A wildly popular beta has skyrocketed The Finals into the top-wishlisted game on Steam, priming it to be the FPS to watch in 2024

The hottest game on Steam right now is an FPS that’s not technically out yet. Hundreds of thousands of people are trying out The Finals, a highly-destructible competitive shooter from ex-Battlefield devs currently in open beta. The beta is so popular, in fact, that The Finals has claimed the top spot on Steam’s top wishlisted…

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Tim Schafer and Double Fine celebrate 25 years of Grim Fandango and thank fans for their memories: ‘I’ll keep them next to where my heart used to be!’

Grim Fandango released on October 30, 1998, and so yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of arguably the greatest adventure game LucasArts ever made. Yeah OK, OK, simmer down Monkey Island fans: it’s Manny Calavera’s time to shine. And to mark the occasion Double Fine, the studio founded by Grim Fandango writer Tim Schafer, has published…

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Dark Messiah was ‘horny, generic, linear, unbalanced’ and may have been forgotten by Arkane, but it’s inspiring a new generation of developers

Arkane Studios celebrated 24 years of business this month with a social media post that commemorated almost all of its games. In the line-up was subterranean RPG Arx Fatalis and extraordinary FPS experiment Deathloop. So was System Shock tribute Prey, as well as all three Victoriana stealth-action games set in the Dishonored universe.  Even this…

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