In May 2020, it was confirmed that Otherside Entertainment was no longer working on System Shock 3 and had been taken over by Chinese conglomerate Tencent. Speculation that the studio remained involved to some degree continued, however, and the fact that there is still a System Shock Page 3 on the Otherside website and its […]
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Five New Steam Games You Probably Missed (March 14, 2022)
Horror FPS Splatterpunk Golden Light Leaves Early Access
How to describe Golden Light? It’s roguelike first-person shooter James Davenport memorably summed up as “a prop hunt in an endlessly sprawling office building meat maze.” More recently, in his celebration of ugly games, Nat Clayton called it “disturbing meatcore.” Golden Light is a game where you descend through levels of a meaty construct called […]
In this mind-bending MMO, everyone’s a baby and nothing is what it seems
All Elden Ring demigods have names taken from the initials of George RR Martin
When I first realized this, I said out loud, “George, you huge jerk.” All of the main gods and demigods in Elden Ring have names that begin with one of George RR Martin’s initials. How’s that for the big four? Godfrey, Rennala, Radagon, Marika. GRRM. This news, if you haven’t guessed it, will contain minor […]
Elden Ring speedruns are already at the 30 minute mark
Update: Distortion2 has now beaten the game in 30:24, here on Sunday, March 13 at around 8:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. PT. Distortion has set its next target at 28:06 or better, and is streaming attempts live on Twitch. Original story: Elden Ring speedruns started at times like two and a half hours, then […]
The next Warframe is Gyre, a ballerina full of electricity
With Warframe’s Angels of the Zariman expansion coming in April 2022, we finally get a first look at what’s to come. The sequel to the rather well-regarded expansion The New War, Angels of the Zariman will also bring a new setting, as is customary for such things in Digital Extremes’ free-to-play sci-fi action game world. […]
Former Division studio head leaves Ubisoft for good
David Polfeldt had previously resigned from his role as studio head of Ubisoft Massive, based in Malmö, Sweden, with the intention of returning to Ubisoft in a “strategic role” after a sabbatical. Polfeldt instead appears to have changed plans and left the company entirely according to a recent interview with Nathan Brown for his Health […]
Perfect Dark reboot director leaves the studio
User Klobrille on the ResetEra forums noticed a curious change related to the development of the Perfect Dark reboot announced in 2020: the director of the game, Dan Neuburger, seems to have left the project. Neuburger’s LinkedIn shows him as having left Perfect Dark developer The Initiative last month. The Perfect Dark reboot is being […]