Lewis Packwood

1 week ago | gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood

The success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – which sold 2 million copies within 12 days of launch – has meant all eyes are now on its developer, Sandfall Interactive. As the games industry mulls how to move forward, faced with a saturated market, widespread layoffs and spiralling development costs, the fact that an original title made by a relatively small team could see such massive success gives hope to everyone.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Lewis Packwood

The Cannes film festival isn’t typically associated with video games, but this year it’s playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio iNK Stories (creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about a photojournalist in Iran) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it’s been turning heads with its eye-catching translocation of Macbeth to modern-day Iran.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Lewis Packwood

Deliver at All Costs casts you as a delivery driver in the late 1950s, and it looks fantastic in motion. Almost everything on the map can be destroyed, and there is immediate fun to be had from causing merry mayhem with your truck, clattering through deckchairs on the beach or driving straight through the middle of a diner and watching it collapse spectacularly behind you. But there is a void at the heart of this game where the core hook should have been.

1 month ago | gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood

During its Switch 2 Direct on April 2, Nintendo revealed that some Switch 2 cartridges would be Game-Key Cards. Rather than storing the game, these cartridges instead simply act as keys to unlock a download of the title in question. The first such Game-Key Cards are now listed for pre-order, including the Switch 2 version of Yakuza 0, Hitman: World of Assassination: Signature Edition, and Madden 26. More games are expected to follow.

1 month ago | creativebloq.com | Lewis Packwood

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 detailsPublisher Kepler InteractiveDeveloper Sandfall InteractiveFormat PS5 (reviewed), Xbox Series X/S, PCPlatform Unreal Engine 5Release date 24 April 2025Oh, to have been an artist on this game. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gives a strong impression that the art team was given absolute free rein during its five years of development, and the end product was subsequently built around whatever outlandish visions they came up with, logic be damned.