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Year in reviewThe Hundred Line's "Spiderverse"-inspired 100 endings might continue to grow, the Danganronpa creator tells me: "You'll end up with quite a Frankenstein's monster of a game in the end – but I absolutely have the ambition to make that"
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InterviewThe turn-based RPG secret sauce is that "you have time to engage on your own terms", Octopath Traveler 0's director tells me, which makes them perfect for "a wider age range"
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InterviewOctopath Traveler 0's devs see it as "new game" despite its mobile origins: "We wanted to go back to the beginning – to start from zero"
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Hands-onAfter just 4 hours, I'm impressed by Nioh 3's snappy action and samurai-to-ninja combo transformations: "We want the player to have a rich experience of mastery"
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Interview"There's level design, and then there's Hitman level design": IO Interactive leads reflect on 25 years with Agent 47, and the "ramifications" of the World of Assassination
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Why EA is razing Battlefield to its foundations in order to build something explosively new with Battlefield 6: "[I] felt an obligation to create one of the best Battlefields the world has ever seen"
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FeatureMTG Spider-Man designers aren't worried about diluting the brand, because "the beauty of Magic is play with what you enjoy, do what you want"
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FeatureSilent Hill f's combat is about feeling on edge: "You need to know how close your candle is to going out to really have it feel tense"
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InterviewSilent Hill f's writer views the series as a "pie crust" that hides "its true colors beneath a layer of horror and fog," and I say let him cook
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Interview"The very idea of making a prequel to Silent Hill wasn't good," says Origins and Shattered Memories designer: "That game told its story brilliantly through flashbacks, and there weren't really any unanswered questions"
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InterviewFatal Frame's iconic camera exists to force players to "look straight at something scary" says series creator: "We thought it would really bring out the scariness of the ghosts"
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Feature"A hell of a feeling:" Doom: The Dark Ages Arena board game is like "heavy metal chess" and dammit I'm so in
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FeatureI've played board games like Frosthaven for decades, but the digital version convinced me that it's a better introduction to the epic RPG
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FeatureLegendary board game designer says his upcoming Lord of the Rings project is "definitely the most thematically and mechanically rich game I’ve worked on"
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Interview"My first line was 'Snake Vs Monkey'", says Metal Gear Solid 3's David Hayter: "I could only ask, 'Why am I saying this?'"
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Interview"I understand why players feel that strong French identity in the soundtrack," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's composer, especially in that one Mime song: "It felt like both a duty and a guilty pleasure to include the accordion"
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Hands-onTony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's new levels impress me as much as the rebuilt classics: "This needs to feel like we found this on a hard drive for THPS4 and we revitalized it"
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Feature20 Years of the Nintendo DS: "If someone had told you in 2004 that Nintendo was about to abandon the Game Boy, would you have believed them?"
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FeatureVampire Survivors kicked off a game development gold rush, but has a legitimately new genre emerged between the cash-ins?
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InterviewIndiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was almost "based on an unproduced Indy script," says project lead: "But after reading it, I decided it was unproduced for a reason"
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