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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics is one of more interesting licensed games coming out in 2020. Get a better sense of how it plays.
From its banger of a theme song to its intriguing war academy setting and mechanics, I’m pretty excited for Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Arguably the biggest game releasing on Nintendo Switch this month, Three …
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Netflix has been ambitious in pursuing a game-focused audience, but "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics" shows it doesn't yet respect the power of interactivity.
The turn-based tactics game based on the Netflix show (based on the Jim Henson movie) is a fine tactics game but may miss the mark of a solid tie-in product.
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Is The Banner Saga as good as PC gamers said it was?
It's time for a further game based on a Netflix show, this being The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics. Would it make Henson proud? Let's see.
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I got to check out The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics at Gamescom, the game based on Netflix's new series. Here are some words about it.
The epic video game 'The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics' delivers both an addicting turn-based strategy experience alongside more story from Thra.
While it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, legendary puppeteer Jim Henson’s ‘The Dark Crystal’ universe has its own cult following of ardent fans. The franchise first kicked off with the 1982 dark fantasy adventure film ‘The Dark Crystal’. The movie was fully puppet animated, using groundbreaking animatronics technology (for the time) and practical […]
I love strategy games, and I love The Dark Crystal, but heading into this adaptation of the Netflix TV series, I was pretty skeptical of the idea of squishing the two together. It’s a pleasure to report, then, that while Age of Resistance Tactics never fully justifies the combination, it’s a far richer and more substantial game than I expected.For those unfamiliar, the show (itself spun out from a 1982 cult movie) takes place in a strange fantasy world, represented primaril
Xbox Game Pass is losing some great games in September 2021, including a popular multiplayer sandbox, one of the best racing games ever, and some unconventional RPGs.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on Wednesday featured a panel titled "Bringing Your Favorite Shows to Life: Developing Netflix Originals Into Video Games," where the streaming platform shared its plans for popular shows to debut as interactive experiences.
It's part of an ongoing push into the video game industry as Netflix introduces more games related to its original programming.
All the announcements from the Nintendo E3 2019 presentation
A new trailer for upcoming Isometric RPG Encased has been released showing off gameplay options for those willing to go off the beaten path.
Arguably the biggest Nintendo Direct news is that a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is in production. Not much is known about it. It doesn’t have a title yet — Breath of the Wild 2…
Arguably the biggest Nintendo Direct news is that a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is in production. Not much is known about it. It doesn’t have a title yet — Breath of the Wild 2…
The team behind XCOM has unveiled 'Marvel's Midnight Suns,' a turn-based RPG with superheroes like Blade and Wolverine working together..
Watch me play a little of Marvel's Avengers Alliance Tactics, the strategic sequel to that weird Avengers turn-based role-playing game. Or just play it yourself — it's not half-bad.
Watch me play a little of Marvel's Avengers Alliance Tactics, the strategic sequel to that weird Avengers turn-based role-playing game. Or just play it yourself — it's not half-bad.
Wasteland 3 wiki at IGN: walkthroughs, items, maps, video tips, and strategies
Watch me play a little of Marvel's Avengers Alliance Tactics, the strategic sequel to that weird Avengers turn-based role-playing game. Or just play it yourself — it's not half-bad.
In Iron Danger you can rewind time whenever you need to in order to save your life and land the killing blow. It’s a cool idea and works well enough in practice, but that fun premise doesn’t stop the rest of Iron Danger from being an otherwise pretty middling isometric role-playing game experience.
Don't worry if you missed the last two Age of Wonders games; the third entry will have you throwing fireballs and leading armies in no time.
Phantom Brigade is an indie title that is a clever combination of turn-based strategy and real-time tactical combat in a role-playing game.
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X-Com creator Julian Gollop and his studio Snapshot Games have raised over $750,000 on crowdfunding platform Fig to make Phoenix Point, a game that looks like a perfect match for anyone who's enjoyed Firaxis's recent XCOM efforts. Set on a mostly destroyed Earth in 2057, you lead part of an organisation called the Phoenix Project, and are tasked with saving the last pockets of humanity from aliens and an encroaching mist that mutates every living thing it touches. In d
Strategy gaming legend Julian Gollop on his plans to redefine strategy gaming on PC, Mac and Xbox One
This feature originally ran in PC Gamer issue 327, back in January. Subscribe here to get our lovely magazine sent to your door every month, whether you're in the US or UK.The permafrost has melted, unleashing a terrifying alien virus. An eerie mist rolls across the planet, compelling people to wander into the ocean, where they emerge as hideous, mutated monsters. The world is a mess, and in turn-based strategy game Phoenix Point, it’s your job to clean it up.“When
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Phoenix Point is a new turn-based tactics game from Julian Gollop's Snapshot games.
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen has just been revealed as a huge expansion to the turn-based tactics game. It's out on August 29th for PC & console
Ever since Julian Gollop, designer of the original X-COM games, teased Phoenix Point three years ago, details about the minutiae of its systems have released practically every week via blog posts, narrated playthroughs, and our own hands-on time with it. It means that even though we're still months from release, there's a ton of information out there about Phoenix Point, including how combat works, what enemies you'll face, how you'll customise your s
Jake Solomon, the enthusiastic brains behind Firaxis' XCOM remake, knows some of you will be unhappy that the game has multiplayer. He saw the reaction to B…
It’s been 15 years since a XCOM game has graced a console or PC, but the wait is finally over with the upcoming release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown later this...
We talk to Firaxis about procedural maps, new classes and modding.
I'll admit to rooting for XCOM: Enemy Unknown to be a hit ever since I got a speeding ticket coming home from a press preview event for it over the summer. Sure, I deserved it, but I wanted that embarrassment (and money) at least to be worth something.
A lot of things have changed since the original X-COM was released in 1994. Strategy games have gotten much grander, with higher production values and streamli...
XCOM 2 is finally here, and we're taking a break from mourning our fallen squaddies to tell you how great it is.
Just when you think life in XCOM is hard enough, the aliens send super-powered specialists to steal your money, take your soldiers and taunt you while they're doing it. War of the Chosen adds three characterful bosses that harass you in missions and on the campaign map until you manage to hunt them down and hit them at home. You have to deal with them in addition to your normal XCOM 2 duties—contacting new continents, researching the alien threat and beating back the Avatar p
XCOM 2 reviews, pros and cons. Liked: Everything great about Enemy Unknown Disliked: Frequent glitches
XCOM: Enemy Unknown brings the tight, strategic X-Com experience to PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, and is a worthy reboot of the classic series.
"On The Shoulders of Giants" is the name of the achievement that pops up towards the end of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis' reimagining of the revered strateg…
XCOM: Enemy Unknown will seek out the "Enemy Within" when the critically acclaimed reboot receives its first major expansion on November 12. Enemy Within w...
The world went without a new XCOM strategy game for nearly fifteen years before Firaxis made XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but just one year later the team's delivered Enemy Within an expansion that makes such significant changes as to almost be a full sequel.
The sequel to 2012's beloved XCOM: Enemy Unknown deals in staple sci-fi storytelling and an excellent refinement of the series' turn-based combat.
The sequel to critically acclaimed strategy game XCOM takes us 20 years into the future, where aliens have taken over and an underground human resistance must fight to reclaim their world.
Just when you thought you were out… they pull you back in! Into another war against an invading alien menace, that is. This November, Firaxis' fantastic (and Kotaku Game of the Year-winning) strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown is getting its first major expansion, titled XCOM: Enemy Within.
What on Earth happened between XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2? The canon fiction says that the player loses the Enemy Unknown campaign and the aliens take control of the planet. But how did XCOM 2's resistance form? A new Legacy Ops mini-campaign should answer that question, featuring reimagined maps, weapons and armour from Enemy Unknown. The four-mission campaign is the heart of the Tactical Legacy Pack, which releases on October 9. It will be free to all XCOM 2: War
XCOM 2 lives up to its legacy of unforgiving challenge and unparalleled rewards.
Original XCOM dev Julian Gollop is betting people will crowdfund a spiritual successor to his hit strategy game, and his studio's future may be riding on it
PC-exclusive XCOM 2 promises to bring back the same intense challenge of the previous games, but with a few additional twists.
The sequel to 2012's beloved XCOM: Enemy Unknown deals in staple sci-fi storytelling and an excellent refinement of the series' turn-based combat.
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Capcom announces Monster Hunter: World x The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, an upcoming crossover event that will bring the White Wolf to slay beasts in the RPG.
It sounds cliché, but the Dragon Quest, however, is actually big in Japan. So big, in fact, that its sales eclipse even those of Square Enix's
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics has been confirmed for a February 4th, 2020 release date on PC/PS4/XB1/Switch.
Six publishers have teamed up to highlight one of their games as an excellent choice for new Gamemasters to use: Numenera, Trail of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Monster of the Week, Runequest and Unknown Armies.
Will you tame the legendary Rathalos?
Six publishers have teamed up to highlight one of their games as an excellent choice for new Gamemasters to use: Numenera, Trail of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Monster of the Week, Runequest and Unknown Armies.
My biggest problem now with Star Wars: The Old Republic is that I recently switched my home computer to a Mac. This is a problem, because, several months after I first played it... years after it was first hyped.. I finally want to play Star Wars: The Old Republic, this December's PC-only massive Star Wars game.
Legends of Eisenwald is a slightly rough-hewn romp through faux-Germanic legend.
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Director Josh Sawyer discusses the three core concepts behind RPG Pillars of Eternity, and why it chose to partner with grand strategy kings Paradox I…
I'll spare you the usual spiel about how EverQuest launched a craze for…
Every Monday at 7:00 PM PT, a talented crew roleplays their way through the galaxy to fulfill a mission: to boldly go where no one has gone before. Follow the adventures of the USS Sally Ride on Shield of Tomorrow on Twitch. The universe of Star Trek is full of hope, optimism and the idea that humanity is basically good. These general
This year promises another bumper crop of games. Some will be great; others, not so much. Here are the ones on which we've pinned our highest hopes.
Old school role-playing games are often remembered for their chunky menus, fantastic art style, and insane difficulty. If you've played 8-bit and 16-
Shin Megami Tensei 5, the newest entry in Atlus’ sprawling JRPG series, is bleak, oppressive, and ruthless — but its charming cast of demons provide a pleasant distraction from the chaos.
'Pokmon Legends: Arceus' revives a debate that has echoed through RPG communities for decades.
A rotating list of the best games on Steam may seem impossible on the surface, but against all odds, we've done it!
Shadows of Undrentide isn't the most epic or memorable RPG with BioWare's name on it, but it's got plenty of good, new content to satisfy most any Neverwinter Nights fan.
The latest blog posts by jayfin9 at IGN, the premier site for video games and the fans that love them
Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising Interview Perpetual Entertainment's novel online world featuring squad-based combat in a setting blending history and myth Perpetual's novel online world blending history and myth
An expensive, choppy, claustrophobic, and ultimately disappointing port.
When I say that the release of Dragon Quest 11 on PC on September 4th is a moment 37 years in the making, I'm only being a little dramatic. Whether it flops or becomes a massive success, Dragon Quest 11 existing as a PC game is significant. It has meaning beyond the ability to play Dragon Quest on a monitor instead of a TV, with a keyboard instead of a gamepad.
You’re going to need more than a cool dragon transformation if you want to survive out in the battlefield. Thankfully, we’re here to help.
The latest blog posts by OneDragonZ65 at IGN, the premier site for video games and the fans that love them
The recent news that Ralph Lauren Corp (RLC) will pay about $1.6 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations may at first blush look like another example of a company getting caught in a bribery scandal. In fact, RLC found the $568,000 bribes paid to an Argentinian customs official as a result of
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Here's the good news: Eternal Sonata is complete. The bad news? Namco-Bandai is holding on to the game until September, making RPG-starved 360 owners suffer through the summer. What makes the wait all the tougher is that our recent playthrough of a previously unseen level gave credence to our belief that Eternal Sonata is going to be a sleeper hit.
It's forward to the past for Sony Online Entertainment, which teams with the creator of a popular, pen and paper, role-playing game to take EverQuest off the Net, Dungeons & Dragons style. By Andy Patrizio.
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Scott Kluth has a love-hate relationship with his new Fisker Karma luxury electric sedan.
Before the game launches later this year, we got a chance to sit down the team behind The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics for an in-depth look at the gameplay.
MTV's "Jersey Shore Family Vacation" got off to an impressive start in the ratings with its launch on Thursday.
Netflix defined binge culture by releasing entire seasons of its shows at once, reinventing how people consume TV. But powerhouses like Disney, Apple, and Hulu are looking to change the game again by releasing high-profile shows like The Mandalorian, Loki, and The Morning Show weekly. It’s a smart strategy for a changing streaming world.
TGIF. While you’re planning for the long weekend ahead, we’ve rounded up the top movie and TV trailers that you might have missed during the week. Disney Channel’s Star Wars Resistance is returning for …
/PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company is launching its first-ever NFT digital collectibles in partnership with VeVe, the largest mobile-first digital...
Take a digital walk through some of genre's most impressive practical effects.
The museum’s exhibit features a lot of Muppet magic, but also so much more!
The Jim Henson Company and MEGA Brands enter into global licensing partnership for DINOSAUR
If you’ve never seen The Dark Crystal, you really should run out and rent it, before the upcoming, animated sequel to it arrives direct-to-DVD and ruins the original movie’s reputation. That’s right, I said animated and direct-to-DVD. We’ve been hearing for months now about a sequel to The Dark Crystal being worked on by the Jim Henson company. Me, and just about every other Henson fan, has been pretty excited about it
In a behind-the-scenes interview, the producers discuss the technology and craft that made their Netflix prequel series to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 fantasy classic The Dark Crystal possible.
Audiences are being encouraged to attend the screenings in costume to celebrate the nostalgia and legacy of this classic 80s fantasy.
/PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company will begin production on its new Fraggle Rock series in Calgary, Canada on January 25th, thanks to a coordinated effort...
The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus is lining up a show about magical creatures at The Jim Henson Company.
For nearly a year reporters have been hounding Brian Henson with the same question: Can he handle Jim Henson Productions, the Muppet-based entertainment empire he took over soon after his father, Jim, died unexpectedly in May? Tall, lanky and gentle -- a beardless, fair-haired version of his father -- Brian Henson gives a similar response every time. "Jim Henson Productions was not all Jim Henson," he says. "My father surrounded himself with many, many very talented people. Wh
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics doesn’t live up to the promise of its source material, and is a weak imitation of the PlayStation 1-era tactical role-playing games to which it attempts to harken back. It’s not terrible, but it is disappointing.
If you’ve never seen The Dark Crystal, you really should run out and rent it, before the upcoming, animated sequel to it arrives direct-to-DVD and ruins the original movie’s reputation. That’s right, I said animated and direct-to-DVD. We’ve been hearing for months now about a sequel to The Dark Crystal being worked on by the Jim Henson company. Me, and just about every other Henson fan, has been pretty excited about it
Here is a list of movies and television shows leaving Netflix in December 2015.
/PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) and Flavor Unit Entertainment (The Equalizer, Bessie) have teamed up to option The...
The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra will be a must-have for die-hard Dark Crystal fans.
UPDATE: This screening is now SOLD OUT. Sorry to anyone who wanted to go and didn’t get their tickets in time!
Like… the influence of Thomas the Tank Engine?
Jason Isaacs, director Louis Leterrier, and Donna Kimball revisit their puppet counterparts to play 'The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics.'
None of Jim Henson’s beloved puppet projects ever quite achieved the effortless believability of Sesame Street and the original Muppet…
The Jim Henson Company is adapting the Terry Pratchett novel The Wee Free Men, which Pratchett's daughter Rhianna Pratchett is writing.
The Jim Henson Co. has promoted Blanca Lista to VP of feature film production to oversee the expanding film development slate for live action, animation and puppet features, Variety has learned exclusively.
Every month, Netflix Australia adds a new batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here are the titles we think are most interesting for August.
Not only is The Dark Crystal getting a prequel series over on Netflix, but Deadline reports today that another Jim Henson property is also being brought back to life. The Henson-created fantasy anthology series “The Storyteller” premiered in 1987, retelling various European folk tales by using a combination of actors and puppets. And yes, it’s coming back. The […]
The first sight inside the stadium appears chaotic, with hundreds of cardboard cartons spread all over the floor
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