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In 1996, a US studio called MediaX began working on a videogame inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. It was called Big Brother, and you played a member of the resistance called Eric Blair (which was Orwell’s real name), breaking into and sabotaging government installations across 12 levels with hundreds of puzzles. Yes, they were turning…
It’s fair to say that the release of Civilization 7 has not gone quite according to plan. It’s good but not great, and the resulting letdown—people expect big things from new Civ games—has manifested in a straight 50/50 split between positive and negative user ratings on Steam and concurrent player numbers that continue to lag…
Morgan has played six hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and officially announced he’s excited for it: his preview in January made “a fantastic first impression.” I haven’t gotten my hands on Ubisoft’s next stabby stealth game yet, but as of today I’m extremely interested in one particular aspect of it: building and managing my base,…
I was excited enough for Monster Hunter Wilds last year after Capcom’s first presentation of it that I wrote it “looks like exactly the evolution of Monster Hunter: World I hoped for.” At the time, Capcom had just highlighted how much more attention Wilds was paying to the environment, with a day/night system, weather, and…
Bullet heaven is what we’re apparently calling the Vampire Survivors-like genre, because the only decent competing name was “auto shooter survival” and unfortunately the acronym for that is “ass”. Spitfire Interactive, the developers of Hordes of Fate, are splitting the difference with “bullet heaven auto shooter”, but you know what kind of game it is:…
Colossal Order said in November 2024 that an update on the long-awaited Cities: Skylines 2 asset editor would be shared “once the remaining issues are ironed out.” As it turns out, that promise was a bit off the mark: The studio posted an update on the asset editor today, and those remaining issues remained unironed….
In what I think we can all take as final confirmation that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is not going to be hit with one more super-last-second delay, Ubisoft has revealed a somewhat complicated rundown of the game’s global preload and unlock times. The preload times are simple enough: If you’re on Xbox Series X/S, you can…
Epic Games has announced it is suing an individual from Illinois, named in its suit as one Isaac Strock, for allegedly stealing hundreds of Fortnite accounts which he then re-sold through Telegram. An anti-cheat update from Epic links to the suit, filed on February 27, in which it alleges that Strock obtained access to the…
The early access launch for Inzoi is nearly here and there’s one really big burning question still unanswered: Will Inzoi be multiplayer? All signs so far point to a strong “maybe” with an emphasis on “eventually,” from what I can tell poring over Inzoi details for the last several months. As it gets closer, life…
We don’t talk about The Witcher on Netflix as much as we used to—the air’s gone out of it a little bit, I think, although I hold out hope that Liam Hemsworth’s debut in the title role will rejuvenate it—but this is interesting enough to be notable: According to Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligence, actor…