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Former Bethesda marketing VP says he fought against reusing the Prey name for Arkane’s 2017 immersive sim: ‘I definitely pissed some people off internally over that’

Arkane’s 2017 immersive sim Prey is a genuinely great videogame, with a genuinely weird name—shared with a pre-existing shooter and a famously cancelled sequel that it has absolutely nothing to do with. Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio said a few years ago that he really did not want to call it Prey, and it turns out…

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Starfield fans are pretty sure Bethesda just dropped the first teaser for the game’s second expansion: ‘We look forward to the adventures yet to come’

Hard to believe but it’s been two years since Bethesda unleashed Starfield onto the world, a sci-fi epic that—to torque a metaphor—didn’t quite achieve escape velocity. Updates have followed at something of a ponderous pace, but there’s been no sign of the second expansion that was promised more than a year ago. But now that…

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Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry’s extraordinarily hyped sequel

At time of writing, it has been 2,395 days since Silksong was first announced on February 14, 2019. In the years since, spanning stretches of developer silence and shifting release windows, the Hollow Knight sequel was steadily warped into an inscrutable object of collective fascination. Silksong was less an upcoming game than it was a…

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