The endless debate about what is and isn’t an immersive sim continues, as one of Dishonored’s co-founders said he believes Skyrim is one. The immersive simulation genre is hard to define. I won’t even attempt to give you any meaningful definition, I just know that games like Thief, Dishonored, and Deus Ex all fall into ...
Amid a seemingly never-ending wave of layoffs and studio closures, it’s refreshing to see some of the talent that escaped triple-A gaming hell surviving and thriving. Wolfeye Studios, the team behind the clever immersive sim Weird West, has already started working on their next project. Although it doesn’t have a name yet, Wolfeye announced today ...
Hello Games has delivered numerous comprehensive updates for the long-running sci-fi game No Man’s Sky – and now this series continues with “Worlds Part 1”. No Man’s Sky, which was initially labelled a flop, has become a real hit and fan darling thanks to the numerous reworks by Hello Games – and the developers want ...
It’s official – you can now play Tears of the Kingdom using an actual bow, shield and sword, thanks to the ingenuity of a dedicated Legend of Zelda player. YouTuber Lledos has surpassed Nintendo’s controllers and themed devices by creating a “mech suit” that allows him to play motion games in the real world. Forget ...
To be honest, I didn’t know much about Mexican history before trying the Steam demo. Mexico 1921: SleepingI’m not quite sure what’s going to happen. My knowledge of the country’s history was mostly limited to the plot in Red Dead Redemption where Bill Williamson decided to surrender to Javier Escuela and what I read on ...
Immersive Sims are traditionally thought of as single-player titles. They can be very dense and system-heavy games, with even one player bringing an incredible number of variables to the table as they use the freedom given to them to approach situations in a variety of ways. Enabling all of these possibilities requires a significant amount ...
Starfield players have been dying to do something with mechs in the game for years, and aside from staring at the broken mechs littering the vast ruins of the settlement system, a new mod finally lets you build some of your own. But it does much more than that, trying to overhaul the game’s entire ...
I’ve been fascinated by immersive puzzle games since I started playing Maquette a few years ago. The idea of entering a world and solving increasingly complex environmental problems from a first-person perspective intrigued me from the first minute, which is no doubt why I was so keen to try out Balloon Studios’ delicious Botany Manor. ...
Cyberpunk 2077 is a gem of immersion in itself. But one modder went one step further and added gameplay from the awesome Unrecord! With this mod you can take Cyberpunk 2077’s FPS dynamics to a new level. For even more immersion, this video allows us to really experience the fights thanks to face tracking technology. ...
Google announced the arrival of an immersive route view in March last year. A complete three-dimensional graphics experience that perfectly illustrates cities like New York, London or Paris. This update came to improve traffic in the centers of these cities and thus exponentially improve navigation to get to a destination. Now Google has shown how ...
