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GigaBash Is About Kaiju Battles and the Glee of Bringing Total Destruction
Godzilla has been the uncontested King of the Monsters for over 60 years in film, but no game franchise has ever claimed the ...
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Pine Combines Zelda, Fable, & Darwinism for an Ever-Evolving Open-World Adventure
Matthijs van de Laar had an idea. He wanted to take the “simplicity and mystery” of a Zelda game but set it in ...
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Looking into the Future of Game Physics with an Indie Dev at Its Forefront
In 2004, two very different first-person shooters differentiated themselves from the crowd with their boundary-pushing technology. Doom 3, released in August, didn’t quite ...
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Life Is Strange 2 Writer Christian Divine on Politics, Realistic Romance, and Dysfunctional Families
This story contains spoilers for Life Is Strange 2. Bursting onto the scene in early 2015 with its first episode, “Chrysalis,” Life Is ...
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This No Man’s Sky Base Is Art, but Its Creator Is Okay with Letting It Die
The cosmic reboot is a science fiction staple. We find it in our blockbuster films, our cult TV shows, and maybe even in ...
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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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The Game Bakers on How Haven Is an RPG Love Story with Furi’s ‘Soul’
Despite Furi sneaking into the middle of the eighth generation of consoles with little fanfare, it still managed to put the hell in ...
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Cyberpunk 2077 Card Game Designer on the Challenge of Adapting Video Games
CD Projekt Red has partnered with CMON, the company behind the tabletop adaptations of God of War and Bloodborne, to develop a card ...
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Talking to Girls’ Game Lab About Inspiring Girls to Create Video Games
Freelance producer Caoimhe Roddy decided to switch from studying English to studying game design one week before she was due to move to ...
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The Church in the Darkness Builds a Cult Players Can Believe In
The Church in the Darkness director, designer, and writer Richard Rouse III doesn’t remember a time when he wasn’t interested in cults. “Cults ...
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Outbuddies Dev Julian Laufer on Horror & Creating a Co-Op Metroidvania
Isolation is a fundamental quality of horror. Spending time in the woods with a few pals miles from civilization is great fun until ...
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Stranded Sails Dev Talks Zelda Influences and Cooking on a Desert Island
Nautical-themed games have historically focused on piracy and high-seas adventures, with titles like Assassin’s Creed IV and Sea of Thieves handing players a ...