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Fall Guys stop existing when they stop competing, says senior designer

13 8 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

“The first one pager we put together for Fall Guys was basically gifs of Takeshi’s Castle, and basically it was like ‘Gang Beasts + Mario Party + Battle Royale’. I’m not joking, it wasn’t really much more than that that got the game signed”. I’m watching an interview with Fall Guys senior designer Joe Walsh, […]

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Former Dishonored creative director suggests all genres could be immersive sims

11 8 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

Some former Prey and Dishonored developers are making Weird West, a top-down cowboy action-RPG that’s a bit like an immersive sim. This much we knew, and had already puzzled over. Fondly, like. The dev’s pedigree gained my curiosity, but this interview with Prey and Dishonored creative director Raphael Colantonio has my attention. Weird West will […]

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I love this man’s enthusiasm for an innovative AI mocap technique

6 8 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

I like neat AI stuff. The prospect of making machines autonomously clever (whatever that means) is a fundamentally exciting concept to me, even though there are plenty of ways in which AI is being and will be used to make people’s lives worse. I’m therefore a prime target for Two Minute Papers, a YouTube channel […]

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Everyone loves Fall Guys, so here are some amazing falls, guys

5 8 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

The battle-royale-but-not-like-that videogame known as Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has exploded. In a good way. Everyone and their squishy cartoon dog has been playing it, to the point where developers Mediatonic had to repeatedly take down their servers for beefing purposes. It’s a game show in the vein of Total Wipeout, or possibly an extremely […]

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Console an AI about its lack of sentience in AI Dungeon 2

3 8 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

I wrote about AI Dungeon 2 when it came out last year, but I really should have been keeping up with it. It’s essentially a messy yet occasionally flabbergasting chat bot that spins up text adventure games, improvised from your prompts and the stupid-big amount of data it’s been trained on. Developers Latitude have updated […]

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A big Escape From Tarkov update just wiped your characters, soz

29 5 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

You’d have thought people would have escaped from Tarkov by now, but they’re still at it. Escape From Tarkov is a brutal, sandbox-ey shooter about scavenging for loot in a warzone where everyone has better guns than you – except for right now! A big update to the current early access build has brought a […]

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Darkest Dungeon launches PvP today, alongside a free weekend

28 5 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

Roll up, roll up, The Butcher’s Circus is (about to be) in town. Merciless RPG Darkest Dungeon is set to launch its PVP mode later today, letting you pit your band of stressed out adventurers against those of a stressed out person in the real world. The new mode is completely separate to the singleplayer […]

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Play demos for Desperados 3 and System Shock right now via GOG

27 5 月, 2020 Matt Cox 0

You, there, stop that. You’ve got new videogames to play. Good Old Games has just launched free demos for Desperados 3 and the System Shock remake, along with a handful of other upcoming games. I’ve already had a sneaky play of both tactical cowboys and cybernetic spaceship loners, so I can already tell you they’re […]