Capcom The Game Awards recap: Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, and Mega Man: Dual Override

The PUBG extraction shooter spinoff springs back to life with a closed alpha test set for December, and its focus on exploration over pure combat sounds a lot like my favorite part of Arc Raiders

We learned in 2023 that PUBG was being fitted for an extraction shooter spinoff, referred to at the time as Project Black Budget. It was set to launch in the second half of 2024, but then 2024 came, Project Black Budget didn’t, and frankly we forgot about the whole thing. I did, anyway. Now, as…

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Neil Druckmann wasn’t going to cast Laura Bailey in The Last of Us Part 2 because ‘she’s in everything,’ but changed his mind after studying her audition ‘frame-by-frame’

Laura Bailey is one of those prolific videogame actors whose voice you’ve probably heard whether or not you’ve heard her name. A few of Bailey’s recent credits include Marvel Rivals, World of Warcraft: The War Within, and Spider-Man 2. For that reason, Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann says the developer almost didn’t cast Bailey…

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Cliff Bleszinski says ego played a role in LawBreakers’ failure: ‘People are loyal to the game, but they’re not necessarily loyal to the person’

LawBreakers was, by many accounts, a great game. But the 2017 shooter was a commercial failure, and developer Boss Key shut it down just a year after release. There’s been much speculation about why it stumbled, including from Boss Key co-founder and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski himself. In a new interview with 80.lv,…

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8 Irresistible Gameplay Improvements in Borderlands 3

Nearly seven years have passed since the last mainline Borderlands game, and the world is ready for a return to Claptrap’s turf. If you played the previous entries, you know to expect gonzo co-op action with an emphasis on outlandish weaponry. While Borderlands 3 delivers the first-person, looter-shooter goodness you’d expect, it also comes with…

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Hololive vtuber says new rhythm game on Steam is surprisingly true to their personas for a reason: ‘We had tons of involvement with the script and dialogue’

Although Steam has a handful of Hololive vtuber games already—that is, games featuring members of the popular vtuber agency—none of them are as comprehensive as Hololive Dreams. A rhythm game with a huge list of collectible characters to meet, Hololive Dreams is the closest thing we’re getting to a vtuber theme park—at least until someone…

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