Yes I know we’re a pop culture website but we’re also motivated by food over here. Most of it disastrously unhealthy and currently burning a path through our organs like weaponised thermite but I digress. If there’s one staple snack in the arsenal of any couch potato, it’s a packet of crispy chips. We all have our preference, whether it’s …
Things were looking rosy for OtherSide Entertainment back in 2017, as Starbreeze Studio sold the publishing rights back to the System Shock 3 developer after they’d experienced some catastrophic business bad luck with Overkill’s The Walking Dead. Back in their control, Otherside’s team of top tier talent were confident that they’d be able to grab a new publishing and funding …
Which shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given that most have you only just remembered it was a thing after reading that headline.
Campo Santo’s follow-up to the incredible Firewatch has been placed on hold following the team’s reassignment to Half Life: Alyx.
A game that aimed to support up to 1000 players at any given time and still find room to throw 400 maniacs together into a battle royale mode? Ambitious to say the least, but the early results looked promising and the technology behind Mavericks seemed more than capable of delivering on that promise. Unfortunately, there’s no winner winner chicken dinner on the finish line for the project, as Mavericks has been all but cancelled.
A StarCraft first-person shooter that was in development over the two years and was shaping up nicely according to insiders. Developed under the codename of Ares, this project was described as “like Battlefield in the StarCraft universe” before it was cancelled.
Looks like Starbreeze’s work in the universe of The Walking Dead has now truly kicked the bucket, as franchise rights owners Skybound Games have decided to flex their muscle and terminate the contract between the two thanks to Overkill’s The Walking Dead game being an absolute disaster.
Guess who’s about to say hi to Star Wars 1313 in video game purgatory? According to sources familiar with the development on an ambitious Star Wars sandbox, EA’s stab at the franchise and a galaxy far, far away is pretty much dead.
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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