In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)
After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.
No More Avatar Reckoning, it has been cancelled (gengamer.in)
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Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings (www.dsogaming.com)
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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)
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Remedy acquires full rights to the Control franchise from 505 (www.destructoid.com)
Today, on February 28, nearly five years after Control’s initial launch, Remedy Entertainment, the team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series, released an announcement regarding a deal between them and 505 Games, detailing a full transition to Remedy acquiring full rights to the franchise. While Remedy...
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Helldivers 2 Devs to Begin Rolling Out Updates to Fix the 'Most Serious Issues' on PS5 and PC (www.ign.com)
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Capcom is worried that mods “offensive to public order and morals” will ‘tarnish’ the rep of their PC games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles (www.polygon.com)
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How Do You Deal With Thumb Stick Drift? (lemmy.world)
So I like to use Xbox controllers (doesn’t matter if it’s first- or third-party) because I like the layout, it’s just comfortable to me. However I’ve noticed that on all my controllers in the past few years, the left thumb stick will start to “give out” over the course of a couple months. For instance I’ll be...
Microsoft Confirms Plans To Release Xbox First Party Games “Across All Platforms”, Including PlayStation (twistedvoxel.com)
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Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell" (www.gamesradar.com)
What’s interesting to me is of course how cheaply Bioshock got made compared to today’s blockbuster hits. Somewhere, we took the wrong turn in regards to modern game development, truly....
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An Important Update about Riot’s Future (www.riotgames.com)
TLDR: Riot is downscaling. The severance package is great but it’s another round of layoffs in the industry....
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The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 17-08-2023 (lemmy.world)
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Xbox is still committed to making consoles, says boss Phil Spencer (www.eurogamer.net)
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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Devs Say Miles Morales Is the 'Main' Spider-Man From Now On - IGN (www.ign.com)
The developers of hit PS5 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 say Miles Morales is the "main" Spider-Man from now on, which has caused some fans to speculate about what Insomniac may do with the inevitable Spider-Man 3.
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Use of AMD Anti-Lag+ technology in Counter Strike 2 will result in a VAC Ban, Valve confirms (videocardz.com)
AMD has made an oversight in implementing their new technology that poses a significant issue for Counter Strike 2 players who have opted to utilize AMD’s AntiLag+. Recently, AMD introduced a new 23.10.1 driver allowing players to access this technology in the game. However, it has now been confirmed that utilizing this...
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The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X (insider-gaming.com)
According to documents from Microsoft's recent case against the FTC, the Xbox Series S is more popular than the Xbox Series X
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Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea (blog.twitch.tv)
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Stardew Valley creator confirms he's made "a ton of progress" on update 1.6 (www.eurogamer.net)
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