I just discovered in Dune: Awakening that the only thing worse than seeing a sandworm coming right at you is being stuck in quicksand and seeing a sandworm coming right at you

I’m an explorer at heart. Give me a big open world map and yes, I’ll harvest resources and craft gear and build a base—but what I really want to do is get out and see the world. I’m about 10 hours into survival MMO Dune: Awakening, I’ve got a snug little base, a couple flasks…

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To be a master heister in Thick as Thieves, Warren Spector’s ‘player-powered’ multiplayer Thief successor, the devs say you’ll have to ‘play with your ears’

At today’s Day of the Devs showcase, immersive sim luminary Warren Spector presented the latest on Thick as Thieves, the upcoming multiplayer Thief successor from Spector’s studio, Otherside Entertainment. Spector calls Thick as Thieves a “player-powered” immersive sim, where the flow of a match is determined by how your rival thieves are manipulating the game’s…

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Untitled Goose Game studio unpacks its new open world co-op game Big Walk, and it looks like nothing else I’ve played before

The team behind Untitled Goose Game announced Big Walk in late 2023, and even though its description was pretty straightforward—”a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking” —there’s still a lot of mystery around it. What kind of teamwork will it require? Are there any goals? What are those weird wobbly spheric creatures, and can…

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Relooted is a high-tech heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from Western collections, which are said to hold ‘90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage’

At today’s Day of the Devs stream, Sithe Ncube, producer at South African game studio Nyamakop, shared a sobering statistic. “A French government report estimated that 90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage is in the possession of Western collections,” Ncube said. “That is millions upon millions of deeply important cultural, spiritual, and personal artifacts—including human…

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‘I grew up playing Halo, I’m tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year, and I wish we could have Titanfall 3!’: Splitgate 2 boss slams the state of shooters as he surprise launches a battle royale mode

1047 Games CEO Ian Proulx took the stage at Summer Game Fest today to reveal a surprise for Splitgate 2 that players have been accurately guessing for a week now: Yes, Splitgate 2 has a battle royale mode, and it’s out now. Sporting a questionable “MAKE FPS GREAT AGAIN” hat, Proulx lamented the current state…

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