Blue Prince was made possible by creator’s Magic: The Gathering fan site: ‘Now you know why I had to put up a lot of ads’

Blue Prince, a mind-bending mix of roguelike, deckbuilder, and puzzler—one where you draft the rooms of an enormous mansion and assemble them piece-by-piece, to be slotted together like riddle LEGO—has been claiming the minds of PC Gamer’s more intellectually inclined staff. I’ve yet to give it a go myself, but it really does seem like…

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Lunar Remastered Collection Uses The Working Designs Script

Get ready for some ’90s humour. Ever since GungHo announced that it was remastering Game Arts’ classic Lunar JRPGs for modern systems, one of the burning questions was whether the updated titles would use Working Designs’ original Western localisations, which accompanied the games when they were initially launched back in the ’90s and early 2000s….

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According to David Fincher’s new Xbox ad with an extremely late ’90s/early 2000s vibe, you can escape capitalism by buying Xbox games

David Fincher was a music video director with clips like Madonna’s Vogue to his name before he became a feature film director in the 1990s, responsible for movies like Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. His new commercial for Xbox and Samsung called Wake Up, co-directed with Romain Chassaing, will probably end up somewhere…

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(For Southeast Asia) Marathon developer interview: Bungie shares more on its extraction FPS action

This weekend Bungie revealed Marathon’s sci-fi-fueled gameplay to the world. The studio, celebrated for its sublime first-person gunplay and ever-expanding gameplay, is venturing into the extraction-shooter genre when the game launches on September 24. The Marathon premise is simple and enticing: load up your Runner with valuable gear, compete with other players to secure more…

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