Valve making games again

Moore's career in video games began at Sega, where he worked to launch the Dreamcast in North America. He later joined Microsoft to work on the Xbox, displaying tattoos of Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto 4 during E3 announcements. The video below shows the Halo 2 E3 2004 demo during which Moore showed off his Halo 2 release date tattoo. … [Read more...] about Ex-EA exec Peter Moore returns to gaming at Unity

It's a lot to keep track of and, as the Niko Partners report suggests, is due to "increasing competition in the games space from large tech firms such as Bytedance and Alibaba, as well as medium sized companies such as Lilith and MiHoYo [the makers of Genshin Impact] that have succeeded in spaces where Tencent has seldom invested in." … [Read more...] about These are the 31 gaming companies Tencent invested in last year

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The thing that I'm really enjoying at the moment, though, isn't quite the loot and isn't quite the dog-fighting, but something that involves both. Listen: Everspace 2 has really great caves. Those space hulks are caves of a sort, man-made mazes of busted metal and sparking control panels for you to puzzle your route through on your way to a big pay-off. But go down to the surface of a planet - and you can in Everspace 2, even if it isn't a continuous movement - and you might pick up a mission that sends you down into a mine. The chasm beckons and in you go, in I go, ducking mining equipment and threading my way around jutting crystals, all while the baddies flock and the detonator drones do their escalating Peggle pings. … [Read more...] about Everspace 2 – lovely shooting, lovely looting, and the caves are brilliant too

Though Atomic Heart is due to release on last-gen consoles as well as PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, Mundfish is really selling the whole next-gen (current-gen) thing. "Our game will have no loading screens due to [the] fast SSD," Mundfish told IGN in August. "Next-gen hardware also provides an exclusive opportunity to fulfill our artistic vision and deliver our game with stunning visuals with no downgrading, which was absolutely essential for current gen." … [Read more...] about Atomic Heart gets raytraced gameplay trailer