Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat

Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him ‘ammunition’ to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat

You ever get sick of trashmob fights? I admit it: sometimes I just want to run from A to B without massacring half a village, cutting down group after group of bandits, goblins, and imps who have only really been placed there to stop me from getting bored. I am, apparently, joined in this philosophy…

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Game made in consultancy with alien abductees delists itself after claiming it received a bomb threat for making certain information public

Take a big old sip of coffee. Universal Conquest, a space grand strategy game “based on personal interviews with alien abductees” and allegedly in development for over a decade, has been voluntarily de-listed from Steam by its solo dev, following what they describe as “an offer we couldn’t refuse”. And breathe. Universal Conquest first appeared…

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What’s that Pop Up? Your Activision Games Are On the Cloud

When we welcomed Activision Blizzard to Team Xbox a few weeks ago, we reaffirmed our goal of bringing more Xbox games to more players on more devices. To that end, we made a commitment to the European Commission to enable European Economic Area (EEA) gamers to play current and future Activision Blizzard PC and console games that…

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Marvel Rivals’ devs like throwing in curveballs ‘to make the roster more interesting,’ meaning we’ll probably get more characters like Squirrel Girl and Jeff the Land Shark

Marvel Rivals’ roster is currently 37 heroes, all from various Marvel comics. There are a healthy mix of icons like Thor, Punisher, and Black Widow, as well as a more niche heroes who’ve never gotten the MCU treatment like Magik, Squirrel Girl, and Jeff the Land Shark. While NetEase plans to keep on adding fan…

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