Elden Ring DLC launches to "Mixed" reviews as players bemoan difficulty, PC performance in Shadow of the Erdtree: "There's a big problem with balancing" (www.windowscentral.com)
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....
Fallout 4 upgrade launches to mixed response, with broken mods and bugged Xbox quality mode (www.eurogamer.net)
Games that respect your time.
When I was kid, I could sit in front of TV for hours and sink a day or two away into a game and have no problem having to start the game over from the beginning. Time meant nothing to me and I wasted it like it was a near infinite resource....
Alan Wake 2 director says Remedy's confidence in the game was boosted by Everything Everywhere All At Once (www.pcgamer.com)
Sea of Stars devs remove The Completionist cameo amid charity controversy (www.dexerto.com)
Alan Wake 2's PC requirements may leave AMD RX 5000-series and Nvidia GTX 10-series users high and dry (www.pcgamer.com)
Blizzard will raffle off a human-blood-infused PC if Diablo IV players donate 666 quarts (www.engadget.com)
Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Finally, 3.5 Years After Launch, No One Is Working on Cyberpunk 2077 at CD Projekt (www.ign.com)
I'm finally getting the hang of Sekiro
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. (lemmy.ca)
Here’s the tweet, nitter.poast.org/SteamDB/…/1788981898108182681
$70 games ‘will go the way of the dodo’, believes Saber CEO. The former interim Embracer COO believes developers will move to reduce risk and costs (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Unofficial Link's Awakening PC port put to sleep by Nintendo (www.eurogamer.net)
‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Is Beating ‘Modern Warfare 3’ As The Best-Selling Game Of 2023 (web.archive.org)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will have a voiced main character: 'it draws the player in that much more', says the game's ex-Bioware narrative designer (www.pcgamer.com)
Video game makers aren’t catering for gamers with disabilities, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
US FTC Revives Microsoft-Activision Deal Challenge (www.bloomberg.com)
Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70 (www.ign.com)
Programmers got PSP games running on the PlayStation Portal, then “responsibly reported” the exploit so it could be patched (www.techradar.com)
The latest PlayStation Portal update has supposedly addressed an exploit that allowed PlayStation Portable (PSP) games to be emulated natively on the streaming handheld....
Disco Elysium 2 just got cancelled and ZA/UM self-destroyed (www.youtube.com)
Capcom Asks Players If They Want Sequels to Okami, Dead Rising, Mega Man, and More (www.ign.com)
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is making the utterly bizarre decision to lock New Game+ behind a $15 upgrade (www.pcgamer.com)
Valve accidentally compiled and pushed earliest Left 4 Dead prototype called "Terror Strike" into the latest CS 1.6 update and community figured out how to play it. (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/gabefollower/…/1727585163981340974
One console, one game
If you could only re-experience from new one game (like total immersion, wide-eyed wonder-at-the-majesty-of-it-all re-experience) and had yet to pick a console (Xbox versus PlayStation), what game on which console and why? (and feel free to remark on ideal controllers, add-ons, etc.)...