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You know when you follow someone into the elevator and when they turn around to face the doors, you choose…

And that’s what you missed on Glee!

Following the shocking closure of legendary RPG studio BioWare, Electronic Arts has posted a lengthy missive laying out its plans…

Not only is EA closing down BioWare and cancelling the next Mass Effect – Electronic Arts has now announced a…

A beefy new Cyberpunk 2077 update arrives tomorrow, October 22nd, fresh on the heels of the second series of the…

After years of strife and sabotage, BioWare is gone, and video games are lesser for it

Good news, people who figure they are going to die of old age before they get another Dino Crisis! Good news also, people who can’t get enough throwback immersive sims! Even as Capcom forge ahead with their Resident Evil remake ouroboros, plucky Momentum Games and horror publishers Black Lantern Collective are releasing Athanasia – a first-person homage to both Dino Crisis and System Shock, in which you play intrepid researcher Carmen Flores, who has been sent to one of gaming’s many ominous abandoned scientific facilities in South America.

One of these days, I’m going to turf up to a collapsing laboratory complex in a game and discover nothing but stationery, old rubber gloves, and unfiled expense claims. I imagine a lot of laboratories are abandoned not due to (for example) gene-modded dilophosaurus outbreaks, but because the funders got cold feet long before Project X reached the prototyping stage. But that day is not this day. Today, there are dinosaurs! Argh, my face and/or intestines! Here’s a trailer.

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The Call of Duty franchise is set to begin an exhilarating new phase. Activision has announced that next year’s release will not extend any current sub-series within the franchise but will rather unveil a completely new sub-franchise. This signals a major strategic change as the series moves away from its entrenched practice of alternating between its two primary sub-series, Modern Warfare and Black Ops.

In a recent discussion with The Game Business, Tyler Bahl, Activision’s Chief Marketing Officer, elaborated on the company’s choice to chart a new course. “We’ve already kind of stated that a future title is going to be a new sub-franchise and we’ve already kind of laid the groundwork there,” Bahl remarked. This announcement ushers in a new chapter for Call of Duty, following the completion of this year’s title, Modern Warfare 4, which concludes one of its most acclaimed sub-franchises.

Traditionally, Call of Duty has thrived on its oscillating releases between Modern Warfare and Black Ops. Nevertheless, as video game trends and player demands evolve, the company is reevaluating its release approach. Activision previously indicated that it would stop releasing consecutive titles from the same sub-series, in response to feedback from players who have shown a desire for greater diversity. “Yeah, I think we were pretty public about the idea of us going back-to-back with Modern Warfare 2 to Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops 6 to Black Ops 7 was not something that our community was looking for,” Bahl emphasized.

The choice to launch a new sub-series arises from players’ appetite for novel environments and experiences, even with recurring themes. “And even though there were different time settings and different ways to play the game[s] and lots of new features, that tonal shift is something that they were looking for us to [do],” Bahl continued. This perspective highlights players’ cravings for fresh stories and settings that separate themselves from earlier installments.

Previous efforts to innovate within the franchise, such as 2021’s Vanguard, created by Sledgehammer Games, fell short of expectations and struggled to establish a lasting identity as a sub-series. The industry buzzes with excitement over whether next year’s game, also produced by Sledgehammer Games, will successfully establish its legacy in Call of Duty’s vast lore.

Looking towards 2027, there are whispers of a backdrop in the late 90s and early 2000s, offering a fresh range of characters and stories that could set this installment apart from its predecessors. The triumph of this new sub-series may prove pivotal in shaping Call of Duty’s trajectory and its capacity to resonate with longtime fans while drawing in new ones.

This transition mirrors a wider trend in the gaming industry, where players are on the lookout for creativity and originality. As Call of Duty steps into unexplored realms, the community will be keen to see if these new aspirations translate into the kind of engaging and innovative gameplay that has become synonymous with the franchise.

Rumours of Troika classic Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines potentially getting the remaster or remake treatment have surfaced. They’ve come from two places: one being the fairly standard source of poster on a game leak-obsessed section of Reddit, the other being rather more unorthodox. It’s not often a metal band allegedly pause mid-concert to ask the crowd if they know an old game’s getting a revamp.

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I’ve been doing this whole games journalism for over five years now, and I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of games in that time. I’ve written about plenty of them too, with a fair few being plenty weird. But I’ll admit that today’s game is one that I do understand if I were to tell anyone I’m interested in playing who maybe isn’t familiar with games as a whole, they’d probably talk to someone else at the party. You see, Urine Trouble: PEE V PEE is a competitive online game all about pissing literally everywhere, and trying not to get caught doing so.

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