Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima took a momentary break from posting photos of Fragile actress Léa Seydoux on Twitter to instead post a photo of himself looking impossibly locked in while working on Death Stranding 2. “Building the game,” Kojima said on Twitter over a set of photos showing him staring at a blank desktop screen with an inscrutable look on his face and a mysterious pair of black sunglasses. He’s holding an Astro Bot PS5 controller sports betting– a gift, I think, based on the holiday card lying on the desk in front of him – up near his chin, hunching a little like a turtle. He rests his hands on the edges of the W-shaped controller, as if he’s an intelligent alien who beamed down to earth just to check out the PS5 Pro, but is too shy to do it in front of you. That’s where the sunglasses come in.In one of Kojima’s photos, there’s also a stack of unopened Lego sets and a giant, traffic cone yellow Lego bag looking slightly crinkled and neglected.”I see Kojima is a Lego fan, too!” one fan replies encouragingly. But Kojima is too focused on the purity of his male living space for…
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Valve has revealed Steam’s most-played and best-selling games of the year, and when you narrow it down to new releases of 2024, Marvel Rivals is one of them despite just launching earlier this month.Steam’s ‘Best of 2024’ page breaks down the platform’s “top games measured by gross revenue,” and the winners aren’t entirely surprising. In the top-tier ‘Platinum’ group we have Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 at number one, followed by Counter Strike 2, Dota 2, Palworld, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Helldivers 2, Black Myth: Wukong, Elden Ring, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and PUBG.Talking about games released in 2024 specifically, Marvel Rivals is in that same Platinum category in terms of most-played games. Ranked by gross revenue it doesn’t quite make the Platinum tier, but it is just below it in Gold alongside big-hitters like Hades 2, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Tekken 8.Of course, Marvel Rivals has the benefit of being based on one of the biggest IP of all time, but its success is still notable particularly in the wake of similarly budgeted live-service flops like Concord, xDefiant, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.We already knew Marvel Rivals had a suc…
I’ve not dipped my toe into the Persona games, but many of my friends and colleagues love them. According to Atlus developer Kazuhisa Wada, that’s a key and very intentional part of how the company makes the series.Wada recently spoke at the CEDEC+KYUSHU developer conference in Japan (reported by Game Makers with translation provided by Automaton) about how the company’s design philosophy has changed since making Persona 3 in 2006. Before Persona 3, Atlus’ values were coined as “Only One,” by Wada. It basically meant, “if they like it, they like it, if they don’t, they don’t.” Rather than making games with broad appeal that don’t do much of anything so as not to potentially put anyone off, the Persona series does what it does very well: stylish action, dungeon crawling, and deep relationship development. When I write it like that, I convince myself I should play.In some of the games even elements like time and the weather can affect fights and the story itself. It all sounds cool, and I appreciate it from afar, but for some reason they’ve just never clicked with me. Based on the company’s past values, that’s just fine. The games have done well by cultivating a dedi…
Atlus’ new JRPG hit Metaphor: ReFantazio offers loads of ways for you to quickly strengthen your protagonist and his party, but perhaps the funniest of them all is handed out as a reward for practicing good hygiene.Fighting in battles isn’t the only way to earn EXP in Metaphor: ReFantazio, as after you get access to your Gauntlet Runner (your four-legged method of transportation around Euchronia) your protagonist is soon able to hop into the on-board shower to freshen up. Doing so, for whatever reason, also nets him a small amount of EXP. It’s nothing major, but every little helps, and you can’t help but feel it’s sending a bit of a message to those playing at home with the dialogue, “I need to stay hygienic to help facilitate living as a group.”That’s not the only way you can boost your protagonist’s powers while simply living his life, either, as for whatever reason, using the Gauntlet Runner’s toilet on an Idlesday will permanently buff his Luck stat by one. You can only do this once per Idlesday, and I have no idea why this helps him in such a tangible way, but it’s hilariously one of the easiest ways to get some guaranteed boosts to your critical hit rate. This has also led to…
The earliest seed for the follow-up to roguelike darling Dead Cells emerged the way a lot of games do: over a beer. The folks at studio Motion Twin wanted to make something new as co-developer Evil Empire continued to support Dead Cells, ultimately with years of excellent expansions and updates. The team’s brainstorming often played out at a bar. Developer Thomas Vasseur tells GamesRadar+ that there were a lot of competing ideas within the worker-owned studio, and newer hire Yannick Berthier says they weren’t even going to make another roguelike at first. “But habits came back quite quickly,” says Berthier, and sure enough, Motion Twin has another roguelike coming soon: Windblown, a three-player co-op action game launching in Steam early access on October 24. In my mind, Windblown belongs on the same shelf as the likes of Hades 2 and Slay the Spire 2. It’s a new game from a beloved studio that’s directly building on a pillar of modern roguelikes. Our first hands-on impression of Windblown was mighty promising, and with Dead Cells being one of the best roguelike games of all time, selling over 10 million copies as of 2023, there are waves of anticipation and expectation behind …
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There’s a bunch of upcoming CD Projekt Red games in development right now, with the award-winning developer turning its attention to new Witcher and Cyberpunk experiences following the release of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. The studio is known for creating some of the best RPGs in recent history, so naturally, we’re incredibly excited to see what new games it has in store for us. The lineup of new CDPR games includes adventures that aren’t going to directly follow The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, such as a remake of Geralt’s first adventure. We have a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel on the horizon, too, and that barely scratches the surface of what’s to come. So, you’ll want to keep reading to find more info on every one of the upcoming CD Projekt Red games in development right now.The Witcher 4 Platforms: TBACD Projekt Red confirmed the existence of The Witcher 4 in March 2022, and has been quietly issuing updates ever since. We now know that The Witcher Polaris (as it is codenamed internally) will be “a story-driven open-world R…
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Metaphor Refantazio FollowersGet the best fighting chance by finding all the Metaphor Refantazio Followers to add to your rosterThe Metaphor Refantazio Synthesis system let’s you team up attacks by having specific pairings of the game’s various lineages taking part in combat. With Synthesis you will be able to pull off special and more advanced versions of skills at the expense of using additional Turn Icons (Metaphor’s action economy) and resources (MP, HP, or money) from all participating alliesThere are a couple of main components that dictate what Synthesis skills are available to you at any given time – the skills a character has unlocked on their Metaphor Refantzio Archetypes and the other Lineages (not specific Archetypes, but the ge…
The team behind Dead Cells are journeying down the early access route once again with their next gorgeous roguelike Windblown because, to them, reacting to player feedback is crucial in making good games.Speaking to GamesRadar+, Motion Twin developer Thomas Vasseur muses that there’s one throughline that lets the studio create bangers: “I think it’s players that give us feedback… players are very, very helpful to make games like that.”Yannick Berthier explains that the team has already been taking feedback onboard, well before Windblown’s official Steam early access release date of October 24, as 200 to 300 players took part in a closed alpha test months ago – not to mention the feedback rolling in from friends and fellow developers even before that.”They already shaped the game in a lot of ways, in a lot of systems, even small, just funny stuff that makes the overall experience really cool or memorable,” Berthier continues. “To nailing some weapons and their game feel to ideas of systems for the shop or for the co-op and so on. They already really made an impact on the game, and there were only 200, so hopefully we’ll have more players in 15 days, no pressure. I should not say t…
The massive Game Freak leak has taken a rather unusual turn, as alleged Pokemon origin and lore-building stories have been shared online that range from interesting to downright bizarre. Over the weekend, an enormous amount of supposedly leaked information about both old and new Pokemon games began surfacing on social media, seemingly including beta sprites, concept art, and allegedly even the source code for both Pokemon Legends: Z-A and even the unannounced Gen 10 games. Apparently, in amongst all this are stories detailing how the entire Pokemon universe began, as well as what look like folktales about relationships between humans and Pokemon.The so-called origin story is certainly an interesting one – it appears to tell a tale somewhat aligned with the lore of Pokemon god Arceus, which certain Pokedex entries say is “said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world.” This is mirrored here, but beyond the hatching of an egg, it’s said that the god (which isn’t actually called Arceus here) fought against giants that formed from the remnants of its eggshell, before giving life to two alternate versions of itself to become gods o…
Metaphor: ReFantazio marks the beginning of a brand-new title from Atlus’ Studio Zero, but the new JRPG is definitely following in the footsteps of the Persona series when it comes to its length and sheer story depth.Speaking in a recent interview with Xbox, legendary director and producer Katsura Hashino admits that Metaphor: ReFantazio is “a pretty voluminous game.” According to the lead, the developers “really hoped to keep it very exciting” despite how long it is – a whopping 80 to 90 hours or so. “We didn’t want to bore our players by keeping it the same the entire time.” That’s why the story boasts plenty of “twists and turns,” says Hashino.
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“By the time it takes you to beat the game, which is going to be a fair amount of time – it’s a pretty voluminous game – we’ve tried to continue to surprise our players in both the system and the twists and turns the story takes.” As someone with a good few hours in-game already myself, I’d argue that the devs have certainly accomplished this – and our Metaphor: ReFantazio review expands on just how they managed to do so.The …