Besiege celebrates a decade of building deadly contraptions with a reworked sandbox mode, adjusted level designs and slow-motion explosions

Besiege, the physics puzzler about building rickety siege contraptions, has officially been pummelling castle walls for ten long years. To celebrate, developer Spiderling Studios has an “exciting year” planned for the decade-old construction sim with “community events & future updates” coming throughout the next twelve months. The first of these updates is already here, making…

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Palworld developer ‘blown away’ by the response to its new publishing arm, which has received 150 game pitches just one week after opening

Palworld developer Pocketpair launched a new publishing business last week, following the gargantuan success of its Pokémon-inspired survival game. The response was, shall we say, enthusiastic, with Pocketpair’s comms director and publishing manager John Buckley stating he received 1,500 LinkedIn requests within 24 hours. Now, one week after getting into the publishing business, Pocketpair has…

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After a decade of delays, Defenders Quest 2 is finally out, bringing with it wild character designs and nostalgic tower defense shenanigans

The first thought that popped into my head upon dipping my toes into Defender’s Quest 2: Mists of Ruin is that they don’t make tower defense games like this anymore. The second thought was that my tea was suddenly stone cold and that the past four hours had mysteriously disappeared. This is pure videogame comfort…

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‘Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features,’ says Gearbox, before clarifying it isn’t an open world game ‘in the traditional use of that term’

Last year, in an interview with Gamespot, Gearbox boss and professional amateur magician Randy Pitchford compared the upcoming Borderlands 4 to its predecessor. “With Borderlands 3, with the idea of going to different planets, it was more compartmentalized,” he said. “It felt a little less open and free. Borderlands 4 is the most open and…

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Roll7’s stylish skate games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome have both been delisted on Steam

Roll7, the studio behind the sidescrolling skateboard series OlliOlli, was closed down after Take-Two Interactive’s Private Division label was sold last year—announced after a lot of hemming and hawing from Take-Two’s CEO. Presumably as a consequence of that, two games Roll7 made under Private Division, OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome, have both been delisted on Steam….

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