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Jonathan Chey, the Irrational co-founder with credits that go all the way back to the original Thief, has been thinking about BioShock again—where he served as the director of development. BioShock might be deep in his past, but at his studio Blue Manchu he’s continued to explore one of PC Gamer’s favourite genres: the glorious…
Judas, the next game from Bioshock lead Ken Levine, is going to have a lot of branching content in it—if you’ve been following along with its development, you’ve probably heard the phrase “narrative legos” more times than you can count on one infusion-enhanced hand. Which is a bit of a departure, given Levine’s prior work—Bioshock…
Subnautica 2 is getting ready to launch into early access, which is music to the ears of anyone looking to get stuck into a new underwater adventure. It hasn’t been particularly smooth sailing ahead of launch either, with Krafton gutting Unknown Worlds and stating that the game needs ‘renewed energy and momentum’ before reinstating the…
“Out of all the games I’ve ever worked on, Godzone 6 does provide the most choices about how you achieve things,” says Jonathan Chey. It’s quite a statement from a man who’s worked on System Shock 2, BioShock, and two entries in the Thief series—all games predicated on the idea that players can make decisions…
Plans to build potentially the biggest, most expensive data centre in East Africa have stalled. Sources close to the matter say that talks between the Kenyan government and Microsoft have broken down due to disagreements over annual payments. Microsoft and its partners had wanted the Kenyan government to agree to pay annually for capacity, but…
The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 got its final big patch earlier this year, bringing 61 GB of textures to MGS3 and finally letting you switch the accept and cancel buttons on gamepad in MGS1. It was the end of a long arc for the first Master Collection, which released in a lamentable…
Modular laptop company Framework has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that memory costs from suppliers have reportedly remained steady over the past few months. The bad news is that it’s all outta storage and has to buy new stuff at inflated prices. “We’ve seen memory costs on DDR5 suppliers…
Back in February some amazing footage emerged of path tracing implementation in Dark Souls 2. At the time I was pretty impressed, but I didn’t have my fingers crossed that the ambitious mod—which is an update to the beloved DS2Lighting Engine Mod—would be available to the public anytime soon. I was wrong: the DS2LightingEngine mod…
The sequel to Pinocchio soulslike Lies of P that was announced in 2023 is now in “full production,” as revealed by the latest earnings results posted by developer Neowiz. That’s great news if you’re a fan of the game, but behind-the-scenes moves at the studio have some of those fans a little less than happy…
In 2021, Sega published an annual report touting the strength of its business and a new “priority strategy” for the coming five years: the creation of a “Super Game,” which would “stand head and shoulders above normal games.” The plan, at the time, was for that game with global appeal to launch by March 2026….