Latest Baldur's Gate 3 update adds colour-blind settings, hireling customisation and best of all, sponge baths (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age (www.factorio.com)
Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
In the latest unredacted document oopsie stemming from the US Federal Trade Commission's efforts to stop Microsoft acqu…
Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game (www.gamesradar.com)
Something Wicked Games snatches another veteran for their horror-RPG
Valve loses a court case in the EU and has to pay 1.6 million euros in fines for geoblocking (mezha.media)
Workers Accuse Sega Of Threatening Mass Layoffs Over Unionizing (kotaku.com)
Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom (www.eurogamer.net)
It’s real. After all those years.
ROCKSMITH 2014 LEAVING STORES - Ubisoft (www.ubisoft.com)
You may want to know that Ubisoft’s Rocksmith® 2014 Edition will be de-listed from Steam after October 23rd, 2023 which is one week from this post date. This is a game that makes learning to play the guitar like Guitar Hero/Rockband, which can score you or let you slowly practice a part with scrolling fret indicators....
PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter (techraptor.net)
Sony Interactive Entertainment sent a message via the PS5 and PS4's advisory systems mentioning that the consoles won't support X (formerly Twitter) integration anymore.
How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023 (www.ign.com)
Among Us’ first new map in over two years brings beaches, mushrooms and toasty marshmallows (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
From the article:...
Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures (www.kotaku.com.au)
“Just upgrade your PC”
Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs and More (bethesda.net)
TL;DR:...
Tomb Raider 1, 2 and 3 getting remasters early next year (kotaku.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Patch #2 Now Live! - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine (www.pcgamer.com)
Nyrna - a Linux/Windows tool to suspend/resume games and applications (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6862577...
Microsoft Pleased With Hi-Fi Rush Success, Plans To Reinvest In Tango Gameworks (twistedvoxel.com)
Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster (www.theverge.com)
Remember that these were estimates from more than three years ago and before Microsoft completed its acquisition of ZeniMax in March 2021, so there’s always the chance that some of these plans have changed dramatically or been scrapped entirely. But they may provide an early look at some of the games we can look forward to...
Fan Ports PlayStation Classic [WipeOut], Dares Sony To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own (kotaku.com)
WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation when it launched back in 1995. The anti-gravity racing game was phenomenal. Now it’s abandoned. So one dedicated programmer took it upon himself to excavate the game’s leaked source code and make it playable for free in any web browser....
Sea of Stars sold 100,000 copies on day one (twitter.com)
People were worried that big games releasing these few weeks would overshadow indie games. Seems like that’s luckily not the case.
A Hades player defies the gods, completes ‘impossible’ run (www.polygon.com)
"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Accessible hardware is on the rise, so why are so many disabled players being left behind? We investigate the state of …
StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS (www.pcgamer.com)
While Blizzard is very much focussed on its big money-makers like its various Warcraft games, from WoW to Hearthstone to Warcraft Rumble, as well as Diablo and the much-maligned Overwatch 2, he’s still open to StarCraft making a comeback. That said, RTS fans shouldn’t get their hopes up. While the series might return, that...
