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Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope has shared some insight into his current status as a developer.In an interview with Mike Rose (No More Robots co-founder) and Rami Ismail (Vlambeer co-founder) in their podcast Mike & Rami Are Still Here, Pope explained that he had no aspirations to build a team of developers and was simply content to “sit at the computer, draw shit at the keyboard, and write some songs and put together some programming code and try to make games”.Ismail suggested that while he’s the sort of developer who has “one foot in…
Stephen Spielberg has high praise for Zach Cregger’s Weapons, saying that it satisfies his need to make a truly scary horror film.”I haven’t directed a horror film yet, and I’ve always wanted to, and someday I may. But there have been some great horror films out already that satisfy that itch,” Spielberg told Empire. The iconic director has made everything from kid-friendly fodder to some pretty scary sci-fi… but he’s yet to make an outright horror pic.”When I see a great horror film like Weapons, I don’t have an itch I need to scratch. I see Weapons, and it doesn’t…
There’s an interesting relationship between what developer Embark Studios is doing with new updates, like the recent Arc Raiders Flashpoint update, and what it can feasibly do with the technology available to it. In the future, as machine learning research lead Martin Singh-Blom told me at GDC, Embark will surely develop new tools and techniques that may enable ideas that weren’t possible in the past – for instance, rope physics sophisticated enough to support attacking large Arc with tripwires.”I think we all have different ideas,” Singh-Blom says. “Those of us who really work with the physics and make things happen…
Sony is continuing its war on shovelware as a number of titles have been suddenly delisted from the PlayStation Store.Earlier this year Sony removed every single PlayStation game by publisher ThiGames from the storefront, who you may not have heard of before, but it was the fourth-biggest publisher on the platform in terms of games released with 1,194 released before it was purged from the store, including the iconic titles “The Jumping Orange 3,” “The Jumping Spaghetti,” “The Jumping Wrap,” and “The Jumping Wrap TURBO.” These were low-effort games released for a low price, and would in turn be bought…
It seems that every week we’re reporting on news of another wave of layoffs at a big game studio. In March alone, we saw 1000 staff let go at Epic Games, 124 at Eidos Montreal, and over 100 at Ubisoft’s Red Storm Entertainment. And those are just the ones I can name without needing to rack my brain. In some cases, these “reorganisations” are to keep investors happy, in others they’re painted as necessary for a studio to keep the lights on until its next paycheck. But every time a team loses members, they lose something that can’t be replaced…
Another new World of Warcraft raid, another exciting Race to World First competition. For anyone out of the loop, the exciting streamathon sees the MMORPG’s biggest guilds go head to head to try to beat the new raid quickest, on the hardest difficulty. However, this race has been fraught with unexpected hurdles, from an inconsistent Phase 1, to Blizzard revealing a secret phase that stopped Team Liquid’s premature celebrations short. World of Warcraft’s newest raid, which is a part of Midnight Falls, sees players attempt to take down L’ura, a formidable boss who is proving nigh on impossible to take…
A surfaced clip of Resident Evil Ada Wong actor Jolene Andersen that led some to believe the character was returning for a new project turned out to be a Cameo.Over the weekend, a clip of Anderson – who played Ada Wong in Resident Evil 2 Remake – surfaced in which she gives well wishes for the new year before adding, “Speaking of missions, I’m getting ready to go on a very top secret mission myself. I’d love to tell you all about it, but uh… that information is classified. Now, I don’t want to be a rookie about it, because…
Cyberpunk 2077 has turned into something of a benchmarking standard in itself. Its reliance on demanding graphical technologies, wide range of tweakable options, and easy DLSS support has made it a yardstick by which the performance of the best gaming laptops is easily compared. While Nvidia leans further into AI patches for its graphics cards and AMD stays out of the dedicated GPU race completely, though, those looking for the best native performance are being pushed between marketing pillar and eyebrow-raising presentation graph post.I’ve been testing RTX 50-Series gaming laptops for well over a year now and have a whole…
After seven years of seasonal updates, Apex Legends can’t let players do what they want all the time. While it has never vaulted weapons or characters, presumably because players might have spent their hard-earned money on cosmetics for each, the battle royale game’s six maps rotate in and out of use each season. For Season 28, we’ve been duking it out on World’s Edge, Broken Moon, and E-District. The recent Aftershock event switched things up to Olympus, Storm Point, and World’s Edge. However, developer Respawn has now removed Storm Point, in a surprise move. Players expect maps to switch up…
The 5-day opening weekend estimates for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie are in, and it looks like another blockbuster for Universal and Illumination.As reported by Deadline, the film – which had a $110 million budget and was released on April 1 – took in $372.5 million globally by Sunday, the biggest worldwide opening so far this year.As predicted, the film didn’t quite manage to overtake its predecessor The Super Mario Bros Movie, but it wasn’t far behind – the first film grossed $387.8 million globally over the same time period.The result means Super Mario is the first ever animated film…