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Big Walk simulates the strange, childlike sensation of being unexpectedly separated from your friends, and the joy and relief of finding your way back
They'll be here in a minute, I'm sure
Jeremy Peel
Contributor
Freelance writer with a weakness for spaniels and the music of Charli XCX.
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Even after 200 hours, Marathon's greatest secret is still deciphering the rhythms of rival players
Every match is different, but the patterns that govern Bungie’s playerbase hold true
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The Outer Worlds and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag share an unlikely lesson: we make our own pirates
Sympathy for the seadogs
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Marathon isn't deathmatch gone wide, it's multiplayer Alien: Isolation and every other player is a xenomorph
Here is a place where single-player stealth fans can test their mettle - so long as they avoid the clang of metal floors
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“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companion
The origins of Fallout 4’s indefatigable gumshoe can be traced back to 1970s Boston
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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"
“Trying to get the stealth better, that was only part of it.”
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Warren Spector and Thief's game director are making a multiplayer immersive sim called Thick As Thieves
Inside the Looking Glass-style extraction stealth game coming to PC in 2026.
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How Sonar Shock became the boldest immersive sim of the year: "I don't think a big game developer would have done it this way"
A perverse love for the control schemes of old became Sonar Shock’s USP
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How Charles Cecil survived crowdfunding: “I was nervous our fans were going to turn against us”
Despite missteps and the pitiful profits of the late 90s, Revolution Software keeps on turning
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Whatever the Fallout TV show does with New Vegas lore, Josh Sawyer doesn’t care: “It was never mine”
The Obsidian design director on Pillars of Eternity II burnout and living with dead projects
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Prince Of Persia's creator has seen the series "struggle to find its identity" at Ubisoft, but thinks they've finally found an elegant solution
Jordan Mechner on the sands of time, and making games based in history
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Geneforge 2 - Infestation review: bold and great like Baldur's Gate
Laptop-friendly roleplaying for the post-Larian age
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Avernum and Geneforge creator Jeff Vogel says "sustainability is tricky" - even when you're a bottom feeder
As he plots his final decade or so of garage RPG development, Vogel is remastering past work
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Tim Cain has taken his Fallout and The Outer Worlds dev stories to YouTube - and he's having a great time
The semi-retired Cain tells us that “there is so much about being a game director that is not fun”
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Doom At 30: John Romero remembers his seminal FPS so that we don't remember it wrong
The original id Software designer talks Carmack, cacodemons, and his Native American influence
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How Slay The Spire saved digital card games from stagnation
"The constraints of the game force you to explore and be creative, and that's good."
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If Anthem is the "anti-BioWare game", then James Ohlen is correcting the balance
The hugely influential design director talks Baldur’s Gate, his next RPG, and the abandonment of the BioWare model.
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"I'm the least romantic guy": Dragon Age's David Gaider on romanceable companions and his cancelled Planescape sequel
"Would fans of Planescape: Torment want their baby to be touched by the guy who did the romance stuff?"
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How the co-creator of Skins became the lead writer on an upcoming AAA open world game
Jamie Brittain has switched tracks to embrace videogames at Maverick Games
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How Baldur's Gate 3 morphed Larian Studios into wild new shapes
"If that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes"
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Baldur's Gate 3 is about choices, but when the Dark Urge takes over you can only react
Our final impressions ahead of its full 1.0 release
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Fallout 76's lead artist is building a creepy single-player open world in The Axis Unseen
“Skyrim was awful to play for the longest time.”
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How System Shock 2 made Stephen Kick and Nightdive Studios
“Hey, I’ve got this far. Let’s see how far I can take it.”
