'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm

‘You’re a very long arm. You steal things. It’s a comedy game,’ explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A grizzled detective one week away from retirement sits at his desk in a dimly lit office, clearly frustrated by a criminal mastermind who continues to elude him. Strewn across his desk and pinned to the bulletin board behind him are photos of the perp he’s been pursuing…

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Suda51 says his new game isn’t a No More Heroes sequel because series star Travis Touchdown needed a break: ‘I could write Travis all day, but dude is exhausted’

Romeo Is a Dead Man, which launches this week, is a dizzying mismash of styles: 3D graphics, 2D animation, comic book cutscenes, 8- and 16-bit minigames, and more, intentionally jarring as it swaps from one to the next. Romeo’s hack-and-slash action is a lot more familiar. It’s similar enough to producer Suda51’s No More Heroes…

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Larian says Divinity’s character customisation will be ‘even better’ than Baldur’s Gate 3’s: ‘More colors, more options, more control’

It wouldn’t be a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired RPG unless it featured character creation, and Larian’s character creators have certainly improved over time. While Baldur’s Gate 3 is easily the studio’s best in terms of sheer fidelity, Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a bit more personality—cannibal elves, playable skeleton versions of each race, and so on….

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This brilliant dark and moody cyberpunk city builder is my kind of cosy game—and for less than $7 you might as well see if it’s yours too

I want to introduce y’all to an excellent low-pressure city builder that I’ve become smitten with, Dystopika, but first I need to get some stuff off my chest. Sorry (I am not sorry). Among my many questionable opinions, one in particular tends to elicit the most ire from my colleagues: that cosy games are bollocks….

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OpenAI boss Sam Altman dons metaphorical hot dog suit as he realises, huh, there sure are a lot of annoying AI-powered bots online these days

For as long as I’ve been alive, there have been bots of one kind or another on the internet. Whether it’s WoW gold bots, email spammers, SmarterChild (remember SmarterChild?), or something else, this glorious world wide web has been home to rickety, virtual facsimiles of human beings trying to wheedle money out of you for…

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