RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Developers and experts in CRPGs give us their takes on why Baldur's Gate 3 and RPGs in general seize the public's imagi…
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator (www.theverge.com)
Night In The Woods Devs Cancel Highly Anticipated Follow-Up (kotaku.com)
The game got cancelled after the co-creator got sick. Get well soon, Benson....
BattleBit Remastered :: Update 2.0.0: Universal Healing, Map Reworks, New Vehicle [and] more! (steamcommunity.com)
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That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League (kotaku.com)
Microsoft may lose $120 million due to the Overwatch League shutdown (www.windowscentral.com)
PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan stepping down in March (www.polygon.com)
Ryan has led Sony Interactive Entertainment since 2019
Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
The confirmed pricing is:...
Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 (www.tomshardware.com)
For context: DirectX support in Intel’s ARC GPUs were really lacking due to running on a transition layer, it was one of the sore spots of their new graphics card. This update looks like it will help massively.
Diablo® IV is coming to Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Rockstar Games regarding Grand Theft Auto VI (twitter.com)
We are very excited to let you know now that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto. We look forward to many more years of sharing these experiences with all of you....
Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/3417167
Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya thinks Japanese devs should be proud of 'JRPG' (www.gamesradar.com)
Microsoft will sell Activision Blizzard streaming rights to Ubisoft (www.eurogamer.net)
Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off the level of optimization achieved for the Xbox Series S port, which bodes well for future PC updates (www.pcgamer.com)
Square Enix share price drops amid claims Final Fantasy 16 didn’t meet ‘high end’ expectations (www.videogameschronicle.com)
EA Sports has delisted its FIFA back catalogue from digital storefronts (www.videogameschronicle.com)
EA has stopped paying for the FIFA license, which is why their next game is called EA Sports FC (Football Club)...
Steam Deck OLED is now available (store.steampowered.com)
OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible (insider-gaming.com)
Report: Bungie CEO blames layoffs on waning interest in Destiny 2 (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Bungie CEO Claims Layoffs Were Due to Destiny 2 Underperformance - IGN (www.ign.com)
In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.
FTC permits Fortnite players to get refunds for in-game purchases (www.gamedeveloper.com)
After its settlement with the FTC late last year, Epic Games is giving $245 million of that settlement money back to Fortnite players via refunds.
AI in big budget games is inevitable, say dev vets from Assassin's Creed and Everquest 2: 'Developers hate it … the money is still going to drive absolutely everybody to do it' (www.pcgamer.com)
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.