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 […]
I’m excited for Stage Tour, but Rock Band 4 will take a lot to beat

Seeing 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 […]
2019Gears of War: E-Day devs want to be known for “all the things that made Gears resonate in the first place,” without “looking outside at other franchises”

After 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 […]
2019GTA 6 “will be released on time,” Rockstar North co-lead says, who hopes the extended look will stop fans from being “worried about the quality”

People 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 […]
2019Metro 2039 abandons the “moral grayness” from previous games, but 4A Games confirms the series’ hidden Karma system is returning

The 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 […]
201991.8% of Metal Gear Solid 4 players immediately got the achievement for ripping a statue’s privates clean off

Metal Gear Solid 4 players on PC have earned one specific achievement right away, and all I can say is that poor statue. Metal Gear Solid is an incredibly silly game series. The series features some of the greatest stories in gaming, with the best Metal Gear games still hitting like nothing else, even after […]
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