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Quarantine Zone Miami Zero update
Quarantine Zone is getting a free expansion with a whole new location, and it's time to 'Experiment with drugs'

By Joshua Wolens Published

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Monsters gather around an old-fashioned PC.
Videogame development sim Let's Build a Dungeon launches into early access February 11

By Issy van der Velde Published

News Do you have what it takes to make a good game?

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A zombie rounds a corner in Thief: The Dark project, projecting a shadow across the ground.
This unofficial engine patch for Thief: The Dark Project adds a huge new feature that won't be in Nightdive's upcoming remaster

By Rick Lane Published

News NewDark 1.29 lets Garrett hide in shadows created by doors and guards spot the master' thief's silhouette.

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Harvey Smith
Dishonored's Harvey Smith named his new studio Black Pony Immersive so people would stop asking him to work on other genres: 'Specialising on what you love is not a bad path'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Please don't ask him to work on a third-person shooter.

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Dishonored director Harvey Smith thinks there's still room for big-budget immersive sims: 'When it really comes together and it has the budget behind it and the team, you end up with Deus Ex or Dishonored'

By Fraser Brown Published

News And now he's going to have to duke it out with Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen.

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Thief Deadly Shadows concept art
Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen refused to work for Xbox because it would be like 'walking past some stakes with human skulls on them' and pretending 'it's probably fine in this direction'

By Jeremy Peel Published

No green light The immersive sim will find a way outside of AAA.

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Thief designer thinks the graphics arms race should have ended with 2010's Alan Wake: 'The fidelity curve has become outrageous'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "Why do we need more graphics? Because they just cost a ton."

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How to Fish screenshots
I never thought a fishing sim could be this fun, but How to Fish proves me wrong with its ridiculous physics, killer spider crabs, and classic co-op chaos

By Elie Gould Published

Carp-e diem I now know How to Fish, kinda.

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Key art for Dwarf Fortress showing a trio of dwarves exploring a cave system; Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams.
Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams was amazed other devs had heard of his game the first time he went to a convention: 'I didn't know that anyone knew what we were doing'

By Justin Wagner Published

News "I try to have good moral qualities, but I am apparently subject to all forms of flattery and vanity and such."

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Zach Adams (L) and his brother Tarn Adams, cofounders of Bay 12 Games and cocreators of the single-player simulation game "Dwarf Fortress," pose for a photo at their home office in Poulsbo, Washington, west of Seattle, on December 9, 2022. - A cult favorite among indie game fans, "Dwarf Fortress" has been available for purchase on the Steam online store since December 6, a first for this title that has been distributed for free since its debut in 2006. The real-time management game, set in a medieval-fantasy world and involving overseeing a group of dwarves seeking to build a mighty fortress, has climbed to the fourth best-selling weekly title on Steam. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)
Dwarf Fortress co-creator says his life as a millionaire is 'basically like reattaining what my parents could do with regular jobs'

By Andy Chalk Published

news Tarn Adams lives in a house now. I bet that's nice.

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