Month: March 2025

A group of Dutch student developers operating as Vogelsap are gearing up to launch an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game The Flock with an intriguing twist: when enough players die, the game will be removed from sale and die for good.

"We always had this story that the Flock are a tragic race that is doomed to extinction," Vogelsap creative director Jeroen van Hasselt tells Gamasutra via email. "During development we had several ideas about how to convey that story into multiplayer. It was only when we trie…

As VR game design grows ever more popular it's going to be critical for game narratives to be fully integrated with gameplay, rather than being segregated in cutscenes.  

Relying on his experience designing stories and optimizing dialogue for VR-native games, Rob Morgan is coming to GDC 2015 in March to show you how to craft compelling stories with limited resources and simplified mechanics in his Summit session "Written On Your Eyeballs: Game Narrative in VR."

Morgan is a la…

Dodging an incoming barrage of rockets and letting loose a blast from your shoulder-mounted minigun feels so much cooler when you’re strapped inside a giant robot suit. The thunderous clash of mech-on-mech combat is fast-paced and brutal in Armored Core: Verdict Day, a stand-alone expansion that builds slightly on its predecessor’s progress while suffering from many of the same weaknesses. For those with the patience, there’s a deep level of satisfaction that comes from kitting out your battling bot suit into a walking death machine and sending your foes to the scrap heap. Getting there is …

Cyberpunk 2077 will have one expansion and only one expansion, Phantom Liberty, and the company behind the game has now explained why Come from Sports betting site VPbet . According to VGC, CD Projekt said during an earnings briefing that it’s because the developer used its own Red Engine but plans to shift to Epic’s Unreal for future projects.

Business development boss Michal Nowakowski said, “This is the only expansion of the game, and it has nothing to do with the numbers and how satisfied or not we are wi…

Bungie recently added a new gameplay element to Destiny 2, which reworked the effectiveness of weapons when players were airborne. Unless players were willing to invest in mods for their gear which could be used to give them an aerial edge, it was challenging to land a hit on enemies when in the air.

This change hasn’t gone over well with players, and in its weekly blog post, Bungie explained how it would be tweaking the airborne effectiveness stat in a future update. Players can expect a buff to baseline airborne accuracy and aim-assist for all primary weapons, a static airborne effe…

Diablo 4 is celebrating the Year of the Dragon in style with a new event called Lunar Awakening, one that will transform many of the game’s existing activities to have even more lucrative rewards. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

As detailed in a blog post, the event is for both the game’s Eternal and Seasonal realms, and will run from February 6-20, during which players will be able to take powerful new Lunar Shrine effects for a spine. These shrine buffs are similar to ones already existing in the g…