There is a particular silence that belongs to Escape from Tarkov. You have found something valuable, your bag is full, the extract is two hundred metres away, and every footstep you take sounds like a confession. Nothing in thirty years of shooters prepared players for that feeling. Yet the genre that produced it is a…
Why does a profitable studio with two shipped titles and no fraud history get handed a 10% rolling reserve and a 90-day hold? Founders tend to treat the answer as a clerical error by a bank that has never shipped a game. The decision is narrower than that. Underwriting prices a set of behaviors game…
“I got so frustrated with the whole thing, I started looking for other work.”. This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo GameCube’s original release in Japan, which also means Wave Race: Blue Storm is turning 25. The third in Nintendo’s series of jet-ski racing games (which originated all the way back in 1992…
Helldivers, the quickest route from tyranny to Liberty is one straight line of righteous operational advancement. And today you have been granted clearance to forge a path clean through anti-Democratic resistance in your own creative way, armed with the brand-new Ironclad Democracy Warbond, deploying into Helldivers 2 next week, Tuesday September 22. Play Video Explosive….
Of Crocs & Catwomen. This week sees British developer Argonaut Games celebrating its 44th birthday. For the past four decades, the studio has built one of the most varied and unique portfolios in gaming history, ranging from bedroom-programmed releases and handheld adventures to major film licences and some of Nintendo’s biggest franchises. Originally formed in…
Eternal hope. Remaster developer Nightdive Studios has always been open about its desire to tackle Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, and a new comment from its studio head has raised hopes that it might become a reality. As covered by IGN, Stephen Kick responded to a question on social media in which a user asked if…
“I remember him as I knew him: a remarkably talented, generous and funny man”. Speaking exclusively to Time Extension, Julien Seri, the director of the famous The Legend of Zelda ad campaign featuring Robin Williams and his daughter, Zelda, has shared his memories of what it was like working with the legendary comedian. Since the…
There’s been a lot of talk about AI ‘slowdown’ over the last few days, since Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said the industry needs to slow down to allow for better safety measures to be implemented, with these comments themselves riding in the wake of recent cybersecurity threats. Seemingly every big tech bro and even world…
Should immersive sims rein in their budgets? Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen thinks so. We chatted to him last month, where he said a lot of immersive sims are in “an arms race to be bigger and better”, but that the size of the audience and the competition from other big-budget games makes that a…
Dungeons & Dragons has had a rough handful of years. A new version of the Open Game Licence (OGL) leaked in 2023, portending doom for independent creators and giving Wizards of the Coast a licence to rug-pull any third-party creator it didn’t like (among other such horrors). This began the long and arduous process of…