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Arc Raiders players are generally a friendly bunch, especially for an extraction shooter. It’s odd, really, that over half of the game’s population on Steam has barely engaged in PvP, and 18% have never even knocked out a raider. Just think of all the loot they could be carrying. Maybe they’ve even got one of…
Dan Houser, Rockstar games co-founder and one of the chief creative forces that transformed Grand Theft Auto into an unstoppable financial juggernaut, reckons that there’s “always that danger” that the games industry will become “overly focussed on making money.” Speaking on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch to promote his recently released novel (via GamesRadar), Houser was…
Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: teaming up with players in Arc Raiders, and blasting the mean ones. This week I’ve been: clearing out my stash and filling it up just as quickly by engaging in more PvP. I’ve praised Arc Raiders a lot since launch, perhaps above all else…
Tower of Fantasy is an interesting one: a mashup of gacha and MMO, all of the random monetisation bullshit, plus expecting you to *shudder* work together with strangers. Despite being a sicko for both genres, I’d never dare put them together in a single experience—like the two friend groups you very carefully plan individual events…
After 13 years hacking through the development wilderness, TimeSplitters Rewind is out. Its creators revealed last month that the CryEngine-powered mod would finally be released in November. True to their word, Rewind is available to download now. Rewind is a somewhat unusual fan project, a mixture of remake, compilation and spiritual successor to the first…
A couple of months ago, I reported that you can install the Xbox full screen experience (FSE) on other handhelds than just the new Microsoft Xbox/Asus ROG ones. And now, Microsoft is opening up FSE for more than just handhelds, saying it’s “now available in preview for more Windows 11 PC form factors, such as…
Dying in Arc Raiders sucks—it’s the low of extraction shooters. But what’s worse than losing all the stuff you came in and found during your run is losing it all because you did something truly stupid. I’ve been there before, crossing the creek in Dam Battlegrounds ahead of my group, I failed to look both…
Udo Kier—the impossibly prolific German actor that you and I will readily recognise as Yuri from Red Alert 2, Command and Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, and Hideo Kojima’s upcoming OD—has died aged 81. His partner, Delbert McBride, confirmed the news to Variety. Kier appeared in over 200 films in the course of a long and remarkable…
Since the earliest days of humanity’s experiments with legal systems, we’ve been trying to find a way to make murder less appealing and trickier to pull off. Criminalising weapons, prison time, law enforcement—it turns out all we really needed was an extremely busy toilet. In a talk on proc-gen narratives at AdventureX, Shadows of Doubt…
So far we’ve been thoroughly spoiled in Two Point Museum, treated with an abundance of free updates—from staff memorials to the ever-expanding Digiverse expedition map—and its first major paid DLC Fantasy Finds. Having recently completed Fantasy Finds, I was impressed at the sheer breadth of content and the incorporation of light RPG mechanics that let…