Latest Reviews of Arkane Studios Games
Review Deathloop (PS5) - Arkane Does It Again in Confident Shooter
Loop Hero
For as much as Deathloop presents itself as a complex game, asking you to work out how to break a time loop upon the island of Blackreef, it's actually a somewhat simple one. Arkane Studios has designed the opening hours of the game it made after Dishonored and PREY to be overwhelming, introducing mechanic after mechanic and sprinting...
Review Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (PS4)
Lurking around
The immersive sim is one of the most rewarding genres in gaming. The more you put into them, the more you get in return, and the Dishonored series is one of the best examples of this in recent years. Death of the Outsider is a smaller scale adventure at around half the length of 2016’s Dishonored 2, but it retains the same brilliant...
Knife to see you again
Stealth. Games that do it really well don't come along all that often, with most choosing merely to dabble their toes in the murky waters where a knife in the dark is king. When looking back over those titles that made sticking to the shadows most satisfying, there was one thing that they all had in common: options. Whether...
Review Dishonored: Definitive Edition (PS4)
Not Attano improvements
It's almost been three years since Dishonored snuck onto the PlayStation 3, and when we donned the daunting mask of Corvo Attano back then to creep through Dunwall without so much as killing a soul or making a sound, we still regard Arkane Studios' runaway success with much-deserved admiration. Whether you choose to take a...
Review Dishonored (PlayStation 3)
Rat race
Dishonored doesn’t have much time for modern video game conventions. Arkane Studios’ delectable steam-punk romp does away with unnecessary multiplayer components, multi-million dollar set-pieces and tutorial missions that last almost as long as the campaign itself. At times, its complete disregard for expected standards can be to its...
Latest Arkane Studios Articles
Interview Synthesising Some Answers on Wolfenstein: Youngblood's Soundtrack with Composer Tom Salta
Synthicide
To put it lightly, Wolfenstein: Youngblood has been a rather divisive game -- one fraught with problems, but not one completely devoid of good things either. One of those good things, if not the best thing, happens to be Tom Salta’s fantastic synth score. We got to have a chat with him about what influences the soundtrack, how it felt...
Hands On Jumping at Shadows in Prey on PS4
A player chooses, the prey obeys
Welcome to the first-person perspective of Morgan Yu, the androgynous protagonist of Prey. Once you've assigned Morgan a gender (a choice with no experiential ramifications) you awake in Morgan's apartment, decorated in a style delicately coined 'neo-deco' that somehow feels like a familiar sight. It's here that Prey...
E3 2016 Dishonored 2 Will Feature an Optional No Powers Mode
Absolute power corrupts
In a slightly awkward exchange on today's Youtube Gaming at E3 livestream, Bethesda head Pete Hines announced that Dishonored 2 will ship with a new mode known as 'Flesh and Steel', which will allow you to play the entire game without access to any powers whatsoever. At the beginning of the title, you can simply refuse to be...
E3 2016 Bethesda Takes the Mask Off Dishonored 2 in Gameplay Showcase
Take back what's yours
At the end of its tepid E3 presser, Bethesda showed off the first gameplay footage of Dishonored 2. This started with a good look at what the custom game engine, called Void, can do. Developer Arkane expressed its aim of making the sequel look like a painting come to life, much like the first game, and following a showreel of...
E3 2015 Dishonored 2 Slinks onto PS4 With Two Playable Characters
Pretend to be surprised, please
After a heartbreaking accidental reveal - which will no doubt go down in E3 history - Bethesda announced at its E3 press conference tonight that Dishonored 2 is indeed a video game which exists. It also confirmed that it will be available for
DLC Review Stirring the Pot in Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches
Twist of fate
Dishonored’s latest DLC completes raspy-voiced assassin Daud’s story, continuing from previous add-on The Knife of Dunwall, as he pursues the mysterious Brigmore Witches and their leader, Delilah. Of course, if you’ve played through the original game, you’ll have some idea as to how Daud’s tale comes to an end. As such, the...
News Dishonored Developer Documentary Charts The Game's Shadowy Inception
Behind the scenes on Arkane's supernatural stealth title
Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Studios have released the first in a series of documentries focusing on the production of Dishonored. Entitled 'Inception', this first video covers the creation and conceptualisation of the game, and features input from the development team as they explain how...
News Bethesda Reveals Dishonored Pre-Order Bonuses
Ooh, the choices...
Looking forward to Arkane Studios' upcoming action-adventure title, Dishonored? If so, you might want to think carefully about where you place your pre-order, as publisher Bethesda has assigned a selection of exclusive bonuses to major retailers in the UK. Amazon will be dishing out a cold serving of the Acrobatic Killer...
Interview Synthesising Some Answers on Wolfenstein: Youngblood's Soundtrack with Composer Tom Salta
Synthicide
To put it lightly, Wolfenstein: Youngblood has been a rather divisive game -- one fraught with problems, but not one completely devoid of good things either. One of those good things, if not the best thing, happens to be Tom Salta’s fantastic synth score. We got to have a chat with him about what influences the soundtrack, how it felt...
Hands On Jumping at Shadows in Prey on PS4
A player chooses, the prey obeys
Welcome to the first-person perspective of Morgan Yu, the androgynous protagonist of Prey. Once you've assigned Morgan a gender (a choice with no experiential ramifications) you awake in Morgan's apartment, decorated in a style delicately coined 'neo-deco' that somehow feels like a familiar sight. It's here that Prey...
E3 2016 Dishonored 2 Will Feature an Optional No Powers Mode
Absolute power corrupts
In a slightly awkward exchange on today's Youtube Gaming at E3 livestream, Bethesda head Pete Hines announced that Dishonored 2 will ship with a new mode known as 'Flesh and Steel', which will allow you to play the entire game without access to any powers whatsoever. At the beginning of the title, you can simply refuse to be...
E3 2016 Bethesda Takes the Mask Off Dishonored 2 in Gameplay Showcase
Take back what's yours
At the end of its tepid E3 presser, Bethesda showed off the first gameplay footage of Dishonored 2. This started with a good look at what the custom game engine, called Void, can do. Developer Arkane expressed its aim of making the sequel look like a painting come to life, much like the first game, and following a showreel of...
E3 2015 Dishonored 2 Slinks onto PS4 With Two Playable Characters
Pretend to be surprised, please
After a heartbreaking accidental reveal - which will no doubt go down in E3 history - Bethesda announced at its E3 press conference tonight that Dishonored 2 is indeed a video game which exists. It also confirmed that it will be available for
DLC Review Stirring the Pot in Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches
Twist of fate
Dishonored’s latest DLC completes raspy-voiced assassin Daud’s story, continuing from previous add-on The Knife of Dunwall, as he pursues the mysterious Brigmore Witches and their leader, Delilah. Of course, if you’ve played through the original game, you’ll have some idea as to how Daud’s tale comes to an end. As such, the...
News Dishonored Developer Documentary Charts The Game's Shadowy Inception
Behind the scenes on Arkane's supernatural stealth title
Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Studios have released the first in a series of documentries focusing on the production of Dishonored. Entitled 'Inception', this first video covers the creation and conceptualisation of the game, and features input from the development team as they explain how...
News Bethesda Reveals Dishonored Pre-Order Bonuses
Ooh, the choices...
Looking forward to Arkane Studios' upcoming action-adventure title, Dishonored? If so, you might want to think carefully about where you place your pre-order, as publisher Bethesda has assigned a selection of exclusive bonuses to major retailers in the UK. Amazon will be dishing out a cold serving of the Acrobatic Killer...