In about 16 minutes of hands-on time with Bad Magpie, I torched flowers, added even more chaos to the mess humans left behind with a sonic bird call, and thoroughly disgruntled some innocent mice. Bad Magpie is instantly charming, and from what I played, has great puzzles to go with its chaos. Bad Magpie follows … Read more
Dan Houser doesn’t care that much if you get all the way to the story credits on his games, as long as you’re having fun in the worlds he’s created. “If someone enjoyed a game, that’s great,” the Rockstar co-founder and Grand Theft Auto/Red Dead Redemption writer said at a panel at the Tribeca Festival … Read more
The canceled Warhammer Horus Heresy MMO was “shaping up nicely,” one person who worked on it has said. The Horus Heresy is the galaxy-spanning civil war between loyalist and traitor Space Marines that occurred 10,000 years before the current Warhammer 40,000 setting. It saw the Emperor finally defeat his Chaos-fueled primarch son, Horus Lupercal, and … Read more
Developer Odaclick Game Studio and publisher Trailmark Games have announced The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival, a new pixelated beat ’em up starring Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, and Michonne. This single-player game set in the world of AMC’s zombie franchise was announced today with its first trailer. It’s set to come to PC via Steam, … Read more
As Destiny 2 fans mourn the game’s final update, Bungie’s former community manager has said its player count shouldn’t be compared with that of fledgling extraction shooter Marathon — insisting the company’s current issues began long before its arrival, as well as Sony’s acquisition. Since Marathon debuted in March, and particularly since Bungie announced it … Read more
Ubisoft has published a new Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced deep dive, promising loads of new content that wasn’t present in the original release. The publisher put a spyglass up to how the remake expands on the 2013 pirate game with a blog post on its website today. It’s a lengthy message that teases new … Read more
A new report has claimed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is speeding up development on new The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games as Microsoft considers restructuring or spinning off its gaming branch. Details on the potential shakeup come from The Information (via reuters), which reported on the latest in a long line of recent shifts … Read more
Forza Horizon 6 for PC and Xbox was released just last month. This is the perfect excuse for you to finally upgrade from a controller to a bona fide racing wheel. Logitech via its official eBay store is offering a fantastic deal on its most popular racing wheel. Right now you can pick up a … Read more
To the casual observer, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag might seem like yet another pretty looking upgrade to a popular game quickly put together for the sole purpose of cashing in on hits of yesteryear, but that’s not how the team at Ubisoft approached this rather ambitious remake to one of the most beloved Assassin’s Creed … Read more
The Yakuza / Like a Dragon series has largely found its footing as an action-brawler, extending to the Judgment games and perhaps informing parts of the turn-based combat systems in its RPGs. Stranger Than Heaven, which has a direct lineage with the rest of those games, takes a much different turn when it comes to … Read more