Latest articles by Rory Norris
How to read the Lost Letter in Crimson Desert
Lost Again What to do with the stranger's mysterious letter.
How to get Azurite in Crimson Desert
Shiny Crystal Use these shiny crystals to craft and refine your jewellery.
How to 'observe this skill in action to learn it' in Crimson Desert
Eyes on the prize Get some free skills just by watching enemies.
Marathon's competitive mode is so complicated that Bungie made a literal maths test to figure it out, and it actually helps
Get your practice in now.
All Crimson Desert Twitch Drops and how to get them
Fresh Fit Free food, equipment, and even horse armour.
Marathon Ranked explained: Rules, scoring, and rewards
Rat Race Loot and extract alive to make it big on Tau Ceti.
Arc Raiders devs wanted to make it an adventure game more than a shooter: 'We saw more potential in allowing players to explore rather than just shoot'
News It's about the friends (or enemies) you made along the way.
Arc Raiders' new update puts the Il Toro in its place (a grave) at long last: 'This is an adjustment many of you requested'
News The cheeky Energy Clip money-making exploit has also been patched up.
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.
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.
