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It’s official: Barbarians and sorcerers won’t rule Sanctuary in Diablo 4’s next season, at least not using the same builds that absolutely crushed season 2. On a developer stream today, Blizzard said tomorrow’s patch notes will include fixes to the bugs that fuel the strongest builds in the game, as well as changes that elevate…
When I first saw footage of medieval city builder Manor Lords a few years ago I added it to my Steam wishlist before the trailer had even finished playing. That’s how good it looked. I wasn’t alone, either. Manor Lords has occupied second place on Steam’s top wishlisted games for at least a year, where…
Ara: History Untold maybe could’ve used a better title—it makes me think of a Las Vegas show, like the Luxor hotel’s King Tut Experience—but it’s interesting: a historical grand strategy game from Microsoft-owned developer Oxide Games (maker of Ashes of the Singularity) with ambitions to deliver “an evolution” in the genre. A lot of what…
MachineGames gave us our first real look at its long-awaited Indiana Jones game at today’s Developer Direct showcase, confirming the title—Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—and revealing details on the setting and story, and—this is the important part—a release target of later in 2024. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was first announced in early…
At today’s Microsoft developer direct, we finally got a good, long look at RPG powerhouse Obsidian’s upcoming game, Avowed. The studio gave an eight-minute presentation of the first person spinoff of the Pillars of Eternity series, including an early game quest, a breakdown of its new combat system, and a fall 2024 release window. That…
During Microsoft’s Developer Direct event on Thursday, developer Ninja Theory announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is out May 21st. “Senua is on the trail of the Vikings who’ve been enslaving her people,” says writer Lara Derham. That brings her to Iceland, where she’ll be fighting “giants who’ve plunged the lands into chaos, which in turns…
The seemingly endless litany of layoffs that’s plagued the game industry through 2023 and into 2024 continued today as two more studios have confirmed cuts to their workforces: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has let 40 employees go, while Lord of the Fallen publisher CI Games has reduced its workforce by 10%. The CI…
Townscaper is one of those small snatches of joy I heavily associate with the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020. The stress-free city builder was a tiny game that became a huge sensation that summer. Like other collective obsessions of that year, it inspired a trend that’s only now truly coming to fruition. Although Townscaper’s developer Oskar…
I was morally obligated to keep an eye on Palworld. I’ve been playing Pokémon on and off for four fifths of my time on this Earth. I’m a card-carrying Dwarf Fortress weirdo, which Palworld’s lead dev has cited as his favorite game. Ignoring Palworld would’ve been a dereliction of professional duty. Now that I’ve spent…
Call of Duty has a new shortcut for mouse and keyboard users trying to activate aim assist: Alt + F4. According to a tweet posted to the official Call of Duty Updates Twitter account Tuesday, the game has buffed up its security systems to automatically kill your game—as in MW3.exe itself—if it catches you using…