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In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, “we don’t play it safe. We take chances.” He was talking about his upcoming game Thick as Thieves, a multiplayer immersive sim that’s basically Thief, except other people are trying to pull off the same heist as you on the same map, with all of you racing to get the loot first. Except it’s not going to be that game anymore. No, instead, as detailed in this Steam blog post, it’ll be a bit closer…
Resident Evil 2 is one of the first console games I ever played. Growing up, we had a case of PS1 games that my dad had accrued, though I always tactically waited for him to be out of the house before I switched out Toy Story 2’s Buzz Lightyear for Leon and Jill. Now, many many years later, Capcom’s finally put the original Resident Evil trilogy on Steam, offering up an irresistible nostalgia hit. However, considering the publisher has ported them, alongside the incredible Breath of Fire 4, over from 2024’s GOG release and slapped on a heavy DRM layer,…
Actor Erica Lindbeck hated Misty Olszewski, one of the characters she plays in Cyberpunk 2077, until developer CD Projekt Red gladly transformed her into someone completely different.Before rewrites, fan-favorite tarot reader Misty was disappointing and completely “vapid,” Lindbeck tells The Gamer in a new interview. The new age goth girl was limited to only a fistful of one-liners, and Lindbeck expected Militech manager Meredith to be the most significant example of her work on Cyberpunk 2077.After all, “The character that I booked in Cyberpunk was Meredith,” Lindbeck explains, “and then Misty was a random side character that they threw me.”…
Earlier this week the team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion put out a call for some “final” and “vital” veteran help to get their work over the line in 2026. Given the mod’s delay late last year and the fairly lengthy list of roles the post on Nexus Mods cited the Skyblivion crew as looking to fill, you’d be forgiven for wondering what this recruiting push might mean in terms of how work on the mod’s going. However, Skyblivion’s project lead Kyle ‘Rebelzize’ Rebel says it’s not a sign that the project’s “dead in the water”, but instead a team…
Real money trading has long been an issue in Path of Exile. While some are looking to make a quick, lucrative buck from their endgame gear, others who are strapped for time pay to skip the RPG’s often unforgiving grind. While developer Grinding Gear Games has issued bans in the past for partaking in the terms of service-breaking trade, it looks like it is ramping up its efforts to stamp RMT out for good. Recently, a viewer of Path of Exile creator ‘Zizaran’ sent him an image of a new warning message they had received, stating that their account “had…
Fortnite’s not dead, but it’s suffering a “downturn” in engagement that Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has blamed for recent layoffs affecting over 1,000 employees. According to one industry analyst, Epic’s declining fortunes mark one example of a broader collapse of “American cultural dominance” in video games.”It’s in the nature of empires to destroy themselves,” NYU professor and games industry researcher Joost van Dreunen dramatically begins in a new analysis. As he explains, “the news of Epic Games’ latest layoffs adds to the mounting evidence of the real-time collapse of American cultural dominance in interactive entertainment.” As a result, it has…
Ascenders: Beyond The Peak is a new turn-based roguelite in which a bunch of alpine occultists try to recover cursed artefacts from Lovecraftian mountains, before the world ends. Lotta genre references and parallels there, so let me boil it down for you: this appears to be Darkest Dungeon plus gravity. Darkest Dungeon plus slippery handholds, crumbling rock falls, blizzards, avalanches, anchor points, grappling hooks, and demolition charges. Darkest Dungeon 2 but with the wagoneering bit omitted in favour of a grid-based vertical traversal system. Instead of slumber parties in the catacombs, a Base Camp for crafting, bonding, and tending injuries.…
What is the best VR headset? While we still wait to see whether the Steam Frame is truly going to be the best VR headset for PC gamers, there are still plenty of great choices available right now. Whether you’re after a headset mostly for watching video, playing games tethered to your PC, or for playing free-roaming games while standing up, our guide to the top VR headsets has a recommendation for you. We’ve tested dozens of options to find the right ones, whatever your needs. Our top choice overall remains the Meta Quest 3, as it combines decent image…
Even by gacha standards, progression and monetization in Arknights: Endfield is pretty confusing. Before and at launch, the newly released action RPG spin on Hypergryph’s Arknights drew criticism for convoluted currencies, opaque character drop rates and “pity” maximums, and a rotating banner system that obscures how your investment is tracked. In an interview with GamesRadar+ at GDC, lead developer Ryan (his preferred name for press) discussed the response to Endfield’s gacha system and some plans to refine it, as well as the impact of these systems on games as a whole.Ryan acknowledges different responses to gacha systems between Asian and…
The latest Steam hardware survey cites Linux as accounting for over 5% of the install base. That’s not a lot, and comes with the caveat of Valve’s info gathering not being bulletproof, but it ia a good chunk higher than the OS’s mark for the first two months of 2026.