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Gears Of War: E-Day Is Shaping Up To Be Exactly The Comeback Gears Needed

Gears Of War: E-Day Is Shaping Up To Be Exactly The Comeback Gears Needed https://ift.tt/SPqnvOa Gears of War started out as an Epic Games-developed title, but the franchise has been in the experienced hands of The Coalition for over a decade. With Gears of War: E-Day dropping in October, the studio is aiming to bring the franchise back with a bang after a lengthy hiatus. We recently went hands-on with the game--you can check out the video preview below--and our immediate takeaway was that The Coalition hasn't skipped a beat as it still knows how to put together a Gears game that looks and feels great. Set during the cataclysmic events of Emergence Day, Gears of War: E-Day tells the story of humanity's first encounter with the Locust. Outgunned and caught by surprise, it's up to Marcus Fenix to rally the survivors and turn the tide of the conflict. While we didn't get to experience the campaign, we did check out the game's Horde and Versus modes. Gears of War ...
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In Alan Wake 2, Remedy Refreshes The Multiverse Idea By Making It A Villain

In Alan Wake 2, Remedy Refreshes The Multiverse Idea By Making It A Villain https://ift.tt/YwDvJNT

Warning: This article has some slight spoilers for the later portions of Alan Wake 2, although we tried to keep them to a minimum. It also contains spoilers for Quantum Break and Control.

If you google the term "multiverse fatigue," you'll find a whole slate of articles, social media posts, and forum discussions in which people complain about how much the idea of a "multiverse" has permeated popular culture. With superhero stories and their cinematic universes dominating movies and spreading to TV, the once-fringe, science fictional idea of multiple connected universes and alternate dimensions has become mainstream, and with its ubiquity, kind of dull.

It's into this climate that Remedy Entertainment has released Alan Wake 2, the studio's second game since it started talking about its "Remedy Connected Universe" and narratively linked the Alan Wake games to 2019's Control. And the RCU isn't just bringing Remedy's current and future games into the same world so they can overlap with one another like TV show crossover events. Control is largely about the idea of a multiverse as something to be explored, studies, and defended against, and makes a lot of gestures in the direction that Remedy's past games could be among those additional dimensions.

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