Unforetold: Witchstone was maybe the biggest surprise for me at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase. The Spearhead Games CRPG almost evokes Larian’s first Divinity: Original Sin game in its presentation, but instead of pursuing cinematic RPG production values, Witchstone is like an alternate evolutionary path emphasizing the construction of an open-ended, RPG sandbox.

“Freedom alone is cool, but you want that world to respond. In tabletop, you have a game master, you have other players, there’s always a response,” explains Spearhead co-founder and creative director, Malik Boukhira in an expanded interview with PC Gamer, noting that real videogame freedom “is also about creativity, feeling clever, feeling like you did things your way.”

The RPG’s promised influence system sounds like almost nothing I’ve seen in an RPG. You can turn up the charm on any NPC in the game, using your capacity for persuasion, intimidation, or downright lying to get anybody to do pr…

Update: Looks like Ubisoft’s given up trying to keep this one quiet. In a post on Twitter, the company threw in the towel and admitted it has a 20th anniversary remaster of BG&E on the way, with more info to come in early 2024. The company also said that the build that went out to Ubisoft+ subscribers as part of this leak “is not indicative of the final game,” so there’s some hope for those of us put off by those dodgy screenshots making the rounds.

Original story: For years, Ubisoft has had one, single job: Not releasing Beyond Good and Evil games. To its credit, it’s done the work with aplomb for a good long while now. Sure, sometimes we’ll get some fanciful BG&E 2 trailer, a LinkedIn bio will change, or Joseph Gordon-Levitt will appear, but the studio’s fundamental principle of not releasing a game in this series has never wavered.

Until yesterday. A few months after the ESRB leaked that Ubisoft was working on some kind of…

Now that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has a new developer, The Chinese Room, we’re going through the whole rigamarole of teasers and reveals all over again, starting now and carrying on into 2024, and possibly beyond. I hope you’re prepared. 

This is why, more than four years after I wrote “Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s first full-blood clan is the Brujah”, I’m once again introducing you all to the Brujah. I am very tired. And while the 2019 reveal gave us details on the Brujah Disciplines—their fancy vamp powers—we’ll have to assume they have all been changed in at least some way. Unfortunately, this re-reveal doesn’t go into much detail. 

All we know about this version of the clan is that they are very into smacking things around in melee combat, and their first revealed Discipline is a charge attack that lets the undead brawlers gain momentum before grabbing foes, dragging them around and slamming them into things…

A manager at game-engine developer Unity has been fired after calling the company “out of touch”.

Miranda Due, Senior Partner Relations Manager at Unity, originally made the remark in reference to an executive’s idea for making commuting to Unity’s offices easier.

“A Unity exec just shared that they rent a secondary [apartment] in [San Francisco] to make it easier to be in the office- maybe we should all just do this to make it easier to RTO [return to office]” Due tweeted on May 8. “This company has lost it. Completely out of touch.”

Less than three hours later, Due followed up her tweet with another post, stating “I got fired on my one year anniversary” The firing also occurred less than a month before Due’s vesting date, the point at which an employee receives company benefits (like stock options or retirement funds) after contractually fulfilling a term of employment.

Due explained why she considered such a remark out of touch in a follow-up to the origin…