Esoteric Ebb Review

Esoteric Ebb is the best game like Disco Elysium that anybody’s made since Disco Elysium, an RPG with a focus on exploration over combat, a literary, political bent, where your skills attributes talk to you. But it’s not some rehash of the things Disco did well and few have managed to replicate: Esoteric Ebb has…

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Highguard’s failure is emblematic of something that has tormented videogame investors for years now: past live service hits do not equal future live service hits

Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Tyler has been making plans for PCG’s coverage of next week’s Game Developers Conference, which should shed more light on the issues at play here. Every time a game like Highguard craters, we collectively wonder why the games industry keeps chasing huge live service hits when…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party

A feature that a lot of players might overlook in World of Warcraft: Midnight is Blizzard’s new single-button assistant. It’s basically a way to play any class in the game by pressing one button as it cycles through various abilities. Anyone who plays WoW for its hardest dungeons and raids, like mythic+, won’t need something…

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