The trailer for Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow ends with the protagonist, a young woman named Magpie, finding a strange mechanical eye. Which then implants itself in her face. Before questions can be asked (like “What happened to her squishy real eye?”), a familiarly gruff voice declares, “I thought I was dead. And who are…
Digital Foundry interviewed CD Projekt Red and Epic about the Unreal Engine 5 tech demo for The Witcher 4 and it’s an interesting look at the state of the art when it comes to how many polygons you need to make a pine tree look all nice (answer: a lot). One of the first topics…
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In late 2023, Hello Games announced Light No Fire, a grand fantasy follow-up to sci-fi hit No Man’s Sky. The reveal promised a sprawling world—literally the size of our own Earth—to make your own in a survival adventure. It was a huge promise, perhaps too much for a studio with a history of overpromising. Since…
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic released last week as the latest in the long-running horror series, and quickly jumped to top of Steam’s top sellers chart. It’s now slid down a few places, but 11 years on from the original FNAF’s 2014 release, it’s clear that the series is still popular. Secret…
The world of Oxygen Not Included is getting a little bigger, with developer Klei announcing Away Team, a side-scrolling survival crafting platformer and exploration game starring an adorable little Duplicant who gets separated from the rest of their colony. The announcement came alongside a trailer showing off some signature cute animation shorts of a lone…
CMON started as CoolMiniOrNot.com before turning its hand to board game publishing, having an early hit with co-operative miniatures game Zombicide in 2012. A fast-paced dice-chucker, Zombicide was funded by a $781,597 Kickstarter that provided the model for CMON’s subsequent releases—many of them Zombicide spin-offs, reskinning it as a western or fantasy or post-apocalyptic, or…
A big selling point of the Chromatic has been the extent to which ModRetro has promised to bring classic Game Boy titles back in physical form. Though a noble mission, in practice, most of the best Game Boy games are owned by famous gaming corporations that still exist and certainly aren’t going to authorize…
Google just launched its most impressive (and unsettling) addition to AI Overview yet, a new feature called “Audio Overview” that generates audio summaries of search results, narrated in the style of two life-like, yet not quite human podcast hosts. Audio Overview is currently an opt-in Search Labs feature, meaning you won’t see the option for…
FromSoft dataminer and YouTuber BonfireVN has uploaded a new video comparing Elden Ring Nightreign’s Dark Souls throwback skins to their original models, and I was surprised at how much they’ve actually been touched up since their original appearances. I like to think I’m a tough, serious guy who’s not easily manipulated when a piece of…