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The game design secrets of Hidetaka Miyazaki of Elden Ring

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TThe famously challenging dark-fantasy epic Elden Ring was the second best-selling game in the world in 2022, and the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion last Friday has everyone once again debating whether it’s too difficult. Every game FromSoftware has developed since 2009’s Demon’s Souls has inspired this discourse, and I’m not going … Read more

Dustborn: ‘No one forced us to make a game with a diverse cast’ – BBC News

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Image source, Dominique Tipper Image caption, Dominique Tipper is best known for her work on The Expanse Item information Author, Tom Richardson Role, BBC Newsbeat 1 hour ago A video game set in a divided America, starring a cast of diverse characters, was always going to cause unrest. But Dominique Tipper likes a challenge. The … Read more

Dustborn: ‘No one forced us to make a game with a diverse cast’ – BBC News

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Image source, Dominique Tipper Image caption, Dominique Tipper is best known for her work on The Expanse Item information Author, Tom Richardson Role, BBC Newsbeat 24 minutes ago A video game set in a divided America, starring a cast of diverse characters, was always going to cause unrest. But Dominique Tipper likes a challenge. The … Read more

I spent an evening in Elden Ring’s Fog Rift Catacombs and experienced the purest despair I’ve ever felt in a FromSoftware game

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Elden Ring

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree will kick players’ ass, but an optional dungeon called the Fog Rift Catacombs induces a special kind of despair. After being stuck in this place for a while, I understand why: this dungeon is simultaneously the best, worst, and funniest thing FromSoftware has ever done. Obviously this post will … Read more

Matt Booty, President of Xbox Game Content and Studios, on ‘Beginning to Hit Our Stride’, Game Pass strategy, ‘Fallout’ update, studio closures and more

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Laurel McConnell/Microsoft Microsoft Gaming is taking a victory lap after an impressive Xbox Games Showcase presentation at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles on June 9, which was anchored by the reveal of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” followed by major announcements across all Xbox studios including Bethesda, Activision and Blizzard, as well … Read more

Embracer rolls out new AI policy to ‘vastly improve game development’

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Newly restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer groupwill use AI models to drive game production. As stated in Embracer’s annual reportthe company has adopted a new AI policy package that it says has the potential to “massively improve” its manufacturing process by “increasing resource efficiency, adding intelligent behavior, personalization and optimization to gameplay experiences.” Embracer says that … Read more

My first time playing a STALKER game was at Summer Game Fest, and I think Heart of Chornobyl is going to be special

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STALKER 2

Shortly after the conclusion of the epic Xbox Games Showcase 2024 event, I returned to the Summer Game Fest Play Days to go hands-on with two upcoming Xbox console exclusive titles (and day one Xbox Game Pass launch). One of these was STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the long-awaited sequel to the survival horror shooter … Read more

Okay, let’s write about the stupid banana game

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You may have noticed that the second most played game on Steam right now is Banana, which was released in April but has seen an explosion of popularity in recent weeks. What is banana? It’s a free idle clicker in which you click on an image of a banana to increase the numbers. If the number increases enough, the game will place additional images of bananas in your Steam inventory. Actually, it’s not even an idle clicker; simply leaving the game open all day is enough to generate a slow but steady supply of these banana pictures.

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