It’s 2022 and The Sims 4 is now in its eighth year of updates and expansions, making it the longest-reigning Sims title yet. While rumors of The Sims 5 persist, we’ve yet to hear confirmation from EA or even a whisper of a release date, so expect new content, updates, …
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Magic and mystery lie at the heart of Forspoken. Square Enix is drawing on the experience of Luminous Productions to establish the core rhythms of its play, a new studio staffed up with the developers who helped bring Final Fantasy 15 to life. The world has been carefully crafted by …
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Sifu is the ultimate Kung Fu power fantasy. I’m not the first person to say this, and I’m sure I won’t be the last. I probably will be the first, and likely only, person to compare the seductive learning curve in Sloclap’s upcoming action-adventure brawler to getting beaten up in …
Read More »Inside Nightingale: How ex-BioWare devs hope to conquer the survival genre with better world-building
Humanity was never supposed to wield magic. It’s a lesson we will learn the hard way in Nightingale, the gaslamp fantasy adventure coming from Inflexion Games in 2022. The studio was founded by former BioWare developers, a group attempting to leverage the experience it gained through work on the Dragon …
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