Every longtime World of Warcraft player remembers the day the Dark Portal opened. In the hours leading up to the launch of The Burning Crusade expansion in 2007, thousands of Horde and Alliance characters descended upon the Blasted Lands to await their journey into the gates of Outland. The crowds …
Read More »“The outrage was ridiculous”: How Raven Software made one of the most controversial shooters of its time with Soldier of Fortune
The pitch for Soldier Of Fortune was bizarre. If you were told you were going to be making a game based on a licence, you might expect a superhero like Batman, or a well-known movie franchise like Terminator. Instead, Raven Software got a magazine. As if that wasn’t unusual enough, …
Read More »Army of the Dead: Inside Zack Snyder’s first post-Justice League project
If Zack Snyder’s Justice League was a belated button on the so-called SnyderVerse, the director’s next project – zombie heist Army of the Dead – feels like the first confident steps of a fledgling franchise. Army of the Dead sees Dave Bautista’s Scott Ward assemble a motley crew of mechanics, …
Read More »Inside the DC Comics celebration of Asian superheroes and Asian creators with editor Jessica Chen
DC Comics celebrates their Asian heroes and comic creators this week in DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration (opens in new tab). The 100-page anthology has an all-star line-up of creators that include Mariko Tamaki, Greg Pak, Gene Luen Yang, Dustin Nguyen, Amy Chu, Francis Manapul, and more, …
Read More »“It has been a lifeline”: How games have helped school children stay connected over lockdown
COVID-19 has dismantled the very concept of the third place; the social environments which offer crucial spaces of connection and respite between our home lives and our work lives. With the pandemic squishing those latter two spheres into one, while ruling out the prospects of even attending most of our …
Read More »High-concept sci-fi connections with real human stories in Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word
Return to Night City in Dark Horse Comics’ new tie-in comic book series Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word. Debuting April 28, Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #1 (opens in new tab) follows three individuals in three separate storyline that takes them from the gleaming spires of corporations down …
Read More »Why Nier: Replicant had to be made, and why its “so much more than a simple version up”
More than ten years after its original release, cult classic JRPG Nier Replicant is being rebuilt for modern hardware. Debuting on PS3, Nier originally followed a father’s quest to cure his ailing young daughter Yonah. Now Nier returns reimagined as a previously Japan-exclusive teen protagonist and his journey to heal …
Read More »Meet Mike Mignolas new revenant hero Cojacaru the Skinner with co-creator Christopher Golden
Mike Mignola is expanding his creator-owned empire, with not just a new group of heroes but a whole new universe separate from his long-running Hellboy family of titles affectionately known as the Mignolaverse. What’s coming now is the Outerverse. Built out of his and long-time collaborator Christopher Golden’s prose novels …
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy go from misfits to bonafide superheroes – the inside story with Al Ewing
A new era for Marvel Comics’ flagship cosmic team began in this week’s Guardians of the Galaxy #13 (opens in new tab). The space-faring family of misfits is being corralled into something more legitimate – and becoming actual superheroes! – as part of Marvel Comics’ ‘New Age of Space’. (Image …
Read More »Open Roads takes Gone Homes developer on a star-studded road trip
No one at Fullbright knew what 2021 would look like when it brought its third game to Annapurna Interactive in 2018. Even so, it’s hard to deny the allure of the open road is particularly keen now that long-distance travel is off the table. The studio’s goal back then, though, …
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