'It’s not safe and it’s not easy, but people are drawn to it anyway': Directive 8020's executive producer on why space was the perfect setting for their long-awaited new horror game
Directive 8020 is the first Dark Pictures Anthology game to be set in space, and I spoke to its executive producer about why they wanted to go there.
Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+
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Directive 8020’s rewind feature makes play-your-own-survival-horror easie
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Video Games Weekly: Censorship, shrinkage and a Subnautica scandal
<p><em>Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game tr [...]
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NordVPN Review 2025: Innovative features, a few missteps
<p>When we say that NordVPN is a good VPN that's not quite great, it's important to put that in perspective. Building a good VPN is hard, as evidenced by all the shovelware VPNs floodi [...]