Immediately killing a beloved hero of almost seven decades instantly established that nothing is sacred in HBO’s Lanterns. Anyone can die, and the DC comics this show is based on are a mere guideline at best. Yet even so, John Stewart’s decidedly dark origin story – explored in episode three – comes as a big […]
2019GTA 6 had even more daily-life role-playing features, like buying groceries to restock your fridge, reveals Rockstar North co-studio head and head of development Rob Nelson, but the team decided to scrap the idea so as not to overcomplicate the game’s mechanics. In an interview with Famitsu that’s been translated by GamesRadar+, Nelson discusses a […]
2019A massive archive of games and unreleased builds uploaded to Steam from 2003 to 2013 has leaked online, and it includes never-before-seen versions of Portal 2 and many other games, alongside materials that could be related to the Half-Life 2: Episode Three that never saw the light of day. The 12TB leak was spotted by […]
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What would Pokemon look like if the series borrowed from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33‘s combat system? The question is so unlikely that it wouldn’t usually be worth dwelling on, but it is today, because one fan has created a gorgeous proof of concept video. Earlier this week, BelmontesArt posted a clip to their YouTube channel […]
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What made the original Fallout RPG so great wasn’t just its dark humor or apocalyptic setting or branching choices, according to co-creator Tim Cain. What made Fallout great was actually how it was made. Part of the team responsible for the original Fallout – and now part of Obsidian Entertainment, a studio working on an […]
2019Seeing a Mass Effect: Andromeda recruit jamming on a bass guitar shaped like the Normandy, with a gas-masked Fallout 4 vault dweller on drums, is a time capsule from a very specific moment in video game history. As, indeed, is their stage of choice. Rock Band 4 is the last survivor from a bygone era […]
2019After more than a decade steering the blood-soaked franchise, Gears of War: E-Day developer The Coalition wants to be recognized creatively for all of the things that made Gears become the cover shooter poster child two generations ago: really tight action, hefty weapons, and being best-in-class at “tearing monsters apart.” It’s been almost 20 years […]
2019People were concerned about the quality of GTA 6’s gameplay before the Netflix extended look, given the limited footage previously released. Now that those fears have been quashed, head of development and co-lead of Rockstar North Rob Nelson wants the next biggest concern, another release date delay, to be squashed as well. In an interview […]
2019The Metro series has traditionally deployed a pretty interesting system to help determine which ending scenes you ultimately receive. In Metro 2033, Last Light, and Exodus, Artyom would be awarded ‘Karma Points’ for actively and passively undertaking different actions – this is largely hidden away from the player, operating quietly in the background to help […]
2019While Persona 4 Revival is sticking to the original game pretty closely, developer Atlus has decided to make one fairly big change to the classic by replacing its entire English voice cast. Why? Series producer Kazuhisa Wada tells us it was kind of an all-or-nothing situation. “The original game was originally recorded for the English […]
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