Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: 'Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is'

Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: ‘Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is’

Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making…

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Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of ‘undesirable organisations’, sobs that Stalker 2 promoted ‘Ukrainian narratives’ and ‘aggressive Russophobic content’

Stalker developer GSC Game World has been added to the Russian government’s list of “undesirable organisations,” per a press release from the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office. In other words, it’s been deemed a threat to the “foundations of Russia’s constitutional order, defensive capacity and security,” and anyone in Russia maintaining ties to the studio could…

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Say goodbye to Overwatch hero Bastion and say hello to next season’s Cooler Bastion who will be 10% smaller because he was such a bullet magnet

In order to save Overwatch’s friendly neighborhood robot Bastion from getting demolished every time he steps out of cover, hero designer Scott Kennedy made an unusual suggestion: shrink him. Smaller targets are harder to hit and that could be all it takes to keep him alive a little longer. After some internal testing, the decision…

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