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There have been an awful lot of layoffs across the game industry in 2023, but against that bleak backdrop this week’s cuts at Bungie came as a shock. Fans are mourning the loss of a number of long-term employees, particularly composers Michael Salvatori, who wrote countless memorable tracks for both Destiny games as well as…
As troubled as Cyberpunk 2077 was at launch, it’s remarkable to think back to what a CD Projekt Red game looked like just 12 years before. The first Witcher game is almost comically rudimentary next to the lavishly motion captured, ray traced first-person world of Cyberpunk. But it was fun, with a fantasy setting that…
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…
Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s big project of the moment, but it’s far from the only thing the studio is working on. Today, as part of its most recent financial report, the company shared a look at how its other projects, including a sequel to Control and remakes of the first two Max Payne games,…
’83 was announced in 2019 as a persistent FPS for up to 80 players set in an alt-history world where the Cold War turned hot. Development was being handled by Antimatter Games, the team behind the excellent Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, but work was put on hold in May 2022 so the team could focus…
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…
Deciding whether to say yes to Raphael’s deal in Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the more challenging decisions you’ll have to make during your travels across Faerun. On the one hand, he’s offering you a Legendary weapon and a means to free Orpheus. On the other, he’s a devil who quite clearly wants to…
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…
There’s a tradition among Dungeons & Dragons players—and honestly, RPGs at large—that if you get to a high enough level, you’re gonna kill a god. Unless, of course, you’re running a campaign for a table of obstinate players who want to kill the devil instead. This officially-sanctioned D&D book from Arcanum Worlds lets you do…
In what is becoming almost an annual event, though hardly the celebratory kind, Ubisoft has announced it is closing the servers for a bunch of the publisher’s older titles. In the past Ubisoft has somewhat messed-up the messaging on such things, leaving players under the false impression that the affected titles would become unplayable, but…