Electrified sticky notes and spontaneous combustion: Remedy’s new co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is built for chaos and ‘joyful discoveries’

For nearly 30 years—ever since the release of its second ever game, Max Payne—developer Remedy Entertainment has been in the business of making narrative-driven singleplayer games. Recent releases have even taken that focus further, tying together the studio’s games into one connected universe of stories. All of which ensures that, however you slice it, the…

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Wizards of the Coast gaming head says Baldur’s Gate 3 ‘certainly raised the bar’ and changed how they think about big budget D&D, but they still want ‘different entry points’ including smaller games

Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast senior vice president of digital games Dan Ayoub said that we won’t have to wait too long to see what the company has in store for D&D. In an interview with PC Gamer, I asked him just what that meant—did “soon” in fact mean sometime in 2025? “Definitely,”…

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‘He’s just gonna show up one day and say, here’s 100 new jokers:’ Balatro’s publisher doesn’t know how big the 1.1 update will be or when it’s coming

“Of the new jokers being added to Balatro, which is your favorite?” This was my incredibly lame attempt to extract a little classified information about the upcoming Balatro 1.1 update while talking to Wout van Halderen, the communications director at Balatro’s publisher, Playstack, when we talked at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this…

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Bloober Team’s new horror label just unveiled an isometric survival horror game straight out of a comic book: ‘Avoid the Horned Man at all costs’

You might know Bloober Team for its Silent Hill 2 remake, which everyone was really scared would suck until it turned out to be pretty okay, but the studio’s penchant for polarizing horror goes back a long way. These days, it’s cooking up games under a horror-centric co-development label called Broken Mirror Games—the latest of…

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After suspending development in 2024, People Can Fly brings Project Victoria back to life as survival-extraction shooter Lost Rift

Just a few months after People Can Fly announced the suspension of work on Project Victoria, it’s sprung back to life as Lost Rift, a survival shooter that blends solo or co-op PvE gameplay and base-building with “intense PvPvE expeditions” across a mysterious archipelago of islands. Revealed during today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, Lost…

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