Indie Game Publisher Humble Games Reportedly Lays Off All Staff (www.gamespot.com)
AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry (www.wired.com)
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How Crow Country Captured the Survival Horror Energy of 1996 (remapradio.com)
Call of Duty finally comes to Game Pass with Modern Warfare 3 release (www.polygon.com)
Roblox’s Pedophile Problem (archive.ph)
Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron?
Lately I’ve been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I’ve been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?...
Netflix has 80+ games in development and plans to release "about one new title per month" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 21st
Happy late thread day! Yesterday I participated in a relay triathlon and was way too pooped to do the thread, sorry!...
Epic Adds Ugly Tesla Cybertruck To Fortnite (kotaku.com)
Uhhhh...King? (beehaw.org)
[alt text: a screenshot from Mario Golf. Daisy is preparing to tee off, and King Bob-omb is waiting behind here. King appears to be staring intently at Daisy’s butt.]
Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! (x.com)
no official CWA press release yet, but here’s the union’s:...
For a belated celebration of Tetris' 40th birthday, here's a highly partisan look back at Tetris DS (www.eurogamer.net)
online poker like lichess.org
When I was younger I used to play online poker, mostly on the phone, I think the app was called zynga poker??...
New game announced: Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap (robotentertainment.com)
From Robot Entertainment, of course....
New Nintendo Switch accessory might confirm some leaked details about Switch 2 (www.polygon.com)
Polygon - Was Bioshock Infinite good? (www.polygon.com)
Thought this was a fun article to read, wanted to share. I think it’s interesting that as societal and political views at large shift in the 2020s, it’s good to go back and reevaluate how narratives are portrayed even as recently as 2015....
Pacific Drive sales cruise past 600K copies sold (www.gamedeveloper.com)
GameCube Now Available on RetroAchievements! (retroachievements.org)
Why Remaster One of Gaming’s Most Impressive Misfires, The Thing? (remapradio.com)
Here's 3 reasons I'm actually pretty optimistic about Dragon Age: The Veilguard despite being an old school RPG sicko (www.pcgamer.com)
As a long time Dragon Age fan, I’ve been really, just iffy about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, especially since the very first trailer that they put out. The vibes were way off, like they were making a trailer for a Fortnite crossover rather than a dark fantasy game. The gameplay trailer afterward did seem to be more of what I...
hangin with the homies (beehaw.org)
[alt text: a black-and-white image of 8 creepy human-like figures floating in the air, with a building and a tree in the background. The caption says, “When you and the boys are playing in Creative Mode and one of them says, ‘Come check out what I made’.”]
The future of Twitch: safety, growth, and the importance of finding community (www.eurogamer.net)
Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs (www.theverge.com)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 14th
Whatcha been playing?...
Let's discuss: Age of Empires (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
