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Much like the Dark Souls boss who can be defeated by throwing hundreds of dung pies over a wall, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's dual-wielding magic knight can be killed without stepping foot inside her boss room.
Two months before this week's mass layoff of more than 200 staff at Bungie, «Payback,» the codename for a third-person perspective spinoff project set in the Destiny universe, was cancelled in order to prioritize development of the upcoming Marathon extraction shooter, according to a report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.
Failbetter Games has announced that their Fallen London videogame world will soon come to the adjacent world of tabletop roleplaying. It'll be «a fully-fledged, custom tabletop roleplaying system for Fallen London, in a big book,» says Failbetter. So prepare to explore the neath and its great big city, Fallen London, in 2025—and probably don't talk to any devils.
The last time we heard about Ark 2, the sequel to the popular dinosaur survival RPG, it was scheduled to come out by the end of this year in early access. Although it's been over a year since that news came out, when Microsoft put it on its list of playable demos at Gamescom, it seemed like we'd finally get an update on the Vin Diesel-starring sequel. And then it got removed.
The skies are gray above our hobby today as one of gaming's oldest institutions, Game Informer, is closing its doors. This morning, GameStop abruptly pulled the plug on the Game Informer magazine and website, laying off its entire staff as it was «about 70% done» with the next issue, according to content director Kyle Hilliard.
In an interview with Aftermath, Yanis Varoufakis, former economist in residence at Valve, says that the company unintentionally prototyped the digital economic hellscape we're currently forced to languish under. That hellscape is the subject of his book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, published earlier this year, and it's one he says he helped create.
There are many ways to FPS: the tried-and-true squad battles of Counter-Strike 2, the endless quests for chicken dinners in Fortnite, the old-school deathmatches in Quake. This is a new one to me: the developers of ASCENDANT.COM (yeah, that's what they're calling it) are claiming that it's the world's first «adaption shooter.»
Well, if any fears lingered that the Gothic 1 Remake would be a phoned-in retread, they should certainly be banished by the latest footage. This open world RPG looks even more ambitious than the original, boasting an «immersive and realistic world», and making the frankly wild claim that it features «complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before».