Context: Aside from Marathon missing the mark on its early playtests and getting mediocre reviews, Bungie was caught copy/pasting stolen art into a lot of the game’s art and textures. The company is internally under fire.
There’s nothing wrong with inspiration (attribution is nice), but what’s evident is they straight up LIFTED parts of antireal’s art into in-game assets.
Its obvious going off the cinematic trailer that making this another fucking live service game was a mistake. Lots of neat visuals and implied narrative being wasted.
Full title: Ubisoft says you “cannot complain” it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren’t “deceived” by the lack of an offline version “to access a decade-old, discontinued video game”...
“It sounds weird but we try to keep our innovation as low as possible,” the director explained. “We’ll say ‘it’s this game but with that.’ It takes so much time to innovate. Sometimes you find the hidden holy Grail of game design, but often indie developers sit for five years trying out stuff. We’re a studio of...
Tap for full text from the messageHello, @everyone. We regret to inform you of some unfortunate news. Epic Games has decided to delist Dark and Darker from the Epic Games Store. This decision appears to be based on claims made by the opposing party in the ongoing legal dispute. We are currently working to understand the exact...
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The end of Stop Killing Games - The Final Update. [Accursed Farms] (www.youtube.com) angielski
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/31873281...
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Dreamsettler, the follow-up to early internet inspired browser game Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
Stellar Blade on PC Hit 1 Million Sales 19 Times Faster Than on PlayStation 5 (insider-gaming.com) angielski
Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 (www.youtube.com) angielski
Dying Light: The Beast - Gameplay Premiere Trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Be sure to claim it before the offer ends.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days (insider-gaming.com) angielski
New ‘Marathon’ Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans (www.forbes.com) angielski
Context: Aside from Marathon missing the mark on its early playtests and getting mediocre reviews, Bungie was caught copy/pasting stolen art into a lot of the game’s art and textures. The company is internally under fire.
Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Bungie appears to have extensively plagiarized an artist's work in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post (bsky.app) angielski
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/33d904f3-6ae2-46f1-ba36-c56913c7dc88.png...
PlayStation spins out new internal studio from Bungie (www.gamedeveloper.com) angielski
Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games (www.rockstargames.com) angielski
Better title than the other thread. Delayed to 2026!
ARC Raiders Is the Most ‘It’s Fine’ Game We’ve Played in a While - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
Blizzard reportedly taps Nexon to publish Overwatch mobile and a new StarCraft game (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
It’s unclear which genre the StarCraft game will be in. Overwatch Mobile has reportedly been referred to internally as “Overwatch 3,”...
[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems (www.youtube.com) angielski
Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down, but will remain with the company as a member of the board of directors.
Ghost of Yōtei comes to PlayStation 5 on October 2 (blog.playstation.com) angielski
Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
Full title: Ubisoft says you “cannot complain” it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren’t “deceived” by the lack of an offline version “to access a decade-old, discontinued video game”...
Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN (www.ign.com)
PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games (youtube.com) angielski
How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows (archive.ph) angielski
source: linkedin.com/…/assassins-creed-shadows-influencer…?
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 30th
Whatcha all been playing?...
Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 (www.ign.com) angielski
Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today angielski
I genuinely can’t believe Half Life Alyx is five years old....
Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America (cwa-union.org) angielski
Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay" (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
“It sounds weird but we try to keep our innovation as low as possible,” the director explained. “We’ll say ‘it’s this game but with that.’ It takes so much time to innovate. Sometimes you find the hidden holy Grail of game design, but often indie developers sit for five years trying out stuff. We’re a studio of...
EA's Skate Gets Microtransactions Before Its Release Date (www.ign.com) angielski
Of course it does. We all saw it coming.
Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) angielski
Which is an incredible game, and is even more fun to play now than it was in 2014!
Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute (lemmy.world) angielski
Tap for full text from the messageHello, @everyone. We regret to inform you of some unfortunate news. Epic Games has decided to delist Dark and Darker from the Epic Games Store. This decision appears to be based on claims made by the opposing party in the ongoing legal dispute. We are currently working to understand the exact...
Monster Hunter Wilds sales top eight million in three days (www.gematsu.com) angielski
I'm gonna need a new drink angielski