
1666: Amsterdam Wows With Its World, Not Its Combat
Hands-on previews of Patrice Désilets' long-awaited passion project paint a picture of a gorgeous, historically obsessive world let down by combat that isn't ready for prime time.
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Hands-on previews of Patrice Désilets' long-awaited passion project paint a picture of a gorgeous, historically obsessive world let down by combat that isn't ready for prime time.

IllFonic's Halloween: The Game has been refused classification in Australia and New Zealand. The reason? Not the brutal kills or the masked serial killer. It's because players can smoke weed for a gameplay advantage.

Starbreeze has signed Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson to executive produce a Payday screen adaptation alongside Vice Studios. Beyond that, almost nothing about the show is confirmed.

Kazuhisa Wada, the producer behind Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Revival, says remaking the original Persona games isn't just something he'd like to do. It's something he believes Atlus has to do.

Hideki Kamiya responded to a fan's lore question by teasing a return to Devil May Cry. With his studio already partnered with Capcom on an Okami sequel, the tease carries more weight than his usual trolling.

Cold Iron Studios shut down the cloud servers for Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Switch, leaving anyone who paid up to $59.99 with a game they can never play again and zero compensation.

Valve is warning European Steam hardware customers that a cyberattack on its shipping partner CEVA Logistics likely exposed their names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

A patch meant to improve image quality in Silent Hill 2 Remake has turned trees into featureless black blobs and rooms into voids on PS5 Performance Mode. Konami says it's investigating.

Leaked internal emails reveal Blizzard is Xbox's best-performing studio, posting its third-highest revenue year ever. Meanwhile, 3,200 people across the rest of Xbox's gaming division are losing their jobs.

A player got their $109 back after EA silently pulled Rush mode from Battlefield 6's matchmaking, and the kicker is that EA's own website still advertises the mode.

A new playtest for the Asobi: Remote Play app brings PS Plus Premium cloud streaming to Steam Deck and Steam Machine, cutting the PS5 out of the equation entirely.

Dirge of Cerberus - Lost Episode has been completely unplayable for years. One preservationist spent $900 building a brute-force program and GPU farm to crack its encrypted SD card data and pull it back from oblivion.

The Marvel Tokon PC port is so broken that players are trying anything to fix it, including running Epic's launcher in the background while playing on Steam. It's as desperate as it sounds.

Marvel Tokon launched to nearly 25,000 concurrent players on Steam. Three days later, that number has nearly halved, and the weekend isn't helping.

Ten years and 45+ updates later, No Man's Sky is a radically different game. But its original psychedelic art direction might have been the version that best understood what it was trying to be.

Nexus Mods creator kamzik123 has added unarmed combat back into Black Flag Resynced, solving in weeks what Ubisoft inexplicably chose to cut from its remake.

Profiles for Tai Yasue, Haley Joel Osment, and David Gallagher appeared in the D23 app before being pulled, pointing to a major Kingdom Hearts 4 showing next week.

Naoki Hamaguchi isn't just sending a trailer. The FF7 Revelation director is heading to Gamescom's Opening Night Live to personally show off the trilogy's grand finale.

A new vehicle breakdown trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer reveals the Landspeeder's strengths and the Ramjet's hilariously punishing risk-reward mechanic.

Golden Sun launched in August 2001 with a combat system and puzzle design nobody has replicated since. Twenty-five years later, that absence says more about the RPG genre than any nostalgia trip could.

Id Software lead services programmer Chris Hays publicly criticised Xbox's layoffs, calling it "impossible" to ship another AAA Doom with half the studio gone.

The Octopath Traveler series has sold seven million copies and spawned an entire HD-2D movement, but producer Tomoya Asano says a third mainline entry still isn't ready to be revealed.

Newly surfaced footage from a 2007 Sony internal event shows Demon's Souls with a toggleable first-person camera, a fixed third-person view, and enemies that never made it to the final game. The entire Souls genre could have looked very different.

Arc System Works made an incredible fighting game. Sony may have made it unplayable for too many PC players to recommend.