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The Outer Worlds 2 has over 90 perks, but you can't respec your character because your "choices are permanent" and the RPG's director wants to make sure "you're building your character and really doubling down"
By Scott McCrae published
News "There's a lot of times where you'll see games where they allow infinite respec, and at that point I'm not really role-playing a character"

Dying Light: The Beast director says he's "a little bit surprised" that more studios haven't followed Techland's "go anywhere" approach to open-world game design
By Ali Jones published
News Techland has pioneered some ideas that few studios have tried to replicate

GamesRadar+ Summer Preview: The biggest games of Summer Game Fest 2025
By Josh West published
The GR+ Summer Preview for 2025 is your portal into the biggest video games shown off this summer

Veteran Sonic producer says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds team completely removed items from the game if they were too "stressful" or let players "win all the time"
By Ali Jones published
Maybe Nintendo could learn a lesson or two

The Witcher 4 dev says "it's very clear" that Ciri is the right choice of protagonist, but that players shouldn't "make opinions" until the game is out
By Ali Jones published
News "This is how it's gonna be, and you will see in the game how it will play out"

Borderlands 4 isn't a "cynical" sequel that's only being made "to meet the market," but because Gearbox wants to improve movement like it improved Borderlands 3's gunplay
By Ali Jones published
News "We want to make it feel like we're breaking fresh ground again"

"Our fans would kill us": Dying Light: The Beast director outlines Techland's "areas of perfection" that "we cannot mess up to any extent"
By Ali Jones published
News Dying Light devs know what to focus on

Hideo Kojima's cult vampire RPG Boktai only exists because Konami made a UV teddy bear that completely flopped
By Ali Jones published
News Konami's loss was vampire hunters' gain
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