Wildfire Review
Stealth gameplay is deceptively tricky to pull off. On the surface, "wait for the guard to pass by so the player can progress" might sound pretty straightforward. It takes a very skilled developer to…
May 25, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
Stealth gameplay is deceptively tricky to pull off. On the surface, "wait for the guard to pass by so the player can progress" might sound pretty straightforward. It takes a very skilled developer to…
May 25, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
A trademark has been filed for Jurassic World Aftermath, but what exactly this game might be is a bit of a mystery. Dino-centric fan site Jurassic Outpost reports that a trademark has been filed for…
April 21, 2020 | 01:56 EDT
Some enterprising chap on NeoGaf found that the release date of Ghosts of Tsushima has been changed on the PlayStation Canada website from June 26 to August 1, 2020. Going on the website myself, the…
April 16, 2020 | 10:15 EDT
I am always suspicious of RPGs based on official licenses; Dishonored: The RPG was no different. Usually with licensed RPGs they go in two directions, either adding numbers to everything the source…
April 28, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
Developer Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks’ Dishonored franchise received its sequel back in 2016, and it was met with praise on its developing story, innovative gameplay mechanics, and how the…
January 23, 2020 | 11:30 EST
Today, Little Nightmares developer Tarsier Studios has been acquired by Embracer Group, better known by their former name as THQ Nordic. Little Nightmares is a game in which the main character (you…
December 22, 2019 | 09:00 EST
After being teased at the Sony State of Play on Dec. 10, we finally got the full trailer for PlayStation 4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima. Sucker Punch and Sony have been relatively quiet about the game…
December 12, 2019 | 11:10 EST
Today, publisher Blowfish Studios and developer Sky Machine Studios unveiled Winter Ember, an isometric stealth game where the main character Arthur Artorias returns to his city of Anargal after…
October 10, 2019 | 10:46 EDT
Stick to the shadows and use your quick wits in Winter Ember, a pure stealth experience not seen since the Thief series. Winter Ember is an isometric stealth game where you play as Arthur Artorias…
October 10, 2019 | 10:32 EDT
Third-person stealth action game Aragami from independent Spanish studio Lince Works celebrated its third birthday this week. Marked by considerable success, the small team announced that their game …
October 5, 2019 | 12:03 EDT
Become one with the shadows in a quest for revenge in Aragami. As an undead assassin, use the powers of shadow to summon weapons, monsters, and teleport in order to cleanse a city of your foes. Along…
October 5, 2019 | 11:41 EDT
Thief (2014) is the reboot of the popular Thief franchise, which our Dark Narrative original series is about.
October 1, 2019 | 12:14 EDT
El Hijo is a non-violent stealth gamed developed by Honig Studios and published by Handygames. Based around a small boy forced into a monastery by his mother after their farm was burned down by…
September 27, 2019 | 07:37 EDT
It's hard to find entertaining games that cater to children, teens, and adults. At E3, I found two great upcoming indie titles that you could hand to your kid and allow them to have a good time. But…
June 22, 2019 | 12:30 EDT
At the PC Gaming Show this year, Honig Studios and Handy Games showed off a trailer for El Hijo, a unique twist on stealth games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smde5D2JNnc El Hijo is a spaghetti…
June 10, 2019 | 04:04 EDT
The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on 24th October 1987. You play as a journalist in a detailed, systems-driven world where people react to your actions…
March 4, 2019 | 10:05 EST
The immersive sim is, at its best, a seamless fusion of simulation, adventure, and roleplaying experience. Not exactly a genre in itself, but rather a design philosophy focused on giving the player…
March 4, 2019 | 10:00 EST
If you’re at all interested in first-person immersive games, survival horror, or first-person shooters, you should follow the development of Gloomwood, a foggy first-person mashup by Dillon Rogers.…
January 14, 2019 | 02:00 EST
At this year's QuakeCon, Kirk McKeand from VG24/7 had the chance to talk to veteran designer and writer Ricardo Bare, who boasts game design credits such as Deus Ex, Dishonored and the 2017 reboot …
August 15, 2018 | 04:30 EDT
Sucker Punch Productions released a gameplay debut trailer for their epic open world game Ghost of Tsushima at Sony's E3 2018 conference. It was a stunning and mostly silent segment that captivated…
June 11, 2018 | 10:52 EDT
Fans of a certain bald assassin will be happy to hear that the HITMAN Spring Pack is now available according to a news post on developer IO Interactive's website. The HITMAN Spring Pack makes the…
March 22, 2018 | 06:29 EDT
Seven: The Days Long Gone is game that I had a lot of hopes for. The development team at Fool’s Theory is made of AAA industry veterans from CD Projekt RED — you know, the guys behind the critically…
December 20, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Seven: The Days Long Gone is a game developed by Fool's Theory, a team of developers who worked on The Witcher series, and IGMN.PRO. The game puts you in the shoes of Teriel, a master thief who's…
December 20, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Today at the Sony PlayStation Live Event at Paris Games Week kicked off their main PlayStation Live event with a trailer and announcing Ghost of Tsushima, a new title from Sucker Punch. What Sucker…
October 30, 2017 | 01:07 EDT
ECHO is a third-person stealth/action game with a twist: The enemy AI learns from your actions. Everything you do is recorded by a computer, and after a set amount of time, the enemies in ECHO's…
October 26, 2017 | 01:49 EDT
Enemy AI in video games has been pretty stale over the past few console generations. In most games, enemies walk in the same patterns, do the same things, and act the same way with very little…
October 24, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
A stand-alone expansion to the Dishonored series that picks up right where Dishonored 2 ends, following the story of Billie Lurk as she tries to kill the Outsider for his role in enabling all the…
September 18, 2017 | 09:23 EDT
With the release of the original Dishonored in 2012, Arkane Studios more or less revitalized popular interest in stealth games. Until that point, most entries in the genre were either action games…
September 18, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Little Nightmares is a stealth-horror game in which you play as a small, raincoat clad child known as Six, looking to escape from the Maw, a vessel filled with dangerous souls looking to do you harm…
August 2, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Marek Tymiñski, CEO of CI Games, spoke out about the future of the Polish publisher and developer in a recent press release. The comments from Tymiñski also went into depth on what the studio had…
June 28, 2017 | 01:45 EDT
After the legal wrangling revolving around IO-Interactive and Square Enix, the matter has finally been resolved. According to a blog post by IO-Interactive's CEO, Hakan Abrak, the studio has finished…
June 17, 2017 | 12:00 EDT
Just under two months ago, a little indie puzzler by the name of Little Nightmares took the gaming community by surprise. It was weird, it was creepy, and it had a brilliant, Henry Selick-inspired…
June 12, 2017 | 09:57 EDT
Bethesda has announced that Arkane Studio's Dishonored 2 will be receiving a standalone expansion called Death of the Outsider. Staring Billie Lurk as the protagonist, she is shown freeing Daud from…
June 12, 2017 | 01:28 EDT
The latest incarnation of HITMAN will only be sold as a complete first season moving forward according to an announcement from developer Io-Interactive. Roughly two weeks from today, the purchase…
June 8, 2017 | 07:49 EDT
With the news that Square Enix is looking at what to do with Hitman, including possibly packaging it with studio Io-Interactive for sale, one wonders who should buy it. Options include venture…
June 2, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Io-Interactive has not had a good few weeks. After being with Square Enix for over seven years since the publisher acquired Eidos Interactive in 2009, Square Enix has decided to release its ownership…
May 26, 2017 | 06:34 EDT
Killers and Thieves is the third full release published by indie game company Stoic Studio. It is a stealth and management sim stealth-released without promotion on May 23rd, 2017. Players take on…
May 23, 2017 | 01:05 EDT
When I'm looking for new games to play, I don't usually start with sims. Like a lot of people, I grew up playing The Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and my personal favorite, The Movies, but given a…
May 23, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Io Interactive are celebrating the release of the 24th Elusive Target for their assassination sandbox game HITMAN. Elusive Targets are targets of a contract you only have one try at completing. Dying…
May 5, 2017 | 03:45 EDT
Welcome to the country of Georgia in Sniper Ghost Warrior 3. The third installment by CI Games, this stealth action title brings with it an open world for the first time in the series, where players…
May 5, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Whenever I play titles such as Battlefield or Call of Duty, I always tend to gravitate towards sniper rifles. I am not exactly sure where my affinity for long range death comes from; perhaps the…
May 5, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Arkane's stealth-action game Dishonored 2 is getting a free trial on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. This trial will let you sample a portion of the game if you want to give it a go before drawing…
April 4, 2017 | 12:00 EDT
White Paper Games, developers of Ether One, have announced a new title called The Occupation according to a press release. A trailer has accompanied the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
March 28, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Game bundles have been an invaluable resource for PC gamers that wanted to build a respectable digital library on the cheap. On that regard, Humble Bundle is perhaps the biggest and most renowned…
January 31, 2017 | 06:00 EST
In an announcement on their website posted earlier today, GAMEPUMP founder Robert Bowling announced that the previously delayed subscription service was being canceled. Customers who preordered the…
January 25, 2017 | 07:13 EST
GAMEPUMP, the game publisher/subscription service hybrid masterminded by former Call of Duty lead Robert Bowling, has delayed the launch of their service. Originally scheduled to release a new game…
January 7, 2017 | 03:32 EST
I don't think I'll ruffle any feathers by saying Dishonored was a great game. Using elements taken from of the likes of Bioshock, Thief, and Deus Ex, the game told a personal story about one man's…
January 5, 2017 | 01:00 EST
The first title that will most likely be published through GamePump's subscription service is LIT, a "horror puzzler" that was originally released for the Wii's WiiWare platform in 2009. The…
January 3, 2017 | 08:00 EST