The Sunday Papers
…The general consensus among all the people I spoke to is that the developers are, in fact, capturing footage to animate the cube. That’s because even though it’s a faceless…
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Roguelike FPS offshoot Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into early access with its own dangers, its own dwarves, and at last, its own identity
…And, as everyone who’s cracked so much as a post-walk Diet Coke will know, the tastiest drinks are the ones you’ve earned. I don’t know if Rogue Core…
"You're not doing parkour off a roof, but the principles were the same": How the makers of Firewatch pulled from Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, and Bioshock to tell a new kind of story in a walking simulator
…on the trail up to his post – we learn that Henry is running away from his life outside the forest. His wife, Julia has developed early onset dementia and Henry isn't…
"We tried something different": Looking back on SiN Episodes: Emergence, the Valve-backed shooter that tried and failed to kick off an age of episodic gaming
…1 of 10 Caption Attribution As production on the project began in earnest, there was genuine excitement within the studio about the possibilities of episodic development. For Emergence's writer and lead…
"They have the biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet": How the unlikely EVE Online x Google DeepMind AI partnership landed with players
…Players are widely repulsed by genAI material , developers and even some publishers are increasingly wary of its temptations, and in a rush to build the requisite infrastructure, component shortages have ravaged the…
After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview
Remakes are very much in vogue these days, providing developers the opportunity to return to an old favourite and enhance, expand, and correct the wrongs of the past. Some of the best…
Crimson Desert can perform well on PC, but you’ll need to win its crash lottery first
…Even Ultra 4K refrains from asking for the truly top-end stuff. That said, I wouldn’t actually recommend tackling Crimson Desert with something as humble as the GTX 1060. With Nvidia…
I tried to play PC games on the highest mountains of Wales
…There's a lesson for videogame developers in this, I say importantly to myself, after retracing my steps: how do you create worlds that offer incorrect or deliberately false directions, perhaps based…
All 126 suits in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
…Freeze at the end of Batman & Robin. You get the ice, I'll get the iceman! Arghhh, I'm running out of ice puns from the movie for all of these entries…
The best survival games on PC
…By the mid-nineties, solo developer Sami Maaranen had discovered the formula that would allow the game to endure for more than two decades. Still in development, with regular updates adding major…