Latest articles by Rory Norris
The first thing Arc Raiders' devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: 'All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise'
News It was a speedrunner's dream, but it didn't work.
Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
News "Should we even have done this reset?"
No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game
News "A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."
'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'
News What came first? The dispatching minigame or the Z-Team?
Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'
News "We could kind of squint and start to see Dispatch for the first time."
Solasta 2 launch times and release date
Early Access Give Act 1 a test run with six classes, 13 subclasses, and heaps of combinations.
Marathon's latest update fixes just about everything you had on your wishlist (no, seriously)
News That's quite a patch.
Overwatch's mid-season update has given Mizuki a jawline buff before Anran's redesign (alongside actually important changes)
News Sorry, Anran.
Marathon's Outpost is an extraction map masterclass that has me even more excited for Cryo Archive
Set the Stage A PvP puzzle box that puts Bungie's best-in-class shooting and level design at the forefront.
Where to find the terminals and tagged containers to complete Protect/Destroy 4 in Marathon
Sprint Processing, Airfield, and then off to Flight Control.
Arc Raiders is handing out loadout refunds for last week's server issues: 'This outage impacted a large number of players, so we are making an exception'
News There are two new haircuts, too.
As the Marathon player count discourse reaches peak stupidity, Warframe and Overwatch devs speak up in solidarity: 'This is big unemployed, maidenless behavior'
News 'I tend to just laugh about SteamDB being used as a mic drop'.
Bungie has learned its lesson about vaulting content in Destiny 2 and won't be so cruel with Marathon: 'It doesn't matter when you join'
News One for you loreheads.
Oh no: You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon, and it's just as hellish as it sounds
News Eyes to the sky, runner.
Marathon DCON locations and how to use them
Offworld Launch quest items off Tau Ceti safely.
Players have rallied together to solve the first stage of Marathon's elaborate Cryo Archive ARG puzzle, and it's revealed some creepy footage of the next map
News Guns down, thinking caps on.
A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'
News Coming soon to ranked matches near you.
Marathon's aura-farming NPCs show just how bland and lifeless Arc Raiders' AI-voiced characters really are
Takedown Style and substance.
'The whole map was friendly, and we all extracted together': Peaceful lobbies exist in Marathon after all, though I don't feel safe putting it to the test
News Make love, not war.
How to tag marked locations to complete Protect/Destroy in Marathon
Budding Artist Install the UV Protocol, then tag marked locations with MIDA's symbol.
How to complete Order/Chaos in Marathon
Encrypted Trigger the alarms, nab the credentials, and tap into the terminal.
Best Marathon faction upgrades to unlock first
Upgrades, People And upgrade Rook, you won't regret it.
