Tag: Activision

  • Destiny 2 Devs: Give Us the World Your Lore Describes

    Destiny 2 Devs: Give Us the World Your Lore Describes

    As Destiny 2 enters its second year, developer Bungie has promised that the game will be much darker with its next expansion, Forsaken. To demonstrate this change in tone, Bungie released a teaser trailer at E3 2018 that showed Vanguard Hunter Cayde-6 getting gunned down – permanently – by Awoken Prince Uldren Sov. Cayde’s death has already…

  • Call of Duty: WWII’s Female Soldier ‘Rousseau’ Deserves Her Own Spin-Off

    Call of Duty: WWII’s Female Soldier ‘Rousseau’ Deserves Her Own Spin-Off

    Call of Duty: WW2 is an awkward game. Its campaign strives to be serious (at one point touching upon the horrors of a concentration camp). On the other hand it offers frenetic multiplayer gameplay and an absurd Nazi Zombie mode. This bizarre juxtaposition has lead to calls for the game’s three distinct modes to get…

  • Empathy for the Devil: Destiny 2’s Manifest Destiny

    Empathy for the Devil: Destiny 2’s Manifest Destiny

    Previously we looked at plain toast, microwave burritos, and how Destiny 2‘s Guardians are basically Mussolini with blue mohawks. It was a grand old adventure, aside from all the brain aneurysms. This time, we go into detail about FashQuest‘s unfortunate portrayal of its alien races. If the idea that art created by humans might reasonably serve as…

  • It’s Not Your Fault You’re Fascist, Destiny 2

    It’s Not Your Fault You’re Fascist, Destiny 2

    I’ve always found the term ‘hate symbol’ misleading. Symbols, like technology, plain toast, and Jaheira from Baldur’s Gate are true neutral. We can charge them with significance or repurpose them, the same way we can use microwaves to heat burritos or build death-rays. Unless you’re Geralt of Rivia, though, a sign with no context is powerless.…

  • The Real Women Resistance Fighters that Inspired Call of Duty: WWII

    The Real Women Resistance Fighters that Inspired Call of Duty: WWII

    After years of meandering about in modern and futurist space wars, Call of Duty is finally going back to its roots – World War II. Whether this is a response to fan complaints or an answer to Battlefield 1 is a matter for debate. Also in response to EA, Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games have…

  • The New Normative Trump Games Comb-over Spectacular

    The New Normative Trump Games Comb-over Spectacular

    Here at New Normative, we’re all about games branching out to niche topics, and there’s nothing stranger than the thought of intelligent coders devoting their time to games featuring the Mango Mussolini himself, Donald Trump. Still, all art has something valuable to say about the human condition, even if it’s just a warning that something,…