‘Black Ops 4’ may not mark the permanent death of single-player options in the entire franchise, but it’s sad news nonetheless https://media.wired.com/photos/5aff53b2997b9441ce0b0e1a/master/pass/CoD_SinglePlayerGone.jpg
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PC Gaming Weekly: Paradox loves single-player games
It’s fitting that our strategy game of the year comes from one of the most important publishers on the PC. Steel Division: Normandy ’44 tops our list of the best strategy games of the year. It’s a worthy choice, and it showcases Paradox Interactive‘s approach to publishing on the PC. It came out in late May, […]
Single-player games withstood World of Warcraft. They’ll survive PUBG, too
GUEST: With the recent cancellation of Visceral’s single-player Star Wars game, shifting focus of big publishers on multiplayer games and more than stellar success of cooperative multiplayer games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, gamers are starting to ask questions. Are single-player story-driven games dead? Do players want them contrary to what some big publishers say? Do they […]
Single-player is the vestigial limb of publishers that had to adapt or die
ANALYSIS: At some point last century, someone at the U.S. Department of Defense plugged a network cable into a computer. Cut to a few decades later, and Electronic Arts says it is canning a game because it doesn’t function as an online service. The publisher announced yesterday that it is closing Dead Space developer Visceral and […]
‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ won’t get more single-player content
BioWare vowed to fix Mass Effect: Andromeda‘s numerous teething troubles shortly after launch, but there’s apparently only so much it can do. The studio has revealed that its 1.10 patch is the last single-player update for the game — in a confirmation of rumors, there won’t be any solo-focused patches or (more importantly) downloadable content. […]
Bioware slams the door on any more Mass Effect: Andromeda single-player content
Enlarge / Pretend that planet is Mass Effect: Andromeda‘s single-player DLC, then look at it wistfully, turn around, and walk away. (credit: Bioware) Anybody who hoped the troubled Bioware game Mass Effect: Andromeda would get some more single-player content should probably sit down. The game developer chose to deliver bad news to fans on Saturday evening […]
Single-player modding returns to GTA V after publisher takedown
Enlarge / This image represents Take-Two saying “Well, I guess, there’s nothing illegal here after all. Never mind that legal threat.” (credit: Take-Two Interactive) When popular Grand Theft Auto V modding tool OpenIV was taken down by a cease-and-desist request from publisher Take-Two earlier this month, the fan reaction was fast and blistering. Players bombarded […]
EA Officially Reveals Star Wars Battlefront II, Single-Player And All
Star Wars: Battlefront II is definitely happening and it will have a single-player story (if you still had any doubts). EA officially “announced” the game at this year’s Star Wars Celebration, showing off the game’s protagonist and aerial combat. It’ll be out this year on November 17 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The trailer […]
Star Wars: Battlefront II’s official trailer is all about the single-player campaign
Earlier this week a teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront II leaked online, but here at Star Wars Celebration EA has revealed the real thing — and it includes quite a bit more than the leaked version. The centerpiece of the trailer is the single-player campaign, which focuses on an elite TIE Fighter […]
Leaked Star Wars: Battlefront II trailer teases space combat and single-player campaign
The Star Wars: Battlefront II trailer has jumped out of hyperspace a little earlier than expected. Originally intended to be shown for the first time at this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration, a leaked version of the trailer instead arrived online this evening, showing the kind of combat we can expect from EA’s next Star Wars […]
