Pokemon and the Van Gogh Museum have announced collaboration (www.gamescensor.com)
Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out (boingboing.net)
Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine to acquire a delivery channel and now wears its skin. This is fine for the bigger devs and publishers structured around platform relationships, but for everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… pick a flavor, they're...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind - a platformer where anything you can't see doesn't exist (tymowskyy.itch.io)
Hi! Last month me and a few friends participated in the 1-BIT game jam, the theme of which was light & dark. We really liked how our game turned out and decided to develop it further into a proper demo in the following weeks....
Anybody else in love with the base-control gameplay loop of the middle Far Cry games?
specifically talking about 3, 4, 5, and the “expansion” games like Blood Dragon and New Dawn. And I still haven’t played Far Cry 6 so I can’t comment on that....
Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)
‘It’s too powerful a technology’
Is It Just Impossible to Have an Honest Conversation About Starfield? (www.themarysue.com)
It sure feels impossible to have an honest conversation about Starfield online right now.
How Diversity Won the War: the Western Approaches Tactical Unit Wargame (yt.artemislena.eu)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th
New thread!...
Karting Superstars is in early access now (store.steampowered.com)
New game from the creators of Circuit Superstars. A 3rd person kart racer.
'The Game Just Fundamentally Undermines Itself': Game Designer Breaks Down 'Baldur's Gate 3's Most Fatal Flaws (www.themarysue.com)
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ can be a fantastic experience and a bad game at the same time.
Chart of all puzzles in The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) (mander.xyz)
Link: …wordpress.com/…/game-dependency-graph-the-secret…
Upcoming Metroidvanias (arc.net)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/2570957...
It’s 2023 and Some Gamers Are Trying To Get a PlayStation Employee Fired for Playing an Xbox Game (www.themarysue.com)
Trolls still enlisted int he console wars tried to get streamer, PlayStation employee Alanah Pearce fired for playing an Xbox game.
What's your favorite example of developer's foresight?
My favorite is in the Dawguard DLC for Skyrim. If you somehow get far enough into the DLC to enter the Soul Cairn and you didn’t do the main story quest where you kill your first dragon, you’ll get unique dialogue with a dragon you meet in the Soul Cairn. He calls you Dovahkiin, and you can ask him why he called you that, to...
Steam Games Made with Unity (steamdb.info)
Factorio Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology (factorio.com)
Some more interesting takes on optimization actually, the upcoming expansion / patch continues to look really interesting.
Starfield (Zero Punctuation) (www.youtube.com)
‘Diablo 4’ Has Hotfixed In Huge Changes For Make Leveling To 100 Less Of A Slog (www.forbes.com)
I haven’t played D4 in over a month. There’s a lot of work to be done before I play more than the upcoming seasonal content.
How long would a hand-written password for The Legend of Zelda be? (makertube.net)
Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats (www.theverge.com)
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty receives an all-new cinematic trailer along with new Idris Elba videos (www.gamescensor.com)
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s creative director has revealed where the game ends (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 - YouTube (youtu.be)
Roblox awards canceled, dev arrested after "security concern" (www.gamedeveloper.com)
No one was hurt during the Roblox Developers Conference, and the offending developer was arrested after allegedly fighting the police.
‘Destiny 2’ Is Now Reselling Old Seasonal Cosmetics For Nine Times The Price (www.forbes.com)
Just when I was giving Bungie credit for taking Destiny 2 armor out of Eververse this season and making it an earned, in-game reward, we now have a situation I’d describe as pretty baffling.
