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At Capcom, Hiroyuki Kobayashi helped build franchises like Dino Crisis and Devil May Cry, as well as original games such as P.N.03 and Killer7. Now, more than 25 years after his first credited game (as a programmer on Resident Evil 1), the producer is relishing the challenge of creating an original IP once again.“Since this is not part of an existing franchise, everything started from zero,” Kobayashi told VGC in a recent interview. “The studio itself was also built from the ground up, including the development environment and assembling the team.“It certainly came with its challenges, but through that process,…

Every time a Bethesda RPG launches, even the studio’s most stalwart fans know to prepare themselves for an array of bugs ranging from the amusing to the infuriating. But that’s not a modern problem, as the bugs have been around ever since the first Elder Scrolls title launched way back in 1994. Series co-creator Vijay Lakshman figured these issues were more or less inevitable when you built RPGs of this scale.”The Elder Scrolls was (and continues to be) a very complex system of statistical generation of appropriate events,” Lakshman, who served as lead designer on The Elder Scrolls: Arena, said…

Infamous Keepers, I think, might be a game about the games industry. It’s not about making games explicitly, not in the slightest. It is a tower defence roguelite, one where you run a dungeon, with this as the narrative setup, however: “Your employer, the Dungeon Company, has recently gone through massive layoffs, putting their dungeons to the test by closing the portals that connect them… if a team of heroes makes it all the way through, you can kiss your career goodbye.” You do have to replace a few words to get back to our reality, but there’s certainly…

I’ve accepted that Command and Conquer is unlikely to return in any meaningful way at this point, but that means there’s room for new blood to prove that RTS games are just as good as ever. It brings me great joy, therefore, to see DORF, the ’90s-inspired newcomer with a tremendous modern twist on the visuals of the era, blasting dramatically past its Kickstarter goal. Raising nearly $300,000, it’s picked up sufficient funding along the way to introduce full co-op campaigns and even another programmer to speed up development. DORF doesn’t waste time in laying out its biggest inspirations: its…

While developer Monolith Soft has gone on to do great things alongside Nintendo with the Xenoblade series, the Xenosaga games have effectively been dead since the final entry launched in 2006. But now, at long last, there are signs of life. An obscure spin-off of the JRPG series called Xenosaga: Pied Piper is getting a modern release on Steam and Switch.Xenosaga: Pied Piper was originally released for Japanese feature phones, also known as keitai, in 2004. That was an era when major Japanese publishers were rushing to establish a foothold in the rapidly expanding mobile market, and Pied Piper is…

Some digging through the Steamy innards of Steam could point to Valve having plans to roll out 30-day game price tracking beyond the European countries it’s currently a feature in. That’d make it easier to tell at a glance whether the discount that’s tempting you towards blowing some cash on another addition to your backlog is actually the boon you think it is, or an increase on some previously lower price.

What is the best graphics card? Finding a new gaming GPU can mean navigating a confusing mass of numbers in specs lists, as well as weighing up the pros and cons of the different features available from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. Fear not, though, as we’ve done all the hard work for you. Our best graphics card guide will steer you towards the right card for your needs, whatever your budget. The best graphics card for most is the AMD Radeon RX 9070, as it currently offers the best value while still offering great performance across the board. Meanwhile, the best…

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream lets you treat your Miis to special tours around the world by buying them Travel Tickets.But exactly how many tours are there, and what’s your reward for each one?What’s more, how do you unlock every tour, and what’s the final one?I’ll reveal the answers to all of the above in this very guide.What are Travel Ticket Tours? – Tomodachi Life: LTDAs you probably know, the main way of levelling up in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is by donating WarmFfuzzies to the Wishing Fountain in your island.Each time the number of Warm Fuzzies hits the…

For players like myself, The Last of Us Part 1 is a gorgeous modernization of one of the greatest survival horror games ever made, but for some of the developers who worked on the original game, the remake is a “sour spot” because it straight-up replaces many of the assets and systems they created. At the very least, it’s still a major pain point for original Last of Us combat designer Benson Russell, who gave an impassioned explanation in a recent interview.Russell, who was senior game designer at Naughty Dog when he left in 2015 after eight years with the…

Capcom’s hardware redemption continues with fatherly hack o’ shooter Pragmata, a smooth and low-end-friendly PC performer that’s far more Resident Evil Requiem than Monster Hunter Wilds. It’s maybe not quite on Requiem’s level of framerate abundance, and Pragmata struggles a teeny bit more on underpowered handheld PCs – which we both know means the Steam Deck – during its tougher stretches of polished moonbase corridors and electricity-spewing robofoes. But it does run well, especially by AAA standards, and matches Resi’s feat of producing a ray tracing setting that looks nice without pulverising your graphics card with a thousand gleaming hammers.…