A laid-back discussion of this week in gaming

Technical issues be damned! Hardline is back and this week I spoke with Hamza Aziz, Steven Hansen, and Dale North about the closure ofIrrational Gamesand forming of co-founder Ken Levine’s new, significantly smaller studio; theDoombeta; Harmonix’s musical first-person shooterChroma; the Twitch Plays Pokémonphenomenon; andThe Order: 1886.

And then we started pitching game ideas to one another, including a Metroidvania bowling game and a stealth dancing title. It got real stupid, real fast.

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A battle scene in Battlefield 6 Open Beta

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A snap of the upcoming MESA update in PEAK

Naked Snake sneaking around in MGS Delta.

Battlefield 6 aiming RPG at a helicopter

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Milla Jovovich portraying Alice in Resident Evil 2002, wearing a red dress and holding a gun in her hand.