Esoteric Ebb Review

Esoteric Ebb is the best game like Disco Elysium that anybody’s made since Disco Elysium, an RPG with a focus on exploration over combat, a literary, political bent, where your skills attributes talk to you. But it’s not some rehash of the things Disco did well and few have managed to replicate: Esoteric Ebb has…

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Highguard’s failure is emblematic of something that has tormented videogame investors for years now: past live service hits do not equal future live service hits

Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Tyler has been making plans for PCG’s coverage of next week’s Game Developers Conference, which should shed more light on the issues at play here. Every time a game like Highguard craters, we collectively wonder why the games industry keeps chasing huge live service hits when…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party

A feature that a lot of players might overlook in World of Warcraft: Midnight is Blizzard’s new single-button assistant. It’s basically a way to play any class in the game by pressing one button as it cycles through various abilities. Anyone who plays WoW for its hardest dungeons and raids, like mythic+, won’t need something…

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Capcom makes the majority of its sales on PC, and it expects the ‘ratio to continue increasing’

PC beats PS5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox by a large margin when it comes to Capcom game sales, the publisher has confirmed in its latest quarterly report. It’s a pretty astonishing figure: PC sales make up “approximately” 50 percent of total unit sales. That means other platforms—the aforementioned consoles and smartphones—share the other 50 percent…

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Resident Evil 1’s remake and the OG Resident Evil 4 are still must-plays, and you can make them both look even better with HD remaster mods

The GameCube era of the early 2000s was a magical time for Resident Evil. Not only did Capcom return to the first game, releasing a much more challenging and intense remake (where mutating, self-reviving enemies first appeared, a feature every Requiem player is VERY familiar with by now), but it also pushed the genre towards…

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Iron Galaxy says the Fallout: New Vegas image it posted yesterday doesn’t mean anything: ‘We use that slide every month and has nothing to do with anything Fallout being worked on’

Did you get all wound up and excited and radioactively hot yesterday when I said that, hoo boy, it sure looks like Iron Galaxy is working on a Fallout: New Vegas remaster? If so, well, I might owe you an apology for getting your blood roiled up, because the studio says it’s not happening. “Nope!…

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AI-generated images still can’t be copyrighted as US Supreme Court declines to hear case

As reported Monday by Reuters, the US Supreme Court has affirmed the US Copyright Office’s stance that purely AI-generated images cannot be copyrighted, declining to hear a case brought by computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler, who for years has been seeking copyright protection for an AI-generated image titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” You can…

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