Anything involving the creators of Straftat is going to be on my radar. The lo-fi 1v1 shooter was crowned the best FPS of 2024, brilliantly...
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Elden Ring Nightreign is a deeply flawed multiplayer game I’ve spent over 250 hours in this year
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Dishonored co-creator says it was ‘a shock’ when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall’s release: ‘We were working on something really cool’
Arkane Austin is far from the only studio that Microsoft—in its push to post 30% profit margins year upon year—has closed down. But for me...
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Quake’s third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: ‘this is going to be an insane challenge’
For the last four years, the hottest mapping event in the retro FPS scene has been the Quake Brutalist Jam. Here, mapmakers enthralled by id...
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Blizzard’s focus is on existing properties, president Johanna Faries says: ‘We have iconic IP and in many ways it still has a lot of room to scale’
After almost three years as general manager of Call of Duty, Johanna Faries became president of Blizzard in 2014, replacing the outgoing Mike Ybarra. Under...