Anniversary: Resident Evil 4, One Of The Greatest Games Ever Made, Turns 20

Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less ‘like a gas pedal’

Parkour has always been a distinguishing feature of Assassin’s Creed. Hooded figures leaping between rooftops and flinging themselves into conveniently placed haystacks is one of the series’ most consistent visual motifs. But as the games have evolved from historical action-adventures to quasi-RPGs, on-foot traversal has become increasingly sidelined in favour of more elaborate stealth and…

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World of Warcraft’s most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough

World of Warcraft‘s latest patch has delivered on its promise of a compact, polished piece of mid-expansion gameplay—and has done a good job of keeping players entertained until new versions of timewalking rewards and Plunderstorm’s battle royale sail in as early as Tuesday. Released in mid-December, Content Update 11.0.7 delivers a solid, iterative improvement on…

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Lords of the Fallen studio embraces the DEI bugbear, says it will not include ‘any social or political agendas’ in its games

Lords of the Fallen studio CI Games says it will not integrate “any social or political agendas” into its games because doing so, it claims, incurs a “high risk” of commercial failure. The statement was made during a recent investors chat (via Strefa Inwestorów), during which CI Games was asked about its “stance on DEI…

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