Warren Spector and Paul Neurath Discuss Modernizing System Shock While Honoring the IP
At the end of the ’90s, Y2K panic gripped the world. Fearmongers and tech-illiterates convinced people that computer networks were going to freak ...
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The Falconeer Dev Is Promising Dangerous World War I-Style Dogfighting, but with Giant Birds
Air combat military games have often been constrained by reality. Piloting fighter jets through dogfights is exhilarating, but it is bound to look ...
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How Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Turns Human Evolution into a Game
As a geneticist, I often think about the way genetics and evolution are represented as components of the narratives and mechanics in games. ...
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Contra: Rogue Corps Combines the A-Team and Diablo for Alien-Killing Madness
As streamers played Konami’s Contra: Rogue Corps during a launch event Saturday at Twitch Studios in Seattle, one comment kept coming up from ...
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Rain of Reflections Is an Innovative Love Letter to XCOM
Victor Lionhead spent 15 years working as a games journalist in Sweden, following a passion that started when he was seven and would ...
Mythgard Aims to Combine the Best Parts of Hearthstone & Magic: The Gathering
It has been 1,000 years since the gods ruled supreme, but they have all but disappeared. Now lesser creatures of myth have found ...
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Exclusive: Rune II Launching in November with a 15-Hour Quest to Kill Loki
When Human Head Studios ran a closed beta for Rune: Ragnarok in late 2018, the team got a lot of feedback from the ...
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The Strange, Bloody Story of How Reservoir Dogs the Game Was Made
Despite being a Hollywood icon, Quentin Tarantino has had very little of his work adapted into games. Tarantino’s feature debut Reservoir Dogs is ...
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Dreamscaper Combines Elements of The Binding of Isaac, Dead Cells, and Ashen to Tell a Story About Depression
When the founders of Afterburner Studios began working on their first game, they were looking for a way to marry the mechanics to ...
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Remembering Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun on Its 20th Anniversary with Former Westwood Studios Design Director, Adam Isgreen
As one of the biggest and most recognizable brands in the real-time strategy space, the Command & Conquer franchise played a pivotal role ...
Spiders Wants GreedFall to Fill the Void Left by BioWare
Like many RPG fans, Spiders CEO Jehanne Rousseau loves BioWare’s classic Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Knights of the Old Republic games but ...
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Viewing My Real Culture in a Digital World in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
This feature about Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and its real-life inspirations was originally published in March of this year. A steam ...
