Assassin’s Creed remake made a huge mistake cutting the best part of Black Flag

I never played Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag when it first launched in 2013. I’m kicking myself for that negligence right now. Its new remake, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, reaffirms that the open-world pirate adventure is one of Ubisoft’s finest games. Everything from its thrilling naval battles to its island treasure hunting holds up…

Designing The Blood Of Dawnwalker’s Combat To Be Immersive

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a massive role-playing game, and not all of its quandaries can be solved with words and fetched items. Sometimes, Coen will need to draw a blade, or even his vampiric claws. Combat, then, is an important part of The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Rebel Wolves didn’t rest on its laurels….

Gay As A Service Game Hard To Find On Steam Despite No Explicit Nudity

Indie game dev Robert Yang has a novel approach to re-releasing remastered versions of his queer experimental games. First spotted by PC Gamer, Radiator Forever is a project Yang calls “gay as a service,” a cheeky (heh!) twist on “games as a service” where instead of releasing the updated games with their own individual store pages,…

Palworld dev delivers “important” 1.0 mod warning

Palworld 1.0 is finally upon us. It’s yet another scary reminder of the passage of time that it’s already been two and a half years since the creature-collecting survival game proved itself more than mere parody and exploded to become one of the biggest games ever on Steam. As developer Pocketpair leaves early access, it…

Sonic Frontiers First 4 Figures Statue Sneak Peek, Pre-Orders Open Soon

Image: SEGA As part of Sonic the Hedgehog‘s 35th anniversary celebrations, Sega recently shadow-dropped Sonic Frontiers – Definitive Edition on the Switch 2. Now, to join in on the birthday celebrations, First 4 Figures has shared a sneak peek of its Sonic Frontiers statue. This statue will be available to pre-order on 21st July 2026,…

Xbox’s new chief strategist is a metaverse true believer

A star in the games business Twitter circuit, investor and analyst Matthew Ball has made waves in the industry over recent years with his “State of Video Gaming” slideshows, which in some corners have become doctrinal explanations for gaming’s 2020s woes. Now Ball has the chance to put his analysis directly to work at one…

Long-Forgotten PlayStation Exclusive RPG Still Coming, Dev Says

A PlayStation exclusive RPG long thought dead is surprisingly still in development, its developer has confirmed. Cygames‘ action RPG Project Awakening (Arise) got a stunning reveal as a PS4 exclusive game in 2018, but we’ve barely had any updates since. PlayStation exclusive RPG Project Awakening was first announced in 2016 Project Awakening was originally announced…

Sneaking Back Into Dishonored | Replay

In 2012, Arkane Studios launched what would become its breakout hit, Dishonored. Billed as a modernized take on the immersive sims of old, the first-person action game had players control assassin Corvo Attano, who must prove his innocence after being framed for the murder of the empress he was sworn to protect. Sporting a mix…

Rotta The Hutt Is Ready To Be The Hottest Halloween Costume Of The Year

“Do you know how hard it is to be your own man when your dad is Jabba the Hutt, and you have human arms growing out of your alien armpits?” – Rotta the Hutt While I mostly liked Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the film wasn’t a big financial hit for Lucasfilm. But Disney’s…

Black Flag Resynced blows every other Assassin’s Creed – and very nearly The Witcher 3

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has made quite a splash on Steam since its launch earlier this week, registering a series-high concurrent player count and even coming close to some titans of the gaming sphere like The Witcher 3. Launching on July 9, Black Flag Resynced drew in a very respectable 99,451 concurrent players according…