Author: [email protected] (Christopher Livingston)
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Starfield promises ‘all new gameplay options’ and ‘new survival mechanics’ in 2024
Today Bethesda posted a recap of the year Starfield has had in the form of a few fun facts: in 2023 players visited a collective 1.9 billion planets, spent 26 million hours building ships, and ate more than 18 million battlemeal multipacks. (Weirdly, no sandwich tally was provided.) The same post also sheds more light…
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Co-op survival games are great, but don’t forget the intense joys of surviving solo
Co-op survival games continue to be huge. Lego Fortnite popped up this month and immediately attracted millions of players. Medieval Dynasty just added co-op play and its player base went from a few thousand to tens of thousands in the same day. In the past few years Sons of the Forest and Valheim became massive…
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Starfield’s biggest issues can’t be solved with patches, mods, or expansions
This week Bethesda teased upcoming patches for Starfield that will add everything from “city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of travelling.” That’s great news, especially since a lot of the features they’re planning to add come straight from community requests. But even when these patches arrive next year, is that really going…
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The best Lethal Company mods
There’s nothing more fun than jumping into a game with a bunch of friends, and that fun only increases when some of that jumping is due to jump scares. Low-fi indie game Lethal Company is the current co-op horror hotness, casting you and your friends as employees of a corporation that’s sent you to salvage…
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DayZ and Icarus team up with a cheeky ‘The Day After’ survival Steam sale bundle
We weren’t terribly surprised to see early access zombie survival game The Day Before crash and burn, but the speed with which it fell apart—a mere four days between the game’s disastrous launch and developer Fntastic closing—was a bit of a shock. I’m not a particular fan of grave-dancing about a failed game and a…
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How DayZ spawned a new genre: the unfinished survival game
This article was originally published in 2019. It has been edited and updated with new material. The first game I ever bought from in early access on Steam was a survival sandbox called Under the Ocean. I paid $7 for it in June 2013, and I played it, enjoyed it, and tried out new alphas…
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For a cute and cheery little survival game, Lego Fortnite goes pretty hard
I didn’t know what to expect from Lego Fortnite when I logged in for the first time. With its cheerful looks, kid-friendly Fortnite Lego characters, and the general trend of survival games being a bit more forgiving with survival systems these days, I figured it would just be a fun little crafting sandbox where you…
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This great settlement-building survival RPG just became a 4-player co-op game
Medieval Dynasty may have spent a couple of years in early access on Steam before launching its 1.0 version in 2021—but that doesn’t mean the settlement building survival RPG is done adding new features. Not by a long shot. Here’s some excellent news if you’ve always dreamt of planning, building, and managing a medieval village…
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This beautiful 16-player co-op survival game from former Riot devs just got a new trailer and an official name
I know it’s hard to believe but GTA 6 isn’t the only game that got a new trailer this week. Today the former Riot devs at Treehouse Games released their own trailer for 16-player co-op survival game Voyagers of Nera. Coming to early access in 2024, you’re invited to grab your friends, explore the world,…
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GTA 6 trailer smashes a YouTube viewership record—but still can’t compare with another three-letter acronym
Before GTA 6 has the chance to break the sales records we’re all expecting it to, its 90-second trailer has been busy shattering a couple YouTube records. Since Rockstar Games posted the trailer on Tuesday it’s racked up a staggering 110 million views. What’s really remarkable is that over 90 million of those views came…