Project Gorgon’s Sandra Powers on the MMORPG’s features, its fiscal future, and the broader genre (massivelyop.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....
I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Ah, it recently announced a $48,000 spaceship bundle, the latest in an ongoing line, which contains every ship in the game and is apparently only accessible to those who’ve already spent $1,000…
MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? (i.imgur.com)
20(23) Games You Should Have Played (youtu.be)
TLDW;...
Dragon's Dogma 2 - 18 Minutes of Fighter, Thief, Warrior, and Sorcerer Gameplay (youtu.be)
Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes (gamerant.com)
An Xbox player was given a year-long ban for recording nude scenes in Baldur’s Gate 3....
CD Projekt Is Not Interested in Being Acquired (www.ign.com)
Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2?
So recently I was thinking how games with pixel art graphics are popular nowadays, and I was wondering if there are new games being made with other kinds of “retro” graphics, for example, games that look like the PS1 or PS2 eras....
Dave The Diver Surpasses 3 Million Sales (www.gameinformer.com)
The Best, Worst and Blandest of 2023 | Fully Ramblomatic (www.youtube.com)
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 accidentally announced early for Xbox Game Pass (www.dexerto.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award (store.steampowered.com)
Game of the Year Award - Baldur’s Gate 3...
Frogwares is now publisher of The Sinking City (www.gamesindustry.biz)
The news comes years after the eldritch horror maker’s dispute with publisher Nacon began. In 2020, the studio pulled The Sinking City from all stores, accusing Nacon of missing payments, holding back €1 million in royalties, and claiming IP rights to the game – something the studio insisted had always belonged to it....
Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris (www.polygon.com)
Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage (massivelyop.com)
Sony fined €13.5m by French antitrust regulator (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Square Enix's New Year's Letter for 2024 Barely Mentions Games (www.playstationlifestyle.net)
They’re really excited about AI.