Vermintide's developers only realized they were wading into a cursed subgenre after they started making a first-person melee game: 'I was so scared'

Vermintide’s developers only realized they were wading into a cursed subgenre after they started making a first-person melee game: ‘I was so scared’

Look, I love Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, but there have been a lot more videogames where first-person melee combat kind of sucks than ones where it’s as fun as kicking an orc off a cliff in Dark Messiah was. There’s a reason we all play Skyrim as stealth archers. When Fatshark was first…

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Platinum Games partners with Tencent

Platinum Games has announced today that they’ve partnered with Tencent and have received vital capital investment from the Chinese company. This will allow the teams to follow their ambitions including possibly moving into self publishing. Platinum Games will continue to remain independent. Here’s the full statement from the company: We would like to announce we…

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Bloodlines 2 narrative director tries to get players to lower their expectations, patiently explains it’s not going to have the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Grand Theft Auto

While we will get to choose the clan and gender of our player-character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it’s apparently not going to be a full “how many skill points do I want to put into Security” kind of character creation—a revelation that’s set a few fans on edge. Narrative director Ian Thomas…

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