Bringing The Order: 1886 to Life

Bringing The Order: 1886 to Life

Yes! The Order: 1886 is done! From a grand idea flickering in Ru’s disturbingly creative noggin it was imagined, developed and thus realized with love and care by a small team of immature, somewhat unstable, naively optimistic artists and engineers here at Ready At Dawn Studios. The Order: 1886 | PlayStation.com The early days of…

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 developer is trying to figure out who put the edgy Guitar Hero gag in the game it made, promises to remove it in the next update even though players want it to stay

Iron Galaxy, the studio that made the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake, says it is investigating how an amusing, some might say slightly edgy, reference to Guitar Hero and developer Neversoft ended up in the game. It also committed to removing the image in question, even though players are now asking the…

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows adds a cat dressed like Ezio and its coolest weapon yet: A large stick

Six months on, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows has long since faded into the general live-service background susurrus that underlies all of videogames. It has its players, its haters, its curious onlookers—but the fires of capital-d Discourse have been burnt out for a while. Which is quite nice, honestly, but it doesn’t mean Ubisoft doesn’t have…

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That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)

As if to prove the circularity of art imitating life imitating art imitating life, the guy who got famous for his portrayal in the 2015 movie The Big Short, Michael Burry, has just placed a $1 billion bet against Nvidia and AI specialist Palantir. That is, quite literally, a big short on Nvidia. Thanks to…

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WoW’s Plunderstorm battle royale mode is much more popular the second time around: ‘I can just play and screw around’

World of Warcraft’s controversial battle royale mode relaunched a week ago, once again pitting PvE mount and transmog collectors against hardcore PvP enjoyers. And this time around… almost no one is complaining. Blizzard made some smart changes to the way its pirate-themed Plunderstorm worked. The rate of earning plunder, the game mode’s currency, has increased….

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23 devs teamed up to make a free game of ‘innovative yet questionable volume sliders,’ and it feels like browser-based WarioWare

Volume.art is a nice, free, cool thing on the internet, and I just think that’s something worth celebrating these days. The microgame collection sees you manipulating volume sliders through various abstracted, surprising, and very funny ways. It starts strong with “A man named Bow” by Alice Bottino, which kinda reminds me of the Smash Bros…

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