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When a game delivers unique vibes, there’s nothing better. Pacific Drive somehow effortlessly manages to create a Stalker or Chernobylite-style atmosphere, with supernatural happenings and survival mechanics, into a driving simulator. It sounds bizarre, and in some ways, it really is, but the blend is so natural that it’s almost confusing how no developer has done this before. After years of major updates and a first expansion that amps up the horror tension, Pacific Drive is better than ever, and best of all, cheaper than ever. Pacific Drive is truly a surprise in almost every conceivable way. Set in the Olympic…
PlayStation has reportedly closed Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party studio led by Call of Duty: Black Ops veteran Jason Blundell. The studio had been working on a new, AAA IP since 2025. The closure is said to be part of wider layoffs at the company, some of which also affect mobile development.”PlayStation is closing Dark Outlaw Games, a studio formed last year by former Call of Duty lead Jason Blundell,” according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, posting on Bluesky. Schreier adds, “PlayStation is also making other cuts including in mobile development. Around 50 people laid off.”Schreier’s post follows an apparent leak…
Just as God of War fans suspected, developer Sony Santa Monica considered taking its 2018 reboot series to Egypt before ultimately deciding to center it around Norse mythology, original God of War programmer Tim Moss confirms.Fans found what appeared to be evidence of Sony Santa Monica’s flirtation with the great gods of the Nile earlier this year, while spelunking in the 2022 God of War Ragnarok files. Unused scenes reveal a companion for Atreus who can only repeat its own name, “Mau,” which is also the ancient Egyptian word for cat, or a manifestation of the sun god Ra. It’s…
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios threw out a lot of Arc designs while hashing out the themes, physics, and machine learning of its extraction shooter. The pile of unused Arc designs dwarfs the lineup of machines currently in Arc Raiders, and I got a peek at the cutting room floor during Embark’s recent GDC panels, and in a follow-up interview with machine learning research lead Martin Singh-Blom.At GDC, we heard tales of a circular “piston bot” that used hydraulic or similar pressure to propel itself around the world. The Baron husks found around the game’s world were once vaguely Queen-like…
Warframe is one of the most consistent hitters on Steam, and even if it can’t match the home runs generated by some of the platform’s biggest hits, its on-base percentage is impossible to ignore. If I understood WAR I’d add a related joke here, but the baseball metaphors aren’t entirely out of left field – according to Warframe creative director Rebecca Ford, gamers who obsess over Steam charts have more or less tricked themselves into sports discourse.”It’s almost like we’ve sportified Steam charts and other metrics,” Ford tells IGN. “Every time I see Steam chart discourse, it’s like people are…
It sounds unfortunate – two, unrelated indie games with the exact same name launching on Steam at around the same time. But this case of bad luck might have actually been the boost developer Piece by Piece publisher No More Robots needed, according to founder Mike Rose.Rose says in a new Bluesky thread digesting the Piece by Piece game launch that everything about it “was so weird and batshit.” He means it affectionately, since strange serendipity is exactly why No More Robots “ended up with roughly x3 as many sales as we had hoped for, all due to a crazy…
Analyst Rhyss Elliott of Alinea Analytics estimates that Marathon has sold 1.2 million copies across PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, with the overwhelming majority of those sales coming from Steam.In a report posted to X/Twitter, Elliott reckons Marathon “hasn’t exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted, even if the game underneath the surface is a MASTERWORK of design.” Our Marathon review, sitting pretty at 4.5/5, is in agreement. (I love it, too.)”A little under 70%” of Marathon sales came from Steam, he says, while PS5 “takes about 19%” and Xbox has “a bit over 11%,” which is unusual…
The first episode of Daredevil: Born Again season 2 includes a brief connection to Thunderbolts/New Avengers and the larger MCU in a subtle but important way that could point to the future of the series as it rolls on.To get into it more, we’ll have to offer up a very light spoiler warning for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1, though we promise not to reveal anything extra important if you’re hoping to stay mostly fresh.Ready? Here we go. You may like In a key scene in Wilson Fisk’s office, the New York state attorney general takes a call…
We’re just waiting on you now, Ultima Online. Legacy MMO EverQuest is joining the likes of World of Warcraft Classic and Old School RuneScape with a new release mirroring the original 1999 release. However, while changes to vanilla World of Warcraft and RuneScape were minimal, EverQuest’s “classic” treatment makes some key changes to acknowledge that people who played the game back in 1999 are probably at least in their mid-30s now, and presumably don’t have the amount of free time they used to.I can certainly relate. I grew up playing Ultima Online and, as 12-year-olds are wont to do, viewed…
Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, have announced plans to lay off more than 1000 staff. In a company-wide letter, CEO Tim Sweeney blamed both “industry-wide challenges” and “challenges unique to Epic”, including a downturn in Fortnite’s popularity. In addition to the layoffs, the company have made more than $500m in cuts by reducing contracting, marketing, and closing open roles. Sweenet says this puts the company “in a more stable place.” Sweeney, a strong advocate of AI, says the layoffs “aren’t related to AI”.