkowski recently wrote a prequel to his Witcher novels, Crossroads of Ravens. At an event to publicize that novel, our colleagues at GamesRadar asked the author if he’d been involved in any part of the development of The Witcher 4. And he said, basically: nope. While explaining that the developers at CD Projekt Red…