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Who made the art inside Control Resonant?
When the developers of Control Resonant needed to fill their video game version of New York City with art galleries, they tapped the talents of people they knew particularly well
In the weird version of Manhattan depicted in the recently r...
7 hours (at last!) with Grand Theft Auto III
A game about freedom that’s still worth your time, if you don’t mind your options for playing it.
A month ahead of the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, I decided to play the breakthrough Grand Theft Auto III.
Peak developer can explain the game’s console price
Peak. Screenshot: Aggro Crab, Landfall
Back in January, I shared a great quote from Nick Kaman, one of the developers of 2025 indie, mountain-climbing multiplayer hit Peak.
Kaman had told me why he and his colleagues had decided to price...
EA closes BioWare, cuts 400 jobs
EA executives today informed employees of some “deliberate choices to align talent and investments where we see the greatest opportunities for players and long-term growth.”
Those choices:
- A 3% workforce reduction, accounting for some...
Ubisoft imagines if Lara Croft were a truck
The Crew + Tomb Raider is the strangest non-AI gaming crossover of the year.
In the Tomb Raider games, the raiding of tombs is executed by Lara Croft, an acrobatic woman who can pull levers with her hands, leap over death traps with her le...
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