When Larian boss Swen Vincke first heard that his debut RPG was going to be called Divine Divinity, he thought it was a joke. But his publisher in Germany, CDV, was all too serious. They'd had a hit with a game called Sudden Strike, and suspected that alliteration might be the key to long-term success. […]Read More
Top 100 PC games list, some over and over again. We've written about what makes them groundbreaking and delightful more times than any of us can remember. So it's about time we let them have it. The things you know and love the most are by far the easiest things to tear down, and the […]Read More
Nightingale, the Victorian first-person survival action game, has had its early access launch pushed to the first half of 2023. The game is the debut by Inflexion Games, a team consisting of former Bioware developers, including ex-general manager Aaron Flynn. In a message posted to Twitter, Inflexion explains it delayed the launch for two reasons. One, […]Read More
Sonic Cycle continues in Sonic Frontiers. With the dust barely having had time to settle on the messy launch of Sonic Origins, Sega is seemingly itching to take the series in a new direction. The next big outing for the blue blur is a less linear, more explorable take on the ‘run fast, grind rails, […]Read More
In a blog post on the official BioWare website, Star Wars: The Old Republic’s creative director, Charles Boyd, announced his departure. Despite the sad news, the studio announced its commitment to the space opera franchise commending other leaders on the design team, from narrative director Ashley Ruhl to lead producer Eric Musco, and stating that […]Read More
PCG Q&A here. Some highlights: – What do we want from Fallout 5? – What's the longest you've had to wait for a sequel? – Which horror movie would make a great videogame? When a game lets you maintain separate save files, how many is enough? Do you keep as many profiles as you're allowed, […]Read More
PCG Q&A here. Some highlights: – What do we want from Fallout 5? – What do you drink while gaming? – Which horror movie would make a great videogame? While some series pop out a new entry with clockwork regularity every 12 months, others keep us hanging on. Poor old Psychonauts-likers had to wait 16 […]Read More
concept video showing off the metaverse's potential capabilities and, while your mind might immediately go to a place of “what a load of corpo bull,” there's something to be said for Meta's proposition: “the metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real.” If you simulate a human brain in silicon, you’ll get a […]Read More
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf being a lively indulgence, I'm willing to take it as given that the newly-announced animated series Dragon Age: Absolution will be great. Netflix has done right by animated game spinoffs so far (the Nightmare of the Wolf studio is also producing Absolution) and BioWare has a great track record […]Read More
Dragon Age fans have something to tide them over as they wait for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. Today, at Netflix Geeked Week, we got our first look at a new animated series from BioWare based on its beloved property called Dragon Age Absolution. The showcased a cool animated style and new characters in the universe. However, it was […]Read More
