Patch 7.0 Notes (Preliminary) (na.finalfantasyxiv.com)
Pre-order access is scheduled to go live at 09:00 UTC on the 28th with the full release following at ~09:00 UTC on the 2nd.
Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior (www.linkedin.com)
I cannot share specific numbers, but I can say that we had an internal metric we were aiming for that had been approved, and that we exceeded that number by a significant portion. We also got a thumbs up a few weeks before launch.
So I just tried the demo for Tactical Breach Wizards, and that's... actually really really genius (store.steampowered.com)
I like this. A lot. I mean as far as I can judge it just from the demo....
Capes has released, XCOM-like TBS with unique superhero characters - Reviews: 77 average, 75% recommended (opencritic.com)
Game Information...
Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update VII: European Cities 2 (www.flightsimulator.com)
Bringing remodellings of:...
[IGN - Review in progress] Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game (www.ign.com)
Actually… sounds quite interesting. Like a more casual and chaotic take on DbD, which to me at least sounds like exactly what that formula could use.
IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell (aftermath.site)
Welp, this didn’t take long....
Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended] (opencritic.com)
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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Elsie | Guardian Voice Actor Reveal Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Absolutely fantastic to see Shelby in there! 🤩
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....
Bethesda Quietly Removes Denuvo DRM from Ghostwire: Tokyo (www.ign.com)
Talk about having essentially forgotten about it. I bet!...
Deliver Us Mars: Ultimately just not enjoyable
So I finally got around to trying out Deliver Us Mars, having never played the predecessor but having a fair few friends rave about it (the previous game) being this rough but amazing gem....
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.
Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’ (fortune.com)
Better late than never! 🥳
Meet the REAL Sniper (TF2 voice actor video) (www.youtube.com)
Against the Storm - Update 1.3 Sneak Peek & Experimental Update (store.steampowered.com)
Basically hearths are getting species-specific upgrades which also makes organizing who moves close to which hearth easier (so slightly more micro early game, but less late game in each stage)....
Age of Wonders 4 - Wolf 1.3 Update (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
Eternal Strands announced (by former Dragon Age devs), coming to PC, Playstation, XBox (www.eternalstrandsgame.com)
Short description:...
Horizon Forbidden West is now available on PC (store.steampowered.com)
Releases for €60 in my local currency, so far it seems on a technical level it’s done well enough, FPS seems stable except during cutscenes (oddly enough, a lot report dropping to 30 or lower)....
Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) (kotaku.com)
Well, this is hardly unexpected....
Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)
Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I’m no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!
Temtem will stop (most) development later this year, monetization will be removed at a later date. (store.steampowered.com)
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Title Update 3 (www.ubisoft.com)
Releases 1st of March, at 10:00 UTC....
Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
The report comes from Cyber Daily, who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games. The site claims that new ransomware group Mogilevich are the culprits, as per the screencap of a darkweb posting above, and that the hackers are now trying to get Epic or another party to pay up for the return of...
