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Enemy On Board Is an Increasingly Violent Social Deception Game
When former Riot Games designer Colin Feo decided to start his own studio, he sought out co-founders he could trust to be honest ...
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How an Illustrator Made the Mystery Game The Crimson Diamond by Mistake
Julia Minamata didn’t start out wanting to make a game. After graduating in 2007 with a degree in illustration from Sheridan College in ...
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Steam Autumn Sale Guide: All the Best Deals on Games You Need
Brace yourselves! The Steam Autumn Sale is upon us, currently running through Dec. 3, packed to the gills with all manner of delightful ...
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Darksiders Genesis’ New Perspective Is Rooted in Its Past – Cover Story
Welcome to the first Escapist Cover Story! This is a new project for us here where we combine big exclusive hands-on previews with ...
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Dauntless Cross-Play Has Ballooned the Player Base to 15 Million
Since Phoenix Labs launched the closed beta for the co-op action RPG Dauntless in August 2017, the developers have been focused on giving ...
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Little Nightmares II Will Empower Players to ‘Improvise’ Their Survival
Tarsier Studios senior narrative designer Dave Mervik didn’t have particularly high expectations for Little Nightmares when it was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment ...
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Monstrum II Devs Say the Sea Is the Perfect Place for a Horror Game
The team at Junkfish loves watching streamers and Let’s Play-ers hide while playing their procedurally generated survival horror game Monstrum, holding their breath ...
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Co-Op and Small Armies Make A Year of Rain an Accessible RTS
The German studio Daedalic Entertainment is best known for developing point-and-click adventure games like The Whispered World and Deponia, which is why it ...
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Why the Creator of Disco Elysium Hasn’t Read the Reviews, and What’s Next for the IP
ZA/UM spent five years developing Disco Elysium, but the ideas behind the extremely ambitious CRPG date back much further. The game shares a ...
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20 Indie Games You Probably Haven’t Heard About Yet from PAX Rising
The PAX Rising is the beating heart of PAX Australia, bringing together indie game creators showing off their raw passion for the medium. ...
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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 ...
