Update: Ubisoft have confirmed the Steam announcement post about them starting to test a new Ubisoft Connect Services Steam tool is genuine, and they’ve now stuck it in Prince of Persia The Lost Crown’s regular Steam news feed so everyone can have a read. Original story follows: Ubisoft are planning to start testing a new…
I didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved Creation, that I’d now be sitting here noting that I dug said creation’s dungeon designs. Read more
In this IP-obsessed world, it is quite easy to wonder if anything will ever actually come to an end. Theoretically, the Final Fantasy 7 trilogy of remakes will be coming to an end next year with Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. Except that might not even be true because a couple of pieces of DLC, about…
The nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands “strategy” to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of Drag-Select knows that strategy is always, primarily, the mastery of time. I don’t think Napoleon would have approved of Ex Sanguis. He would not have liked all…
Today marks yet another day in reporting on layoffs that have occurred in the games industry over the past several years, with this occasion unfortunately being GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High developer KO_OP. The studio shared word that 13 staffers were being laid off less than two weeks after the launch of the studio’s latest…
Rockstar Games have issued a statement making clear they’re sticking to their guns, as the final hearing in the legal battle between them and a group of former staff they fired last year begins. The hearing’s set to run from today, September 10th, until at least October 15th. The Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain…
There’s a new Steam client beta update out, and for SteamOS devices like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine – or just the Windows client’s Big Picture Mode – it’s meaty one, features-wise. Read more
“You’re not the last Belmont anymore”, Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters. Rose knows it well, as do indie developers Evil Empire. Following their success with roguelike Dead Cells (and its own Castlevania DLC), Konami gave them the keys to Dracula’s kingdom, trusting…
You’d expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute tonic. It’s a witty procession of Orphic descents, in which you assemble a crew of four garrulous weirdos and pitch them against quest…
I remember once when I was a child, my uncle was visiting and completely unprompted (and kindly) he gave me a copy of one of the Total War games, I think the Rome one, you’ll have to forgive my memory. I’d literally never played a strategy game in my life, but I gave it a…