The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook (www.pcgamer.com)
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Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release (www.eurogamer.net)
Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers is a gorgeous free SNES-style arcade racer, built using Doom Legacy (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
You can get it here: www.kartkrew.org/index.html
After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream (www.gamesradar.com)
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered undoes “inadvertent” censorship (archive.ph)
DL: nichegamer.com/tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered-undoe…
My solo project roguelike tower defense game is having a free prologue (store.steampowered.com)
Hello, I've been working on the game, Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD, for almost a year now. I'm about to release the game after Steam's Next Fest in June. And I'm about to release a free version of it, a prologue in May 8th. You can wishlist the prologue now to get notified on the launch day....
Activision Blizzard boosts Microsoft financials as Xbox hardware revenue falls (www.gamedeveloper.com)
More Personal Computing (which houses Xbox) revenue increased by 17% year-on-year during Q3 to $15.6 billion....
Dome Keeper is getting a major content update and multiplayer is coming (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Fallout 4 Next-Gen Update Rolling Out Now (www.ign.com)
Remedy Makes Changes to Core Management Team, Wants to Grow Alan Wake and Control into Larger Franchises (wccftech.com)
This morning, Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment announced a couple of key changes to its core management team. First and foremost, Chief Operations Officer Christopher Schmitz has resigned and will leave the company on May 31....
Is Bandle the new Wordle? Song-guessing game builds buzz online (www.nbcnews.com)
Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown (store.steampowered.com)
Holy shit, I can’t even imagine the amount of mods that will get erased. There were so many fan-mods, maps, minigames, models… Fucking Nintendo…
Lars Wingefors on why Embracer is going away, and what happens next [gamesindustry.biz] (www.gamesindustry.biz)
For those who missed it, Embracer is split into three new publicly-traded companies, Asmodee Group (focused on board games) and two tentatively-named groups comprising their video game business. Wingefors, the CEO, and still (I believe) majority share holder of these three new companies, doesn’t do many interviews....
A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century (www.pcgamer.com)
Cities Skylines 2: "Beach properties assets are all gone and my city is screwed. Thanks a lot." (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
It doesn’t stop. It just never stops.
Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets (www.theverge.com)
The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live (www.aph.gov.au)
Just like the UK variant, this is an official government petition to look into the issue. Unlike the UK variant, the only signature threshold is 50 signatures - that said, more is better in this case....
Embracer Group announces its intention to transform into three standalone publicly listed entities at Nasdaq Stockholm - Embracer Group (embracer.com)
INSIDE INFORMATION: The Board of Directors of Embracer Group AB (“Embracer Group”) today announces a transformative step for value creation through a separation of the group into three market-leading games and entertainment companies: Asmodee Group, “Coffee Stain & Friends”[1] and “Middle-earth Enterprises &...
LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms (www.ign.com)
RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.
Palestinian Relief Bundle by ghosthunter and 358 others (itch.io)
All proceeds from the Palestinian Relief indie bundle will be donated to the PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund)....
No Rest For The Wicked's first hotfix addresses durability and repair cost complaints (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
7 Days to Die is leaving Early Access (steamcommunity.com)
World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true (www.pcgamer.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3's Patch 7 Will Add New Endings (kotaku.com)
The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
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