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Arkane Studios director Harvey Smith has claimed that the company was working on a PS5 version of upcoming vampire shooter Redfall, but it was cancelled when Microsoft acquired parent company Bethesda Softworks. Speaking to IGN France, Smith shared that Redfall – now an Xbox and PC exclusive – was originally meant to launch on PS5 as well. “We got bought by Microsoft and that was a huge sea change,” Smith revealed. “They said, ‘no PlayStation 5. Now we’re gonna do Game Pass, Xbox, and PC.’” However, Smith added that…

Right before I got to go hands-on for 90 minutes with Redfall, Xbox’s big spring exclusive, creative director Harvey Smith set the stage by introducing a new trailer focusing on the first-person shooter’s story. All I knew about the narrative up until then was that there was some failed experiment that turned a small Massachusetts fishing town into a vampire’s paradise. I’d soon learn that the real catalyst is much more politically charged: A group of ultra-rich elites working at a pharmaceuticals company called…

When Arkane Studios' Prey was first announced, it was met with confusion over whether the game was a follow-up to 2006's Prey, a critically-acclaimed first-person shooter developed by Human Head Studios. After it was revealed that the two games shared no connection, some speculated as to why Arkane would choose to title its upcoming game the same name. However, as revealed by former Arkane director Raphaël Colantonio, the development studio had no say in the matter.As reported by Kotaku, Colantonio has…

Sit down to a Redfall interview with the game’s developers When Arkane announced its new open-world shooter, Redfall, I think it’s safe to say that we were all pretty excited, even if we don’t know exactly what to expect. Well, the studio is helping us out on that front, because they’ve just released a deep-dive interview in conjunction with Xbox as part of QuakeCon 2022 that provides players with all kinds of details as to what it’ll be like to play Redfall, including environments, character skills, and weapons.…