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Why is it that in a role-playing game where the stakes are usually ‘the end of the world’, the end of the world always has to wait for us to finish our sprawling to-do list first? There’s no way you’ve never encountered this. I came across it most recently in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which, […]
23rd November Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week we explore a game that’s also a music album, we struggle to be okay with the ultra violence in a supposedly silly zombie splatfest, and […]
A little teaser story to end the week, care of Maw reader MiniMatt. Factorio devs Wube Software have dropped the vaguest of hints about their next game project, or at least, shared one of their current inspirations: World Of Warcraft.
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive has announced it’s banning mods from public online sessions, blaming them for a “non-negligible” amount of server instability seen by players – even those who don’t have mods installed. “We’ve seen incredible community engagement since launch, and we’ve noticed that some players have started to […]
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is making changes to how it handles stealth, versus other games in the long-running series. Gone is the companion eagle who can spot enemies for you, for a start; instead, players can hide in the – hey – shadows, lie on their tummies for the first time, and make use of a […]
Hello Xbox fans! We’re delighted to announce that our new game, Overthrown, will launch into Xbox Game Preview on Xbox Series X|S and PC on December 10, and will be available with Game Pass. For those of you who might be seeing our game for the very first time, Overthrown is a city builder with […]
Push to Talk is a weekly newsletter about the business of making and marketing video games, written by games industry veteran and marketing director Ryan Rigney. Subscribe here for eclectic and spicy interviews and essays in your inbox every Friday. Back in 2009, it was far from obvious that League of Legends had the potential […]
Five years after announcing the feature was on the way, Microsoft has finally launched the ability for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play “select” games they already own outside the Xbox Game Pass library via cloud streaming. Microsoft originally announced the feature back in 2019, with the goal of launching it alongside […]
Gang Beasts is one of the games I think of when I recall the golden days of video game expos, before Covid rolled up and nuked the business model. It casts you as one of several jellybaby pugilists, fighting for dominance over such locations as Ferris wheels and the tops of speeding vans. All of […]
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launched Tuesday on Windows PC and Xbox Series X, but it hasn’t been a smooth ride. Actually, it’s been anything but: Long loading times and missing content have earned developer Asobo Games’ latest launch an overwhelmingly negative rating on Steam. Some players are stuck on loading screens for hours, according to […]