Mirror's Edge Catalyst still offers an open-world city like no other
Posted on June 14, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Years ago, EA's building in the UK was a Foster and Partners number in Chertsey. And it had a handful of interesting features. There was a moat. There were ducks involved, or maybe swans. The front of the structure came off (on purpose) and leaked (not on purpose). From the air the whole thing looked a bit like the letter E. Electronic!
Inside it was pure Bond lair, of course, this being the era which also gave us the doomy concrete spinal excavation of Westminster Tube Station, my favourite building in London because I am a massive child, loose in the world with nothing in my skull but feathers.
[Read More]Overwatch's McCree will be renamed Cole Cassidy next week
Posted on June 14, 2023
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| 593 words
| Fernande Dalal
Overwatch's fan-favourite cowboy character Jesse McCree finally has a new name after Activision Blizzard committed to changing it in the wake of California's ongoing lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and a "frat boy" culture at the company. Henceforth, Jesse McCree will be known as Cole Cassidy.
McCree is just one of many characters across Blizzard's portfolio to have taken his name from a developer at the company. However, back in August, Blizzard announced it would be renaming the cowboy after the real-life Jesse McCree, who had been named in several accounts of the studio's toxic work culture, was confirmed to have departed the company amid the fallout from the lawsuit - although no reason for his exit was given.
[Read More]Pokémon Conquest Review | Eurogamer.net
Posted on June 14, 2023
| 6 minutes
| 1243 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Pokémon, it turns out, works so well as a strategy RPG that it's sort of weird nobody thought of trying it before. The critters themselves make for an excellent range of units, their array of strengths and weaknesses provides the ideal basis for the old rock, paper, scissors routine, and the trainers - sorry, warriors - they're linked to allow the designers to fling in a little meta-strategy, as you match the right man with the right monster.
[Read More]Pokémon Go - Fashion Challengers explained: How to battle Fashion Challengers
Posted on June 14, 2023
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| 656 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Fashion Challengers in Pokémon Go are special adversaries who will appear exclusively throughout Fashion Week in September 2021. You will need to battle Fashion Challengers a number of times to complete various challenges in the Fashion Week research quest, so get your Pokémon ready. Below you'll discover how to find and battle Fashion Challengers, along with their team lineups. On this page:
Fashion Challengers in Pokémon Go explained: What are Fashion Challengers in Pokémon Go How to battle a Fashion Challenger in Pokémon Go Battling and catching the latest Pokémon Go mythical encounter, Shaymin, as part of the Go Fest 2022 research.
[Read More]The Evil Within 2 review
Posted on June 14, 2023
| 7 minutes
| 1422 words
| Patria Henriques
Resident Evil 4 meets the Truman Show in an entertaining but unremarkable follow-up, held back by tepid stealth and warmed-over scares. The scariest thing you'll hear in The Evil Within 2 isn't the sound of your very own daughter burning alive, or the paralysing roar of an alerted zombie, or even that witchy refrain through your PS4 controller's speaker as one, especially tenacious apparition shadows you from room to room.
[Read More]The Sims 4 Tiny Living guide: How to get the most out of your Tiny Home Residential Lot
Posted on June 14, 2023
| 13 minutes
| 2577 words
| Fernande Dalal
The Sims 4: Tiny Living is the first add-on of the new decade, and perhaps the first official Sims add-on to incorporate a popular community-created challenge into its core.
Tiny home builds have been popular among Sims players for years, with the results being shared on social media, fan sites, and most recently The Sims 4's Gallery feature.
Until Tiny Living, the rewards for completing one of these unofficial challenges were the admiration of fellow players and the satisfaction of mastering a tricky task.
[Read More]Desert horror Amnesia: Rebirth is next week's free Epic Store game
Posted on June 13, 2023
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| 323 words
| Trudie Dory
Amnesia: Rebirth, the third outing in developer Frictional Games' historical horror series, will be next week's free Epic Store game, alongside couch-based co-op dungeon-crawler Riverbond. Rebirth - which follows on from Frictional's 2010 original and its Chinese-Room-developed successor A Machine for Pigs - whisks players back to the 1930s for an unsettling adventure across the Algerian desert. This time around, the focus is on protagonist Tasi Trianon as she attempts to navigate the sandy, hostile expanse, piecing together fragments of her past (and occasionally dealing with unspeakable horrors) along the way.
[Read More]Destiny 2: The Witch Queen pre-load unavailable on PS4
Posted on June 13, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Destiny 2's big new expansion The Witch Queen arrives today for all platforms, though its pre-load has been held up on PS4 due to "an unforeseen issue". Late last night, PS4 owners reported being unable to download the game's ~72GB of required content files ahead of The Witch Queen going live today. Other platforms, including PS5, are unaffected. In a tweet this morning, Bungie's support account acknowledged the snafu, and said PS4 owners would have to wait until 9am PST (5pm UK time) when the update formally goes live.
[Read More]EA confirms three new Star Wars games in development at Respawn
Posted on June 13, 2023
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| 346 words
| Arica Deslauriers
Respawn is making three new Star Wars games, EA has announced.
One is the expected follow-up to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, with game director Stig Asmussen at the helm.
(The video below sees Digital Foundry deliver its verdict on last year's next-gen update for Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order.)
Another team at Respawn is working on a Star Wars first-person shooter, with former LucasArts VP of development and executive producer on the original Star Wars Battlefront games, Peter Hirschmann, installed as game director.
[Read More]Ex-Blizzard dev discusses Diablo 2's unreleased second expansion
Posted on June 13, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
A former Blizzard developer has discussed Diablo 2's unreleased second expansion.
This expansion was only ever designed and never produced, David Brevik, who was the co-founder and president of defunct studio Blizzard North, said on Twitter over the weekend.
Yes, sort of... it was only designed, never produced. I had a multi-page design doc going over new classes, new areas, new mechanics and story concepts. That’s as far as it got.
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