'Elder Scrolls Online: Lamenting a challenge-free landscape' - article by Biobreak blog (biobreak.wordpress.com)
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn mixes fantasy and gunpowder – Review (wordpress.com)
World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailies (freedomproject.pages.dev)
Wreckfest 2 officially announced at THQ Nordic showcase (wolfsgamingblog.com)
Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
I commissioned some butterflies 3, a psychedelic "where is Waldo" style game, released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
New Darksiders game teased by THQ Nordic (wolfsgamingblog.com)
Rimworld: Naked and alone. - Article by Biobreak blog (biobreak.wordpress.com)
Game Informer shuts down after 33 years (www.gematsu.com)
Microsoft and Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard to work on smaller 'AA' games based on existing IP (www.windowscentral.com)
Halo on the Gameboy Color (sofaswordsman.itch.io)
Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
Note that it’s not cancelled, they’re just asking for more time and don’t know when it will release.
ROMhacking.net Moves to News Only, Database and File Archive Released to Internet Archive (www.romhacking.net)
The Sinking City 2 - Announce Trailer | Preview 2024 (invidious.incogniweb.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/26148658...
Xbox @ gamescom 2024: Xbox returns to gamescom on August 21 with over 50 titles to check out. (news.xbox.com)
[FAKE NEWS] "I could literally cry right now…": Bloodborne Hits PC as Fans Take the Decision Out of Sony and Hidetaka Miyazaki's Control (fandomwire.com)
Kitsune Tails, the colorful platformer inspired by Super Mario 3, is out now (store.steampowered.com)
The “gay furry weeb mario game” (as described by the dev) not only offers lots of platforming action, but also comes prepackaged with tools to create custom levels and mini-games (which honestly are kinda bonkers, judging from the dev’s previews)...
Fryin' Up Some Arctic Eggs (piped.smnz.de)
Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot (games.slashdot.org)
Bungie lays off 220 people, will set up spin-off studio (wolfsgamingblog.com)
Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer (arstechnica.com)
"The New Path for Bungie", 220 people, 17% of Bungie, laid off (www.bungie.net)
They are no longer going to be any form of independent from Sony/PlayStation anymore. The Final Shape’s sales were never going to be able to prevent this from happening, says Jeff Grubb on his morning news show (paraphrased).
Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow (www.eurogamer.net)
Finally, on 27th July, Blow noted the “whole industry is having a hard time” and then, when asked how many of his development team are working on the compiler for programming language Jai, Blow replied: “None, because we can’t afford to pay anyone because the sales are bad.”...
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure Reviews [78/100] (opencritic.com)
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Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties has quietly become one of the best historical Total War games ever (www.pcgamer.com)
