Subscribe to Updates
Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.
Author: admin
The Arc Raider Safe Harbour mission is short, but can trip you up if you don’t know where to get the clue left by the restaurant kitchen staff. You need to find the hotel, but it’s a big building and there are four floors to check. Not to mention that it’s infested with Shredders, Pops, Fireballs and Ticks. Making it a terrible place to explore if you don’t know where you’re going. To help you avoid too many painful, burning, shotgun riddled deaths, here’s where to go and what to do. This mission is part of the new Arc Raiders…
Bungie makes Marathon's Cryo Archive map less brutal, blocking spawn rush strats and giving out one free sponsored kit every weekend
Bungie’s made some changes to Marathon’s titular end game map, the Cryo Archive level of the Marathon ship, to hopefully make it a little less offputting. This continues the developer’s campaign to make a spectacularly unwelcoming game just a little more welcoming.Marathon update 1.0.6.2 rolled out today, and among the short patch notes, a focus on Cryo Archive caught my eye. This is very much in line with a recent, larger patch which smoothed some pointy bits in the broader Marathon experience, giving newer or friendlier players some breathing room.With this update, Bungie’s hit two pain points with Cryo Archive.…
The Witcher 3 director says Crimson Desert clearly isn't "story heavy," but it "can achieve totally different emotions" by focusing on exploration and "RPG things"
I don’t think the director of The Witcher 3 needs to prove his RPG bona fides, but he loves the genre so much that he just can’t seem to help himself. Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is now leading vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker at his new studio, Rebel Wolves, but he’s taking every opportunity to stay current on the game industry and see what other developers are doing well. It should be no surprise, then, that he’s interested in what’s made Crimson Desert such a breakout hit.”I’m playing everything that’s on the market right now,” Tomaszkiewicz says in a roundtable interview…
Diablo 4 needs "aspirational content" to challenge players, director agrees, but don't discredit more casual gameplay like fishing
Diablo 4 associate game director Zaven Haroutunian knows the action role-playing game should feature a compelling amount of “aspirational content” to keep players interested, but the challenge should never outweigh the intrigue.He tells Diablo 4 YouTuber Rhykker during an interview breaking down the game’s new Lord of Hatred expansion, “I think the game needs aspirational content” – which Rhykker worries “has been made accessible to the everyman.” Haroutunian counters that, “I don’t think that content, whatever it is, should present itself as the sole, or true, completion point.”Haroutunian astutely observes that, “If you present the whole game in this way,…
Our Steam Controller second opinion: what works, what doesn't, and what Valve should add for the next one
The new Steam Controller verdict is in: James likes it. And now it’s back out again, as Julian has also been poking and prodding at Valve’s made-for-PC controller ahead of its release on May the 4th. Has this second pair of hands dug up some disagreements, or will they join together in peace for all mankind, and/or gamepads? Find out as we give, for the first time since 2022, The Second Opinion.
Indie dev discovers nuclear fusion of Steam marketing, flies up wishlist charts thanks to bashful anime girl with freckles who parries machine giants with a chainsaw
A few years ago, developer Regular Studio was exclusively known as the creator of Togges, a 3D puzzle-platformer that received 169 “mixed” user reviews on Steam. Regular Studio is now much better known as the maker of Motorslice, a promising 3D platformer channeling Mirror’s Edge and Shadow of the Colossus, which is due out May 5 on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox. But I suspect Motorslice is known to many players as that parkour game with the cute anime girl in it.According to SteamDB, Motorslice is the 150th most-wishlisted game on Steam. That’s not an extraordinarily high ranking, but in the…
Garry's Mod devs Facepunch will be taking action to "push obviously AI-created slop off" sequel S&box's main page, Garry Newman confirms
Update: “Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet,” Facepunch founder Garry Newman said in response on RPS’ reachout about S&box being plagued by such things out of the gate. “We don’t encourage using AI to be creative. We don’t encourage using AI to create games for you. But we do acknowledge that it’s a good learning tool and it’s a good productivity tool. We’ll be taking action to promote human creativity and push obviously AI-created slop off the main page.” Original story follows: S&box, the open source game development platform/game about…
Fallout co-creator hopes to "make one more game" before his second retirement from RPG development
You probably know Tim Cain best for cheating the original Fallout concept and leading the first game’s development – or heck, maybe you know him for his highly quotable YouTube channel, which has generated plenty of headlines both here at GamesRadar+ and across the internet. But Cain’s RPG CV includes an extensive list of bangers beyond Fallout, and it seems he’s hoping to make at least one more before his second retirement.That’s according to the man himself, speaking in a video celebrating the third anniversary of his YouTube channel. Cain reckons he’s starting to run out of topics to speak…
Solve a murder mystery by flying people around on your giant crane in the Disco Elysium and Chinese folktale inspired The Crane Rider's Tale
Nothing will put me on to a game quicker than having a concept so laser-focused on the thing it’s trying to do, and, seemingly, doing it well. This is the case for The Crane Rider’s Tale, the next game from the developer of Butterfly Soup, a visual novel/adventure game hybrid that takes cues from Disco Elysium and Zero Escape where a serial killer is on the loose who has killed your friend, so you ferry around your local townsfolk around on your giant crane to figure out who did it, all wrapped up in a medieval Chinese painting and…
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 is coming back for a second season.The early renewal comes after the series debuted at number 7 in the Netflix Global Top 10, which puts it in the top 15 animated series debuts of all time for the streamer. Per the official press release, “After uncovering a fearsome mystery at the end of Season 1, Eleven (rooklyn Davey Norstedt), Mike (Luca Diaz), Will (Benjamin Plessala), Dustin (Braxton Quinney), Lucas (Elisha ‘EJ’ Williams), Max (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport), and Nikki (Odessa A’zion) will take on another perilous threat when new episodes head to Netflix this fall.”The first season…