Author: [email protected] (Morgan Park)
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‘I’m not a big fan of survival games,’ says director of 2024’s best survival game
My last few weeks with Abiotic Factor have been a cure for survival crafting burnout. I thought I’d never want to look at another crafting bench again, but it turns out, all I really needed was a genuinely fresh perspective on survival crafting to get on board. What first drew me in was Abiotic’s setting,…
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As Helldivers 2 boss Johan Pilestedt hangs up his CEO hat to focus on the creative side, he has one big change in mind: ‘My working theory is that time-to-kill is too high’
Johan Pilestedt is no longer CEO of the studio he founded. He’s handed that job to Paradox veteran Shams Jorjani, and given himself the new title of Chief Creative Officer at Arrowhead. His goal in the new role is to be more hands-on with Helldivers 2 going forward and, in his own words, “spend MORE…
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Valve’s next game rumored to be a 6v6 hero shooter called Deadlock
Valve might have sprung a leak. A handful of screenshots supposedly from Valve’s next big game, allegedly a competitive shooter called Deadlock, appeared on 4Chan and Twitter yesterday. The word from multiple dedicated Valve sleuths on Twitter is that Deadlock is a 6v6 third-person shooter that takes inspiration from Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, and Dota…
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Helldivers 2 takes a page from George W. Bush, rebrands its military operations as the ‘Galactic War on Tyranny’ to drum up new recruits
It’s been a stagnant few weeks for Helldivers 2’s galactic war. Super Earth has been on a streak of Ls as of late, with several failed major orders to secure planets with malfunctioning Terminid Control Systems and, more recently, a failed order that came with material consequences: We fell short of scrapping two billion Automatons…
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The Assassin’s Creed Shadows reveal is saying all the right things to excite classic Assassin’s Creed fans
The last seven years of Assassin’s Creed games have turned me into the sort of fan I never wanted to become: a withered old grump who wishes things were the way they used to be. Nobody likes that guy—especially not the millions of people who became Assassin’s Creed fans through the immaculate worlds of Origins,…
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Arrowhead is actually making a ‘review bomb’ cape to commemorate the Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco, complete with two huge negative review bars
Helldivers 2 continues to make lemonade out of its biggest blunder. On the back of the “PSN-gate” fiasco that saw the best-selling shooter pounded with negative Steam reviews, delisted from a bunch of countries (an ongoing problem), and its publisher Sony pressured into reversing a disruptive PSN sign-in requirement, Arrowhead is now making a cheeky…
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Helldivers 2 major order challenges players to scrap 2 billion bots, but Super Earth warns it’ll be much harder than last time
A few weeks ago, Super Earth offered Helldivers 2 players two new stratagems and let them decide which one to unlock by voting with their guns. The winner was the Airburst Rocket Launcher, beating out the less flashy Anti-Tank Mines by a super mile. It was the correct choice, given how satisfying the Airburst’s scattershot…
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The physics-based vehicle destruction game I’ve waited two years for just hit 1.0 with a full campaign inspired by 1997’s Blast Corps
I’m a simple man. You put a physics-based vehicle destruction game in front of me and I’m likely to gobble it up. Such was my reaction to Instruments of Destruction when it came to early access back in 2022, but I held back my hunger for destruction, instead opting to wait for its beautiful demolition…
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Nothing about Helldivers 2’s newest assault rifle makes any sense
It’s one of my favorite times of the month: new Helldivers 2 warbond day. After a community vote that went overwhelmingly in favor of no delay, Arrowhead released the Polar Patriots premium warbond today, adding four new guns and other goodies to its rapidly-expanding co-op shooter. You can unlock the items on the warbond’s first…
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Helldivers 2 CEO is worried it’s ‘too soon’ after the PSN fiasco to release a $10 warbond, so he’s letting players vote on a delay
Temperatures have chilled in the Helldivers 2 barracks since this weekend’s PSN account linking meltdown that saw an influx of 200,000+ negative reviews on the best-selling game of the year. Sony backed down from its unpopular decision, and Helldivers 2’s Steam rating is steadily recovering, but Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt is worried about opening up…