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Friday, July 09, 2021 The headline act of the latest State of Play presentation from Sony was a nine minute gameplay video from Arkane Studio’s The video begins in a not-so-positive way, showing just some of the ways Colt can be killed and sent back to the starting point on Blackreef Island to begin his quest all over again—Deathloop’s titular “death loop.” Once you’ve gotten the idea, Arkane then demonstrates how Colt can take on one of the game’s eight visionaries, Aleksis “T...

(Image credit: Techland) Speaking with the development team about Dying Light 2s crafting system, world building, audio, and game design, and more, Techland has confirmed the sequels PS5 prowess, and its exciting. "Dying Light 2 on next-generation consoles allows the player to adjust the game to their preferences,” says rendering director Tomek Szałkowski, in the new issue of PLAY Magazine, explaining: “The game has a new mode of enhanced quality to offer, using ray tracing, increasing lig...

Having recently attended a hands-off gameplay preview demonstration and roundtable Q&A of Arkane Studios’ upcoming FPS / immersive sim Deathloop, what struck me most was how violent it seems. Anyone who has seen the game in action can see how Arkane Studios is drawing from its experience with Wolfenstein: Youngblood to provide a faster, more shooter-centered adventure than Prey or Dishonored, but it still caught me unawares. It comes down to the animations. Colt’s melee kills are viscer...

Arkane Studios’ time-looping shooter Deathloop is coming to PlayStation 5 and Windows PC in September. The Groundhog Day and Dishonored-inspired FPS sees Colt trying to break a time loop, all while executing the perfect kill puzzle.

Take mechanics from the Pac-Man Championship Edition games, add a competitive slant, and this is what you get. Itll be free to all Switch Online owners, and you can download it… *checks notes* wait, right now?! Dang, Nintendo was aiming to fill that Mario 35-shaped void fast! Ive downloaded this, but I havent had the time to try it out yet – I had a few streamers on in the background the other night playing, and they seemed interested in the game… though it seems like it has a few cove...

Immersive Sims Are Less Niche Than They Appear With excitement building for Arkane Studios’ upcoming immersive sim Deathloop, I’ve been thinking about the sentiment that immersive sims are a niche “gamer’s game” genre. I’ve seen it echoed a lot over the years: It was mentioned in comments on a Deus Ex article I wrote last year, for example, and even Arkane itself admitted (with a justified degree of pride) that it makes “weird stuff” in a Noclip documentary about the studio. B...

Digit NewsDesk  | Published on 09 Mar 2021 One of the biggest acquisitions of last year was Microsoft outright buying up Zenimax media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks. This meant that studios like Arkane and iD would be included in the purchase as well. Microsoft basically bought Zenimax Media for a whopping $7.5 billion, which is essentially the largest acquisition of its kind in the gaming industry. So what does it all really mean? Well, we’re here to try and sort a few things out...

Last weeks State of Play showcase had some good announcements, but was missing some excitement.

Arkane Studios' Dinga Bakaba has said that Deathloop campaign is "pretty chunky" and features a lot of investigation.

Sony revealed a bunch of games at its State of Play presentation. These include games like Oddworld: Soulstorm, Sifu, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Deathloop. Heres everything that you may have missed at Sonys State of Play 2021.