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Somewhere between puzzle and strategy game is Dawnfolk, a tile-placement city builder that has you plopping down buildings in order to gather resources so that you can build a settlement capable of driving back a supernatural darkness that has overtaken the world. From the fiery center of your camp you spread out across different terrain…
If you’ve ever wondered how Saber Interactive ended up handling the remaster of one of the biggest shooters of all time, well, Saber’s CEO Matthew Karch recently regaled journalist Stephen Totilo with the tale of landing the contract for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and includes some of the most absurd business shenanigans I’ve read about…
Normally I feel about brand crossovers the same way I feel about poutine. Gravy and chips are both wonderful things when eaten separately, but combine them and you end up with a soggy mush that loses all sense of texture. But I’m willing to give Dave the Diver’s latest Like a Dragon DLC crossover a…
I’ll always be up for a game that riffs on John Carpenter’s The Thing, and the last few years have been especially strong for representation of hostile, amorphous alien life forms in games. We’ve had The Thing set on an oil rig, The Thing where you play as the Thing, and just plain old The…
Buried in the onslaught of Sony’s State of Play announcements—a scattershot blast of Too Much Videogame I’m still tweezering out pellets of—was the announcement of Metal Eden. Being developed by Polish studio Reikon, who formerly made birdseye action game Ruiner, Metal Eden’s only been seen briefly before, back when it was codenamed Final Form. Between…
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GINX TV’s video series The Games That Made Me has featured interviews with several cast members of Baldur’s Gate 3, including Astarion actor Neil Newbon, who talked about his work on Fallout London. The latest is with Devora Wilde, who plays Lae’zel with such snarling ferocity it’s tough to imagine her as any of the…
THE PCG Q&A Find all previous editions of the PCG Q&A here. Some highlights:– What’s a weird quirk your PC has?– What counts as an action RPG anyway?– Have you learned a real-world skill from a game? Asking my coworkers whether their parents were strict about how much time they spent playing videogames has revealed…
First reported by Ars Technica, a team of Diablo speedrun enthusiasts have decisively proven that a three minute any% world record that has stood since 2009 was faked. The effort required reverse-engineering Diablo’s map generation system, which has 2.2 billion possible legitimate outputs. The offending speedrun was uploaded to Speed Demos Archive by Maciej “groobo”…
As reported by IGN, former EA chief creative officer Bing Gordon revealed on a recent Grit podcast appearance that the company had turned down opportunities to own Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, and even acquire Blizzard. Gordon was speaking to former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, whose company wound up capitalizing on all of those…