Month: March 2019

There is something about the fusion of one-hit kills, zany weapons, rapid fire repetition, and scoreboards that creates an utterly addictive loop. The Hotline Miami series is near-and-dear to my heart. The more recent release Ape Out also vibes with me on a deep level. These games get stuck in your brain. They take over
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It’s no hidden secret that Activision likes to add microtransactions into their games. But more infamously, the company has been trying to sneak in absurd microtransactions into Call of Duty titles over the years and Black Ops 4 is certainly no exception. Now, Michael Condrey, the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games, has spoken out about how they were implemented in his
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During Sega Fes 2019’s first day, Sega revealed its partnership with the International Olympic Committee to develop and publish multiple official Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. The first game is plainly titled Tokyo 2020 Olympic The Official Video Game and will be releasing worldwide on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Summer 2019. It’s a realistic Olympic video
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A favorite common memory that Until Dawn players surely share is the experience of sitting together with friends and collectively choosing paths for their presumably doomed characters. That title from Supermassive Games took familiar horror film tropes and somehow blended them into something fresh and novel—and the studio’s next title, Man of Medan, appears to
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The previous titles in the Borderlands series are getting a 4K facelift. During a PAX East stage presentation riddled with technical problems and dad magic tricks, Gearbox ran a trailer for an ESRB-leaked Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, along with a look at an Ultra HD version of The Handsome Collection. Borderlands: Game of the
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After years of anticipation and waiting, Gearbox Software finally unveiled Borderlands 3 today during its panel at PAX East 2019 from Boston. Following an hour-long panel that saw Gearbox’s CEO, Randy Pitchford, doing magic tricks, teasing the audience, and doing all sorts of other hijinks, the panel finally ended with the formal reveal of Borderlands 3. The
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It’s been a long journey for release for Media Molecule’s Dreams, but the game creation platform is taking a step closer. In the midst of PAX East 2019, Media Molecule announced that the previously-announced Early Access period will begin on April 16. This trial period is coming after a formal beta and will focus primarily
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Panic Button has risen to prominence recently due to their great work on several Nintendo Switch ports like DOOM, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Warframe. Today, we learned more about what the developer will be porting next. Chinese publisher Perfect World Entertainment announced a partnership with Panic Button today to bring Runic Games’ Hob
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This generation feels defined by two types of games–the games-as-a-service model and the remasters. Aimed at the crippling nostalgia gamers seem to have (I know I do) the era of 90s games have started to hit the market in full force now in remastered form. It’s easy to look at these kinds of games at
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Japanese company Marvelous announced today through a statement that it reached an agreement with Chinese company Tencent in order to create a Story of Seasons mobile game. The statement details that Marvelous is only providing authorization to Tencent to use the Story of Seasons license. The Story of Seasons mobile game’s development and publishing will
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Monolith Soft tweeted today that the studio is looking to recruit multiple experimented developers to work on a new game part of The Legend of Zelda series. 【中途採用情報】モノリスソフトでは現在、「ゼルダの伝説」シリーズの開発スタッフを募集しています。TA、プログラマー、プランナー、デザイナーなど様々な職種を募集しておりますのでご興味のある方は下記よりご覧ください。https://t.co/IlpsoAOCRA 皆さまのご応募をお待ちしております。 — 株式会社モノリスソフト (@MONOLITHSOFT) March 28, 2019 This technically isn’t really surprising as we already knew Monolith Soft is deeply involved in Zelda games since at least Skyward
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During GDC 2019 I was given the opportunity to speak with some developers at Hardsuit Labs as well as publisher Paradox Interactive about the upcoming Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, which was a big surprise for myself as I hadn’t been following the developments of the Tender ARG that was ongoing at the time.
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