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A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption'

By Ted Litchfield Published

disco infernum It was supposed to be the "110% authentic, most hardcore Disco since Disco."

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Robot Enforcer holding is gun up
1998's Unreal was a big deal, but its free editing tool was the true game changer—and the origin of countless careers

By Phil Iwaniuk Published

UNREAL IMPACT The barrier to entry into development was equal to that of playing the game.

UNREAL IMPACT
A screenshot from the State of Unreal address at GDC 2024, showing a character riding a futuristic motorbike across the sand in the upcoming Dune game with a spaceship on fire above
'You name it, we made it faster'—The State of Unreal keynote didn't just show off Unreal Engine 5.4 graphical goodies, but major performance optimisations too

By Andy Edser Published

news Shiny good, but shiny also demanding. Unreal Engine 5.4 aims to make that less so.

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A woman wears a VR headset.
The best game design schools, ranked by the Princeton Review 2024

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BulletFarm promotional image - a rustic workshop with an old TV on a workbench
Call of Duty veteran David Vonderhaar wants to make a 'more intimate and relatable' game, so he named his new studio BulletFarm

By Andy Chalk Published

news Vonderhaar says his new project is "a departure" from what he's worked on in the past, but I'm not so sure.

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Age of Mythology: Retold
Age of Mythology: Retold's developers are going 'way beyond' the definitive editions for Age of Empires: 'We want to build the game in your head'

By Jonathan Bolding Published

news Revamped graphics, changes to unit numbers and mythological powers are set to make Retold a huge update to the 2002 RTS.

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CD Projekt Red
Update your spreadsheets, CDPR is out talking about the genres its mysterious non-Witcher, non-Cyberpunk game isn't going to be

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Once you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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Helldivers posing
PlayStation bosses say they want to work more 'proactively' on PC releases, and it sure sounds like Sony is gearing up for more simultaneous debuts like Helldivers 2

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Sony president Hiroki Totoki says Sony wants to get "aggressive" about improving profits through things like multi-platform releases.

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Lethal Company
Lethal Company dev thinking updates should be 'bigger and less frequent' and 'like I broke into an alien zoo'

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Lethal Company is on sale, and its developer is thinking about aiming for larger updates in the future.

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Discworld rerelease is 'on the cards' according to the original game's director, but is 'a complicated process' because King Charles may own 50% of the IP rights

By Rick Lane Published

News Equal Rites.

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