There’s no worse feeling than going into a presentation and only being made aware of how underprepared you are after you’ve finished. I’ve felt that pit in my stomach a few times, but knowing that the CEO and studio head of CD Projekt Red has experienced this same kind of nightmare fills me with at…
You ever wonder if shadowy international terrorist organisations have HR departments? They’ve got to, right? Surely someone in the Red Army Faction made an off-colour joke at a meeting that made everyone uncomfortable at least once? This is what I ask myself as I tap away at Cyber Warrior, a crime-busting hacking sim from Dunke…
Porkour! One of our favourite subgenres of licensed games is when a developer takes an established IP and pretty much decides to do whatever it wants with it, essentially using it to make the game of their dreams. In the past, for instance, we’ve spoken to Digital Eclipse’s president Mika Mika briefly about how that…
Colin Ryan, the English voice actor of Final Fantasy 14‘s Alphinaud, seems completely inseparable from the character now that I’ve spent several expansions with my lad. So inseparable, in fact, that it’s easy to forget the character was initially voiced by Sam Riegel for its launch storyline, A Realm Reborn. When Heavensward launched, Square Enix…
“Every typo could mean the difference between life and death”. Auroch Digital has just released a free-to-play spin-off of its boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun that pays tribute to Sega’s classic The Typing of the Dead. Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance is a “creative twist” on the 2023 FPS title, which is based…
While it was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that brought CD Projekt RED worldwide fame, the studio had already created a brace of The Witcher games before then, with the original monster-slaying RPG of the trilogy released back in 2007. The Witcher was built on BioWare’s Aurora Engine, which was most famous at the time…
Blaze Of Storm sees players battling an unknown threat in cyberspace. Terarin Games, the Japanese indie development studio behind games such as Missile Dancer, Crystal Breaker, and Terra Flame, has just released the first demo for its upcoming shoot ’em up Blaze Of Storm on Steam. Described as “a standard vertical scrolling shmup”, the story…
There must be at least some people out there who share my view that it’s the underside of the graphics card that’s the most important. After all, unless you’re vertically mounting the thing—which is admittedly getting more common—the underside is what you’re most likely to be able to see. Which is why I have a…
“We didn’t finish the experience. But it was a magical thing”. Peter Molyneux is one of the most famous game designers the industry has ever seen, and has been involved with seminal titles like Populous, Black & White, Theme Park and Fable. He’s also known for hyping up his projects, sometimes to the point where…
Microsoft acquiring Blizzard may be old news, with the deal finalising back in 2023, but the legal battles with the FTC have persevered. Despite being approved after some contention in most countries, including the UK, the acquisition had faced continuous backlash in the United States. It seems the FTC has finally run out of steam…