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Summary Beyond Good & Evil 2has officiallybeen in development longer than any other triple-A game in history. Every time it’s assumed the project has been scrapped,someone from Ubisoft pops up to confirm otherwise. Now Michel Ancel, a formerUbisoftdirector who worked on the maligned sequel for more than a decade, has revealed some of the reasons why almost 20 years later, Beyond Good And Evil 2 still hasn’t been released. Ancel went into detail about his time working on the Beyond Good And Evil sequel with French siteSuperPouvoir(thanks,Eurogamer)....

Summary Season 2 of Squid Game is a thrill from start to finish. Withthe addition of new characters, games, plot twists, and so much more, this season is worthy of all the hype and attention. It does, however, ask a lot out of the audience. The creator, writer, and directorHwang Dong-hyuk, spent over ten years trying to pitch Squid Game with no success. He had a lot of trouble getting people on board with a show that was viewed as very violent, confusing, and over the top....

Summary Black Myth: Wukonghas finally won a Game of the Year award like its developers planned, with it managing to beat outBalatro,Warhammer 40k: Space Marines 2, andHelldivers 2for theSteamAwards' Game of the Year. 2024 had its fair share of big surprises in the world of video games (just look at the runaway success of Balatro), but there’s one that stood out among the rest - Black Myth: Wukong.Announced all the way back in 2020, Wukong instantly caught a lot of attention and became highly-anticipated,but no one expected it to be the humongous hit that it was....

Summary Call of Duty: Black Ops 6has been through a number of controversies since its launch, most of them AI related. A loading screen that featured a zombie dressed as Santa reaching towards the screenwith a hand comprised of six fingers caused a stir, and thenfans turned on the game once againafter claiming a number of assets were seemingly AI generated. Complaints about AI have been a real pain in the neck for Activision with Black Ops 6, despite its alleged frequent usage, and now another situation involving AI has the company in the bad books of fans once again....

Kingdom Hearts 4will release with its own set of worlds and new characters including some sinister villains. The series has been delving into many Disney and Pixar movies. Sora and his friends interacting with classical characters also relive nostalgia, and fans are anticipating some villain to appear in the latest game. Most of these villains end up joining hands with the evil factions in Kingdom Hearts, such as The Heartless. We have also fought many of them as final bosses of their respective worlds for a showdown....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguarddirectors Corinne Busche and John Epler held anask-me-anything (AMA) on Redditfor Dragon Age Day, an annual celebration of BioWare’s fantasy RPG series. Several participants quizzed the pair on the future of the Dragon Age series. After all, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was in development for almost a decade and although it has performed well critically, the fanbase’s opinion is divided. Not to mention that the jury is still out on how the game performed commercially, with no social media posts from BioWare and Electronic Arts lauding the game’s performance....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s creative director John Epler has specified that world states haven’t been forgotten just because they weren’t addressed in The Veilguard. In an interview withIGN, Epler revealed that choices going back as far as Dragon Age: Origins may become relevant once more in future Dragon Age titles. We were only able to import a couple of choices from Dragon Age: Inquisition into The Veilguard, to the disappointment of many....

Summary Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s combat is largely a hit with fans, but it can get a little repetitive after a while. Many of the quests can feel very formulaic, as we battle waves of enemies before taking on a main baddie at the end. Because of this, it’s no surprise that many are longing for a little bit of mission variety. This has fans missing the wayDragon Age: Inquisitionbroke up the constant fighting - by sending us to survive Orlesian politics in the Winter Palace....

Summary InDragon Age: The Veilguard’sfirst act, you must decide whetherto save Minrathous or Treviso from a dragon attack. Whoever you leave to fend for themselves will cause their respective companionto harden(Neve and Lucanis), altering their quests, removing the city merchant, and making the Shadow Dragons/Antivan Crows weaker. At least in the short term, you may build their strength back up later. However, Reddit user TheIngloriousTIG managed to raise the Shadow Dragons' strength to three stars (or 3,200 points)beforemaking that choice....

Summary In case you missed it,Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zerorevealedthe first part of its Season Pass, which is centered around the Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie. Spoilers:Orange Piccolo and Beast Gohan are finally coming to the game. Ahead of the release of 11 new characters,Bandai Namco announced a long-awaited and arguably much-needed patch for the base game. Among the number of Game Mode and Battle System Adjustments is a number of Skill Adjustments for the game’s massive roster....

I’ve been working on aDungeons & Dragonsadventure for the entire year. I might even have started back in 2023, I don’t quite remember. Plans for this D&D epic go back at least as far as March, when readers may recallCapcomstealingmy side quest ideaforDragon’s Dogma 2. But now it’s over. So what now? There are many different styles of DMing a game of D&D, both in terms of actually running the game in person, and writing it up....

Summary If you thought the wait between NCAA Football 14 and this year’sEA Sports College Football 25was long (10-plus years), then just wait until you find out that the last NCAA Basketball title was published in 2009. In other words, it’s been well over 14 years since NCAA Basketball 10 was released. That said, things might change relatively soon. According to information from Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw, bothEAandTake Two (2K)have had internal conversations about reviving the long dormant college basketball video game franchise....

Summary Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthproducer Yoshinori Kitase has confirmed that theRemake’s third and final part won’t be exclusive to thePS6, suggesting that it’ll launch during the current generation. Considering how longFinal Fantasyfans waited to finally getconfirmation that a remake of Final Fantasy 7 was in development, it’s a little wild to think about how fastSquare Enixhas managed to get through two-thirds of the project. Since 2020, we’ve had two massive RPGs,with the third and final part already well into development....