Author: Rick Lane
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Dragon’s Dogma 2’s getting an update which nerfs dragonsplague, stops Pawns incessantly yapping, and makes them ‘less likely to fall off cliffs’
Dragon’s Dogma 2 has another update coming this month, bringing good tidings for anyone fretting over whether their Pawns have contracted the terrible scourge that is dragonsplague. Not only does it make the disease less appear less frequently, it also makes it easier to spot whether your Pawns are afflicted. Dragonsplague, if you don’t know,…
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn’t just bigger, it’s more diverse, with Warhorse adding a ‘wide Range of Ethnicities and Different characters’
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was revealed yesterday, and is set to be a considerably larger and more comprehensive representation of medieval life. As part of this, it’s set to address one of the more controversial elements of the first game, its lack of diversity. In an interview with IGN, Warhorse was asked directly about its…
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Descent 3 programmer releases the classic space shooter’s source code, including a surprise patch developed 15 years ago but never released
The source code for Descent 3 has been released, and is available to download now on Github. Spotted by Linux programmer Daniel Gibson on Mastodon, the code was released by Descent 3 programmer Kevin Bentley earlier this week. Described by Bentley as the “latest version” of the code, it includes an unreleased ‘1.5’ patch codesigned…
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One of Steam’s best-reviewed games gets a surprise open world sequel, and it’s a plunder-em-up built around rickety pirate robots
SteamWorld Heist 2, sequel to Image and Form’s 2016 sci-fi strategy game about bouncing bullets into rickety robots, is coming to PC on August 8th. The surprise follow-up announced during the recent Nintendo Direct, and switches out the original’s motley crew of space pirates for regular, water-based pirates. Assuming the role of the roguish Captain…
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What is the essence of Fallout, and does the TV show live up to it?
As the dust settles on Fallout’s first TV season, which appears to have been as universally beloved as any piece of media can be in today’s world, the line that sticks with me most radiates from early in the show. As Ella Purnell’s Vault Dweller Lucy sleeps beside her Scout badge-perfect campfire, she awakes to…
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New multiplayer survival game features crafting, base building, automatic weapons and flying. The twist? Everyone plays as a bunch of ducks
Just when you think you’ve seen every variation of survival game imaginable, along comes a game like Duckside. Developed by Tinybuild Riga, Duckside is a multiplayer survival sim in the style of Rust and DayZ, only everyone plays as a duck. “Over 10 million ducks get killed per year by hunters, a statistic that would…
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‘Please publish this to the main game’: Arma Reforger players go wild for April Fools’ gag that purports to turn the military simulator into a battle between toy soldiers
April Fools’ day’s carousel of nonsense hasn’t been slowed by its head-on collision with Easter this year, with multiple spoof announcements from the games industry leaking through Monday’s chocolatey outer shell. One particularly elaborate gag has captured the imagination of the Arma Reforger community, with developer Bohemia Interactive surprise “announcing” a new game mode where…
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Helldivers 2 players return to site of their greatest defeat, as a new Major Order demands the liberation of Malevelon Creek
In late February, Helldivers 2 players suffered their greatest defeat so far in the game’s simulated Galactic War, as the community’s favourite planet Malevelon Creek fell to synthetic armies of the Automaton faction. Now, players are flocking back to the celestial heart of the game, as a new Major Order demands democracy be returned to…
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‘We don’t see a place for microtransactions in single-player games’, says CD Projekt Red following Dragon’s Dogma 2’s DLC fiasco
CD Projekt Red won’t be putting microtransactions in single player games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 any time soon, according to comments recently made by the company’s Chief Financial Officer. During an interview with Stockwatch.pl(translated via Google) Piotr Nielubowicz was asked whether future games will have microtransactions added into them. To this, Nielubowicz…
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As restructuring ends with the sale of Gearbox, Embracer’s CEO has a new plan: ‘simply making better products and games’
Good news, everyone! Embracer Group is bringing an end to its restructuring process. You know, the one that followed in the wake of its collapsed $2 billion deal, resulting in the closure of Volition and Free Radical, the layoff of over 1,300 developers, the cancellation of a new Deus Ex, and a fire-sale of studios…