Will Borger

New York

Journalist and Writer at Freelance

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Articles

The Talos Principle: Reawakened is a reminder that remasters can and should be more

1 week ago | shacknews.com | Will Borger

What’s the point of a remaster? What should it be? What purpose should it serve? What can a developer accomplish by going back to an old game besides slapping some new paint on it? Why do it? The Talos Principle has always grappled with big questions: What do we owe each other? How should we live? What does it mean to be human? The Talos Principle has always been interested in human existence; it makes sense that Croteam, when deciding to remaster it, would be interested in what this remaster should be.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Die finale Vorschau

2 weeks ago | de.ign.com | Will Borger |Antonia Dreßler

Vor Jahren sagte mir einer meiner Mentoren, dass der wichtigste Teil jeder Geschichte sei, dass sie überrascht. Ein paar Jahre später schrieb einer meiner Lieblingsautoren, dass der Unterschied zwischen einem guten und einem herausragenden Schreiber seine Technik ist - obwohl auch der Schreibstil nichts retten kann, wenn man nicht überzeugt von seiner Geschichte ist. Aber was uns wirklich fesselt, ist Neugierde.
WWE 2K25 Review in Progress

1 month ago | nordic.ign.com | Will Borger

Back in the ring. + When you buy something from this article, IGN Nordic might get a part of the revenue.
WWE 2K25 Review in Progress

1 month ago | ign.com | Will Borger

Few sports are more primed for the whole “being a video game” thing than professional wrestling, but it’s kinda weird when you think about it: the WWE itself is more akin to an elaborately choreographed fight or dance sequence in a movie than it is an actual competition, whereas the goal of the games based on it is to fight to win.
An Interesting Trek Through Alternate History

1 month ago | butwhytho.net | Will Borger

Answer the phone. It starts with the telephone booths, really. Not chronologically, mind you. That starts when I wake up in a tunnel. The questions. Why are these telephone booths everywhere in Atomfall, from the middle of nowhere to the formerly-idyllic-now-occupied-by-a-military group-village. They ring when I get close to them, and the voice on the other end whispers to me and tells me things. Who to trust. What to watch for. That the woods are dangerous. That I shouldn’t trust Mother Jago.
Slime Heroes Review: Little slime, big heart

1 month ago | shacknews.com | Will Borger

Every now and then, you come across an idea for a game that seems like such a no-brainer that you kinda sit and wonder how nobody’s thought to do it before. When it’s sitting in front of you, it seems so obvious. How has it not always been this way? And the answer is simple: because somebody has to do it for the first time. It’s even better when that thing finally happens and it feels like a thing that was made for you.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: The Final Preview

1 month ago | ign.com | Will Borger

Years ago, a mentor told me that the most important part of any story is surprise. A few years later, a writer I deeply respect wrote that perhaps the difference between good and great writing is technique, though even that was probably not as important as conviction. But what keeps us invested in a story is curiosity, the gap between what we know and what we want to know, the questions that drive us. Combine all three, and you tend to create something special.
Moroi Preview: Macabre, Weird, and Mysterious in All the Right Ways

2 months ago | ign.com | Will Borger

I think the first time I really understood what Moroi was, I mean the down-in-your-bones feeling you get when you’re playing something and the lighting bolt of understanding strikes you right on the noggin, was when my character fed himself to a talking meat-grinder because “something inside [him] screams let's do it!” Admittedly, it would have probably been funnier if Moroi had flashed a game over screen, and most games might’ve as a gag, but Moroi plays it straight.
Elden Ring Nightreign is the multiplayer Souls game I've always wanted

2 months ago | shacknews.com | Will Borger

I don’t speak Japanese, but I knew that the guys behind us that did were cheering for us. The whole room was crowded around our demo station, watching us take on the final boss of our Nightreign demo. Our all-press team were only the second group to get here. The other was a group of professional Souls players. You know their names. So there we were, a Duchess, a Wylder (me), and a Guardian, taking on a giant three-headed dog wielding a massive chain attached to a greatsword.
Synduality Echo of Ada Review

2 months ago | nordic.ign.com | Will Borger

The first time I lost my mech in Synduality Echo of Ada was on my second sortie, and a lot of things went wrong. I didn’t buy insurance beforehand and I took way too much stuff out with me because I hit the wrong button, and then I chose not to take a moment to repair right before I got into the encounter that killed me.