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It’s been five years since a fairy, a sword, and a toad signaled the long-awaited return of Fable, now with Forza Horizon developer Playground Games at the helm. With the revival set to land in autumn 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X, the studio can’t wait to welcome players back into Albion – almost a decade after it started looking beyond the open world racing games it was known for.”The first conversations we had about doing something other than Forza Horizon and building a second team go right the way back to the year after we shipped Forza…
Soon after it launched in 2019, Taiwanese horror game Devotion was pulled from sale following some controversy regarding Chinese president Xi Jinping and Winnie The Pooh (long story). It was made available for purchase again a couple of years later, though it should have been a touch earlier than that as it was promised to be released on GOG late 2020. However, on the same day it was announced to be returning, GOG put out a statement saying they wouldn’t be releasing it after all. Now, half a decade on from that, managing director Maciej Gołębiewski reflects on the…
The upcoming Fable reboot is approaching the original trilogy’s whacky life sim elements in an interesting way. Developer Playground Games has handcrafted 1,000 NPCs and dubbed them ‘The Living Population’ since each of them will apparently react to your heroic or evil landlording deeds differently, much to the horror of the studio’s art department, who were then tasked with making 1,000 beds, give or take a few.Speaking to GamesRadar+ about the ambitious fairytale game, studio general manager Ralph Fulton says the team “knew that we wanted every NPC to be persistent, which is to say, you could, if you were…
It’s been nearly three years since Diablo 4 first launched, and our five-star Diablo 4 review goes to show this hack and slash is a return to form and then some.With no sign of slowing down, its second expansion is about to burst onto the scene like loot flying from a chest. Releasing on April 28, it invites players to journey to the islands of Skovos for the first time in Diablo’s history. This realm, a panoply of rainforest and volcanic areas, was first mentioned back in Diablo 2, as the homeland of the Amazon warrior, but we’ve never got…
Roguelike deckbuilders! They’re everywhere! It’s a bit of an epidemic, honestly, sorting the wheat from chaff is a tough job. Of course, once in a while a genuinely novel take on the genre rolls around, and PinKeep has done just that, a pinball game where you change the playfield as you progress through runs. And it’s from the devs behind the Far series and Herdling! The pinball element is likely self explanatory. There’s a ball, it gets shot off, and you have two flippers to hit it with, nothing new there. It’s everything else around it that’ll have you…
Not many games can claim to boast a demo count that’s stayed in the thousands for almost a full year, but Half Sword is a special beast. Steam players have been revelling in its brutal, gory take on medieval combat since it first went viral over two years ago, but a major update back in April 2025 saw its popularity explode again. Ever since, the Half Sword tech demo has held onto more than 5,000 active players, making it one of the most consistently popular trial versions on the Valve store. Now, it’s finally coming out for real. If you’ve…
The new Fable, this time rebooted by Forza Horizon maker Playground Games, is surprisingly faithful to Lionhead Studios’ original classics despite coming more than a decade after the last mainline game, right down to the fact that you can become a property hoarder and buy every single building in the open world of Albion. But the studio’s general manager says the feature was basically one of the “requirements” the devs held on to from the first trilogy.Being able to buy any building of course leads to fun RPG possibilities, like letting players roleplay as a penny-pinching landlord or, as the…
Highguard was never a game that was going to win me over, as I generally only like single-player shooters if any, but it isn’t helped by the fact that since its announcement there hasn’t been a lick of actual marketing to help it prove itself. This, of course, has been the subject of much discourse, to which I will contribute slightly in the coming paragraphs, but the main point of all this is to say that actually, against all odds, Highguard is in fact sticking to its January 26th launch date, and will even show off some gameplay… on its…
With the World of Warcraft Midnight pre-patch now live, we’re all starting to adapt to Blizzard’s new era – but the MMORPG expansion’s exposure to a wider audience has brought some changes into the light. The war against combat addons is certainly the most dramatic, but fashion prices are following close behind, and despite making some concessions to concerns during the alpha phase, Blizzard has quickly leapt to implement another significant reduction in costs to make sure your toons look the part. The concept behind World of Warcraft’s new transmog system makes sense, and there are certainly use cases where…
Digital PC gaming storefront GOG has finally reflected on its decision to delist Devotion five years ago due to political pressure, admitting that the move might have come “at a cost to our credibility.”Maciej Gołębiewski, the store’s managing director, recently caught some flack for claiming the company was “always ready to take a stand on the right values” in an interview with Eurogamer, after the storefront had resisted pressure and defended controversial indie horror Horses last month.That doesn’t seem like a divisive statement, so why the backlash? Well, about five years ago, a game called Devotion found itself in a…