Author: [email protected] (Ted Litchfield)
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Helldivers 2 players just wiped out an entire enemy faction, so what on Super Earth happens now?
The official Helldivers Twitter account has announced that players’ latest operation was a success, with the forces of Super Earth wiping out an entire enemy faction. The Automatons were cornered to a few holdout worlds days ago and defeated for good today, which begs the question: where does the game go now, sans an entire…
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Final Fantasy 14 and 16 big cheese Yoshi-P says ‘It’s probably about time’ they do a new Final Fantasy Tactics game
In a PAX East interview with TheGamer, Final Fantasy helmsman Naoki Yoshida (the well-loved Yoshi-P), FF16 DLC director Taeko Kujiraoka, and localization director Michael-Christopher Koji Fox showed some love for the long-dormant Final Fantasy Tactics series—though any kind of new Tactics entry still sounds a long way off. One thing that doesn’t seem to be…
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You can get Obsidian’s fantastic RPG The Outer Worlds (and all its DLC) for free on the Epic Store this week
It’s time to slam that “forgot password link” on the Epic launcher and dust off your profile because the platform’s got another dinger for its free game of the week: The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s 2019 space gilded age spiritual successor to Fallout. The Outer Worlds offers a more contained take on a first person, Fallout/Elder…
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Devs on the upcoming Star Wars strategy game want to make a good first impression: ‘We’re gonna develop our own language that fits within Star Wars, but also feels unique to this game’
I had the chance to sit down with Bit Reactor art director, Daanish Syed, and technical director, Ryan McFall, to talk about their priorities in designing a strategy game. The two weren’t authorized to directly discuss the studio’s upcoming Star Wars project, but they did weigh in on how they see the genre, and what…
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Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: ‘None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders’
Speaking with Game File (users will encounter a paywall) at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Larian director of publishing Michael Douse gave his take on the current state of the industry, including some sharp criticism on the wave after wave of mass layoffs we’ve been seeing. “They are an avoidable fuck-up,” Douse said. “That’s all…
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Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says we still haven’t found every easter egg
In an interview with IGN at the Game Developers Conference, CD Projekt associate game director Paweł Sasko revealed that we’ve still got to do some digging if we want to find every secret in Cyberpunk 2077. Referring to a listicle of the game’s secrets he had recently seen, Sasko said that “It had a long…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 modders have already cranked out a bunch of ways to mitigate its freaky digital murder plague
First reported by Eurogamer, a couple of modders on the Nexus have already started finding ways to curtail the Dragonsplague in Dragon’s Dogma 2, with remedies ranging from clearer signs of the disease to out and out removing it from the game. For the uninitiated, the Dragonsplague spreads through Dragon’s Dogma 2’s pawns, the little…
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Formerly Japan-exclusive mecha strategy game Front Mission 2 is finally coming to PC this month
“Wanzers,” “The Huffman Conflict,” “The People’s Republic of Alordesh,” this is the kind of ’90s/’00s anime bullshit I crave, and the Front Mission series seems to have it in droves. Described as “Final Fantasy Tactics with mechs” by PCG editor-in-chief Evan Lahti, the second game in the series is coming to PC for the first…
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I’ve waited so long for this freaky Lovecraftian point and click adventure that my life completely changed in the meantime, but it’s finally out on PC
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Since I first wrote about the demo for cosmic horror adventure game Desolatium all the way back in January 2022, I’ve been hired full time by PC Gamer, gotten Covid, adopted a dog, and traveled out of the country three times. You know what hasn’t changed? Desolatium still looks rad as hell. The Lovecraftian (literally…
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The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character ‘8 years in the making’, and a significant quality of life improvement
Nightdive’s System Shock, our pick for best remake of 2023, is getting its largest patch to date, including a revised ending sequence, choice of gender for the Hacker, optional waypoints, and more. The overhaul update is set to go live on April 11, so you might want to put off diving into a new run…