Tag: games

Don’t repeat my mistakes in Grounded 2’s Networking mission, or you’ll face an arduous slog back to collect your lost loot

Don’t repeat my mistakes…

In what I can only assume is Grounded 2‘s final mission and boss fight—I wouldn’t know, I’m yet to…
Sony Announces New Japan-Only PlayStation Portal With Internal Storage

Sony Announces New Japan-Only…

The new model launches next month, with the internal storage being included for future unannounced device capabilitiesSource
Skyrim lead designer gives the most succinct summary of Bethesda’s design I’ve ever heard: ‘You’re not playing my game, I’m making your game’

Skyrim lead designer gives…

Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith had a wide-ranging chat with The Examined Game recently, touching upon topics like the…
World of Warcraft: Forever bumps dungeon XP from monsters by 50% after some community feedback I will diplomatically call passionate

World of Warcraft: Forever…

World of Warcraft: Forever made some changes to how dungeons work—rather than getting a bunch of XP from enemies…
One coder’s ‘winter madness project’ was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers

One coder’s ‘winter madness…

Do you ever wonder if Crazy Taxi is just a little too crazy? Wouldn’t it be nice to explore…
Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out ‘a bit meaner than expected’ in hindsight: ‘To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users’

Slay the Spire 2…

Comedy tends to land better when you punch up rather than punch down—but what about when, as you begin…
The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws

The sci-fi survival game…

I haven’t checked in on Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, for quite a long…
This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat ’em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update

This bizarre CRPG features…

We’re in a golden era for the CRPG. Disco Elysium set a new standard for narrative driven roleplaying in…
Lead designer Bruce Nesmith says Skyrim was a hit because it was built on institutional knowledge from Oblivion

Lead designer Bruce Nesmith…

I don’t know about you, but I’m not a huge fan of the way YouTube encourages everything becoming a…
Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason

Human Fall Flat, which…

Cooperative physics-platformer Human Fall Flat is one of my favourite back-burner games, something I check in on once every…