Author: [email protected] (Andy Chalk)
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Industria 2 is ‘a narrative FPS to its core,’ but its first-ever trailer is giving me real Half-Life 2 vibes
Industria is a creepy, surreal FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin that gave us “serious Half-Life vibes” when it was announced in 2020. At the Future Games Show yesterday, developer Bleakmill unveiled the sequel, Industria 2, and you know what? Yup, serious Half-Life vibes. It’s far from a direct lift of Valve’s most famous…
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Harold Halibut, the stop-motion-style story about life at the bottom of an alien ocean, gets a big new trailer and an April release date
Harold Halibut finally has a release date: Announced today at the Future Games Show, the stop-motion-style story of life in a stranded spaceship at the bottom of an alien ocean will be out on April 16. Naturally, the news comes alongside a new trailer that reveals more of Harold’s undersea world than we’ve seen previously.…
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The Art of Rally developer is trying something different: An F1 management game set in the ‘golden era’ of 1970s excess
Having worked its magic on drifting and rallying, minimalist racing studio Funselektor is now turning its attention to “the golden era of open wheel racing.” Golden Lap is going to be quite a bit different than the studio’s previous racing games, though, because this time around you’re not the driver—you’re the boss. As the manager…
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Game developers come together at GDC for a ‘GDScream’ to vent rage at the state of the industry: ‘It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine’
Developers at GDC gathered today to express their feelings about the state of the game industry, in what under the circumstances is really the only reasonable way to react: with a scream. “The game industry is falling apart around us, and we’re all flocking to San Francisco for a week to pretend like this is…
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‘America’s hero, dancing around in red white and blue underwear’: Black Panther trash-talks the Cap in the first trailer for Amy Hennig’s WW2 Marvel game
Earlier today Skydance New Media shared a new look at the upcoming Second World War-era Marvel game starring Captain America and Black Panther with a story trailer that finally reveals its official title—Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Unveiled during Epic’s State of Unreal address at GDC, the trailer showcases a time when Cap and the…
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Diablo 4’s loot rework PTR begins on April 2, season 3 extended until mid-May ‘to ensure that we get all the feedback’
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Blizzard announced during today’s Campfire Chat livestream that the big Diablo 4 loot rework announced in February will go live on a public test realm on April 2, giving players one week—until April 9—to put the update through its paces and see what’s changing. Diablo 4 players may note that the PTR dates put it…
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Here’s a two-minute clip from the Fallout TV series: Walton Goggins terrorizes senior citizens and a Vault dweller gets in over her head
With just over three weeks to go before the Fallout TV series hits the airwaves, Amazon has dropped a two-minute clip from the show in which Vault dweller Lucy finds herself caught up in a sticky situation between a gun-slinging ghoul and the Brotherhood of Steel. The scene opens with the Ghoul—capitalization courtesy of Amazon—playing…
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Starfield’s latest update doesn’t add any new content, but it does fix a galaxy-sized list of bugs
Starfield’s latest update is live, bringing with it the promised improvements to the photo mode as well as greater convenience while using the scanner and a handful of other quality of life changes. Nothing terribly remarkable in the grand schemes of things—but what is remarkable is that it also fixes a genuinely huge number of…
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Ubisoft shows off AI-powered ‘Neo NPCs’ at GDC: ‘It could be the start of a fantastic paradigm shift,’ but let’s be honest, it probably won’t
Ubisoft unveiled a new project called Neo NPCs today at GDC, offering an early look at its “first player-facing generative AI (GenAI) prototype that could transform the way players interact with non-playable characters (NPCs) in videogames.” To be clear, these Neo NPCs aren’t yet ready to step into the spotlight. The GDC showcase was merely…
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Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update is finally live, and Eric Barone wasn’t kidding: it is massive
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BaroneWatch 2024 has concluded: The Stardew Valley 1.6 update is now live, and that means we’ve finally got the full rundown of all the changes in the long-awaited update. Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update, lest you’ve forgotten, was intended to be a small thing: Creator Eric Barone warned players in 2022 that it would be mostly…