The Legacy of Kain game that was cancelled three years in
Posted on September 22, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
In 2009 the developers who made the well received Wii game Silent Hill: Shattered Memories moved onto what promised to be a much larger, much more ambitious game for multiple platforms. That game was a brand new, single-player, story-driven Legacy of Kain, the kind of project fans of the vampire action series have clamoured for ever since its glory days on the PSone.
In 2012, publisher Square Enix cancelled the unannounced project, leaving a three-year black hole on the CVs of hundreds of developers who worked on it.
[Read More]What makes a Chinese game?
Posted on September 22, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
After staying seemingly closed off for many years, 2020 is looking like the year Chinese games break out onto the global market. There's first-person shooter/slasher Bright Memory, which not only left early access earlier this year but is also being developed into a full-length game, while early footage of next-gen action game Black Myth: Wukong was enough to generate buzz around the world. The biggest success however belongs to Genshin Impact, already the biggest global launch for a Chinese game ever, with over $100 million revenue reported within two weeks of release.
[Read More]All-women speedrunning event Flame Fatales unveils schedule
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Looking for some more speedrunning to watch following this year's Summer Games Done Quick? There's plenty more where that came from, as all-women speedrunning event Flame Fatales is taking place next month. The online event is taking place between 15th-21st August, and will be broadcast on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel. There's a real variety of games listed in the lineup, with everything from Warframe to a 15-card run of Yu-Gi-Oh!
[Read More]Astral Chain review - a Platinum-plated masterpiece
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Sprawling, varied and constantly stylish, Astral Chain is a very different breed of action game that ranks with Platinum's best. After a period of relative obscurity - this is the studio's first outing since Nier Automata, a 30-month gap that feels like a vast chasm in the busy CV of this most prolific of teams - Astral Chain shows that PlatinumGames is back. And how. A sprawling, maximalist adventure that binds together police procedural, overstated pugilism and so many different genres in-between, it's the most fun I've had with one of Platinum's titles since Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
[Read More]Bad Company 2 performance analysis
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
Digital Foundry "hearts" DICE and has a particular penchant for Nordic developers in general. There's always a sense that we'll see something unique in the games that hail from this part of the world, and we're pretty much always guaranteed some lovely technical curiosities to set these games apart from the norm. DICE in particular rarely disappoints. Even its utilisation of the ubiquitous Unreal Engine 3 middleware in Mirror's Edge resulted in a game that was innovative in both its technical approach and its core gameplay.
[Read More]BioShock: The Collection gets upgraded for PS4 Pro and Xbox One X - and the results disappoint
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| 1438 words
| Fernande Dalal
BioShock: The Collection returns! There's a Switch port on sale now (we'll have coverage on this soon) but meanwhile, the existing console releases have been updated to natively support PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X, with the promise of support for both consoles' 4K output modes. There are some improvements, resolution is boosted, but bearing in mind the vintage of the original games, we did expect to see a better turn-out.
[Read More]Conan Exiles review - a handsomely sculpted survival game
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| 1425 words
| Patria Henriques
If Ark and Rust are the flaccid alpha males of survival gaming, Conan is the cocksure challenger angling for an advantage. The survival game bandwagon is looking more and more like a plague cart these days, with the stillborn corpses of quickly forgotten Early Access titles tumbling to the muddy wayside with every jolt along the genre's increasingly rutted pathway. But it rumbles dutifully on, some not-quite-dead-yet deliveries still to be made before the axle inexorably splinters and the wheels fall off, sloping into decay on some forsaken hillside.
[Read More]Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
Page 1 of 2 Next page The pressure to reinvent is the curse of every one-time maverick. Find success in tearing up the rulebook with bold originality and it's only too easy to merely iterate on that first idea or innovation for the rest of your life. So the idea becomes a series, becomes a franchise, becomes an institution. And the young, brash innovator finds herself head of a new establishment, replacing that which she came to undermine.
[Read More]Fortnite Chapter 3 map hides some big secrets
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
This weekend's big Chapter 3 launch - mere hours after Chapter 2's explosive finale - brought with it a brand new map bustling with fresh places to visit, several fan-favourite locations from the game's original map, and plenty of fun Easter eggs and secrets.
There's loads to explore already, but beyond launch there's already a lot more on the way. Next week will bring Spider-Man's web-shooters to the game as a way to swing around.
[Read More]Halo Infinite Interference event challenges, rewards, and Interference dates
Posted on September 21, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
Interference in Halo Infinite is a new event in the game's multiplayer mode during Season 2 Lone Wolves. The event allows you to unlock armor pieces, stances, coatings, and helmet attachments–all for free. Below you can find out when the Interference event ends, how all challenges work, and all Interference event rewards in Halo Infinite. On this page: When does the Interference event start and end?
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