Tag: games

Nearly 2 years after its last update, the excellent Battle Brothers gets ‘a bucket load of fixes’ and free new content

Nearly 2 years after…

It’s been eight years since the strategy-RPG Battle Brothers—turn-based Mount & Blade meets XCOM, as PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti…
‘Players don’t explore’: former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of ‘open world fatigue’

‘Players don’t explore’: former…

So there I am playing a game with a big, beautiful open world. It’s got lovely scenery and eye-catching…
Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game terminal in Ultrakill

Thanks to one mad…

Doom can run on so many weird devices now, it’s easier to tally up the things that don’t support…
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting…

Fatshark has done a fair bit of fooling around with Darktide’s format offerings lately, with the recent Havoc mode…
Like a Dragon series director sums up why sidequests are essential to a great RPG with a single metaphor: ‘a good main dish alone will not earn you a Michelin star’

Like a Dragon series…

In a talk at San Francisco’s Game Developer’s Conference on Friday, Like a Dragon series director Ryosuke Horii said…
REPO dev says it wasn’t actually inspired by Lethal Company, and started as a singleplayer cleaning game: ‘It was nice, but far from what REPO is now’

REPO dev says it…

You’d be forgiven for thinking REPO is a lot like Lethal Company. Both games involve fetching precious objects, hiding…
Bethesda marks Oblivion’s 19th with a sweetroll, a candle, and absolutely no happy birthday gift for fans eager for the still-unannounced remaster

Bethesda marks Oblivion’s 19th…

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, the second or maybe third-best game in Bethesda’s long-running Elder Scrolls RPG series, turned…
Getting to level 50 in Fallout 76 to become a ghoul actually isn’t as daunting as it seems, which is why I created a new character

Getting to level 50…

To new players, or for those who haven’t stopped by in a while, getting to level 50 in Fallout…
‘We made one big mistake’: Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

‘We made one big…

Destiny 2 has had a turbulent history—it’s a game that, since its release in 2017, has seen many ups,…
Fallout’s origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw

Fallout’s origin can be…

In the mid-1990s Interplay Entertainment acquired the Dungeons & Dragons licence, and would go on to publish Baldur’s Gate,…