Issue #248

NEWS Link to heading

Star Wars Outlaws’ Accessibility Options Are Astonishing

Ubisoft’s XDefiant At Risk of Shutdown Due to Low Player Count

Vibrant Magical School MMO Wizard101 Will Enchant PS4

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened Closes Down a Year After Launch — and Fans Are Less Than Impressed

Nintendo praised for its improvements in sourcing minerals from conflict zones

Voice Acting Legend Jennifer Hale on Video Game Strikes: ‘AI Is Coming for All of Us’

Rocksteady hit by layoffs after Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League underperforms

Xbox Game Pass Has 5 Games Being Removed This Month

Co-creator of Wizardry, Andrew C. Greenberg, has died aged 67

Intel’s Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs won’t have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors

Xbox Game Pass adds Age of Mythology: Retold, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, and more in early to mid September

Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game Funded in 10 Minutes

Concord Is Suddenly Getting Pulled Offline With Sony Promising Full Refunds

Ubisoft share price falls to 10-year low after Star Wars Outlaws launch

No Man’s Sky’s Aquarius update lets you go fishing across the galaxy

Balatro out on mobile later this month

Amazon Prime Gaming Giving Away 28 Games in September

Harry Potter Video Game Sequel Hogwarts Legacy 2 ‘One of the Biggest Priorities’ at Warner Bros

REVIEWS Link to heading

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16

Squirrel with a Gun

The Casting of Frank Stone

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2

FEATURES Link to heading

Deadlock’s lanes are utterly fascinating when it comes to MOBA design, and it’s because of its shooter elements—not in spite of them

Gothic: Remake Looks Painfully Immersive

How the developers of Stalker 2 weathered the Ukraine war to make their game | The DeanBeat

Show less, randomise more: a Cyberpunk 2077 designer on how to stop open worlds feeling exhausting

Titan Quest 2 builds on the best parts of Diablo’s Greek fantasy rival

Why Doom 3 is still an important and misunderstood game

Bloons Is The Perfect Recipe For A Card Game

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is downright gorgeous, and feels like it’s using modern tech to fully realise the atmosphere the first game strove for

Why the ‘perfect game’ is still with us decades later | Tetris interview

How many players does a game like Concord need to survive?

Cut free of Apple Arcade, Fantasian shows off the revolutionary spirit that helped Hironobu Sakaguchi create Final Fantasy in the first place - interview

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – The Final Preview

How Mass Effect Became a Board Game

Concord’s catastrophic failure has made me even more worried about Bungie’s Marathon

The 25 games that made Eurogamer

Concord raises questions over Sony’s live-service competence | Opinion

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

What video game plot was written to be complicated and mysterious, but was instead just poorly written?

Were games truly better years and years ago or is it just nostalgia?

What games are not your “cup of tea”?

VIDEOS Link to heading

ASTROBOTANICA - Official Announcement Teaser

Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Citadel of The Steel Bloom and Firebrand Preview

Baldur’s Gate 3: A Retrospective (PAX West 2024 Panel)

Story Time with Phil Spencer | PAX West 2024

Dragon Age: The Veilguard – 22 Minutes of Gameplay With BioWare

A Minecraft Movie | Teaser

2024 Project DualPlay | Predator

Arcane: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Titan Quest II | Demo Gameplay Dev Commentary

FUNNY Link to heading

Standing here …

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Balancing creativity and deadlines in game development