Turn-Based Tactical RPG King Arthur: Legion IX Launches on May 6, 2025

WoW’s game director says he’s keen on organising its scattered story for new players: ‘that is a weakness … Chris Metzen and I chatted [about it] a bunch’

In a recent interview with WoW’s community council (thanks, WoWhead), the game’s current director Ion Hazzikostas was asked about the current state of the story, and how dang hard it is to introduce new players to its extensive lore. For context, World of Warcraft’s had a long-standing issue: a ton of lore can only be…

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‘To put it bluntly, it was copying others’: Former Dragon Quest producer says he left Square Enix because the developer was too focused on making ‘safe’ games

Former Dragon Quest producer Ryutaro Ichimura says he left Square Enix because the developer and publisher was too focused on making “safe” games. In a recent episode of ReHacQ (translated by Automaton), Ichimura says he had always planned to go independent eventually, but Square Enix’s way of handling things sped that process up significantly. According…

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The Red Dead Online Beta is Now Live

Starting today, the Red Dead Online Beta is open to everyone who owns Red Dead Redemption 2 on PlayStation 4, jump in now to experience the vast and deeply detailed landscapes, cities, towns and habitats of Red Dead Redemption 2 in a new, living online world ready to be shared by multiple players. Built from…

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Metro 2039 devs say the ongoing war in Ukraine has changed how they write morality: ‘The franchise’s very nature is getting too close to reality’

The Metro series has its roots in war-scarred post-apocalyptia, as such, it grapples with a lot of themes: The indescribable cost of nuclear war, the grim, complicated grey at the heart of humanity, and the cost of human life in a world no longer built to support it. Which, to those developers who founded the…

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