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As big fan of narrative-driven videogames, Patrick Streutjens started writing news and articles for PayneReactor in 2003.

Control (hands-off preview).

Attending Gamescom is something that I’ve been doing for years now. Cologne is not that far away from my hometown so the trip is fairly easy to make. What started with the urge to learn more about upcoming videogames gradually…

Control to support Nvidia’s RTX platform.

Nvidia has just announced their brand new line up of consumer graphic cards during their Gamescom press conference. The new cards, now dubbed “Nvidia GeForce RTX” are, as expected, more powerful than the previous generation. More interesting perhaps, is the…

The Oldest House, a shifting place.

Another entry in the Remedy Developer Diary series appeared yesterday. This time it’s all about The Oldest House; A world within a location, an ever shifting place full of mystery and adventures, much bigger on the inside than the outside…

Controlling the situation, a new Dev Diary.

Today Remedy posted the second episode in their Dev Diary series, quite strikingly titled “Controlling the situation.” The title clearly sets the tone, indicating that this episode is all about Control’s gameplay. The video starts with Control’s Lead Designer Paul…

Max Payne turns 17 today.

On this day, 17 years ago, Max Payne was released to the public. Max Payne was one of the first games to introduce us to the concept of Bullet time. Bullet time was one of the core gameplay mechanics of the…

Gamesindustry sat down with Remedy CEO.

An interesting read popped up today.. Well, in all fairness it was released yesterday.  But I stumbled on it only today. Joking aside, Gamesindustry.biz recently sat down with Remedy’s CEO Tero Virtala for an interview about Remedy and its new game; Control.…

First Control Dev Diary introduces us to its story.

Since Remedy has spilled the beans on Control, key figures from the development team have been involved in a plethora of interviews and gameplay demos. Some of these already slightly hinted at how Control came to be, with people like…