Lords of the Fallen’s creative leads were let go just months before the Lords of the Fallen 2 reveal: ‘Like Mournstead, no kingdom lasts forever’

Lords of the Fallen 2 is coming, but three important figures in its development aren’t coming along with it. Publisher and developer CI Games has been teasing a new Lords of the Fallen game for a while, and finally revealed the sequel to the 2023 soulslike (which itself was a re-do of 2014’s Lords of…

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Geoff Keighley provides Hollow Knight: Silksong proof-of-life with brief gameplay video, says it’s ‘100% actually launching this year’

A ‘special’ Hollow Knight: Silksong announcement is coming on Thursday, but in advance of that, Geoff Keighley has affirmed that the unreasonably highly anticipated sequel is still coming this year, definitely for real. At Gamescom Opening Night Live today, Keighley said that Silksong is “100% actually launching this year” and showed some brief gameplay footage—you…

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Ghostrunner creators are back with a horror-infused alternate history of the Napoleonic wars—and the studio says it plays like a first-person soulslike

After a couple of smaller indie games, Polish studio One More Level made a splash in 2020 with the first Ghostrunner, which not only nailed a glistening cyberpunk art style at a time when people were still salivating over Cyberpunk 2077, but also managed to pull off what few other studios can manage: precision-oriented and…

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Denshattack is a game where you do Tony Hawk stunts with Japanese trains whose developers would not confirm whether I can make a train do a Christ Air

For years, one of the most spiritually potent images on the internet was Multi-Track Drifting: It’s a pair of double-page splash panels from the doujin parody manga Densha de D, depicting with mythic intensity a singular moment of locomotive stuntcraft. During a virtual preview event, developer Undercoders said it’s channeling that same spirit of train…

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