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Now that the Summer Game Fest weekend is over and the buffering video’s caught up to the audio feed at last, we can look back over the festival of trailers and announcements and say, hey, what about that one thing we were expecting to hear about (or in some cases—cough, Destiny 3, cough—are just trying…
The same thing happens every summer—the jaded, cynical monster inside me mopes around and pretends he’s not going to get excited about SGF (and before it, E3) announcements. There are too many of them, and I’ve been around too long to become a victim of hype. And every summer, the hype starts bubbling away anyway,…
The Wolf Among Us 2 has been in the oven for a while. Either seven years—if you trace its start back to its announcement in 2019—or 12, if you go by the cliffhanger ending of The Wolf Among Us 1’s final episode, which released in 2014. Fans have been hanging on the telephone for news…
I have a very short history with MOBAs—apart from being dragged into one too many League of Legends games, I’ve tried to keep my exposure to a minimum. But that all changed when Valve semi-released Deadlock into alpha. It’s been almost two years since I started playing, and almost 100 hours later, and despite being…
After Friday’s trailer for Gen Atlas, the new game from acclaimed Ico and Shadow of the Colossus director Fumito Ueda, I saw two strains of reactions. Mostly there was gushing praise and excitement for a new Ueda game a decade after The Last Guardian. There was also: “That framerate tho.” I wasn’t shocked at the…
If you’ve never clocked it before, The Emperor is rather important in Warhammer 40k. Even those who don’t really know the setting are adjacently aware of the fact that Warhammer people love to shout “For The Emperor!” at every available opportunity. Not only is he the figurehead of mankind, whose psychic presence is so significant…
Lockpicking in Gothic Remake is my worst nightmare. So, when Fingers asks you to pick Scatty’s chest to steal his ring in the early A Ring for Fingers quest, I immediately wanted nothing to do with it. However, it can help gain the favour of the Shadows to join the Old Camp, one of the…
I played the Gothic Remake hoping for an RPG with a bit more grit than usual, and what I got was almost pure sand. The progression system really does make you feel like you properly earn every inch of improvement, with more fluid combat animations as you learn to hold your weapons properly, but it’s…
My thumbs are raw. My pulse is elevated. My regrets are many. Nestled in a corner of this weekend’s Summer Game Fest Play Days event in Los Angeles is, I suspect, a perfect videogame in the making. N+ Infinity Times Two is a floaty ninja platformer—the latest in a series that started over 20 years…
While there’s never any shortage of games releasing on Steam any given day, the release calendar for big-budget game productions has felt somewhat thin this year. The repeat delay announcements from games trying to escape the blast radius of GTA 6’s gigaton sales detonation seemed to indicate that the back half of the year could…