February 14, 2024
Lenovo’s Legion Go is a chunky, decadent system
It has among the beefiest screens in the burgeoning handheld PC gaming market, arguably the fastest chipset, and enough extra…
Category: Video Games
December 4, 2023
33 Immortals’ creative director discusses Heaven, Hell, and roguelikes
A 14th century Italian poem underlies an ambitious attempt to transform a popular video game genre into something completely unique.…
November 10, 2023
Handheld PC Gaming is having its moment (for early adopters)
I’m a sucker for handhelds. But even if I weren’t endlessly researching the history of handheld gaming, even if I…
October 18, 2023
Inside Croteam’s transition from in-house tech to UE5 for The Talos Principle 2
Croatian developers Croteam have been creating over-the-top Serious Sam first-person shooters for more than two decades and they’ve been building them on their in-house…
September 7, 2023
Fort Solis uses Unreal Engine 5.2 to deliver an immersive martian experience
Fort Solis tells the story of one night in a desolate Martian mining camp. Initially tasked with discovering what happened at…
September 6, 2023
Stray Gods is a musical murder mystery RPG from a Bioware veteran
Stray Gods was born out of deep knowledge of how role-playing games work, and a desire to build a dream studio…
August 30, 2023
Two high school friends used Unreal Engine 5.1 to create atmospheric retro shooter Kvark
Retro shooters seem to be making a comeback as of late, but even amid the influx of pixelated graphics and…
August 23, 2023
The Plucky Squire blends 2D and 3D visuals in aesthetically pleasing and mechanically interesting ways
After spending time working on original Nintendo games for different developers, Jonathan Biddle and James Turner decided it was time…
August 2, 2023
Unreal Engine powers stylish stellar mystery The Invincible
Trauma-inducing survival horror game Alien: Isolation and charming narrative adventure game Firewatch hardly seem like they could both be inspirations for the same new…
July 25, 2023
Born of Bread is a Paper Mario-inspired RPG made entirely with Blueprints
Inspired by Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Born of Bread aims to be a quirky role-playing game that evolves Intelligent Systems’ successful paper…