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Verdict Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred feels, in many ways, like the end. With evil seemingly vanquished for now, a reworked endgame that really does have everything you need, and eight unique, exciting classes, I’m not sure where Blizzard goes from here. It does, however, serve as a climatic end to a saga of strife and woe, and while its narrative didn’t quite hit the spot for me, I can’t wait to explore more of what Skovos has to offer. I went into Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred with a feeling of sadness. It feels like the conclusion of an…
Blizzard has been taking in Diablo 4 player feedback and using it to shape game updates since shortly after launch in May 2023, and the developer doesn’t expect it’ll ever stop.In the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine, associate game director Zaven Haroutunian and game designer Aislyn Hall opened up about the challenges of keeping everyone happy in a game meant to be played over many years and hundreds of hours. It’s the endgame, typically, that draws out the most fervent commenters, and Diablo 4’s upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion is geared specifically for players who feel like they run…
The concept of an MMO getting a sequel is always a strange one to me, but nonetheless Aion 2 is here. Or at least it will be, sometime this year, as NCSoft have confirmed that “the only MMORPG built around a world where the sky is the battlefield” (perhaps an odd place to plant your flag) is getting a global release on PC later this year. It’s been available in South Korea and Taiwan since last year, but with this upcoming release some of the rest of us can have a go. By some, I mean those that…
Nomion Games is the brainchild of former Battlestate Games duo Dmitri Ogorodnikov and German Terekhov. Having left the Escape From Tarkov studio for pastures new, the pair bring with them a wealth of experience, and have certainly felt the changing tides within the industry over the years. A key belief pillar for Nomion is, according to Ogorodnikov, that “creative potential, accumulated experience, and ambition should not be put on hold.” As the integration of AI into videogame development continues to be a hot topic, usually for the wrong reasons, it was only prudent that I quizzed the devs behind upcoming…
After several years, Dan Houser, Rockstar co-founder and narrative lead on the GTA games, has provided some concrete details about new studio Absurd Ventures and its TV and video game project Absurdaverse. The central cast of the multimedia franchise has been revealed ahead of more news set to come during the Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival in May.According to a Variety report, Absurdaverse stars comedians Rachel Dratch, Dan Soder, Ari Matti, Annie Lederman, Yamaneika Saunders and Steph Tolev, though the entire project will have a full “cast of hundreds” across both an untitled animated series and “untitled original AAA…
Last year, Hades 2 left early access, and Mark liked it! He did note, however, that its ending was potentially going to end up polarising, and with the accuracy of The Fates, this came to pass: Supergiant changed the game’s true ending a month after its 1.0 launch because enough people didn’t like it. This didn’t land with universal praise either, for a myriad of reasons, but it stuck, and in a recent interview, the developer’s creative director Greg Kasavin shared his thoughts regarding the process of making such a change. Explaining to GamesRadar that while “in general,…
At a certain point in an extraction shooter wipe, going in with a free loadout becomes a ridiculously tough pursuit. No matter how cautious you are, you’re bound to run into players that are looted to the gods. Your meds get gobbled up in an instant, and you’re suddenly praying to a higher power for any sort of exit that gets you back to the lobby safe. In Marathon, you already have limited backpack space, so stocking up on extra consumables mid-run is often a difficult choice. Well, in the FPS game’s latest update, Bungie has offered a small amount…
The reformed Croc studio, Argonaut Games, is teasing a return for its cult N64 shooter, Buck Bumble.The shooter-come-platformer was originally released for Nintendo 64 in 1998, published by Ubisoft, and more recently it gained popularity online thanks to its speed garage title theme.Argonaut founder Jez San and co-CEO Mike Arkin recently expressed interest in one day reviving Buck Bumble, as it has with its remaster of 1997 platformer Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. However, in a social media post published on Monday, Argonaut explicitly teased upcoming news related to the game.“Right about now, Buck Bumble is officially your new wholesome…
Sometimes in gaming, genres vanish. When was the last time that you played a full-on rail shooter, for instance, or a God game? Such is the fate that befell cinematic platformers, but they seem to be making a resurgence as of late with titles like American Arcadia and now Replaced filling the void that they left behind.Cinematic platformers are often defined by their relative realism: gone are double jumps and being able to stop on a dime and crisply rotate 180 degrees in a single move. But my true measure of whether a game is a cinematic platformer is much…
The least involving part of any 4X strategy is very often diplomacy with AI civilizations. Even Endless Legend 2, a game with a faction of coral people who can make other people like them by infesting their territory with spores, does settle into a formula. You make friends with other leaders forever or you define them as enemies and obliterate them. Maybe you grease the wheels by offering some minor nation a palmful of glowy rocks in return for passage through their lands. Developers Amplitude are trying to give Endless Legend 2’s diplomacy more consisting and flavour, however, by…