“Has anyone here played Thief?  No?  That’s what I (thought) though.”   That’s just one of the many comments on the YouTube trailers for Bethesda’s upcoming first-person stealth game, Dishonored.  Yes, it plays out a lot like Eidos Montreal’s Thief series, and many gamers think that this October 2012 release will be a good diversion until the fourth installment of Thief comes out.  But knowing Bethesda, we’re sure there will be a few key [...]

  At this point I suppose everybody heard about Dishonored, a “neo-Victorian/Steampunk” First person action, developed by Arkane Studios (guys behind Bioshock 2 or Arx Fatalis) and published by Bethesda.  The game seems to have a Deus Ex play-style, though (from videos) with more detailed possibilities. The combinations of multiple supernatural powers of main character Corvo Atano, who is accused of Empress assassination, will allow for a very wide variety of actions – for example freezing time [...]

Bethesda set the gaming world ablaze yesterday by posting a solitary game image on their Twitter feed along with a cryptic tweet that simply stated “Tomorrow.” Well, tomorrow has come, and for eager fans who wholeheartedly believed that Bethesda would be announcing the first DLC for Skyrim, they’ll have to accept the trailer for the upcoming first-person action game Dishonored as a consolation prize. Unfortunately for fans, Dishonored is not a new game by Bethesda. [...]