At a GDC panel today, Boss Key Productions announced that LawBreakers would not be free to play as originally announced. Members of the panel, which included CEO Cliff Bleszinski and COO Arjan Brussee, explained that the model no longer made sense with the direction they were taking the game. Bleszinski pointed out that they “didn’t want...
I don’t know if the new 1.1 update to the action-RPG Bombshell will make the it any better, but I can say confidently that it is very unlikely to make it any worse—the game is currently on sale for 33 percent off its regular $35 price, and that discount is actually higher than our review...
For all that its bugs and underwhelming online features do Hitman a disservice, the PCG team is in agreement that Escalation contracts make for the finest hits the series has ever commissioned. Kicking its ‘live service’ into high gear, Io has already added two more Escalations to the line-up. Escalations, as the name suggests, get tougher in five stages, adding...
It might not be the highlight in the Total War calendar, but from March 24, Total War Battles: Kingdom will invite you to engage in light cross-platform strategy on Steam and the usual mobile platforms. Total War Battles: Shogun came to PC after it arrived on mobile and proved itself a competent strategy game, if a...
Blizzard builds enduring franchises through colourful characters and tomes of lore, and it looks like Overwatch has been pegged for a permanent place in the hallowed family of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft. In the run-up to release we can expect a series of animated shorts and six free digital comics zoning in on different heroes. Maybe we’ll get the...
Build a beautiful online world and you can be sure intrepid explorers will find a way to escape it. In this instance, efforts by members of the Division community have revealed locations which might hint to future DLC. Chaz leveraged a couple of wall glitches, including a convenient vault and liberal use of the Ballistic Shield, to...
Bioshock: The Collection is being rated by the Taiwanese advisory board, lending credence to another rating by the notoriously leaky Brazilian ratings agency. The database entries are accompanied by unseen cover art incorporating elements from Rapture and Columbia (I had to think for a while to remember that there is a third game), but it would certainly be nice...
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has won the 2016 GDC Choice Awards, beating out fellow nominees Fallout 4, Metal Gear Solid V, Bloodborne and Rocket League. News of the award, which was handed out today in San Francisco, has already reached Geralt, who you can see celebrating the victory in the photo above. Sam Barlow’s Her...
Her Story took out two major awards at the IGF Game Developers Choice awards in San Francisco today, including the “exellence in narrative” and the Seumas McNally grand prize. Hosted by Capybara Games’ Nathan Vella, the ceremony offered up few surprises, though Vella did use the event as an opportunity to announce some news about...
Capybara Games has released a brand-new trailer for its upcoming roguelike Below. We’ve also got a half-dozen new screens to look at, and perhaps best of all, a release window—not a date, but a step in the right direction—of this summer. It’s been a couple of years since our hands-on with Below, but even then...
