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Steam Week in Review: Great, haystack slop is a thing now
Clones have been a fixture in the games industry forever. For every Mario Bros there’s a Giana Sisters, for every Stardew Valley there’s a Fields of Mistria, and for every Needle In A Haystack Simulator there’s a A Needle In a Haystack, or Needle in a Haystack, or Needle In A Haystack, or Needle In…
Industry insiders and Tokyo gossip suggest Kojima is getting less money from Xbox than original PlayStation budget for Physint
The facts: Hideo Kojima’s return to stealth-action, Physint, is no longer a PlayStation joint, and Microsoft picked up the ball. It still has big Hollywood talent, with Bill Skarsgård in the lead role. That’s literally it. What people are saying: Alright, so what does that mean? Both Corden and Schreier’s sources suggest Kojima Productions is…
Former Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah explains what he’d change about each game: ‘It’s kind of filler’
Over on Tiktok, Mark Darrah was asked, “If you could go back in time what would you remove from each of the Dragon Age games and what would you add?” Like everyone who ever installed the Skip the Fade mod for Dragon Age: Origins, Darrah thinks the Lost in Dreams quest needs a snip. “I…
After 12 years, Dark Souls 2 is finally playable in co-op without interruptions
I’ve always been content to admire the Dark Souls games from afar, rather than get particularly into them myself, and part of that is probably a crumb of leftover resentment from trying to wrangle the multiplayer features in those early games. Love it or hate it, it’s esoteric at the best of times and not…
Gears of War story director laid off mere days after E-Day went gold
Gears of War: E-Day is almost here, but that doesn’t mean its developers have been spared in Microsoft’s latest wave of layoffs as part of the Xbox “reset.” While The Coalition, the studio currently working on the Gears of War series, was not mentioned by name in Matt Booty’s “Continuing Our Reset” blog post, story…
I’m loving WoW: Forever, but I can’t help but miss the music of my other beloved MMO
Uh-oh. The MMO no-life virus started coursing through me as soon as I jumped into WoW: Forever’s beta, and it’s refusing to let up. Which is a problem, considering I’m also housing the kind of sickness that makes me pump dozens of hours into Final Fantasy 14 every week like it’s a goddamn full-time job….
Shadow the Hedgehog is supposed to be dead
It’s hard to imagine Sonic the Hedgehog without his Jungian counterpart: the gun-toting, swear-uttering Shadow the Hedgehog. But Shadow is a relatively late addition to the series’ extensive roster of anthropomorphic animals, debuting long after the Genesis days in Sonic Adventure 2—more than that, he was never supposed to stick around. According to a report…
Latest Xbox layoffs reportedly devastated Age of Empires developer and canceled its next game
The latest stage of Xbox’s delicately named “reset” arrived last Tuesday—but its impact on World’s Edge Studio, the developer now behind the Age of Empires series, was only briefly mentioned in Xbox CCO Matt Booty’s announcement. On sites like resetera and LinkedIn, former employees of the RTS developer have shared that it was hit especially…
William Pugh, co-designer of The Stanley Parable, has over 1,600 hours in Dota 2: ‘It’s not a game made of love. It’s a game fuelled by hate and a desire to conquer’
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” William Pugh grew up on a diet…