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One of my biggest criticisms of Black Ops 7’s initial integration into Warzone was that nothing about the update screamed futuristic Black Ops style or gameplay. Black Ops 7 only added its weapon pool and some of its gadgets to…
Playground Games has grown. When I first visited the studio in 2014 for Forza Horizon 2, the crew still shared their building with a variety of other businesses. In 2018, when I again flew over to the UK for an…
I got the rare chance this week to sit down with Garry’s Mod creator and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman, whose next project, game creation platform s&box, is preparing for launch in April. Among other topics like his original expectations…
This is an Xbox! Wait, is this an Xbox? Well, perhaps not anymore, as Microsoft appears to have quietly removed its marketing campaign which proclaimed the Xbox was less of a console and more of a platform that could be…
After six years, the multiplayer horror game Phasmophobia is getting a 1.0 release later this year. This upgraded version of the game will offer a bevy of enhancements–from overhauled character models to new maps–but with developer Kinetic Games also branching…
The original World of Warcraft—no bells, no frills, no expansions—was a very special videogame. It was also occasionally insufferably annoying. Part of the reason it was so successful is because it was less annoying than the competition at the time,…
One of the biggest issues I’ve had since Overwatch first launched 10 years ago has always been just how much coordination the game demands from five or six complete strangers. For better and worse you live and die by your…
World War Z and MudRunner developer Saber Interactive combines those two very diverse gameplay styles into one with their latest: John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, a surprisingly fun new entry in the cooperative zombie-killing genre that also includes a lot of…
Back in my day, I would pass the time waiting for my Sims family to load back into existence by staring out of the window and appreciating all the natural beauty that surrounded my folks’ place. Not so anymore—compression tech…
The original beta for cancelled multiplayer Star Wars shooter First Assault popped up again in the wild this week, in the form of YouTube videos that showed the game being played online. Cancelled in 2013, First Assault was just gearing…