10 Things That Make No Sense About The World Of Starfield

October 28 marked 20 years of the Call of Duty series, as part of which some of the key designers  have been talking about the greatest moments. The foundation for its overwhelming success, however, will always be original developer Infinity Ward, in particular the leap forward the studio made with the Modern Warfare series. It delivered an unforgettable and oft-controversial singleplayer campaign reflecting one view of contemporary geopolitics, alongside a best-in-class multiplayer experience that the wider series has followed ever since.

After 9 years of bafflingly inconsistent icons screwing up the best-laid fashion plans, Bungie is trying to make Destiny 2's shaders a little more consistent starting with The Final Shape expansion due next year. 

Counter-Strike 2, the first direct sequel to one of the most important games in PC history, released on September 27 after roughly six months in a limited test period. PC Gamer recently had the chance to ask the Counter-Strike 2 development team at Valve a wide-ranging bunch of questions about the game, its history, and its future: and one of those was about a weird crossover with one of the most despised technologies on the fringes of gaming. 

The possessed-animatronics horror video game Five Nights at Freddy’s is less than a decade old, but a movie version has been in the works almost since the game launched, which seems especially protracted for a development process. Warner Bros. bought the movie rights in 2015, and the project moved over to Blumhouse a couple of years later. Game creator Scott Cawthon wrote and rewrote the script, while kid-horror filmmakers like Gil Kenan (Monster House) and Chris Columbus (Gremlins, the first Harry Potter and Percy Jackson movies) signed on and jumped off the project.

Skyrim design lead Bruce Nesmith, who's now ex-Bethesda after leaving the studio during Starfield's development, reckons the iconic RPG largely kickstarted the open-world-ification of games.

Regions play a big part of defining the series, but the games don't always do a perfect job of rendering their settings in a way that makes sense. Earlier titles all featured regions based on areas of Japan, while later entries have taken on a number of other cultural inspirations. Although the prevailing influence of one real-world environment can always be felt in a region, certain elements can feel anatopic in a way that ultimately doesn't make complete sense.

As spotted by DSO Gaming, Nexus Mods user Korodic has recently uploaded a mod for Starfield that incorporates dead body collision. In the vanilla experience, once a character ceases to be, they also cease to have any physical form, making it possible for others to just glide right through them.

Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service director Matthew Vaughn says he's been in communication about DC and James Gunn.

Last time we were messing around with Ryujin, we infiltrated Celt Corp, planted a bug, and dipped before anyone found out. In this next exciting episode (mission) in Starfield, you are taking to the stars, heading to Akila, and slipping some damning evidence in a locker just before an audit. It’s all go in the word of corporate espionage. 

The Big Indie Pitch is a regular event run by the makers of Pocket Gamer and PC Games Insider. It sees indie developers engage in a speed-dating-styled pitching competition for fame and those sweet, sweet promotional packages.

The U.S. government is near the halfway mark in its court battle with Alphabet's Google, which it has accused of breaking antitrust law with the tactics it used to dominate online search and some aspects of advertising.

Warner Bros. has dropped a brand new trailer for the highly-anticipated musical prequel starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet as the titular chocolatier who dreams of changing the world with his inventions and chocolate.