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As trendy as it’s sort of become as a feature, photography modes in most games don’t interest me much. They’ve either got too much freedom, making the act of taking photos boring, or so many limitations it hardly feels like photography at all. Limitations are good! You can’t get good photos without them, I just prefer having an actual lens, even a digital one, to look through. So whenever a game that’s actually about photography, like Opus: Prism Peak (which is out today), rocks up, my curiosity will always be a little bit piqued. Previously described as a…
Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty has very casually revealed a genuinely encouraging update on the new Fable game: Blizzard is going to be “helping out” with the reboot’s cinematics.This is fantastic news. Blizzard cinematics have been best-in-class for literal decades. I’ll never forget seeing the original Diablo’s intro cinematic on my 1997-era CRT monitor and thinking video games would never look better, and to this day, Diablo 4’s recent Lord of Hatred animations have been blowing me away. I was surprised, then, that Booty made such little fanfare about tagging in Blizzard to help out Playground Games’ with Fable…
To be a live service game, in any shape or form, is to seemingly make some kind of agreement to eventually make some kind of licensing deal. And it is happening again. This time with Phasmophobia and, to its credit, the quite thematically appropriate Alan Wake 2, which is coming to the co-op horror game as part of a limited-time event. How limited-time you ask? Well, it kicks off on May 12th, next month, and runs until June 2nd, so very limited. Not only is it for such a short period of time, but according to the announcement…
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…