Arkane Studios is 20 years young this year. It's no secret Cook and Becker is deeply enamoured with the games and game art of the studio. Games like Dishonored and Dishonored 2, Prey or the newly announced - and spectacular looking - Deathloop all exude an artistic quality that's rare to find in video games.
Hold on - rare? Perhaps this sounds surprising in an era when most modern-era video games are fantastic-looking? Yet in a sense, they are: most studios take full advantage of the possibilities in graphics display, outdoing one another in their quest for the fastest frame rates or use of groundbreaking ray-tracing technology.
Hold on - rare? Perhaps this sounds surprising in an era when most modern-era video games are fantastic-looking? Yet in a sense, they are: most studios take full advantage of the possibilities in graphics display, outdoing one another in their quest for the fastest frame rates or use of groundbreaking ray-tracing technology.