Sea of Thieves is getting adorable pet dogs in September's update

 Posted on March 22, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  397 words  |  Fernande Dalal

In news likely to fill undead skeletons across the length and breadth of the Sea of Thieves with utmost dread, Rare has announced that pet dogs will finally be coming to its multiplayer pirate adventure in its September update. First confirmed in seconds-long, blink-and-you'll-miss-it snippet buried in a Game Pass ad during last night's Gamescom Live showcase, Rare has now formally unveiled its forthcoming adorable doggy pets over on Sea of Thieves' official Twitter feed. [Read More]

The modern day Thief reboot that never was

 Posted on March 22, 2023  |  11 minutes  |  2134 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Imagine a world where we never had to debate whether Square Enix's 2014 Thief reboot was called Thief or Thief 4 or Thi4f. Imagine instead that the franchise remained with Ion Storm Austin, developers of Thief: Deadly Shadows. That's a world we very nearly saw, as exclusive research reveals Ion Storm was working on exactly that in 2004 - a never-announced Thief reboot led by Dishonored's Harvey Smith and inspired heavily by Splinter Cell. [Read More]

Borderlands 3 now lets you solve puzzles to sort poop and assist real-world science

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  484 words  |  Fernande Dalal

If you've ever want to contribute to the betterment of mankind, but also sort of just wanted to play video games instead, Gearbox has the perfect compromise, courtesy of its new Borderlands Science initiative - which, long story short, lets you organise corrupted poop data in order to assist the scientific community. Borderlands Science might have lofty goals, but it takes the form of a jaunty little puzzle game that can now be accessed from a new arcade machine aboard Borderlands 3's Sanctuary III. [Read More]

Borderlands creator Gearbox has nine AAA games in development

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  268 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Gearbox, the creator behind the Borderlands series, has nine AAA games currently in development. Gearbox's parent company Embracer revealed these numbers in its recent financial results, writing, "Gearbox continues to scale the organisation to deliver on its ambitious growth plan, and there are currently nine AAA games under development." We could already have an idea of what several of these games are, with Homeworld 3, Hyper Light Breaker, Relic Hunters Legends, Have a Nice Death and Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom all being published by Gearbox. [Read More]

Control Ultimate Edition - how next-gen consoles transform a classic game

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  8 minutes  |  1638 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Remedy's Control has a special place in the collective heart of Digital Foundry. Not only is it one of the best games of 2019, the revised Northlight engine is also an absolute showcase of the state of the art in rendering technology, which also happens to feature one of the best implementations we've seen of hardware accelerated ray tracing. Somehow, the developer managed to squeeze the core experience (bar RT) into the last-gen hardware, but now owners of the next-gen consoles get to see Northlight stretch its legs: Control on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles is a delight. [Read More]

Diablo-like Magic: Legends is shutting down

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  262 words  |  Patria Henriques

Magic: Legends, a Diablo-esque take on the world of Magic: The Gathering, will be shut down on 31st October. All purchases made in the game's PC open beta will be refunded. Planned full launches for PlayStation, Steam and Xbox have been scrapped. Magic: Legends was first announced in January 2020, as the next project from Neverwinter and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic. It promised an action role-playing take on the Magic universe, more commonly seen in the ubiquitous card game. [Read More]

Dicebreaker Recommends: Camel Up: Second Edition, a game you can bet on for a good time

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  5 minutes  |  988 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Don't forget to also check-out their list of the best board games to play in 2022. When I was younger, my parents used to invite my brother and me to bet on the Grand National - a renowned British horse race - with 20p being the maximum amount we could put into the pot. [Read More]

Gravity Rush Remastered review | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  7 minutes  |  1455 words  |  Patria Henriques

This unimpeachable PS4 reissue exposes some rough, rudimentary design in Sony Japan's cult adventure, but its charm and originality endure. This might seem an odd thing to write, but Bluepoint Games is currently one of my favourite developers. You can bemoan the circumstances that this Austin, Texas remaster specialist is profiting from - the holes that, two years in, continue to gape in Sony's internal game production schedule for PlayStation 4, with multiple major projects canned or writhing in development hell - but you cannot argue with the work. [Read More]

Monster Hunter World Boaboa quests: Where to find Boaboa locations and complete By Our Powers Combined

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  4 minutes  |  784 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

The Monster Hunter World Boaboa quests are an optional late game questline that is necessary to complete all of the Lynian Researcher's Surveyors Set research requests. The Boaboa are similar to the Gajalaka and Grimalkyne quests that you have faced previously in Monster Hunter: World. Like the Gajalaka and Grimalkynes, the Boaboa can also assist you out in the field once you have befriended them. They will also give you the Tailraider Signal upon completion of this questline, which can come in useful in a pinch! [Read More]

New Skyrim mod lets you explore Cyrodiil's Bruma

 Posted on March 21, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  295 words  |  Trudie Dory

A new mod for Skyrim lets players travel beyond the borders of Skyrim and explore Bruma, the north-most region in Cyrodiil, previously seen in Oblivion. Beyond Skyrim - Bruma lets players discover what happened to the city since the events of Oblivion, with new stories, dialogue and quests to undertake. The mod also includes new Cryodiilic weapons and armour, over three hours of original music and a variety of new dungeons and points of interest to investigate - with a map denser than the Dragonborn DLC. [Read More]