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The upcoming RTS Stormgate has three factions, two of which have been announced: Vanguard, with the previously-released hero Blockade, and the Infernal Host, which gets its first hero this week in a new beta build (codenamed “Elephant”). That new build will be available to those who purchase the $40 Kickstarter tier or higher. It’ll introduce…
Attention, real-time strategy lovers: If you’ve always wanted StarCraft 3, or Warcraft 4, or maybe both combined with a little Command & Conquer thrown in, you should be paying close attention to Stormgate. Stormgate is scheduled to enter early access on Steam this summer. The free-to-play RTS turtles in the camps of those previous games,…
Call of Duty’s matchmaking is no longer a mystery. Last year, Activision promised fans that it’d finally open up about how matchmaking works in Call of Duty. Today, it delivered: The unprecedented blog post dives deep into exactly which factors Call of Duty is looking for when grouping you with other players, and where its…
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its new president is Johanna Faries, who previously spent nearly three years as the general manager of Activision’s Call of Duty franchise. Faries will replace Mike Ybarra, who unexpectedly announced his departure when Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees from its gaming division last week. In an email sent to Blizzard…
Bungie is still playing it close to the vest with its planned shift from a seasonal model to an “Episodic” one with its upcoming expansion, The Final Shape, but at a recent developer roundtable, members of the team shed some light on the reasons behind the change, as well as how the unique demands of…
Nightingale, the neo-Victorian survival game being developed by Aaryn Flynn’s Inflexion Games, is holding a stress test on Friday, but you’ll have to be quick if you want to get in: It’s only scheduled to run for three hours. To get into the Nightingale stress test, head over to the Steam page and click the…
Eidos Montreal, developer of the Adam Jensen-centric Deus Ex reboots as well as 2021’s Guardians of the Galaxy, announced today that it has laid off 97 employees “from development teams, administration, and support services.” According to a Bloomberg report, the layoffs coincide with the cancellation of an unannounced Deus Ex game the studio was working…
I recently had the pleasure of playing a dash of Pyrene—and as someone with an upsetting amount of hours logged in games like Slay the Spire, I had a grand old time. Pyrene is a deckbuilding roguelike from developer team Two Tiny Dice, a studio headed up by Christophe Coyard—the mind behind the similarly-designed Escape…
Developer Keen Games might have been a bit worried about releasing its new survival game, Enshrouded, just as the world was obsessing over Poké-like Palworld, currently the most-played game on Steam, and the second most popular game in the platform’s history. But it looks like there’s room for two big survival game launches, because Enshrouded…
Dedicated fandom has two states: cultishly devoted or aggressively cynical. So here’s something that Total War: Warhammer’s more jaded fans (It’s me, I’m the jaded fan) sometimes have trouble admitting: even if Creative Assembly was to Doomrocket the entire franchise tomorrow, it would still have long ago earned its place in strategy game history as…