Author: Rich Stanton
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DayZ’s just hit its highest-ever player count a decade after its standalone release
The original DayZ mod was released in 2012 to near-instant popularity and, come December, it’ll be ten years since the standalone game entered early access on Steam. Originally launched in a pretty barebones state, the idea was always to build-out DayZ over the years to come and Bohemia Interactive has done just that: with a…
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Ken Levine hails cancelled Irrational project as ‘the best game we never got to make’
Ken Levine, best-known for System Shock 2 and Bioshock, is not one for social media. Levine was the co-founder of Irrational Games and led the development of that studio’s varied output in different creative roles for almost two decades, before the experience of developing Bioshock Infinite led to the studio’s total restructuring as a much…
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IO got the 007 license because it wants to make ‘multiple Bond games’ in the same way it handled Hitman
The latest issue of Edge Magazine includes an extensive interview with IO Interactive co-owners Hakan Abrak and Christian Elverdam about the studio’s first 25 years and, of course, its future. A huge part of that is a new James Bond game, which IO announced in 2020 as an origin story with its own version of…
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Nightdive thought it was ‘going to get grilled’ about the lack of hand-holding in System Shock remake, but players loved it
PC Gamer’s 30th anniversary issue is on-sale today, and includes a slew of major interviews with some of the creatives that have shaped our industry and some of its most important games in history. One of those is System Shock, and Warren Spector told PCG’s editor Robert Jones his major contribution was to stop “it…
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Adele made her kid a Rust costume for Halloween, though ‘can’t say he really loved it’
Grammy-winning British singer-songwriter Adele is currently in the middle of a multi-year Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. “Weekends with Adele” runs until 2024, and the idea came about after the artist found herself fed-up with the touring life but still wishing to perform in more intimate settings where she can talk to the audience…
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After Nickmercs reveals gambling is part of his new contract, xQc admits ‘everybody knows I am’ paid to gamble on-stream
Twitch rival Kick, backed by co-founders of the Stake gambling platform, has spent a lot of money on streamers in 2023. The biggest deal by far was a reported $100 million contract for Canadian megastar xQc in January, but it recently signed up FaZe Clan co-owner and popular Call of Duty streamer Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff…
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This cult open world bugfest from 2005 is making a comeback
Originally released in 2005, and developed by the Ukrainian studio Deep Shadows, Boiling Point: Road to Hell is an extremely buggy, flawed, and some would claim unforgettable open world FPS. It arrived at a time when open worlds were relatively uncommon and, well, kinda showed why: the game was absolutely overreaching in its goals, and…
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‘The king of crypto’ found guilty of fraud, now faces decades in prison
The man once known as “the king of crypto”, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering in New York after less than five hours of jury deliberations. The month-long trial saw former colleagues, friends, and even Mr Bankman-Fried’s former partner testify against the crypto mogul, who was arrested last year in…
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Ubisoft is taking another bunch of old games out behind the woodshed
In what is becoming almost an annual event, though hardly the celebratory kind, Ubisoft has announced it is closing the servers for a bunch of the publisher’s older titles. In the past Ubisoft has somewhat messed-up the messaging on such things, leaving players under the false impression that the affected titles would become unplayable, but…
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Tim Schafer and Double Fine celebrate 25 years of Grim Fandango and thank fans for their memories: ‘I’ll keep them next to where my heart used to be!’
Grim Fandango released on October 30, 1998, and so yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of arguably the greatest adventure game LucasArts ever made. Yeah OK, OK, simmer down Monkey Island fans: it’s Manny Calavera’s time to shine. And to mark the occasion Double Fine, the studio founded by Grim Fandango writer Tim Schafer, has published…