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Viral FPS dev hits back at “dead on arrival” comments and says it will never add microtransactions: “We don’t need to sell millions of copies. We don’t need millions of players online at once”

The developers of viral toybox FPS have spoken out at the idea that their game failed ...

Microsoft’s AI-powered Quake 2 demo makes me sick, not just because it’s wrong on every level, but because I literally felt queasy playing it

We all know generative AI in video games is bad. It displaces human jobs, represents the ...

That was not going to work for Valve”: Canceled Half-Life spinoff game Ravenholm was “great, frankly,” says Arkane founder, but it couldn\u2019t survive under Valve’s “very clear business plan

The canceled Half-Life spinoff game – what could have been another episodic follow-up to Half-Life 2 ...

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond sold me on the Switch 2 mouse controls in a way that Civilization 7 and Mario Party Jamboree couldn’t

Although it’s been a feature teased by Nintendo since the Switch 2 was first announced, I ...

Over 10 years since launch, Far Cry 4 reportedly censors nudity in a new PC patch, and Ubisoft hasn’t explained why

Far Cry 4 has received a quiet update on PC which has reportedly censored instances of ...

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond hands-on preview

While it seems a bit silly in hindsight, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond looks great on the ...

Doom: The Dark Ages’ weighty shield saw and gory melee are vital to its refreshed combat loop: “The guns are more like rhythm guitars this time”

When you think of Doom it’s easy to think about massive demons and huge guns. But, ...

Doom: The Dark Ages’ team found new inspiration from the original Doom: “We play it at the start of every project”

The 1993 Doom is still a titan – an indomitable fiery force. It changed the gaming ...

Doom: The Dark Ages doesn’t have multiplayer because “it would definitely come at the expense of” the campaign

For Doom: The Dark Ages, Id Software has abandoned the multiplayer entirely, and considering the game ...

Doom: The Dark Ages is set to include 22 levels, almost doubling the amount offered in Doom Eternal

Doom: The Dark Ages is releasing next month, if you can believe it, and it sounds ...

Ubisoft reaches deal with Tencent to create $4.3 billion mini-Ubisoft subsidiary to “spearhead development” on new Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six games

Ubisoft has just announced the creation of a new subsidiary that will handle Assassin’s Creed, Far ...

When Destiny 2 “weekly active users dropped lower and faster than we’d seen since 2018,” Bungie assembled an A-Team to put out some fires: “We needed to do something”

In fall 2022, Bungie had a problem on its hands. The Destiny 2 developer hasn’t gone ...

Half-Life devs worried Gabe Newell “promised things that they couldn’t possibly deliver” for the iconic FPS, but “they just didn’t know” that they’d be able to do it yet

From the moment it was revealed, it felt like 1998’s Half-Life was destined to be a ...

Former Valve exec recounts the meeting where Half-Life’s publisher almost killed the iconic FPS: “Half-Life would quietly die. I was stunned”

A former Valve executive has recalled the time when Half-Life‘s original publisher almost abandoned the game ...

FBC: Firebreak may be Remedy’s first live-service game but the Control creators are going about it the right way, confirming that all playable post-launch content “will always be free”

FBC: Firebreak developer Remedy Entertainment debuted a brand-new look at its upcoming first-person shooter at our ...

FBC: Firebreak is exactly what I want a FPS from Remedy to be – weird, cinematic, and exceptionally pretty

A siren echoes through the Executive Sector of the Oldest House. One member of this Firebreak ...