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Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game
News "Looking at some of the things going on in the industry, it's very derivative. Art is always that way."
Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: 'It's not a personal fantasy game'
News "Player-centric romance" and chosen ones have been cast aside for more tenuous team dynamics.
In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG
critical hit The realheads know a Brandon-Schaffer collab is where it's at.
Datamined Elden Ring cutscene gives more clues about DLC villain Miquella's original story
news Cryptic as always.
Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 mod adds Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 to Fallout: New Vegas for the PC
news Also Fallout 3.
A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'
news This Picasso hack will never make it as a painter!
A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
news In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?
The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy
news Aughts excellence.
Nightdive's Larry Kuperman retires after 25-year career in games: 'We never looked at games as products'
news "If I have one parting lesson to give to the industry, it's never say die."
Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'
News "How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?"
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' 232 subclasses make it the ultimate RPG for buildcrafting freaks—especially the overpowered Ranger who gets to ride a griffon from level 1
Classy By sickos, for sickos.
'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance
news "Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that perspective."
Everything you need to know about Star Wars Zero Company
zero to hero Bit Reactor's debut is a complicated and exciting beast of a tactics game.
Star Wars Zero Company's lead mission designer is eagerly waiting to watch all your all-astromech challenge runs: 'Granted, it might not be a very easy thing to do'
News D-Squad rides again.
Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger
News Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.
Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath
Tactical Coup This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026's biggest surprise.
New Blood boss Dave Oshry 'quadruples down' on supporting GOG after worrying about its future, committing to sales, demos, one-click mods, plus day-and-date releases alongside Steam
news Oshry had expressed concern about GOG's long-term health in a recent interview.
Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game's most evil ending
news Punished "Venom" Kalé.
These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale
arr pee gee Sicko central.
The sequel to the most underrated RPG of 2022 is launching in early access next month, but you can try its massive updated demo right now
I've been waiting for Moves of the Diamond Hand for a long time.
'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right
news There may not be an RPG with a proper difficulty curve.
Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
news A recent blog post from Valve made it sound like the launch could slip into 2027.
Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'
news Whoah, a Methuselah rookie card!
