If you’re at the center of the Venn diagram comparing Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny fans and masochists who prefer their protagonists go down in one hit, rejoice: a new developer diary trailer for the game’s remaster debuted at the Future Games Show today, and it shows off the appropriately titled “hell mode.” As game director…
For nearly 30 years—ever since the release of its second ever game, Max Payne—developer Remedy Entertainment has been in the business of making narrative-driven singleplayer games. Recent releases have even taken that focus further, tying together the studio’s games into one connected universe of stories. All of which ensures that, however you slice it, the…
Category: Games March 20, 2025 FBC: Firebreak Isn’t Just Reimagining Control – It’s Reimagining Modern Co-Op Shooters Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Remedy comes back to a key point about FBC: Firebreak repeatedly – “this game isn’t a second job.” You won’t need to check in every day. You won’t need to frettingly finish a…
I really don’t know how to feel about this one: A new Painkiller was unveiled today at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase, being developed by Anshar Studios and published by 3D Realms, and I just don’t know if I can bring myself to have hope that it’s going to be good. See, here’s the…
Hi everyone, I’m Julius Fondem, Community Manager here at Remedy Entertainment. Today I’m very excited, jazzed even, to talk to you about a brand-new feature in our upcoming game FBC: Firebreak – Altered Augments. If you’re not familiar with FBC: Firebreak, it’s a cooperative first-person shooter for three players set within a mysterious federal agency…
What’s summer for if not heading to the nearest body of water and flinging yourself into it? But if you’d rather stay dry, you can instead send an army of hardened warriors into the sea in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord‘s upcoming naval expansion, War Sails. Now that the sea’s being opened up, naturally that…
The Finals has experimented a fair bit with its gamemode selection since it came out, ranging from a serviceable free-for-all format to the more popular Power Shift—and that continues with today’s launch of Season 6, which will permanently add team deathmatch as a mode for anyone eager to trade all these fancy rulesets for a…
Metal Eden is coming out May 6 and we can’t wait for you all to enjoy this shooter fans paradise! To make the wait even more exciting, we’re launching a free demo on April 8 at PlayStation Store. Get ready to experience Aska in action—stay tuned! Now, let´s focus on her. In a world ravaged…
Developers at Nightdive Studios will be the first to tell you no two projects are alike. Nowhere is this more true than the soon-to-be-released remaster of System Shock 2. Announced six years ago as System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition, Nightdive reannounced the project under a new name — System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Play…
Here’s my confession: I think I prefer System Shock 2 to Deus Ex. Not that I don’t love JC Denton like a son, mind you, it’s just that SS2’s creepy hallways and pitch-perfect antagonists have taken root in my heart forever. So I gotta be honest, of all the whizzbang announcements spilling out of the…