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With anime on the rise globally, it’s heartening to see how strong this winter season is turning out to be. New shows like Sentenced To Be A Hero and SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games To Put Food On The Table have lots of potential, while returning heavy hitters such as Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 and Frieren season 2 have cemented themselves as modern-day classics.Yet the strongest series, the one that might stay with you the longest, isn’t concerned with displays of might or physical prowess. Any magic to be found here is strictly of an emotional kind. And while death does…
I’ll be truthful with you for a moment: I do, from time to time, enjoy a game where I do not have to be supremely strategic, and get to watch different lights and colours light up on my screen. Something that’s got the juice, but doesn’t ask too much of me. Everyone needs to turn their brain half off once in a while! And I believe I could quite easily find myself switching off that half to STICKER/BALL once in a while, a “pool game roguelike from the future.” Ok, so, I do have to admit that for…
As with any successful multiplayer game, Arc Raiders has attracted a number of bad apples and cheaters over the last few months, but developer Embark Studios’ boss says he can tell the company’s anti-cheat efforts are bearing fruit by the amount of people “trying to get to the studio.””We have been pretty aggressive on this,” Embark CEO Patrick Soderlund tells IGN of the developer’s anti-cheat measures. “The game wasn’t prone to so many cheaters in the beginning, but as with all multiplayer games that get successful, this becomes a component, unfortunately. For us as developers, just like a DDoS attack,…
You know, you’d think that with decades worth of RPGs in existence, side quests would have been more or less figured out by now. And yet, there are still enough games releasing that seem more interested in going for quantity over quality. But for the devs over at Archetype Entertainment, the goal is to make the side quests in their upcoming sci-fi jaunt Exodus not feel just “tacked on.” Speaking to GamesRadar, former Mass Effect writer and current Exodus narrative director Drew Karpyshyn explained that side quests are more about “trying to give players the chance to explore…
Fallout is a series that’s changed drastically since Interplay Entertainment’s original two isometric CRPGs, as Bethesda acquired the franchise and took it down the first-person, open-world route. And, now, we know what Fallout’s OG creators think about where the post-apocalypse is at.Game Informer recently talked with three developers who were pretty instrumental to Fallout’s creation – lead programmer Tim Cain, art director Leonard Boyarsky, and executive producer Brian Fargo – about what’s happened to the series since it was passed onto another group of game makers, and their opinions are mixed.The Outer Worlds co-director and current Obsidian Entertainment dev Tim…
The Apex Legends Breach update marks seven years of Respawn’s battle royale game. It’s become such a regular fixture since its surprise shadow-drop launch that you can easily forget it remains one of Steam’s most-played games, even holding its own against newer challengers like Arc Raiders. In an attempt to ensure it doesn’t grow stale, the new Apex Legends season is making some heavy shakeups to legend and weapon balance, along with the introduction of a new tactical element in Hardlight Mesh. The developer also addresses why it prefers to be a little heavy-handed with changes, rather than play it…
Even though I’ve put hundreds of hours into the Horizon series’ post-apocalyptic open worlds, and many times that across my favorite online games, the prospect of turning Horizon into a series I play alongside friends always made me sceptical. With Horizon Hunters Gathering, I am so in – whether I like it or not.Don’t get me wrong, Horizon Hunters Gathering is very clearly just a shameless take on Monster Hunter Wilds and the rest of that iconic monster battling RPG, but in the Horizon universe instead. Even so, it’s not a genre with a lot of competition (and yes, I…
A Killer Inn ‘free stay weekend’ is underway, giving you a chance to try out Square Enix’s new multiplayer shooter ahead of its upcoming launch. The stratospheric rise of Arc Raiders has proven that there’s a huge appetite for the tension of uneasy-alliance multiplayer games where you’re never quite sure who’s on your side. Adopting the likes of Among Us and other hidden-identity favorites such as One Night Ultimate Werewolf, as well as the asymmetric elements of Dead By Daylight and Friday the 13th, this third-person shooter pits wolves against lambs in a struggle to survive. Each match of Killer…
The Mass Effect alum over at Archetype Entertainment don’t want to bloat their upcoming sci-fi RPG Exodus with side quests that feel “tacked on.” The new developer is instead trying to make sure players are compelled to take on side quests regardless of the reward.Former Mass Effect writer and current Exodus narrative director Drew Karpyshyn says as much in an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+, explaining that side content “really is about trying to give players the chance to explore what they want to explore, that will add to the main story.””We don’t want things to feel tacked on,” he continues.…
My Menace campaign hasn’t been a rousing success. In my first mission, I failed a string of optional objectives and saw one of my squads gunned down by a group of heavily-armed, jetpack-wearing space pirates. I got revenge by running them over with an APC. So, we’ll call it a draw. But I need to up my game if I’m to kick these freeloading bandits off the planet Backbone.