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Ken Levine, BioShock creator and the creative director behind upcoming first-person shooter Judas, doesn’t think prioritizing the most up-to-date technology in game development is all that important – in fact, he finds realism doesn’t “age well” at all.The BioShock mastermind – who isn’t working on BioShock 4 but rather new title Judas – reveals as much during an interview with IGN. “I don’t think we’ve ever been a company that was like, ‘Oh my god, we need the latest and greatest technology,'” he begins, referencing what was previously Irrational Games (now Ghost Story Games). “In the rendering space, we’ve never…
We’ve been waiting over a decade now for Judas, the next game from BioShock mastermind Ken Levine. It’s another first-person affair, but with different ambitions on the storytelling front, favoring player-choice and such, an endeavor he’s found further inspiration for in Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3.Speaking IGN, he talked about having two contrasting play-throughs of the hit fantasy RPG. “Playing Baldur’s Gate, I really understood the power of that,” Levine says, referencing the depth of choice-driven storytelling on offer. “I played a second playthrough, and like one of the main characters got killed very early.”The thing is, he only understood that…
Just as Arc Raiders players began to wonder what’s next after the Riven Tides update and the end of the game’s early 2026 roadmap, developer Embark Studios has announced Frozen Trail, the game’s “biggest update yet,” alongside major changes to how those updates are rolled out.In a May 13 blog post, Embark says “we planned to offer monthly updates” when Arc Raiders first launched. “But once the game was in players’ hands, we saw that the kind of long-term experience we want to create for ARC Raiders requires more transformative updates,” it adds.”Over time, we’ve found that the pressure of…
Laz Alonso doesn’t seem super keen on how Mother’s Milk is being treated in The Boys season 5.According to Forbes, Alonso shared a Reel to his public Instagram story with the title, “The Boys season 5 has a Soldier Boy problem.” In the video, which is clipped from Our Crazy Stupid Podcast, host Esther Battle-Marston says, “I wish they would give some of the time that they’re giving to Soldier Boy to MM. I really wish that this could feel like a little bit more of a continuous arc because it’s feeling kind of startling. Considering that last season, he…
As I write this, Crimson Desert has a total of 150,814 reviews on Steam with an overall Very Positive rating. In this unstable landscape where even opt-in updates can make otherwise enthusiastic audiences turn on Slay the Spire 2, it’s impressive developer Pearl Abyss has charmed its Steam players enough to keep them in good spirits even as they criticize the open-world game’s story.One positive review with 353 “helpful” ratings summarizes what seems to be Crimson Desert players’ thoughts and says, “It’s Ok to Love a Game and Criticize It Fairly.” While Pearl Abyss’ ambitious adventure starring every-yeoman Kliff is…
The live-action Legend of Zelda movie is now releasing one week sooner than originally announced, as revealed by none other than franchise creator Shigeru Miyamoto himself on social media.Miyamoto took over the official Nintendo Twitter account with his trademark “This is Miyamoto” introduction to let everyone know some good news. Instead of its original May 7, 2027 release date, the Zelda movie will now premiere in theaters worldwide on April 30, 2027. Miyamoto didn’t really provide an explanation, but said the production team is working its hardest to get the film on screen as quickly as possible.”This is Miyamoto. I…
Grand Theft Auto 3 was not the first open-world game, but it laid a blueprint that the industry is, in many ways, still following to this day. Urban environments at the scale of Liberty City were practically unheard of when GTA 3 hit PS2, but Rockstar North – then known as DMA Design – managed to squeeze it all inside some impressively tiny memory constraints. Now, a dev has rewritten the game’s source code to demonstrate how it all works.The PS2 has just 32MB of memory to work with, and according to Mark Brown, the game journalist turned YouTuber turned…
Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone sent ripples through the farming sim community this week when he seemed to suggest he was “open to” letting players cheat on their partners in Stardew Valley so long as there were narrative repercussions for doing so, but in a slew of replies on social media, he’s now confirming he was talking strictly in hypotheticals and has no plans of doing anything like that.The confusion stems from an interview Barone did with Game Informer in which he was asked if there were any changes he’d previously considered for Stardew Valley but decided against for fear of negative…
Minecraft’s Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long necessitated the use of third-party addons, with the Essential Mod in particular living up to its namesake. Now, though, Mojang Studios is bringing these social sensibilities directly to the Java Edition, adding not only a new friends list system, but perhaps more importantly direct Minecraft peer-to-peer connectivity. Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 7 has arrived, and huge changes are afoot in the multiplayer game. Your closed off little Minecraft seed can…
The Punisher: One Last Kill director Reinaldo Marcus Green says they quite literally doused Jon Bernthal in flames for one wild stunt.”Legit flames, legit practical flames, and everyone was trying to walk him off the ledge, myself included,” Green told ScreenRant. “I’m like, ‘You sure you want to do this? But if you want to go back, we’re going to go back for you to do this.’ But it’s not for the faint of heart to put yourself through that kind of experience, but to watch Jon, the preparation for doing that, but he didn’t do it to look cool.…