Game director Soulframe Liang has used his online nickname for so long he even trademarked it in China, and when Digital Extremes and Tencent came knocking for the Warframe sequel? 'I'm not selling'

Game director Soulframe Liang has used his online nickname for so long he even trademarked it in China, and when Digital Extremes and Tencent came knocking for the Warframe sequel? ‘I’m not selling’

I sat down for a demo of Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero with two main curiosities. First was how its combat compares to last year’s Black Myth: Wukong, and it turns out: pretty different. Second was the backstory of S-Game studio founder “Soulframe” Liang, who started his career with an RPG Maker game while…

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Palworld players channel their inner hunter-gatherers to fell a giant mammoth by herding it into campfires, devs call it ‘genius’

One of the things I genuinely like about Palworld is how it’s created a weird intersection between classic Pokémon-style mechanics and harebrained survival game nonsense—as is the case with this recent kill by the Video Gamers Podcast on Twitter. Spotted by GamesRadar, this kill of Mammorest—a huge boss-level pal that stomps around the game’s starting…

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Robots and heavy metal should be a match made in music heaven, but this collab in China is as exciting as your grandma moshing to Megadeth on metoprolol

If there’s one common aspect that ties all types of heavy metal together, it’s got to be the sheer energy that it carries. Nothing else quite gets your pulse pumping, neck snapping and bowels banging like high-tempo thrash, grindcore, or a slab of doom metal. Adding the tech coolness of robots to it all should…

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