Author: Joshua Wolens
-
RuneScape creators’ new MMO has an unorthodox solution for the inevitable waves of bots: Giving you a ‘legitimate way’ to bot the game yourself
23 years after creating RuneScape, Andrew and Paul Gower are back with a new MMO. Brighter Shores, which has been in development for 10 years at the Gowers’ studio Fen Research, looks like an attempt to reimagine RuneScape for the year of our Lord 2024, and in a way that avoids some of the flaws…
-
Larian CEO Swen Vincke accepts Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest award by blasting corporate ‘greed’ devastating devs: ‘I’ve been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes’
The dire state of the games industry has been impossible to ignore at this year’s GDC: Dwarf Fortress’ Tarn Adams has been excoriating execs, devs have been literally screaming about it, and now Larian CEO Swen Vincke has taken to the stage and criticised the “greed, which has been fucking this thing up for so…
-
Swen Vincke says your Baldur’s Gate 3 crushes ‘now belong to Wizards of the Coast’ as the studio leaves D&D behind, prompting a collective nervous gulp
Baldur’s Gate 3 is done. Finished. Ended. Wound up and concluded save for future fixes and updates. Developer Larian Studios is onto new and strange things that only it knows the nature of. Frankly? I think that’s all good. I’m very eager to see what the studio does next, and I’m happy to keep BG3…
-
Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says early access wouldn’t work for CDPR the way it did for Larian, and the studio prefers ‘to have a banging release where everything is as close to perfection as can be’ like Phantom Liberty’s
Cyberpunk 2077 is good now. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s great. One of the most calamitous launches in videogame history finally made good after a bevy of updates and the meaty Phantom Liberty expansion, a journey that’s had some of us at PC Gamer asking if the game was actually…
-
Russian nun simulator Indika, my most anticipated game this year, breaks out the dancing PVC fetish men to announce its May release date
Call me solipsistic, but I’m still not convinced Indika isn’t a game someone made specifically for me. The tale of an Orthodox nun on a journey to the centre of the spirit through an alternate 19th-century Russia, it pulls on everything from Mikhail Bulgakov to 8-bit arcade games to create something that felt entirely singular…
-
5 years after it was yanked off stores, GOG’s bringing underrated spy RPG Alpha Protocol in from the cold with fewer crashes and new achievements
Good news for those of still fighting the good fight, still holding aloft the proud banner of truth and justice, still committed to struggle for what’s right instead of what’s simply popular. Five years after it was unceremoniously yanked from sale, Alpha Protocol is back via GOG. If you’re of stout heart and righteous spirit,…
-
Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the ‘incredible achievement’ of Baldur’s Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn’t played since the ’90s ‘because I don’t want to spoil the memory’
Larian CEO Swen Vincke is obsessed with Ultima 7. You can find its DNA—the many weird systems, the possibilities for emergent gameplay, and the beautifully stackable crates—across Larian’s entire catalogue, and especially in Baldur’s Gate 3. Vincke says he’s “been chasing it ever since” it came out back in the ’90s, and yet he hasn’t…
-
After a historically bad launch, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection’s first patch has fans cautiously optimistic: ‘Faith is being restored’
The Battlefront Classic Collection released last week to some absolutely withering reviews, quickly spiralling all the way down to the bottom of the Steam user rating barrel: an ominously red “Overwhelmingly Negative” grading. But maybe there’s light at the end of the Death Star trench run? Aspyr released the first patch for the Star Wars:…
-
Aspyr makes Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection statement after crashing to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ reviews, says it’s working on it, doesn’t apologise or explain why it needs 62.87GB of your disc space
With the Steam user reviews now comfortably at “Overwhelmingly Negative,” it’s fair to say that the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection has been a disaster. Pilloried by players as “Probably one of the worst launches of all time” within hours of release, the collection has been a black eye for Aspyr after last month’s well-regarded…
-
Amazon’s Fallout TV director says he’s not trying to please fans, legions get mad at him before realising he actually lost ‘a year’ of his life to Fallout 3 himself
Director and executive producer of the upcoming Amazon Fallout TV series, Jonathan Nolan, has been catching some flak from fans for comments he made at a recent press event. As reported by T3, Nolan was chatting about his approach to the upcoming show when he remarked: “I don’t think you really can set out to…