Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'

Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they’ve become: ‘If you don’t innovate, especially in games, you start losing people’

Ken Levine, creator of the Bioshock series, has had a bit of a long road to walk in order to release his studio’s upcoming game, Judas. It’s been in development for at least eight years, after Take-Two shut down Irrational Games in 2017 and booted up Ghost Story Games thereafter. We didn’t hear much about…

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Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre’s video surveillance was ‘Louvre,’ and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd

The air of criminal mystique has been dispelled somewhat in the weeks following the October 18 heist that saw $102 million of crown jewels stolen from the Louvre in broad daylight. The suspects fumbled an entire crown during their escape, before trying and failing to light their mechanical lift on fire as a diversionary tactic….

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Split Fiction hands-on report

Everybody has a story in their mind that they’d love to tell, but maybe they don’t feel like they have the ability to tell it effectively. But that’s about to change in Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction, which launches March 6 on PS5.  Play Video In the game, the publisher Rader has a new, advanced machine…

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