Author: Jeremy Peel
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How to have a good time with Fallout 76 in 2024 (or technically speaking, the year 2105)
As Fallout fans we’ve lived through numerous Reclamation Days. But with the launch of the TV show on Amazon Prime, this might be the busiest yet. New dwellers are flooding out of their vaults, and you may well be among them—warily eyeing 2018’s online multiplayer Fallout 76, wondering whether the kind of Fallout you like…
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‘Just the right kind of weird:’ How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google
The year is 2005, and Jay Leno has just made a crack about the fast food habits of EverQuest players in the opening monologue of The Tonight Show. “Everybody was like, ‘This is weird’. But it was just the right kind of weird.” (Image credit: Chris Kramer) “It was very much like, ‘Hey, these nerds…
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With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, one of PC gaming’s great MMOs has a vibrant future: ‘Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again’
“You bunch of mad, relentless, beautiful people really went and did it,” gushed Yoru-hime. “No more asterisks, no more legal or moral ambiguities hanging over our heads. Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again.” On the day that the fan-run Homecoming server officially became the future of the resurrected City…
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Ken Levine’s Judas has a little sister, and her name is Void Bastards
It’s almost exactly a decade since Ken Levine effectively announced the end of Irrational Games, less than a year after the launch of BioShock: Infinite. In the fallout, only a handful of staff were left, quietly working away until the studio’s eventual rebranding a few years later. “While I’m deeply proud of what we’ve accomplished…
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Dark Messiah was ‘horny, generic, linear, unbalanced’ and may have been forgotten by Arkane, but it’s inspiring a new generation of developers
Arkane Studios celebrated 24 years of business this month with a social media post that commemorated almost all of its games. In the line-up was subterranean RPG Arx Fatalis and extraordinary FPS experiment Deathloop. So was System Shock tribute Prey, as well as all three Victoriana stealth-action games set in the Dishonored universe. Even this…
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State of the Game: Battlefield 2042 – with humility and hustle, DICE might yet win the war
[ad_1] “Be a class above,” goes the tagline of Battlefield 2042’s new season. Just a month ago, that sentiment would have been salt in the wound. By that point, longtime players had suffered through more than a year of DICE’s disastrous Specialist system, which smashed apart Battlefield’s traditional, fixed roles in favour of COD-style…