CES 2023: the PC gaming highlights

All the PC hardware worth knowing about from this year’s show Then again, there were also some mahoosive monitors and a 3D printing initiative by HyperX that could, if you’re so inclined, replace all the keys on yourgaming keyboardwith miniature ducks.ClassicCES moves. Here’s my picks of the show: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (and RTX 40 laptop GPUs) To the least amount of surprise a human body can produce, Nvidia used CES to launch the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti desktop GPU....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 1051 words · Blake Sellers

Dungeons & Dragons is getting a live-action TV series

Eight episodes on Paramount+ A Dungeons & Dragons TV series has been greenlit by Paramount+. The streaming service have given the project an eight-episode order, with Rawson Marshall Thurber, the writer and director of Netflix’s Red Notice, to write and direct the first episode. Rawson Marshall Thurber’s previous project was Red Notice, a movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and The Rock which looked to me, from trailers, like it had been algorithmically constructed....

January 10, 2023 · 1 min · 203 words · George Ponce

Everything we know about Hades 2

Here’s everything we know so far about Supergiant’s first ever sequel While it’s still early days, we actually have a fair bit of very interesting information on how Hades 2 will diverge from the path of its predecessor. So let’s dive right into everything we know so far about Hades 2, from expected release dates to story details and characters. On this page: Hades 2 expected release date When Hades 2 is released, it’ll be available both on PC and console platforms, with more specific details arriving closer to the release date....

January 10, 2023 · 5 min · 1022 words · David Shields

Everything we know about the Resident Evil 4 remake

Including information on pre-order prices, gameplay and story details, and more But this is the first time that RE4 has been remade from scratch: it’s being redone completely in the RE Engine, developed in-house by Capcom forResident Evil 7and used again inResident Evil: Village, as well as for the remakes of thesecondandthirdin the series. In other words, it’s going to be very pretty and absolutely disgusting in equal measure. Aside from the aesthetics of the thing, though, what else do we know about the Resident Evil 4 remake?...

January 10, 2023 · 4 min · 679 words · Joshua Hill

Ex-Striking Distance devs say they were omitted from The Callisto Protocol's credits

More than 20 staff, some senior, are alleged to have been left out Developers who worked on sci-fi horrorThe Callisto Protocolhave spoken out after not being credited for their work on the game. Five people who used to work for developers Striking Distance spoke to our sister siteGamesIndustry.biz, and said that they didn’t make it onto The Callisto Protocol’s credits. Other sources also told GI.Biz that around 20 staff from several departments were omitted, including senior developers, leads, and directors, some of whom had worked at the studio for more than a year....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 364 words · Elizabeth Clarke

Forza Horizon veterans found new studio focused on open-world "premium” games

Not necessarily racing games, though Several senior figures fromForza Horizondeveloper Playground Games have broken away to develop new open-worlds at their own studio. Maverick Games is based in Leamington Spa, UK, and headed up byForza Horizon 5’s creative director Mike Brown. Brown also fills the role of creative director at Maverick. Harinder Sangha, formerly of Sega Hardlight and Sumo Leamington, will run the studio as chief operations officer. Brown credits the Maverick moniker to a word that kept cropping up during his performance appraisals while working at Playground....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 369 words · Mary Bond

Have You Played... Subnautica?

Here fishy fishy Subnauticasees you play as the lone survivor of a space crew whose ship has crash-landed in the middle of a vast alien ocean. To survive, you’ll need to dip into the sea and use your trusty knife to carve kelp and mine rocks to slowly kit yourself out in gear that’ll help you survive betterer. But most importantly, dip furtherer. The game’s watery expanse is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatestsurvival gamestages....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 232 words · Eric Williams

How Deliver Us Mars hopes to ignite the 2023 space race

KeokeN Interactive tell us they’re “really happy to leave the greyness” of Deliver Us The Moon behind “You have to bear in mind thatDeliver Us The Moonwas our debut into the games industry,” he tells me. “We’d envisioned multiple ways to make this the greatest game of all time, but to some extent you are bound by reality and what you can make within a budget and timeline, so some of these decisions were made out of necessity....

January 10, 2023 · 6 min · 1192 words · Matthew Wagner

MSI Afterburner dev says the overclocking app is "probably dead"

Though MSI want to continue with it The original developer ofgraphics cardoverclocking utility MSI Afterburner has warned that the software is “semi abandoned” and “probably dead”. The dev, Russian national Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nicolaychuk,posted on the Guru3D forums(good spot byTechPowerUp) that due to economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, MSI haven’t paid him for his work on Afterburner in nearly a year. “I tried to continue performing my obligations and worked on the project on my own during the last 11 months, but it resulted in nothing but disappointment”, writes Nicolaychuk....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 354 words · John Walls

Skyrim mod gives NPCs the ability to Fus Ro Dah

Will the real Dragonborn please stand up? As anyone who’s played Bethesda’s fantasy RPG might tell you, it can get lonely being the only Dragonborn inSkyrim. How wonderful, then, that one modder has bestowed upon the denizens of Tamriel’s chillest, chilliest province the ability to use their very own Dragon Shouts. Now any speaking NPC inThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimcan let rip with a big old Fus Ro Dah and fire you straight into the sky, thanks to theEveryone Is The Dragonbornmod....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 288 words · Jesse Scott

Tactical card battler Duelyst is now completely open source

Code and art, royalty-free Counterplay Games announced the move in this video, although the actual repositorywas made available via GitHub a few months ago: The project is made available under a Creative Commons Zero license, which means all the assets are free to use for commercial and private use. You could take Duelyst’s lovely sprite art and use it in your own game, or you could build something entirely new on top of the existinv codebase....

January 10, 2023 · 2 min · 237 words · Eric Frederick

The final part of Telltale's Sam & Max trilogy is getting a remaster

The Freelance Police’s new owners are renovating The Devil’s Playhouse The Devil’s Playhouse was split into five episodes, with one released monthly. Already wacky rabbit Max managed to land himself some nifty psychic powers for The Devil’s Playhouse, so you can expect to be shape-shifting, teleporting, reading minds, and looking into the future to solve a mystery that involves space warlords and eldritch beings. You can still buy the original version of the game onSteamfor £7/$9/€8 if you fancy giving it a go, and don’t want to wait for the remaster....

January 10, 2023 · 1 min · 91 words · Courtney Douglas

We could see more of Redfall, not Starfield, at an Xbox and Bethesda showcase this month

It’s claimed a stream will highlight Arkane’s open-world horror game Sources familiar with plans for the showcase claimed that it’d be called Developer_Direct, and stream on the official Xbox Twitch and YouTube channels. More information about Bethesda’s upcomingStarfield, which was recentlyreconfirmedfor a release in the first half of this year, will allegedly be held back for another event. Along withRedfall, the showcase is also believed to be dishing out some more details on what’s coming up forMinecraft Legends, Forza Motorsport, and something secretive from ZeniMax Online Studios....

January 10, 2023 · 1 min · 87 words · Catherine Hull