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Episodic gaming always seemed born of necessity. Game development is hard work and breaking a story into smaller parts and releasing it progressively appeared, at least from the outside, to be a way to manage smaller projects with a rolling development structure. In its heyday, no one was more successful at this than Telltale Games, which made its name on adventure games, mostly licensed, with a strong episodic structure. Its breakthrough success, and still one of the best episodic...
Apogee's rebranding has been a kind of return to form for the decades-old publisher. Its roots are in fast-paced games and it's continuing to work with developers making fast-paced games. Turbo Overkill, a game that looks at Doom Eternal and says, "that's too slow" proves that much. The company's selection of games at PAX East 2022 is very much in that same vein, save for one that it decided to keep secret. That game is Lucid, a platformer being developed by one man, Eric Manahan, and it's a...
The universe of Destiny 2 is brutal--set in a dangerous future in which humanity has to deal with countless alien threats. Not a day goes by that an enemy isn't threatening to crash a giant satellite into Earth's last bastion. Because of this, being environmentally friendly isn't as big of a concern as it probably should be, and for the real-life Earth Day, we're acknowledging the reality of The Witch Queen expansion: That it forced us, as Guardians, to kill the one environmentalist...