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GQ’s list of 100 video games included newcomers like Disco Elysium and OGs like Resident Evil 4

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom expands on the physics-based puzzles and combat of Breath of the Wild, calling back to PC-game developer Looking Glass Studios.

In the spirit of #gamedev and inspired by the classic UO postmortem video by Raph Koster, et al, I thought it’d be fun to share a few stories from the middle years of Ultima Online between my time at…

As the 20th anniversary of Arx Fatalis nears, it is Arkane Studios' more ambitious, flawed game that begat better immersive sims.

GOG.com said on Thursday, June 24, that Ultima Underworld 1+2, Syndicate Plus, and Syndicate Wars would be delisted on Monday, June 28 at 9 a.m. EDT. The games, all published from 1993 to 1996 by Origin Systems and Electronic Arts, are currently for sale on GOG.com for $1.49 each. All the games except for Syndicate Wars are available on EA’s Origin storefront.

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...