10 things I wish I knew before playing Animal Well

Animal Well is a puzzle platformer with seeming infinite depth. The main game will take anywhere between five and 15 hours to complete, but once the credits roll another more cryptic and mysterious game begins. I spent nearly 30 hours with Animal Well for my review and I’m still discovering new things. It’s an intimidating…

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Blizzard’s internal Diablo 4 playtests are a ‘cursed problem’ where ‘to really test our game, you need to spend your life playing our game,’ designer says

Diablo 4’s lead class designer called trying to test an action RPG made to be played for hundreds of hours “a cursed problem” that would take “more hours than what you would normally expect someone to work at a job,” in an interview today with Diablo 4 streamer Raxxanterax. Jackson was answering a question about…

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DayZ’s upcoming arctic expansion will let you freeze, burn, starve, and get eaten by zombies all at once

Marquee zombie survival shooter DayZ has a new expansion coming this fall, its first in nearly five years. DayZ Frostline will introduce the frigid new Sakhal archipelago, a sprawling 83km² map—that’s about 32 square miles of frigid islands and volcanic peaks. A debut trailer and screenshots show off industrial facilities, mines, pipelines, and oil derricks…

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Every gaming showcase scheduled for summer 2024

Somehow, it’s almost summer again, which means that the summer gaming showcase schedule is starting to fill out. E3 is gone for good now, but as we’ve learned in past years that isn’t going to stop all of gaming’s publishers, big and small, from descending upon the month of June to roll out their roadmaps…

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