Watch skeletons being victimised in Hellraid's first 20 minutes
Techland really know how to make first-person melee incredibly satisfying. Dead Island - for all its flaws, like the awful quests and boring narrative - held my attention for as long as it did because flailing around, dismembering zombies was just so much damn fun.
The studio’s fantasy first-person hack and slash romp, Hellraid, looks to be continuing this tradition. Indeed, it’s particularly evocative of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, which I ended up devouring after I grew tired of Oblivion’s rubbish combat back in 2006.
Some of the devs played through the first 20 minutes on Twitch a wee while ago, and you can watch the whole, violent affair below.
How Crusader Kings 2 caught Paradox by surprise
With more than one million sales, Crusader Kings 2 has just become the most commercially successful strategy game that Paradox Development Studio have ever produced.
Nobody could be more proud, or more surprised, than designer Henrik Fahraeus. He just set out to design a feudal strategy game. What he ended up creating was a phenomenon.
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