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...
It’s been a while since I looked at a main series Pokémon game and thought, “That looks nice.” This includes last week’s full reveal of Pokémon Legends Z-A, which going from the first bit of footage seems to feature a lot of hazy-edged grey rooftops, futurist UI, and eerily smooth NPCs, and not a lot of consistent,...
Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has criticised a fan, and “people like them”, for complaining about a returning character’s updated appearance.
If Jason Hall is still out there and sitting on cash, I’d love to see him get some of the team back together and reboot Blood. But my understanding is WB owns the rights and Atari couldn’t afford to get the rights (they still hold the publish rights from the Infogrames days, hence why we got a re-release).
I refunded the game last week because it didn’t capture me like I was hoping. I hope the guy comes out of prison to be a better person, but it sounds like I dodged a big bullet.
PlayStation spins out new internal studio from Bungie (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games (www.rockstargames.com)
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)
Blizzard reportedly taps Nexon to publish Overwatch mobile and a new StarCraft game (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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)
Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO (www.pcgamer.com)
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)
Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer (www.youtube.com)
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)
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)
How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows (archive.ph)
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)
Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today
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)
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)
“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)
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)
From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)
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)
Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute (lemmy.world)
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)
I'm gonna need a new drink
Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't (www.eurogamer.net)
It’s been a while since I looked at a main series Pokémon game and thought, “That looks nice.” This includes last week’s full reveal of Pokémon Legends Z-A, which going from the first bit of footage seems to feature a lot of hazy-edged grey rooftops, futurist UI, and eerily smooth NPCs, and not a lot of consistent,...
‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has criticised a fan, and “people like them”, for complaining about a returning character’s updated appearance.
GOG's billboard in Times Square, NYC (lemmy.world)
Nice to see a platform like GOG becoming so proactive these last 12 or so months (or, more so than they were previously)...
BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. (bsky.app)
Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game....
Favourite Metroid game?
My favourite Metroid game has got to be Zero Mission on the GBA....
GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke". (htxt.co.za)
GameStop is hoping somebody will buy its Canadian and French operations....
If you like to have darker music (but not necessarily heavy music) while gaming, try this playlist (open.spotify.com)
The genre is called DARKWAVE btw
Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Here’s a summary of my take on this situation: 🤬
Walking into Monday with a level-entry quip (beehaw.org)
Gex Quip
It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The beatings will continue until the skill improves
After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (www.androidauthority.com)
Fortune's Run development put on hold because the dev is going to prison (steamcommunity.com)
All the Games Reportedly Set for Release on Nintendo Switch 2 - IGN (www.ign.com)