Star Wars: Galactic Racer has a lot more Slay the Spire DNA than I expected, because its ex-Burnout devs wanted to add ‘real consequence’ to each race

Don’t call Galactic Racer “Podracer” in front of its developers—they’ll politely point out that their new game is about multiple types of racing in the Star Wars universe, and it is not a sequel to 1999’s Episode 1 Racer, despite featuring podracing’s most iconic characters and courses. At first this feels like splitting hairs to…

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says the NCR and Caesar’s Legion feel so real because their members disagree and challenge each other: ‘You have to wrestle with the fact that it contains multitudes’

Fallout: New Vegas is an incredible game, and its factions are its best part. The New California Republic (NCR), Caesar’s Legion, and the Securitrons of Mr House are omnipresent in the Mojave, and there’s barely an NPC in the game that doesn’t shine light on some new aspect of each one. So many of New…

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Eric Barone gives players a small update on Haunted Chocolatier’s progress: ‘It’s not a simple task, as I torture myself over every last detail’

It’s been five years since Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone announced the idea of Haunted Chocolatier, since then we’ve got a few small updates on progress here and there, with the bulk of Barone’s time being spent on making Stardew Valley one of, if not the best indie game available (which is currently 40% off in the…

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Down with tactical rocks

It started small and sensible. A miniature of an ork with one foot on a helmet to give him a more dynamic pose, or a dragon attached to a rocky protrusion to suggest flight. Somewhere in the years since then we lost our way. We went too far. We climbed too boldly and too steep,…

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Nightdive’s Thief remaster is adding a weapon wheel and other UI changes, ‘but we’re not forcing you to use it’

Partway through Nightdive’s video about remastering Thief: The Dark Project, producer Daniel Grayshon casually mentions that in the original you pressed 4 to bring up the water arrows and I realized I still remember a bunch of the keybinds for Thief’s arsenal of items. The trusty blackjack was 2, rope arrows were 8, the get-out-of-jail-free…

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