Open world survival RPG Kenshi can be cruel, especially in the early hours. As our reviewer put it back in 2018, “basic survival plans can be easily derailed by a city guard who plants drugs on you then demands money you don’t have, or by finding yourself deep in a region inhabited by vicious alien…
Retro Studios continues its recruitment for personnel to help with the development of its upcoming Metroid Prime 4 for the Nintendo Switch system. The company has hired yet another designer behind the charming Super Lucky’s Tale as well as a veteran from the beloved Eternal Darkness series and first person shooter, Crysis 3. There’s no…
Online gaming publication Siliconera is reporting that the hard working team over at Monolith Soft has now grown to 243 employees. The developer has produced some remarkable JRPG’s including Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and seems to be growing at a steady rate. The publication says that the team is helping out on The…
I don’t have children, but if I did, I’d probably love them less than I love Deadlock, Valve’s work-in-progress MOBA shooter. It might be unfinished, but its anarchic invite-only test has served up better live service than most live service games with its constant reinvention—a habit Deadlock’s carried into 2026 with the massive update released…
Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki, who died last week at the age of 58, was once famous for trolling his competitors in interviews. He listed Tekken 1-5 as his “most hated” games and had public “feuds” with Tekken’s Katsuhiro Harada and Devil May Cry’s Hideki Kamiya. While working on 2005’s Ninja Gaiden Black, he said…
“I need a bigger gun”. We thought that last week’s reveal of the Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition ‘Don’t Worry’ remix might be the only peek we’d get at the upcoming remaster’s soundtrack, but we were wrong! Nintendo UK is back with another track, and it’s another banger. This time, it’s the battle theme ‘Black…
Marathon‘s four-day Server Slam concluded yesterday, and Bungie’s been scouring over all the feedback it’s received (and some interesting player-driven statistics, like how many bottles of alien milk you pinched from Tau Ceti). Given it’s only a few days until launch, there’s not much time to make changes ahead of release, but Bungie is considering…
Originally planned as a Skyrim-like open-world game, set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, Avowed eventually transitioned into being semi-open. By that, I mean lots of very large, open levels, all connected together. But that change aside, in many ways, Avowed does feel like a cross between Skyrim and PoE, and if you’re a fan…
While Hytale already has a lot of different materials that send you far and wide to acquire, none are all too tricky to find. I’m sorry to say that voidhearts are an exception. Voidhearts are a dedicated drop from a specific enemy like other mob materials, sure, only in this case they’re not guaranteed. That’s…
Welcome to an inside look into the design process for Layers of Fear 2, launching on PS4 Tuesday. We have a specific vision for the games we create, we call it ‘hidden horror.’ It has only two guiding principles: 1) it has to have a subject (most often psychological or sociological in nature); 2) playing…