PC gaming getting worse every year (www.xda-developers.com)
Todd Howard Said Fallout Won't Leave The United States (insider-gaming.com)
Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)
Searches for 'Suicide Squad refund' surge 791% following the game's early access launch 'disaster' (www.windowscentral.com)
Gaming Industry Faces Peril Due to New Regulations – Are China’s Stricter Gaming Policies a Blueprint for Global Change? (thetechbasic.com)
Portal: Revolution (mod) - Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Former Starfield dev says all decisions on Bethesda RPGs "run through" Todd Howard: "He would hate, hate, hate me for saying that" (www.gamesradar.com)
American McGee says they were "emotionally quite destroyed" by EA canceling Alice Asylum, and now they can't touch the IP "for the rest of [their] life (www.gamesradar.com)
Unity to Cap Runtime Fee to 4% of Revenue Over $1M, Users Will Self-Report Figures (wccftech.com)
The overhauled Runtime Fee policy plan being considered by Unity Technologies will cap the fee to 4% of the game's revenues over $1 million....
PSA: A website called SteamHistory enables stalkers through Steam mass data harvesting. Here's how stalkers found me despite creating a new, private, anonymous account.
cross-posted from: lemmy.cafe/post/4800845...
Japanese indie dev tells randoms begging for keys and offering exposure to 'buy it, you piece of garbage' (www.pcgamer.com)
In a recent FAQ spotted by Automaton, Housenka responded to a hypothetical of “I’ll promote you, give me a Steam key” with a delightfully blunt: “Buy it, you piece of garbage.” Or, as Automaton translates it from the original Japanese, “Buy the game, you piece of sh*t.” I can’t decide which I like better,...
Helldivers II US sales went up yet again during its 3rd week in market. An honest-to-goodness inverse decay curve so far... (twitter.com)
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Unity is laying off 25% of its workforce in what it's calling a 'company reset' (www.pcgamer.com)
Roughly 1,800 people are being put out of work, but hey, at least the share price is going up.
Todd Howard says it took 7 years to make Starfield fun to play: "I thought we would find the answers faster" (www.gamesradar.com)
Modder converts entire Fallout New Vegas map to Fallout 4's engine (www.eurogamer.net)
Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added (www.gamesradar.com)
Elden Ring Publisher Addresses Difficulty Criticism of Shadow of the Erdtree, Offers Tips for DLC (gameinfinitus.com)
Beyond Good and Evil has been delisted on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
XCOM developers start new studio to take on The Sims (www.theverge.com)
‘Escape From Tarkov’ Fans Are Outraged At New $250 Pay-To-Win Edition (www.forbes.com)
Starfield Is About to Get Some Really Good Updates Soon, Says Howard (wccftech.com)
No Man's Sky fans playfully plead with Hello Games not to "overpromise" as lead dev describes new game Light No Fire as "the first real open world" (www.gamesradar.com)
What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?
The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...
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....
