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Cosplay is still a bit of an unknown world to me, but it’s one I’d love to be more involved with. I’ve only ever cosplayed once, really—aside from the odd Halloween costume which I know doesn’t really count—but that doesn’t mean I don’t try to stay as in the loop as possible. I’ve always been…
Eggs! They’re the new gaming craze, baby. Forget roguelikes, or friendslop, or rogue friends, or sloplikes, eggs are the hottest they’ve been in the virtual realm since the days of Tamagotchi. Just how hot, you ask? Well, there are three egg-themed games launching within a week of each other. Which isn’t that many in the…
I practically heard the monkey’s paw curling a finger when Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow was revealed back in June. Here after more than a decade, was an honest-to-god new Thief game, one that brings back Stephen Russell to lend his gravelly tones to Garrett. “But you don’t get to play as him”, the antique…
Remedy Entertainment’s woes continue with FBC: Firebreak. The cooperative shooter proved a disappointment when it released in June, launching in an anaemic state, lacking basic features like in-game voice chat and a tutorial, and generally seeming like a compromised vision despite a few novel ideas. Its first major update, Breakpoint, went some way to addressing…
Remember Agent? After first mentioning it in 2007, Rockstar formally announced it in 2009—an espionage game in an open world, GTA meets James Bond, with all the cars-turning-into-submarines gadgetry that implies. After bouncing between different Rockstar studios for a while, Agent vanished off the radar, with its death finally being confirmed in 2021. In a…
Doom level designer Sandy Petersen has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to explain the closure of Ensemble Studios, where he worked in the 2000s. According to Petersen, Ensemble and its in-development Halo MMO were scuttled by Xbox boss Don Mattrick to protect a short-term, profit-based bonus he was elligible to receive. “In 2008, Ensemble Studios…
Draknek and Friends is a pretty reliable puzzle-maker, dropping a new worth-playing gem every few years. Now they’ve released Spooky Express, an update of their delightful 2017 Cosmic Express, just in time for a little spooky-themed fall puzzling. In a round of Spooky Express, your job is to lay out train tracks so that you…
Andrzej Sapkowski recently wrote a prequel to his Witcher novels, Crossroads of Ravens. At an event to publicize that novel, our colleagues at GamesRadar asked the author if he’d been involved in any part of the development of The Witcher 4. And he said, basically: nope. While explaining that the developers at CD Projekt Red…
In a public conversation on Bluesky, former Volition developer Elizabeth Zelle, alongside videogame preservationists Andrew Borman and Phil Salvadore, highlighted the existence of Skinballs, a surreal Saints Row test NPC who, through an accident of history, will be forever preserved for future generations in the Strong Museum of Play. Responding to an article by IGN…
Slick little roguelike city-build-and-defend game Super Fantasy Kingdom hit early access this week, asking you to time loop your ever-growing kingdom to victory against a mysterious foe that sends waves of enemies against you each night. To win you’ll have to build up a base of resources to keep a collection of valiant heroes fed…