Epic Games are, dunno if you’ve heard, on a bit of a genAI kick at the moment. It’s been tough to notice unless you listen very hard. Tim Sweeney’s lips have been sealed and no reports have spewed forth.
Sark aside, to this point Epic have had far more provocative soundbites and weird marketing lingo to offer than specific detail about how they’re using genAI in different parts of their business.
Recently, I travelled to Guildford, England, to interview developer Peter Molyneux, the legendary game developer behind Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon…
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.
One year after the cozy witch-life sim Witchbrook was delayed from 2025 to 2026, it’s happened again, as the game…