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Ghostrunner devs abandon parkour for Valor Mortis, a first-person soulslike that might explain why the rest of the genre follows Dark Souls' lead
Hands-on Gamescom 2025 | One More Level treads brand new ground
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is set in "a much more immersive city than we were ever able to do before" thanks to the tech built for The Skywalker Saga
News "We have new opportunities because of new technology"
Beyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry
Hands-on Gamescom | This city-builder doubles as an intergalactic shipping simulator, and it was easily one of my Gamescom highlights
The stealthy spirit of Arkham Knight returns in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and I never believed a Lego game could pull this off
Hands-on Hands-on | Gotham's goons never saw me coming
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's combat was inspired by the Arkham series: "We also wanted to bring our own Lego approach to that foundation"
News "When we think about embodying Batman as a video game character today, of course we're inspired"
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is filling the Mario Kart-shaped hole in my life that World isn't, and I'm as shocked by that as anyone
News I never saw it coming
Left 4 Dead has held the horde shooter crown for 17 years, but John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the best challenger yet
Preview Gamescom 2025 | 17 years later, could a new zombie shooter claim the crown?
Dune: Awakening dev says "when we do bring stuff like sandworm riding into the game, it'll feel like an epic moment like in the movies," but you can't "trivialize the sandworm" because that breaks Dune
news You shall respect The Maker
Dune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"
News Production director Ole Andreas Hayley would love to visit the Atreides home planet, Caladan
The Blood of Dawnwalker "isn’t that big" because its small team with Witcher 3 vets would rather prioritize "layers" and "didn't want to make an open world for, like, 400 hours"
News The RPG will take around 40 hours to complete on a normal playthrough
Dune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive”
News Survival enthusiasts, MMO socialites, PvE hermits, and PvP menaces must all coexist
"For five months there was one programmer fixing bugs": Valheim devs were not prepared for their Viking survival game's explosive success
News Got to make it playable before you can add more
This open-world game where you're a 13th-century Mongolian horse courier immediately proved more hardcore than anything Death Stranding 2 could offer
Preview Preview | Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori is the hardest open-world game you'll play this year
The new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 devs is slowly revealing its vampire powers, and it's starting to sound like the medieval Dishonored I didn't know I wanted until now
News Calamity Brencis
Former Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG lets you go straight to the final boss just like in Breath of the Wild, but it's "extremely difficult"
News Calamity Brencis
Phantom Blade Zero director crafts enormous boots for himself, suggesting his action RPG is a blend of Dark Souls, The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3
News That's quite the pedigree
