Cash in those Bells. The day has finally arrived! After being revealed last month, Crocs has today launched its new Animal Crossing collection of clogs and Jibbitz on its North American site (they go live in Europe at 8am BST tomorrow morning). For Croc heads like this writer, this is a cause for celebration. You…
After two and a half years of development, the time has come to share Mafia: Definitive Edition with the world. Creating this game has been a fascinating journey for the team here at Hangar 13. For the veterans who worked on the original, it’s been a real nostalgia trip. Our newest developers (some of whom…
Stealth games typically prioritise avoiding causing a stink, but usually in a figurative sense. Keeping a low profile as you skulk around some elaborate mansion or military base is often essential to survival, as you evade or quietly eliminate guards to prevent the alarm being raised. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, however, makes being sniffed out…
I’ve just had a sinking feeling while playing the demo of co-op survival RPG Enshrouded. It wasn’t while I was skulking through the dark and spooky shroud that covers large portions of the world (though those cursed areas are extremely unsettling to explore). It wasn’t because I went into a creepy forgotten tomb and was…
I made my first Star Wars drawing – in ballpoint pen on the back of an envelope – immediately after seeing Star Wars: A New Hope. It was a portrait of Luke Skywalker. Or it may have been Han Solo. Some areas around the chin looked sort of like Greedo. Honestly, it wasn’t very good,…
Hey everyone, After spending over three years working on Marvel’s Spider-Man, it’s a thrill that the game is launching next week. We hope you’ve got you pre-orders ready, and can’t wait to explore our original Spider-Man universe next Friday, September 7! Marvel’s Spider-Man brings many great surprises, story moments, and gameplay that should keep you…
As World of Warcraft preps for patch 11.1.7, Wowhead has spotted an interesting feature on the public test servers: A new spell in the general tab for all characters, called recuperate, lets you light a little campfire, cook, and get your health (but not mana) back over 30 seconds. It costs you nothing. For me,…
And so it begins Official opposition to the net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission published yesterday to the Federal Register has already begun. The rules, as laid out by the FCC under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 face attacks from multiple angles, including an effort by Republicans in Congress to…
Before release, Stalker 2 was hotly anticipated. So hotly anticipated, in fact, that we named it our number one most wanted game—the most wanted most wanted—at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted of 2023. Did you count that? That’s four repetitions of the words ‘most wanted’ in a single sentence. That’s how wanted it was….
Knucklotec hands, to be precise. A new Ask the Developer interview all about Donkey Kong Bananza is now available for your perusal, and it’s packed with anecdotes and info about the upcoming 3D platformer. One particularly interesting nugget was that the concept of destruction was actually being worked on before development on Bananza officially began….