Ace Combat 8 will feature custom cloud tech, but not just for prettier skies: ‘I personally am not particularly interested in improved visuals without improved functionality’

Revealed during last week’s Game Awards, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is a long-awaited return for anyone who’s yearned for AC’s pairing of photorealistic combat aircraft and anime-tier emotional intensity. But in an interview with Famitsu, series director Kazutoki Kono and AC8 producer Manabu Shimomoto said it’s more than another sequel: It’s a chance…

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Amazon sells a free-to-play MOBA it had in development, and the studio making it, to Ubisoft

Amazon’s slow, shambolic withdrawal from mainstream videogame development continued apace with today’s announcement that it has offloaded the free-to-play MOBA March of Giants, which is still in development, onto Ubisoft. The deal will also see Amazon Games Montreal, headed up by former Rainbow Six Siege creative director Xavier Marquis and Ubisoft Toronto managing director Alexandre…

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Everyone who thought Diablo 4’s original villain made some good points will be happy to know she’s coming back in its next expansion as an ally

With all the excitement for paladins coming to Diablo 4, you may have missed a tiny tease at the end of the cinematic for the Lord of Hatred expansion. It’s a short line from the end of the original campaign after defeating Lilith where she says, “Without me, you would have no victory.” Apparently, she…

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Everyone who thought Diablo 4’s original villain made some good points will be happy to know she’s coming back in its next expansion as an ally

With all the excitement for paladins coming to Diablo 4, you may have missed a tiny tease at the end of the cinematic for the Lord of Hatred expansion. It’s a short line from the end of the original campaign after defeating Lilith where she says, “Without me, you would have no victory.” Apparently, she…

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Fallout: New Vegas’ Mr. House was based on Howard Hughes, but the game’s lead writer says his sense of the character ‘has changed as we’ve seen the rise of Silicon Valley would-be messiahs’

The Fallout TV series returns this week, with season 2’s episodes dropping weekly until February. This season of the show has opted for the setting of New Vegas, and PCG’s Ted Litchfield recently had the opportunity to speak to the lead writer of Fallout: New Vegas, John Gonzalez. As well as some inconveniently correct observations…

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