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The first-person perspective CD Projekt Red employs in Cyberpunk 2077 works pretty well – and a large reason why, according to Cyberpunk 2 creative director Igor Sarzyński, has to do with the game’s overarching narrative design.It’s difficult to grapple with the first-person perspective if you’re used to other games like The Witcher 3, in which you view things from a third-person point of view, but Sarzyński thinks it was the best option for Cyberpunk 2077. “Purely from narrative design POV, I think subjective FPP works well with ’77 story, genre, and world,” Sarzyński says in a Bluesky post According to…
Nintendo Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling console ever, after overtaking Nintendo DS during the recent holiday sales period.In its financial results for the 9 months ended December 31, 2025, Nintendo said it sold some 1.36 million units of the original Switch console, bringing the total number of consoles sold to date to 155.37 million units.As noted in its presentation materials, that means Nintendo Switch’s lifetime sales have officially overtaken those of its previous best-selling console, Nintendo DS (154.02 million).Nintendo expects to sell another 750,000 Switch consoles in the current fiscal year, which runs to April 1, which would bring its…
It’s Expedition month in Arc Raiders, with just over three weeks left before dedicated players send their characters off for a soft reset. Although many are ready and waiting for the opportunity to unlock the special equipment and extra skill points, they’re getting a little antsy, because Embark’s been mute on the specific pricing this time around.See, unlocking an Expedition requires a considerable amount of resources. You need all sorts of materials to fulfil the different stages of building your caravan, including hundreds of thousands of coins worth of weapons, shields, provisions and other items. Then, by the metrics of…
JRPG visionary and Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is receiving one of the highest honors that can befall a video game developer: he’s getting his own manga chronicling his life and career.Per Automaton, Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii: New Educational Manga Biography (Automaton’s translation) releases on February 24. Being published by Shogakukan, the manga will reportedly explore Horii’s life from his early days living on Awaji Island in Japan all the way to his current position as CEO of Armor Project, which co-owns the Dragon Quest IP with Square Enix.My favorite part of all of this is that the Yuji…
Last week, Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober Team launched a mysterious teaser site, with a countdown clock set to expire just after Valentine’s Day. There’s no obvious clue as to what this teaser is all about, but a rose image on the site gave some horror fans hope that a remake of the PS2 cult classic Rule of Rose was on the way. Today, Bloober’s CEO crushed those dreams.”Nice guess, but no,” Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno says on LinkedIn (via FRVR) in response to the Rule of Rose rumors. “It definitely doesn’t refer to any remake.”But wait, even if…
Some mysteries in Baldur’s Gate 3 are best left uninvestigated. I’m not talking about the infamous tryst between a bugbear and an ogre you might’ve happened upon in Act 1, but the hidden Spectator encountered sometime after. These one-eyed horrors are a less-powerful spin on Dungeons & Dragons’ Beholders: tentacled, toothsome, hard-hitting alien menaces, usually awaiting you in the depths of the House of Hope shortly before the most marvelous boss fight in RPG history. But imagine my surprise when I learned that you can actually find one in the game’s earlier hours, and that it can be either the…
Activision is ramping up its perpetual battle against Call of Duty cheaters with significant new anti-cheat measures ahead of Black Ops 7 and Warzone season 2’s launch later this week.In a new Call of Duty blog, Activision assures players – as much as it can, anyway – that it’s taking action to ensure Black Ops 7 and Warzone ranked play is as fair as possible right at launch and that cheaters are sifted out before matches even start.”Season 02 is almost here, and our top priority is clear: launching Ranked Play with the strongest protections possible, so matches are decided…
Ubisoft announced a massive shakeup in January which, among many other things, forces employees to spend five days a week in the office. One Ubisoft developer, 13-year Assassin’s Creed veteran David Michaud-Cromp, was publicly critical of the publisher’s decision. He’s now been fired.As part of the restructure announcement last month, Ubisoft said it “intends to return to five days per week on site for all teams, complemented by an annual allowance of working-from-home days.” The company argued that “in-person collaboration is a key enabler of collective efficiency, creativity and success in a persistently more selective AAA market.””So… ” Michaud-Cromp said…
When I played my first Highguard game last week, my literal first thought was: oh, there needs to be more players on this map. The 3v3 raid mode was fun enough, but the map is more than big enough to support, and even benefit from, 4v4, 5v5, or even 6v6 matches. Others felt the same, and so Wildlight very quickly added what was described at the time as a “limited-time” 5v5 mode, and now, the studio says that mode will be permanent.Over on Twitter, Wildlight says there were about the same amount of people playing 5v5 as the original 3v3…
We might all be very old people by the time Fallout 5 comes out, but Bethesda has graced PC gamers with a bunch of great games to keep you busy until then: the entire Fallout series has been heavily discounted on Steam.As spotted by PC Gamer, Steam’s Fallout Franchise Sale takes down the price of every game in the series by up to 75%, and there’s a bundle with all of them, as well as every DLC ever released, included for just $77 – a whopping 68% down from its usual asking price.While the bundle is perfect for fans of…