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ELEX Development Diary

Piranha Bytes has released a new documentary/development diary on ELEX that includes 20 minutes of interviews with the developers at the German studio. If you were hoping for gameplay footage you will be disappointed, but as long as you know…

Fable II Retrospective

Kotaku UK has republished a recent EDGE retrospective that focuses on Fable II, the sequel to Lionhead’s first RPG and arguably their most famous and well-received title. The writer at EDGE doesn’t disagree, going as far as calling it “Lionhead’s…

CD Projekt RED Kraków Studio Expansion Q&A

To better prepare for Cyberpunk 2077 and likely other as-of-yet unannounced titles staffing-wise, CD Projekt RED plans to significantly expand their studio in Kraków (along with some expansion in Warsaw, too), and that means they have a lot of hiring…

The Rising Maturity of Video Games

Using Mass Effect and The Witcher series as two particular examples, the editors at OnlySP have editorialized about “the rising maturity of video games” and why that’s ultimately a good thing for all of us if the creators handle the…

Call of Cthulhu Screenshots

Focus Home and Cyanide sent us over two new screenshots depicting the Darkwater Island area from Call of Cthulhu, their upcoming RPG/investigation title based on Chaosium’s tabletop RPG of the same name. Here’s the blurb accompanying the new images: In…

Dishonored 2 Empress Emily Kaldwin Profile and Power Details

GameInformer is offering up both a profile of Empress Emily Kaldwin, who you might recall is returning to Arkane’s Dishonored 2 as a playable protagonist, and a breakdown of her available powers (in the previous article we reported about). A quick summarization…

XCOM 2: Alien Hunters DLC Released

2K Games and Firaxis have made good on their promise to launch XCOM 2: Alien Hunters this week, their second set of DLC for the turn-based strategy/RPG sequel. This one “transforms the soldiers of XCOM into an elite alien hunting…