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Forza Horizon 6 will launch in full May 19 after enjoying its currently ongoing early access period, and then everyone will be able to crash through its idyllic Japan setting like Godzilla in a Ferrari. The racing game lets you crumble nearly everything under your tires, but no matter how hard you hit the gas, the fluffy cherry blossoms will remain pristine. Developer Playground Games decided they were too important to destroy.As design director Torben Ellert tells The Japan Times in a new interview, Playground wanted to respect Forza fans’ highly requested Japan environment by recognizing the cultural sacredness of…
It’s a sad day for the World of Warcraft community, as players say goodbye to a longstanding fan server, Turtle WoW. Following a legal battle against Blizzard itself, the lights are being totally switched off on the custom homestead, prompting players to host their own special goodbye as they await the end.If you’re unaware, Turtle WoW is a collection of custom servers for World of Warcraft that host an old-school version of the beloved MMORPG. The idea is, or was, to provide a way for people to continue playing WoW as if it never evolved much beyond its early years.…
One of your biggest breaks could come from the most unexpected of places. As is the case of a tenured developer at BioWare, who found himself leading the development of successful MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic despite disliking the genre wholesale.For a number years, James Ohlen was a prominent designer at BioWare, working on the likes of Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect, and the first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Then, he had a fateful meeting with studio co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk about venturing further into a galaxy far, far away, and directing…
Following its incredibly successful launch day, Unknown Worlds has revealed the early access Subnautica 2 roadmap, letting us know what’s to come for the survival game – which is especially interesting if, like me, you’ve already set foot outside the early access boundaries and turned yourself into leviathan food.Sadly, there are currently no dates or timelines in the Subnautica 2 early access roadmap, but that’s no bad thing. We’d rather these updates are rolled out when they’re ready instead of being rushed out to meet a deadline, and we’re sure we’ll get a better idea closer to the time. With…
Amid all of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s many well-deserved accolades, there’s one thing even the game’s most ardent fans are willing to complain about: the minigames. They’re awkward to control, and players have been griping about their difficulty from the very start. Director Guillaume Broche has heard your complaints, and has some feedback of his own. You just need to get good, kid.Broche was on hand earlier this month for the charity speedrun showcase Speedons in Lyon – sort of a French Games Done Quick. He served as a commentator for the Expedition 33 run at the show, and took…
Subnautica 2 creative development lead Anthony Gallegos knows some people are pirating the underwater survival game sequel, which developer Unknown Worlds trudged through mucky legal swamps for a year to finally release in early access May 14, and it pains him. He’d feel better if they just bought it and returned it.Gallegos writes in a launch day message to the Subnautica Discord, that soon also spread throughout the game’s subreddit, that he knows “pirates are gonna do their thing,” but “I would much rather people buy the game, try it for an hour, and return it than go play it…
A new poster for the final episode of The Boys has arrived… and it’s got fans (me) thinking a bit more positively about what’s to come in the series finale.The poster sees Butcher walking up to the White House, while Homelander and dozens of Supes are flying overhead. This is a recreation of a panel from The Boys issue #65 titled, ‘Over The Hill With The Swords Of A Thousand Men.’ In the panel, Butcher is walking up to the White House, with Supes (sans Homelander) flying overhead, and saying, “He ain’t gonna find no fuckin’ superhero waitin. He gonna…
The effective onboarding of curious yet noncommitted first-time EVE Online players is a conundrum that developers Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, have been trying to solve for decades. Many are enticed by the MMORPG’s purely player-spun tales of espionage and military adventure, only to bounce off its dense hull of complex economic spacemaths and a sandbox occupied by oft-unpunished pirates and con artists. Perhaps the game’s next big expansion, Cradle of War, will have more luck when it launches on June 9th.
The final day has come for World of Warcraft private server network Turtle WoW. Nearly eight years since it opened its doors to lost players looking for an alternative option, the fan-operated group has now officially shut down its servers for good. One month ago, WoW maker Blizzard Entertainment settled a lengthy legal battle to deliver a cease and desist order to the Turtle WoW team, and with the deadline now upon us, the remaining community has gathered together for a traditional ‘end of an MMORPG’ sendoff. Along with more traditional old-school World of Warcraft experiences, many of the group’s…
Something bloody, damp, and decidedly retro has been darkening the doorsteps of card game sickos for a few weeks now. Forbidden Solitaire, a “card-slashing horror game” anchored to “the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM” launched on Steam (and GOG and Itch) on April 30, and has had such a profound effect on humanity’s collective consciousness that it’s already crossed 1,100 overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews, much to the surprise of Jake Birkett, owner of co-developer Grey Alien Games.Forbidden Solitaire is currently sitting at 1,104 Steam user reviews averaging 96% positive, putting it in the upper echelons of the entire year…