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RGG Studios is finally ready to talk about Stranger Than Heaven, the next major action game from the Yakuza studio that appears to be a Yakuza prequel after all. In the 30-minute video, executive director Masayoshi Yokoyama introduces the sprawling brawler from the comfort of a swanky jazz club. Beginning in 1915 and spanning 50…
I’m bleeding to death. I’ve got six minutes before I’ll be too exhausted to do anything but lie down and die. I wish it was the worst of my problems. But it’s not. The real problem is that… gamers are bastards. Lost. In the middle of a dense forest, crowded with ravenous mountain lions. I’m…
This week, Valve released a $99 Steam Controller the general public was so excited to have that it sold out in 30 minutes, temporarily tanking its service in the process. It was the best selling product on Steam despite zero active players (dead device?). Not to brag about spending too much money on a controller…
You’d think it would be fairly easy to make a BioShock game: After all, “there’s always a lighthouse,” as the man once said. Yet it’s proven remarkably challenging: After three acclaimed games in relatively quick succession—BioShock in 2007, BioShock 2 in 2010, and BioShock Infinite in 2013—there’s been nothing. Efforts have been made: Hangar 13…
Firaxis was brave with Civilization 7, altering the basic structure of the decades-old grand strategy series in ways that were bound to be controversial. I liked some things about Civ 7’s new “Ages” system, which requires players to swap to a new civilization twice over the course of a campaign, but it hasn’t been especially…
Late last year, Firaxis announced that Civ 7 would be getting the ability to play a single civilization across an entire game, addressing one of the major complaints from players who weren’t thrilled with the latest entry’s ambitious experimentation with the Civilization format. After promising in February that Civ’s traditional playstyle would return sometime this…
Just a few months after his surprise departure from Ubisoft, where he’d been serving as the creative director on the mysterious Assassin’s Creed Hexe, veteran developer Clint Hocking has founded a game studio called Build Machine Games. Hocking’s new outfit is “lean and fast,” he wrote on LinkedIn, but also “bold and ambitious.” “We aspire…
Back in 2010, we gave the WW2 RTS Ruse an enviable 84% review score, applauding developer Eugen Systems for “doing something novel with one of strategy gaming’s hoariest themes.” Just five years later, it was gone—removed from Steam by publisher Ubisoft due to expiring license rights. Now, in a surprise twist, it’s back: More than…
The Mortal Kombat 2 movie comes out Friday May 8, and early reviews have begun emerging from the portal. Does the sequel right the wrongs of the first film, which oddly didn’t even feature a Mortal Kombat tournament? Is Karl Urban an improvement over… uh, whoever that main guy was in the first movie? Does…
Multiple notable groups, including Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and numerous others have come together to pressure the UK government to stop “[undermining] the open internet.” In a joint statement, 19 organisations (listed below) wrote that “the open Internet is a global public resource that has long since become foundational to the…