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When I finished my first session of Nox Mortalis’ astoundingly long and open-ended demo, I was convinced it had missed the mark: Too obtuse and unforgiving. Melee combat that was spotty at best, with an overreliance on an aggravating parry mechanic. I get not having a map, but no compass in this open world game? … Read more

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad. This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved … Read more

Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of … Read more

I am fully on board with the year of the ninja. A month ago I was pleading with my PC Gamer colleagues to consider Ninja Gaiden 2 Black for this year’s Top 100 list of the finest computer games to play right now; I’ve played dozens of hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the stealth … Read more

AI is supposed to be helpful, honest, and most importantly, harmless, but we’ve seen plenty of evidence that its behavior can become horribly inaccurate, flat-out deceptive, and even downright evil. (Yes, that last link is the MechaHitler thing.) If you think I’m being hyperbolic by using the word “evil,” I’m not: a new paper on … Read more

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15 years after being shuttered by Activision, original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane is back, with the slightly changed name of RedOctane Games and now a part of catastrophe conglomerate Embracer Group. The revived studio is being headed up by Simon Ebejer, the production director on numerous Guitar Hero games developed by Neversoft, and also has … Read more

Marathon’s grand unveiling earlier this year did not, I suspect, go as Sony hoped. Gameplay reveals were met with overwhelmingly negative reaction. Then, a scandal over stolen art and a subsequent report of morale at the studio in “free fall”. Finally, an indefinite delay, with a new release date to be announced in the autumn. … Read more

When Sony announced its intention to acquire Destiny 2 developer Bungie in January 2022 for an eye-watering $.3.6 billion, it said the company would be “an independent subsidiary” under the direction of the studio’s then-current management team, and that it would remain a multiplatform studio with the option “to self-publish and reach players wherever they … Read more

We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing in 2025. Hit up the Gripes Week hub for more of what’s grinding our gears. Different franchises colliding in videogames has been a thing since some guy at Banpresto realised they could make Godzilla and a Gundam kick a football around an 8-bit … Read more