Dune: Awakening‘s new single-player mode could be a great way to experience the MMO-survival mashup’s story by yourself, but don’t jump in expecting a The Last of Us replacement. Developer Funcom has been hard at work translating its beloved online game into a single-player context, with a new mode coming out alongside Dune: Awakening’s console […]
2019“This is Agnes.” I’m gawking at the most beautifully horrifying hand-painted statue I’ve ever seen in my life as James Macleod, Ritual Tides creative director and CEO of developer studio Vertpaint, beams with pride. Agnes looks like a cross between a humanoid centipede, a fleshy slug with a burst rear end, and the giant baby […]
2019Atlus took everything it learned from Persona 3 Reload and went all out for Persona 4 Revival, according to series producer Kazuhisa Wada. In a move that was a little controversial at the time, Persona 3 Reload actually remade the original Persona 3 rather than the expanded Persona 3 Reload release. Some content introduced in […]
2019Back in 2006, Rare found itself at a crossroads. The developer had spent the 1990s working with Nintendo, creating some of the SNES, Game Boy, and N64’s most beloved titles. In 2002, though, it was acquired by Microsoft, becoming a first-party developer for its new game console. In the transition, some of Rare’s magic seemed […]
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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation might be wrapping up a trilogy of remakes next year, but publisher Square Enix doesn’t seem to be done with Cloud and his ragtag group of eco-warriors just yet. In a PAX West panel called ‘From Reunion to Resolve,’ the trilogy’s game director Naoki Hamaguchi spoke about his goals for the […]
2019Even after an hour spent exploring its bustling streets, I’m still not sure what Ananta is. Billed as an “open-world RPG”, that descriptor does little to explain the vast hodge-podge of ideas and systems that have been crammed into this game, which in turn do little to explain how it can possibly be free-to-play given […]
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In a new move for a series that has traditionally let players treat its world like a playground, GTA 6‘s NPCs will organically react to Lucia and Jason if they have their guns withdrawn. Rockstar North’s joint boss and development lead Rob Nelson has explained the change was made because GTA 5’s approach no longer […]
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In 1988, a game called The Battle of Olympus hit the Famicom, arriving a few years later globally on the NES. It didn’t make much of an impression at the time, garnering mediocre sales as it was brushed off as yet another fantastical platformer on the console. But over the years, it’s become a cult […]
2019The Fable reboot’s whimsical fantasy world is full of 1,000 NPCs who are each handmade by the developers at Playground Games, but that’s not always how the new feature was handled. Originally, the devs randomized everything about the Living Population and, as you can imagine, that made much less sense. Speaking to GamesRadar+ about the […]
2019Fable has a while to go before its release on February 23, 2027, but we’re already salivating at the prospect of buying up every property in Albion and milking the fantasy land for all the gold it’s worth. After chatting with its game director Ralph Fulton, we now know exactly how we’re going to do […]
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