Dishonored

Steam News · Jul 7

While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future

Yesterday, Xbox announced that they were spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring, with 1600 jobs instantly chopped and 1600 more layoffs to follow over the next financial year. It's the latest in a string of failures on the part of Xbox leadership, who have repeatedly butchered the division after an evidently overambitious acquisition spree tha...

Steam News · May 26

"It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap

Dishonored co-directors Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith seem like good mates. In a newly published YouTube let's play of their creation, they sit side by side, both dressed in black t-shirts like a married couple who've gone to great pains to coordinate their threads. Would that still be the case if their efforts to make Thief 4 and a Blade Runner game respectively hadn't ended up being mashed...

Steam News · May 24

Arkane's Dishonored always felt like a secret Thief sequel, and that's because it started life as one

Dishonored remains my personal favorite of Arkane Austin's lineup. I appreciated the studio's take on Prey, and even have a playthrough of Redfall under my belt (I'll maintain it had the foundations of something great, though it never stuck the landing). It's the 2012 sneak-em-up that won my heart, however. Atmospheric and stylish, it manages to walk the line between freeform stealth game, immersi...

Steam News · Jul 6, 2025

Dishonored director calls Game Pass an "unsustainable model" for the industry

Arkane founder and Dishonored co-director Raphaël Colantonio says Xbox Game Pass is an "unsustainable model" that's been damaging the videogame industry for years, and that it can't continue to exist alongside other similar subscriptions. Colantonio adds that Game Pass should be an avenue for access to the back catalogue, because otherwise it just hurts videogames at large. Read the rest of the st...

Steam News · Apr 3, 2025

Arkane's founder is open to the idea of making Dishonored 3, just don't place any bets on it actually happening

Much like many of you, I suspect, I too would love a Dishonored 3, but I'm not entirely confident it will ever happen. Arkane Austin was obviously shut down last year, and Arkane Lyon are making a Blade game, which leaves little room for a Dishonored sequel. But is there any possibility of one happening all the same? Well, still no, probably, but Arkane Studios founder and Dishonored co-creator Ra...

Steam News · Feb 4, 2025

Sci-fi RPG with Fallout vibes unveiled by former Dishonored developers

It's anyone's guess when we'll see another Fallout, so some former developers of Prey (2017) and Dishonored are working on a retro-futuristic project that may just fill the gap. So far, it sounds like a mixture of Bethesda's post-nuclear role-playing game, Weird West, and the aforementioned beloved immersive sims, but it might be a ways off yet. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dishono...

Steam News · Nov 23, 2024

Dishonored director says Metacritic lifts up "boring games" as Stalker 2 suffers

Arkane founder and Dishonored co-creative director Raphaël Colantonio says the Metacritic scoring ecosystem encourages devs to make "safe, boring games," while launches like Stalker 2 suffer in overall scoring at launch due to bugs and technical problems. Colantonio calls lower launch scores impacted by bugs "misleading" because these technical issues can be fixed further down the line, while the ...

Steam News · Aug 12, 2024

Are Skyrim and Baldur's Gate 3 immersive sims? If you're asking one of the guys that created Dishonored, yes

The infinite debate about what is and isn't an immersive sim continues to rage on, as one of the co-creators of Dishonored says he thinks Skyrim is one. Immersive sim, as a genre, is a really hard one to define. I'm not even going to try to define it in any meaningful way for you, I just know that games like Thief, Dishonored, and Deus Ex fit within that genre. It's a type of game that has major q...

Steam News · Aug 8, 2024

Prey and Dishonored devs have a new ARPG and playtest signups are open

It's hardly the feature for which Dishonored is most keenly remembered, but back in 2012, I was very impressed by 'The Heart.' You hold it up, you point it at an enemy, and it tells you something about them, something from deep within their soul. Suddenly, they're not just an NPC - they're a person, and the stabbing you're about to inflict becomes heavy with implication. From two of the key develo...

Steam News · May 16, 2024

First official portrait of the King makes him look like a video game villain, so of course it's already been modded into Dishonored

King Charles unveiled the first official portrait of himself since his coronation earlier this week, and uh, he only looks a little bit like an Elden Ring boss. I'm not quite sure who told the artist behind Charles' first portrait as King to make him look like he is engulfed in the flames of hell, but that's pretty much exactly how it came out. If the painting was of anyone other than a royal fami...