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The word “gameplay” comes up an awful lot in the daily conversations taking place across the corridors, offices, and meeting rooms of Techland’s HQ in Wroclaw, Poland. That might sound like a blatant observation to make about a game development studio, but it is perhaps the chief explanation for why, …

One day, we will look back upon the last decade and come to realise that the greatest trick developers pulled this generation was in convincing players that they had any agency over the virtual worlds that they inhabit.  Our fascination with even the most rudimentary inclusion of choice and consequence …

Netflix is well-known for gathering talented people together, giving them loads of money, and letting them create whatever the hell they want. And as if we need any more proof that this is an entertainment model that works, I give you: Love, Death and Robots. From the directors of Gone …

You don’t know it yet, and neither do they, but one day someone will stand on an E3 stage to present a game that you can’t wait to play, and they’ll be there because of Media Molecule’s Dreams. People will get development jobs from it, and games made in the …

This week we found out the new Pokemon Switch (opens in new tab) games are called Sword and Shield, and the internet immediately fell in love with the new starters, especially walking sadpole Sobble (opens in new tab). Incapable of feeling any good or wholesome emotions, that immediately got the …

The Oscars is one of the biggest events of the year for film fans, but how much do you really know about the Academy Awards? Do you know when the awards first began? Where the design for the award came from? How the voting process works? Or even how you …

In Far Cry New Dawn (opens in new tab) you’ll be running, hiking, flying, falling, driving, and biking around the post-apocalyptic Hope County, and for most of that you’ll have some other poor sod trailing behind you in the form of a Gun (or Fang) for Hire. When you cut …

BBC America just debuted the first trailer for Killing Eve season 2, teasing new locations, a mystery character and an intriguing, evolving, dynamic between MI5 security official Eve Polastri and assassin Villanelle. Season 1 of the BBC’s blackly comic crime drama, scripted by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, scooped multiple critical awards …

While the upcoming Anthem (opens in new tab) game may look like an entirely new type of experience from BioWare, it does share something in common with the titles that have come before it baring the studio’s name. Much like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass …

With Bioware’s Anthem (opens in new tab) game finally out of the Anthem demo (opens in new tab) period, you probably already know that there are four Javelins to play as, there are various things to shoot, and you can fly. Duh. So far, so obvious. But hidden on the …