Phillip Moyer, Author at The Escapist

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Unto the End Is a Survival Adventure Where Every Single Battle Is a Deadly Game of Punch-Out!!

There are only seven enemies total in the demo for Unto the End — eight if you count the one peaceful guy you ...

By Phillip MoyerJune 19, 2020

DwarfHeim Pineleaf Studio CEO Hans-Andreas Kleven interview COO Marianne Austvik RTS real-time strategy

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DwarfHeim and Pineleaf Studio Aim to Deliver an RTS That Expands on the Classics

At some point, many of us stopped playing real-time strategy games. The RTS was once one of the biggest genres on PC, but ...

By Phillip MoyerMay 4, 2020

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord preview multiplayer esport Captain mode tactics

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Could Make an Amazing Esport

There’s something special in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord — something that I hope takes the gaming world by storm. I’m talking about ...

By Phillip MoyerApril 10, 2020

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Glen Schofield Is Making No Compromises in Building a Perfect PUBG Narrative Action Game

Glen Schofield’s new studio, Striking Distance, is making a new game in the same universe as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). They’ve found themselves in ...

By Phillip MoyerApril 6, 2020

Valve wants you to search every nook and cranny in Half-Life: Alyx VR experience, Sean Vanaman and Corey Peters

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Valve Wants You to Enjoy Searching Every Corner of Half-Life: Alyx

There’s a moment in the first stage of Valve‘s Half-Life: Alyx where you see a magazine of ammunition sticking out of a corpse’s ...

By Phillip MoyerMarch 26, 2020

9 years later, Valve is finally ready to talk about its games and communicate again, on Half-Life: Alyx at least

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Valve Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Games Again, Nine Years Later

Something strange has been happening to us this month. Valve has been talking to us. “Us” meaning the games press — the writers ...

By Phillip MoyerMarch 23, 2020

composer Gareth Coker interview music Ori and the Will of the Wisps soundtrack, Ori and the Blind Forest, Moon Studios and Xbox Game Studios

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Gareth Coker on Creating Ori and the Will of the Wisps’ Tear-jerker Soundtrack

There’s a rule that composer Gareth Coker follows whenever he writes a piece of music: If it doesn’t make him feel the emotion ...

By Phillip MoyerMarch 16, 2020

Media Molecule Dreams creating next generation of game designers, easy game design

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Dreams Is Already Fostering the Next Generation of Game Developers

No Man’s Sky, for all its initial faults, is an ambitious and beautiful game. It features a massive open-world universe full of countless ...

By Phillip MoyerFebruary 26, 2020

System Shock remake Nightdive Studios Shodan faithful Kickstarter problems

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Nightdive Studios Is Dedicated to Delivering the System Shock Remake Everyone Wanted

“I say this all the time: The longest journey in gaming starts with the words, ‘Hey, you know what else would be cool?’” ...

By Phillip MoyerFebruary 20, 2020

Hellpoint preview Cradle Games Dark Souls Soulslike combat tinyBuild

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Hellpoint Is Dark Souls Meets Event Horizon, and It Works So Far

So, here’s the rundown with Hellpoint: Souls are now called Axions, Estus Flasks are healing injections, and bonfires are called breaches. Start practicing ...

By Phillip MoyerFebruary 11, 2020

Petroglyph Games Westwood Studios Command & Conquer Remastered

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Ex-Westwood Devs Have Made Games for Years, but Nobody’s Paid Attention

It didn’t sit right with me last November when I first saw the trailer for Earthbreakers. It was a spiritual successor to the ...

By Phillip MoyerFebruary 4, 2020

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