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Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio’s upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive…

Against the Storm is one of the best city-builders of recent years, taking the SimCity cycle of building cities destined to be destroyed by natural disasters and infusing it with a roguelike structure, such that the death of your city is merely a part of the game, rather than the end of it. Yet alongside…

Rust is, famously, an unforgiving affair, a survival game where someone murdering you and stealing everything you own is also known as ‘Tuesday’. But Facepunch’s open-world cruelty simulator does have at least one merciful bone in its emaciated, battle-scarred body. In 2021, Facepunch added a softcore mode, which mitigates some of the vanilla game’s brutality…

Pacific Drive received its “largest ever free content update” this week, one which introduces a brand new way of playing Ironwood Studios’ vehicular survival game. But you’d better step away from the newswheel, bucko, because I’m hijacking this article for my own devious ends. While the headline addition of the update is some fancy-sounding expeditions,…

Of all the unmade sequels that I’d like to exist, Dishonored 3 is at the top of the list. The original Dishonored ranks among my favourite games ever (especially when you throw in its incredible expansions), while Dishonored 2 is generally regarded as one of the best games of all time. Sadly, a third game…

For five years the indie designer known as Pizza Pranks has been publishing Indiepocalypse, a monthly “bundle-zine” of 10 experimental indie games by different developers. They’re always a bit off-kilter, and they come with a helpful pdf zine where the creators of each one do a postmortem on their inspirations. It’s also full of handy…

However you want to win today’s Wordle, we’ve got the tools to make it happen. Keep things light with our general tips, dive a little deeper with our clue for the April 6 (1387) game, or make a sprint for a win by clicking your way to today’s answer. It’s your game, and your win….

Board game publishers may be lamenting the end of the tabletop boom—the golden age of board gaming that has filled my weeknights with games like The Quacks of Quedlinburg and Darktide—but I don’t expect the industry to topple overnight. Middle-class Catan bros will choke down a lot of price hikes to get their cardboard fix,…

Balatro-focused YouTube channel Balatro University has shared a video describing their personal experience with YouTube age restricting videos about the game, with the given reason being its alleged depiction of gambling. Balatro creator LocalThunk has even commented on the situation, frustrated by the continued mischaracterization of his game. On March 19th, YouTube instituted a TOS…

Bill Petras, a veteran of Blizzard Entertainment with a career spanning over 30 years in the games industry, has died. The news was shared to LinkedIn by Petras’ friend and colleague, former Blizzard cinematics director, Harley D. Huggins II. Petras is survived by his family, who are planning a celebration of life for Petras in…