I’ve been resisting the urge to watch videos or read previews of Dark Souls 3, as I feel I ruined the previous games slightly by soaking up every bit of pre-release info I possibly could. YouTube thumbnails/video titles and tweets have made sure I can’t remain unspoiled entirely, but thankfully I’m still largely in the dark about...
I spent some time at GDC with developer Little Green Men Games, the team behind the upcoming Starpoint Gemini Warlords. While I got a brief look at the next entry in their space RPG series, we spent most of our time talking about Steam Early Access, how it defined Starpoint Gemini 2 (our review is here), and how it will shape Warlords...
The Witcher 3 is a massive game. It packs in 35 hours of dialogue, each line of which was voice acted and motion captured. If I had been in charge of orchestrating all the moving parts of the game’s development, I would’ve had a breakdown a month in and the dialogue system would’ve ended up more like Facade. Thankfully, the much...
Last year’s “wasteland caravan management sim” Skyshine’s Bedlam was pretty good, but we had a few issues with it. Combat was one aspect we cited as problematic in our review, noting that its unforgiving nature “crossed the line from enjoyably brutal to stressful frustration.” That’s an element of the game that today’s Redux update seeks...
Did the Mount & Blade 2 livestream from the PC Gamer Weekender leave you thirsty for more details on Taleworlds’ self-described hardcore PC RPG? Rally to me, dear readers, because I have the unabridged Bannerlord presentation to share with you. Community manager Frank Elliott and animator Sten Oom walked us through everything from the fine details of character creation...
In a post-mortem of Darkest Dungeon at this year’s GDC, Red Hook Studios’ co-president and design director Tyler Sigman mentioned an unexpected inspiration for one of the game’s key systems: HBO’s WWII dramamentary Band of Brothers. “The inspiration for the Affliction system was not games, really. It was more human experience,” says Sigman. If you haven’t played Darkest...
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...
In 2014, Larian came out with Divinity: Original Sin, one of the deepest RPGs to grace the PC since the halcyon days of the ’90s. Divinity: Original Sin 2 ought to go above and beyond, building on experience and a new-found fanbase to create a cRPG truly befitting the second decade of the 21st century. We were buzzing with...
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...
The Long Journey Home is a “space exploration RPG” that promises to blend the gameplay of old classics like Starflight and Star Control with roguelike replayability, “in a procedurally generated, endless surprising living universe inspired by beloved modern science fiction shows like Farscape and Firefly.” That’s an awfully tall order, and quite a shift away...
