Metro: Exodus — Yermak’s humanity is touching
Metro: Exodus surprised me. The charm wasn’t in the mix of scripted levels and open-world areas that encountered (though I did appreciate this). It...
Ubisoft Winnipeg guides Ubisoft’s use of AI and cloud computing to make bigger, better games
Darryl Long can’t make his Ultima IV, his favorite game from his formative days. So he works on artificial intelligence and cloud computing to...
Etrian Odyssey Nexus review — a bittersweet dungeon finale
I approached Etrian Odyssey Nexus with a mixture of anticipation and sadness. Scuttlebutt assumes this is the final entry in this old-fashioned turn-based role-playing...
Path of Exile: Synthesis comes on the heels of Grinding Gear Games’ best expansion
Path of Exile’s players enjoy betrayal — so much so that they made Betrayal a landmark expansion for the online role-playing game. And now...
Outward interview: Unlearn what you have learned about role-playing games
The first time I left the starting town in the indie role-playing game Outward, I found what looked like to be a giant chicken....
Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines II interview: Deathless in Seattle
When Paradox Interactive acquired tabletop role-playing company White Wolf Publishing in October 2015, I and many others wondered how long it’d be until we’d...
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum interview — Middle-earth doesn’t intimidate Daedalic’s CEO
Daedalic Entertainment made what I thought was the biggest video game franchise news of last week’s Game Developers Conference 2019 in San Francisco —...
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is Daedalic’s first game in new Middle-earth licensing deal
Daedalic Entertainment has built a reputation for story-rich adventure games since Carsten Fichtelmann and Jan “Poki” Müller-Michaelis founded it in 2007. But last week...
Studio Roqovan closes, taking VR shooter World Wars Toons with it
World Wars Toons, one of VR’s earliest hopes for a great first-person shooter (FPS), is no more as developer Studio Roqovan closes its doors....
The truth about hypercasual games
Hypercasual games have seen unprecedented growth over the past year. Using the average lifetime value of hypercasual players based on data from ironSource’s platform...