Far Cry 4 creative director Alex Hutchinson has spoken out after comments from Fargo and Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley drew ire from video game fans online. Hawley, who is currently preparing to launch a new Far Cry TV series, sparked controversy when discussing why his series would not adapt any of Ubisoft’s popular open … Read more
Marathon has tweaked its “item economy,” now offering one free Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit each week to make it easier to participate in its weekend-only endgame zone, the Cryo Archive. Cryo Archive doubled down on the ultra hardcore Marathon experience, with several requirements you needed to meet in order to access it. As an extraction … Read more
Hang in there, Final Fantasy fans — Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director Naoki Hamaguchi has popped up to assure us that the eagerly-anticipated third installment is “proceeding on time and on schedule.” This would possibly be more comforting if we knew what, exactly, the schedule was — Hamaguchi is playing his cards very … Read more
Italian game company Digital Bros. has bought the Wuchang: Fallen Feathers intellectual property rights. The parent company of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ publisher 505 Games, Digital Bros. purchased the IP rights from developer Chengdu Lingze Technology Co. Ltd for around $4.6 million. This secures “full ownership” of the soulslike action RPG and all future royalties. IP … Read more
Japanese electronics giant Bic Camera is making life tricky for those seeking to cash in on Pokémon cards. To deter scalpers, a branch in Tokyo now has a written Pokémon quiz that customers have to pass in order to buy the Ninja Spinner expansion. As spotted by DexertoTwitter / X user Ryo Saeba uploaded a … Read more
The use of artificial intelligence in video game development has become a thorny and divisive topic over the past couple of years, and so naturally it was a topic of conversation during a recent press Q&A session with The Blood of Dawnwalker’s game director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. The former Witcher 3 director revealed that generative AI … Read more
Colourful, quirky, and completely chaotic, Above Land: Rhapsody basically takes the three-player co-op carnage of Elden Ring Nightreign and injects it with some hilariously over-the-top weapons and special moves that seem straight out of a Yakuza street brawl. At a recent BiliBili: First Look event in Shanghai, I spent a few hours hacking and slashing … Read more
Introducing Above Land: Rhapsody, an absolutely wild sci-fi fantasy action-RPG roguelite with tower defense elements set above the clouds that you can play in three-player co-op where weapons include bows and arrows, swords, and chairs. Yes, chairs. And basketballs. You’ll see what we mean in the trailer, which you can watch above. Above Land: Rhapsody … Read more
Speaking at iicon today, a new conference for video game executivesTake-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick addressed the much-debated question of how much Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost. He declined to confirm the game’s price, but hinted away from the potentially super-premium price point that has been floated in the past. “Consumers pay for the value … Read more
Today a new romance game was announced, Silent Whispers, and fans of the ruling otome title Love and Deepspace quickly noticed a few similarities between the two. Namely, the white-haired, sharp-cheekboned Alarik, one of the three romantic leads in Silent Whispers. Silent Whispers is the work of Archosaur Games, a Chinese company that has already … Read more