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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…
Microsoft has announced that, effective today, it will be cutting the price of Game Pass, following a report last week that fledgling gaming division CEO Asha Sharma believed that it had become “too expensive” for players. However, the monkey’s paw has curled for Call of Duty players, as future releases from the iconic franchise will no longer be coming to the subscription service at launch. As revealed in a new Xbox Wire post, Game Pass Ultimate will be dropping from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, while PC Game Pass players will also save a couple of bucks on accessing some…
Arc Raiders is set to get “pretty significant changes” to its still tree, its design director says.In an interview with the Game Maker’s Notebook podcast, Virgil Watkins was asked about the game’s skill tree and the way it “went a little above and beyond” the skill trees seen in many other games.Watkins replied that the skill tree as it stands isn’t perfect, because some skills are more important than others.“It was a tough problem space for us, and I don’t think by any means we nailed it,” he replied.“Definitely there are some skills on there that, as we’ve seen how…
Will you kill for mommy? I beg that you do not tell me the answer to that question, but it seems Bungie has been posing it to Marathon players for some time now. Dataminers have recently taken a close look at some of the weapon skins included in the Marathon reward pass to discover a bit of subliminal messaging, and the game’s community lead is having a great deal of fun with the reactions.The big theme in the first Marathon reward pass is Achromatic Rush, a series of black-and-white cosmetics culminating in a skin for Vandal. Players have taken to…
Microsoft have announced some changes to Xbox Game Pass. As of today, its Ultimate and PC Game Pass tiers are having their prices slashed, but neither will get Call of Duty games at launch going forwards. Instead, new instalments in the shooter series will hit Game Pass about a year after release, with already released CoDs remaining available to play as normal.
Some games just hit you in the right way, and you decide to dedicate your time to mastering them completely. Whether you stop at the platinum trophy or, in the case of regularly-updated MMORPGs, when the updates cease to satisfy your curiosity, you can always look forward to a sequel. In the case of Aion 2, however, that sequel is arriving 18 years after the original game was released. Luckily, it’s getting a full release on Steam, with servers in four continents and multiple language options. Developer NC America has confirmed that Aion 2 will release later this year on…
Xbox has announced price cuts for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass and removed day-one Call of Duty game launches from the service.Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate will now cost $22.99 / £16.99 a month, as opposed to the previous price of $29.99 / £22.99 per month. PC Game Pass will now cost $13.99 / £10.99 a month, instead of $16.49 / £13.49 per month.Xbox stated that Call of Duty games will no longer be made available on Game Pass Ultimate or PC Games on day one, and will instead be added “during the holiday season (about a year…
The Arc Raiders Riven Tides update is arriving soon and will close off the Escalation expansion with a new map and large arc robots, among other things. While we don’t know everything, developer Embark has been teasing out details about what’s coming with some clues and images to give an idea of what’s coming. That means there’s actually a lot we can put together about what to expect, which looks a lot like we’ll be getting a flying boss and flooding.Arc Raiders Riven Tides update release date and time (Image credit: Embark Studios)All we currently know about the Arc Raiders…
A group of unionised staff at MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy are taking legal action against the studio, claming that management’s installation of surveillance software on their work devices violated data protection laws. The staff, represented by the IWGB Game Workers Union, claim Build a Rocket Boy haven’t been transparent about what data was collected by the software and how it was stored.