The phrase ‘industry veterans’ has long been a meme — when newly opened studios use it in their advertising campaigns, their releases often disappoint. Embark Studios is not one of them — it was founded by people who worked on various parts of Battlefield, and their debut joint project, THE FINALS, was a huge hit….
The psychological boundary between video gaming and casino play appears more blurred than many realise. Both forms of entertainment leverage remarkably similar neurological pathways to capture and maintain user attention. From the chemical reactions in our brains to the design principles employed by developers, these seemingly distinct activities share fundamental mechanisms that explain their compelling…
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Emulation, music and even apps… this VMU has it all. Before internal storage became the norm, Sega blazed a trail with the Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit, a pocket-sized device which not only stored all of your game progress but also doubled as a tiny handheld game console. One of the Dreamcast’s more unique features, the…
I won’t lie, I haven’t really paid much attention to attachments in Arc Raiders up until now. I’d never equip them until my stash was full and I needed to free up space, and even then, I’d just slap them on whatever gun would accept them, all willy-nilly. It was a means to an end,…
Overwatch 2‘s 45th hero is almost here but you don’t need to wait until the next full moon (or, more accurately, Season 20’s release date) to play her. Thanks to Vendetta’s hero trial, you can put her kit to the test almost two weeks early. Vendetta, also known as La Lupa, is one of the…
Just one more heave, and I reckon Sisyphus will finally get that rock to the top of the mountain. Beyond Good and Evil 2—a videogame that I first got excited for when I was 14 years old (I am now 32)—inexplicably continues development. Not only that, but its team is hiring (via Eurogamer). If you…
Long defunct game developer Troika is best known today for the dark roleplaying masterpiece/dropped bag of spanners Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. But the year before Bloodlines simultaneously spelled doom and immortality for the studio, Troika released The Temple of Elemental Evil, a similarly ambitious and similarly buggy adaptation of the Dungeon & Dragons scenario…
Open AI has the first prototype of its mysterious AI device being developed in collaboration with former Apple design guru Jony Ive. And according to CEO Sam Altman, it’s “jaw droppingly good.” To quote Altman in full on the the device, “finally we have the first prototypes and I can’t believe how jaw droppingly good…
Better than nothing, we suppose. Nintendo of America announced its Black Friday plans a few weeks back and, unsurprisingly, there was very little in the way of Switch 2 discounts to be seen. Other storefronts have followed suit, and while it’s hardly a flood of savings on the new console, there are a few different…