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I was gonna have the Bioshock video out this week, but real life stuff intervened, and I was asked to handle this weekend, so I got busy. Hoping to take care of things next week, and then get the Deus Ex video out almost immediately after. Read more

I disagree with you, obviously, because of the article I wrote, but this is a good post so I’m going to recommend it anyway. Read more

Our wallrun features are already better than Titanfall’s, albeit unpolished as heck, so I’m in high spirits. Read more

I referenced Overwatch because that seems like a game everyone is playing and therefore is the easiest to understand example. Read more

I won’t feel happy with it if it doesn’t. I’m making a game I want to play. I want to confront fun AI. Gears, FEAR, and Halo are my high water marks. Read more

Hence my mention of subjectivity. Those games just do not scare me at all. Read more

Nope, Resident Evil 7, I have been told (so, grain of salt) has shotguns that you can use. Read more

Yeah, I was low key hinting that stylized games are better. Read more

You underestimate the draw of Halo’s SP. And since this is an article about SP design, #icandowhatiwant Read more

Real talk, the similar-but-not Manual of Detection might work better. Read more

I am! You can follow the game’s development at @g1dev on Twitter. I have been trying to avoid linking it because I didn’t want to come across like I’m spamming. Read more

There are plenty of books that are not on the list because I didn’t read them (the Dresden novels have been mentioned a lot) or because I didn’t think they’d make for great video games (The Handmaid’s Tale). Or because I just plain forgot. I mean, it’s only six books. This morning I thought “crap, I forgot Leviathan’s Read more

Check out Bulletstorm, which handled this problem super well, by randomizing elements of the enemies they generated. I believe they also had the game set up so that enemies in specific areas would have distinct features for those areas. Read more

Gears of War 3, Overwatch, Halo, and Team Fortress 2 are sales monsters. Read more

this is the best post that has ever been on kotaku or ever will be on kotaku Read more

1) this is about shooters, and king of fighters is not a shooter Read more