Netflix's Castlevania: Nocturne Is Getting An Art Book

Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: ‘Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop’

Fangamer’s videogame tie-ins have drawn our attention multiple times in the past, from the Stardew Valley boxed edition complete with farm-ownership deed, to the angry psychic squid from Into the Breach in huggable plushie form. They recently released a fancy vinyl edition of the soundtrack to Myst sequel Riven, but this time the response has…

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Arrowhead founder casually mentions that a Helldivers 2 ‘roguelite mode’ is in the prototype phase: ‘It changes the game fundamentally!’

Helldivers 2 is a deep, engrossing co-op shooter with no shortage of things to do, but I wouldn’t say no to additional modes that shake up its mission-based structure. According to Arrowhead founder Johan Pilestedt, such a mode is actively in the works for Helldivers 2. “Hey! We have a prototype of a rogue-lite mode—it…

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DayZ creator calls to ‘normalize delaying games,’ that consumers can show Xbox and Sony ‘that delays are okay’ and, oh, ‘Personally: don’t preorder games, folks. Commercially: please preorder games’

Dean Hall, creator of DayZ and CEO of RocketWerkz, has a message for the world: let’s all be more chill about game delays. Especially devs who, Hall reckons, can often work themselves into far too much of a tizz about avoiding delays, sometimes to the detriment of the final game. Hall’s remarks came as part…

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Zero Parades: Director’s Cut will challenge you to drive a stolen truck through a busy roundabout while stoned out of your mind

Just four months after the release of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, and two months after laying off a significant number of employees, Studio ZA/UM has announced Zero Parades: Director’s Cut, a major update that will add roughly 40,000 words of new content, a new encounter, and other improvements and fixes. From the announcement on…

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