Dawn of War 4’s combat director goes even further than the original game’s sync-kill animations: ‘I don’t think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past’

One of the reasons Dawn of War is still the best RTS is its sync-kill system. You’ll be panning across the battlefield watching a disco storm of lasers go off, and in the middle of that inferno see two individual soldiers in a co-ordinated fight to the death right out of a movie. They’ll finish…

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The JRPG veteran responsible for Persona and Megami Tensei is working on a ‘school life RPG’ with the Neptunia series studio

Kouji Okada helped co-found Atlus and is one of the co-creators of its two biggest JRPG series in Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. He left the company in 2003 to form now-shuttered studio Gaia, and hasn’t been active in game development for 16 years. Until now: JRPG studio Compile Hearts, best known for the Neptunia…

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Fatal Fury fans accuse new City of the Wolves trailer of being filled with AI slop: ‘All that Saudi money and can’t pay someone a couple bucks to make real s**t’

SNK dropped a trailer for season 2 of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, set to kick off on January 22, and an awful lot of fans aren’t happy about it. The problem isn’t the second season of character DLC, but the trailer promoting it, which many of them think is laden with AI generated…

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Marathon’s free loadout option will have limitations that some Arc Raiders fans keep asking Embark for

The free loadout: a unique feature of extraction shooters that allows down-on-their-luck players to get back on their feet with complimentary gear and minimal risk. Every extraction shooter has their own take on the catch-up mechanic—typically balancing the free stuff by giving you crappy guns or limited armor. Depending on your point of view, Bungie’s…

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A ‘deeply social, psychological’ Fallout Shelter reality TV series is coming from the producers of the Squid Game reality series

The Fallout TV series is a hit, and so Prime is taking the obvious next step and firing up a “reality competition series” called, and based on, Fallout Shelter, a popular 2015 mobile game (that later came to PC and consoles) in which players design and manage one of Fallout’s underground Vaults, where the survivors…

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