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A second season of Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye might still be up in the air, but with new details about the previous season, it’s a wonder how we even got a first. During an appearance on The Playlist’s podcast, The Watch, Wonder Man showrunner Andrew Guest revealed that the show was completely transformed mere weeks before cameras were set to roll.The nail-biting gig ended up on Guest’s doorstep after the co-handler of Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday called him to ask whether he’d be interested in ironing out Clint’s upcoming adventure. From there, executive producer Trinh…
It’s always a pleasure to write about Frostpunk, but I’m glum that Frostpunk has boarded the Great Videogame Remaking Train. I don’t think the original Frostpunk is beyond improvement, but I do find it very complete. Chilly finitude, obsessive symmetry are its narrative ethos and aesthetic. It’s a three-act story in a genre that tends to be exhaustingly open-ended. Its dramatic stakes are stark and inescapable – who and what will you sacrifice so that everybody else can survive? In place of the hopelessly indulgent, always-extendable gridiron of SimCity it gives you an Omelasian foxhole, with construction rigorously defined…
In Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom has delivered another winner for its 30th anniversary. At its heart are its dual protagonists, beloved old boy Leon S. Kennedy and series newcomer Grace Ashcroft, and it’s their performances that really pull you through its most intense moments. Ahead of its launch, I sat down for a one-to-one video chat with Grace’s actor, Angela Sant’Albano, to learn about her introduction to the horror games. As a newcomer to the format, Sant’Albano explains how the use of group performance capture let her lean on her television and theater experience to embody a protagonist that never…
Rare is partnering with retro games brand Evercade on the Super Pocket Rare Edition: an old-school handheld console that looks like a Game Boy and includes 14 classics preloaded onto the machine, including the surprisingly wholesome game that eventually led to lewd-as-heck platformer Conker’s Bad Fur Day.The Super Pocket Rare Edition comes from one of the best retro handheld makers around and essentially lets you carry a selection of retro Rare games in your literal pocket for the modest price of $70/£50 or one modern AAA game, available June 30.And while one of the best platformers of all time in…
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web.Sundays are for wondering why the neighbour’s cat is mad at you. I thought we were getting along well – I’ve been letting her into the block regularly, and we have a little ritual where she runs partway up the stairs, and I do Mousey Fingers through the bannister. We had a little ritual, anyway. The last few times, she’s hissed at me and run away. “Ho ho, you goofball,” I say, as my heart quietly implodes. “Cats are so weird,” I chuckle, tears…
You can now play Final Fantasy 14 almost entirely solo. Barring a small handful of its major eight-player boss battles, the entire Main Scenario Quest can be seen without the help of other players, and its NPC companions are even finding their way into the optional dungeons. It’s a goal that Naoki Yoshida’s Creative Studio 3 has been working on since Shadowbringers, and it means anyone can enjoy the (award-winning) story with minimal social stress. But FF14 is still, at its heart, an MMORPG – and its last two seasonal events have been a much-needed reminder of just how much…
The Marathon server slam seems to be going well, especially when some players look away from the game’s user interface long enough to stop puking. Bungie’s maximalist UI is causing some headaches.”Marathon gotta be the first ever fontslop game,” YouTuber Kelski writes definitively on Twitter. “There’s like 20 different combinations of fonts, boldness levels, sizes, spacing, all caps vs regular caps, all on one menu page.” A screenshot reveals an onslaught of lime green text boxes and pixelated exclamation points, or “just an absolute eye sore,” as Kelski calls it.”They REALLY need to pull back on the whole ‘abstract’ thing…
You don’t have to wait too much longer to murder the steeple for a second time, with Slay The Spire 2’s early access release now set in stone. Following the delay which pushed it back to this previously secret Thursday, it’ll arrive on March 5th, 2026.
Minecraft has long seemed like a force that cannot be toppled – anything trying to imitate its blocky style, sense of adventure, and huge creative sandbox will surely pale in comparison. Well, Hytale’s making that theory a little less sturdy than it used to be, and there seems to be a flurry of other voxel crafting games on the horizon too. If Minecraft-style experiences are your bag, then Lay of the Land (which recently locked in an April release date) is definitely one example to keep an eye on. The first thing that strikes you about Lay of the Land…
A Star Wars fan on Reddit is questioning why Obi-Wan Kenobi did not reference Leia when discussing Luke Skywalker’s importance to the rebellion in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, in which Obi-Wan and Yoda’s force ghosts have a conversation in which Yoda refers to “another” potential Force user alongside Luke.The opening question asks “Why did Obi-Wan act like he didn’t know there was another Skywalker when talking to Yoda when he was literally there at Leia’s birth?”Some Redditors are offering potential explanations, with the top response saying “Um… He didn’t forget? Idk how you got that idea. He places…