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PDP's New Wireless Guitar Controller Works With Rock Band 4 and, Eventually, Fortnite Festival (www.ign.com)

Announcellation: Entertainment Media Is Losing Its Mind (The Jimquisition) (youtu.be)

A little opinion piece about the enshitification of the gaming and entertainment industry as Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE!, a mobile, GaaS, launches globally in February, but service will only remain online for three months before it shuts down....

[Ahoy] G36. (www.youtube.com)

Nightingale: The Final Preview - IGN (www.youtube.com)

I literally spoke with Nvidia’s AI-powered video game NPCs (www.theverge.com)

Dead Game News: The Crew is being shut down permanently in April. (www.youtube.com)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Final Release Date Announcement (steamcommunity.com)

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 has officially begun! (gamesdonequick.com)

Yuzu - Progress Report December 2023 (yuzu-emu.org)

Cult of the Lamb: Sins of the Flesh - Release Date Trailer (www.youtube.com)

Coming for free on January 16.

Game genres where "It's just more X content" is more than enough

We get a lot of sequels in the gaming world, and a common criticism is when a series isn’t really innovating enough. We’re given an open world game that takes 40 hours, with DLC stretching it out 20 more, and see a sequel releasing that cut out it’s late 30 hours because players were already getting bored....

NCSOFT has officially granted Homecoming a license to host City of Heroes (forums.homecomingservers.com)

A record 14,000+ games were released on Steam in 2023 (www.videogameschronicle.com)

To me, the interesting bit here is less about Steam in particular, but about the industry overall....

Family Group Games

So over the Christmas holiday I built a PC for my daughter (12) and my wife (35). I’ve been trying to find a game that we can all play and would enjoy together....

Square Enix's New Year's Letter for 2024 Barely Mentions Games (www.playstationlifestyle.net)

They’re really excited about AI.

Best of Steam 2023: The Year's Top Games measured by Gross Revenue (store.steampowered.com)

I’m really surprised Remnant 2 is platinum. I knew it was popular, but to be up there with the best selling AAA games is impressive.

Steam Year in Review for 2023 now available (store.steampowered.com)

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Ranked Matchmaking Update Trailer (youtu.be)

Steam - Square Enix Winter Sale (store.steampowered.com)

How Baldur's Gate 3 Becomes Game of the Year? (youtu.be)

VCMI 1.4.1 Released (github.com)

VCMI is an open-source implementation of Heroes of Might and Magic III game engine. It has linux, macOS, android and iOS support and provides various QOL improvements from UI to improved mod support....