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How Yager designed The Cycle for co-op or player-vs-player combat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 26, 2019
8 min

Yager Development has a rich history of making high-quality games, from Spec Ops: The Line to Dreadnought. And now it has launched The Cycle...

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8 min

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How Patrice Désilets survived the odyssey of making Ancestors

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 25, 2019
8 min

You may forgive Patrice Désilets for getting emotional last week during the Opening Night Live event at Gamescom 2019, when the trailer showed for...

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8 min

Spiders excels at making action-heavy RPGs.

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Bigben’s acquisition of Spiders weaves a web of Double-A ambition

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 25, 2019
7 min

Last month, Bigben Interactive made an intriguing acquisition: Spiders, a French studio that specializes in action-role-playing games. It’s just another move behind the French...

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7 min

Sophia (left) and Jessica are the daughters of BJ Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein: Youngblood.

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How Machine Games took a single-player series into co-op with Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 24, 2019
20 min

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is considered a “small game” for Machine Games, the Swedish game studio. The big games in the rebooted Wolfenstein series — Wolfenstein:...

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20 min

There are more than 30 onscreen characters in Telling Lies.

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Telling Lies review — Deciphering lies within lies using only a video database

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 21, 2019
5 min

Sam Barlow and Annapurna Interactive are launching Telling Lies, an interactive investigation thriller game, on August 23 on the PC, Mac, and iOS devices....