The legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay over the rights to make an MMO based on the Fallout franchise has at last been resolved. Basically: Bethesda wins, but owes Interplay $2 million. Read more »
Rage is an attempt by the makers of Doom and Quake to step outside of the box and do something unexpected. On that goal, they’ve succeeded, but you’ll never be confused about who made the game. Read more »
Bethesda Softworks is revealing some juicy goodies to gamers in anticipation of Rage‘s forthcoming release in early October. Win a copy of Rage for the PS3 here Read more »
When Bethesda Softworks announces a brand new title, gamers shut up and pay attention. Okay, so they’ve had a few clunkers (not sure what they were thinking with Wet, and I still can’t make much progress with Brink), but this is the studio that brings us The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, for crying out loud. And their current games in development, including Rage and Prey 2, look stunning. Today we add to that list Dishonored, a brand new franchise from Bethesda subsidiary Arkane Studios. You may know Arkane as the developer behind Arx Fatalis, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Read more »
Killian Samuels is about to go where no man has gone before. In Prey 2 — a sequel just barely connected to its namesake — this air marshal is quite literally “abducted by aliens” while on an air flight, no less. After being taken to the alien world Exodus, via circumstances yet to be revealed, Samuels decides to accept this new life that fate has dealt him and becomes a bounty hunter there, using his skills to take on jobs and generally fight the (good? bad?) fight. Read more »
A final trailer has been released for Brink, the new IP from Bethesda Softworks and Splash Damage, in anticipation of its launch. Which coincidentally, happens to be today. Brink hopes to redefine the “online universe” genre for the first-person shooter generation. Read more »
Man, does Bethesda Softworks have an amazing catalog of titles coming up, or what? They have id’s brand new franchise Rage, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, buzz-worthy MMO/FPS Brink, the intriguing “alien noire” of Prey 2, and more. Today, Bethesda let loose a whole slew of new screenshots from all of their upcoming titles, and they’re sell-a-kidney-to-afford-these-games good. Get yourself a bib to sop up all the drool that’s about to escape from your mouth, and then click on these thumbnails for some gorgeous, thrilling, terrifying, glorious new images of places that don’t exist that you’re going to want to visit right now. Which title are you looking forward to most? Read more »
Bethesda just announced that they’re dropping Brink on the gaming public one week earlier than planned. So if you’re scratching your head, wondering just what Brink is and why you should care (and I assure you, you should), we’ve got the goods right here. Read more »
The “dungeon crawl” experience is a staple of video gaming. Found predominantly in RPGs and MMOs, the term is used to describe enclosed spaces, where players hack and slash their way through winding corridors, collecting loot as they go. Hunted: The Demon’s Forge is atempting to bring demon crawls into the 21st century by fusing the genre with the mechanics of a first-person shooter with two player co-op. Hunted is set in the dark ages of a world called Kala Moor, when vile creatures have risen from beneath the earth, and villagers on the surface have begun to disappear. Mercenaries E’lara, an expert in ranged weapons, and Caddoc, a master Read more »
Bethesda Softworks has announced the development of Prey 2, and released this teaser trailer to prove it. It’s not often that game studios create live action trailers for their games unless it’s a game with motion controls. This one finds the Prey franchise going all Cloverfield, with a pedestrian’s handheld camera on an airplane following everyday passengers who get caught up in… Well, that would be a spoiler. Let’s just say there’s a sky marshall involved, and according to Joystiq, said sky marshall will be the protagonist you control in the game. Prey 2 is being built on Bethesda’s id Tech 5 software (aka, the Rage engine) by Human Head Read more »
