The story for Paradox's original, canned Bloodlines 2 has gone the way of the dodo, and its fired narrative lead says no one's spoken to him about it, but the good news is he's working on 2 games at once right now

The story for Paradox’s original, canned Bloodlines 2 has gone the way of the dodo, and its fired narrative lead says no one’s spoken to him about it, but the good news is he’s working on 2 games at once right now

If there’s a recent game-dev story I’m ravenous to hear more about, it’s this: what the hell happened with Hardsuit Labs’ version of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? If you can cast your mind back to the heady days of 2019, you might remember the game’s initial announcement, when Paradox got Brian Mitsoda—writer on…

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Mass Effect 3 didn’t have music like Vigil or Suicide Mission because composer Jack Wall had a spat with Casey Hudson: ‘Casey was not particularly happy with me at the end’

Mass Effect 1 and 2 are, as far as I’m concerned, two of the best albums ever released, and the games they put out to promote them aren’t bad either. That’s in no small part down to composer Jack Wall, whose fingerprints are all over the iconic, wobbly synths of tracks like Vigil, Suicide Mission,…

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Capcom says it wants Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney to be ‘core IPs’ like Monster Hunter and Street Fighter: ‘[We] recognize the need to grow our pipeline going forward’

Another year, another deluge of business slideshow presentations throwing around phrases like “brand power” and “human capital.” This recent integrated report from Capcom is one to make note of, though, if you fancy yourself a fan of the venerable studio—or at least a fan of Mega Man, Devil May Cry, or Ace Attorney. (Sorry, Demon’s…

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Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess

The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bitlocker, it shouldn’t matter if you lose your laptop or somebody pinches your SSD. Your data still can’t be accessed. Except it can and all that’s needed…

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