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If you’ve seen any slasher flick, you know the drill: every youth is horny, and the horny must die. Despite Halloween not being quite as trope-riddled as some of its stabbiest contemporaries, its recent asymmetrical PvP adaptation did include a minigame where two players could slip into a closet and bang each other for buffs—but…
Listen, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a little biased towards parry-based action games. Sekiro will forever be my favourite FromSoftware game because of just how excellently it captured the back-and-forth feeling of swordplay, not only with its timed deflection mechanic, but its mandate to have you keep the pressure on. But I…
I stand knee deep in a pool of blood. My coworkers, comrades, and friends reduced to food for soulless seagulls. Give a man a fish and he may throw it into the mouth of a weary fisherman, teach a man to fish and he shall bring forth the wrath of a spider crab who knows…
Immersive sims like Deus Ex and Dishonored are among the hardest kinds of games to make, so I always try to be supportive when an indie developer takes on the absurd challenge of creating one. Yet while there have been some good examples in recent years like Skin Deep and New Blood’s early access Thief-like…
I was largely nonplussed by Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, particularly its relentless barrage of identikit fantasy action games that I struggled to tell apart. But one game stood out like a rat-powered computer in an elven glade, and that was Ontos, Frictional Games’ latest horror adventure/existential crisis generator. The Gamescom trailer was a barrage of…
Despite more than a year of updates and at least one massive overhaul, Civilization 7 remains as stubbornly divisive as ever. May’s enormous Test of Time update brought significant mechanical reworks and a fresh influx of players to Firaxis’ latest entry in the 4X series. But with Steam reviews still sitting at ‘Mixed’, with 51%…
Given that Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda were widely considered disappointments, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a divisive reception, there’s a certain amount of skepticism about the Mass Effect game BioWare is currently working on. Some have even suggested it might not come out at all. Armando Troisi, a cinematic designer on the Mass…
At the Game Developers Conference earlier this year, Aggro Crab developer Nick Kaman told me that he thinks there’s a lot of meat left on the bone when it comes to co-op “friendslop” games, and that he wants to keep working in the space. Aggro Crab is still down to zig and not zag, though,…
In a recent interview with PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens at this year’s Gamescom, Saber Interactive CCO Tim Willits admitted the studio’s leadership had a reputation for saying precisely what it means—”sometimes we ‘say what we mean’ too much,” he laughed. But when asked if recent controversies would change the studio’s comms approach, he said “no.”…
Dwarf Fortress is a bit like caviar—not everyone’s into it, but the people who are describe their experiences with it like a religious awakening. But the game’s legendary co-creator, Tarn Adams, didn’t even know it had a big following for many years, as he told PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens in a recent interview at Gamescom…