"We're where we planned to be." In “a note from Bethesda Game Studios” published today, the studio reiterated that TES6 “is our primary development focus today, with the majority of our team currently working on the next chapter of the franchise.” The note added: “With over 65 million copies sold, players are still exploring Skyrim […]
This comes from a staggering blog post from Bethesda Game Studios, which addresses the future of all of its different RPG series. Starfield gets its own dedicated section, titled “Starfield Continues”, Bethesda revealed the game has been played by over 17m players for nearly a billion hours. It also says outright that Starfield “remains an
And that Top Gun collaboration will involve more than skins and cosmetics, which is beyond what many people expected. As seen in the gameplay trailer, the iconic F-14 Tomcat aircraft (F-74A Seacat in-game) is coming to the game, alongside the F/A-81F Super Spectre (F/A-18 Super Hornet). The pair are the game’s first two-seater jets, making
A few of the things that have us hooked this week. Here’s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don’t have to! The What We’ve Been Playing archive has you covered. I have a friend – a good friend – who recommends me games I should try. Every now and
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"During the training sequence, we make a false promise." The traces of IO’s original approach can still be felt in First Light, as British spy headquarters MI6 restarts the double-O programme and recruits Bond to join a series of other young hopefuls-in-training. Bond jets to Malta and slowly ingratiates himself with the other trainees there.
It’s night, the wind howls, and we’re outside looking in. Rain batters a darkened apartment window and, from some distant radio, comes a hurricane warning. Cut to the apartment interior and suddenly a buzzing phone lights up the gloom – and it’s here you’re asked to do a quick bit of set-up before you can
The game’s director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, told me this in an interview recently, smiling and stating simply that: “Yes, it is coming to the disc.” But not all game-discs are made equally. By that I mean that some game discs behave more as glorified passcodes for the game, as a way of proving ownership before you’re
Spiritual successor's sales not enough "to maintain a studio of our current size" despite critical acclaim. The news comes via a statement from ZA/UM, released on the studio’s social media on Friday afternoon, which cited the “commercial performance” of spiritual successor Zero Parades: For Dead Spies as the key reason. Sales, per ZA/UM, were not
Developer Heartblade Interactive’s Forbidden Solitaire is, you see, extremely 90s; immediately recognisable as an artefact of video gaming’s short-lived multimedia boom, where the advent of the CD-ROM brought promises of a future unbound – albeit a future which mostly involved lurid colour palettes, awkward pre-rendered polygons, and juddery lo-res FMV. Forbidden Solitaire has all these
In an update posted to Twitter on Friday, Ziegler announced Friday 17th July was his last day at the studio, and that he was “passing the torch of game director” to Del Chafe III and Julia Nardin, insisting: “both of them have been operating in a strong leadership capacity for the team and are ready
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