Latest articles by Rory Norris
Arc Raiders once had jump pads and the Snap Hook made you 'like Spider-Man' before its extraction shooter pivot: 'It was much more heroic'
News Jump pads and unrestrained Snap Hooks didn't stick the landing, but I can't say I don't want to see them return.
Arc Raiders' devs didn't expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd
News "It's quite challenging because we have these two, quite polar [types of] fans."
Arc Raiders' old machine designs sound so diabolical, it's no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: 'At that time, they didn't fit with the game very well'
News "There's still interesting gameplay to have with them," so never say never.
Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes
TWIB Everything going on in Kairos this week.
Where is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?
Black Market Maurice's Black Market moves each week.
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.
Diablo 4 boss loot tables for Season 12: Season of Slaughter
Looking for loot Your one-stop shop of who drops what.
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.
