'I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out

‘I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it’: Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out

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…

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Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P lambasts invasive mod that exposes player data, promises its deletion and potential ‘legal action’

First reported by Massively OP, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida has issued a statement on the game’s forums regarding a player-made plugin that can reveal private account details in-game. Yoshida doesn’t name a particular mod in his post, but he is almost assuredly referring to PlayerScope, a plugin that has drawn criticism from the…

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The Alice: Madness Returns dev team ‘made history,’ American McGee says: It was ‘the first team ever to tell EA *** and (kinda) get away with it’

Alice creator American McGee has been in something of a chatty mood lately. Just a couple days after relating a tale about how he drew inspiration from a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2 at id, he shared another story about Alice: Madness Returns, offering a fun glimpse into game dev financing,…

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Trippy, psychedelic alien shooter ChainStaff shows there are still new ways for games to be ‘retro’

I love a new-old game as much as anyone, but it’s hard to pretend that today’s retro throwbacks aren’t drawing inspiration from a small, predictable selection of extremely popular games: Zelda. Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy. Castlevania. Metroid. Mega Man. These are perfectly understandable picks for a game of any size to be inspired by—there are…

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This Mod Brings Crisp And Clear HDMI To GameCube

It’s a GEM. If you’re a seasoned retro gamer who has already spent some time modding and upgrading your existing consoles for the HD age, then you’ll no doubt have heard the name Pixel FX before. The company has produced internal HDMI mods for systems such as PS1, PS2 and Dreamcast, and now its Retro…

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Interview: “I Have All The Freedom & No Power” – Astro Boy & Segagaga Director Tez Okano On His Greatest Hits & Going Indie

“A number of overseas developers have said, ‘We want you to make a [Segagaga] sequel’”. The Segagaga director Tetsu “Tez” Okano has had an extraordinary but unconventional career in video games. As a kid growing up in 1970s Japan, he fell in love with arcade games like Space Invaders and Galaxian but never initially considered…

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