Upcoming game Hometopia to switch from planned free-to-play model to an upfront cost following Unity fees announcement (us14.campaign-archive.com)
Originally planned to be free-to-play, the upcoming co-op house-builder and designer sim Hometopia will now cost $19.99 during the Early Access period beginning Sept 27th....
Unity Overhauls Controversial Price Hike After Game Developers Revolt (archive.ph)
Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways - Launch Trailer - YouTube (youtu.be)
The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026 (www.theverge.com)
Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel. (www.penny-arcade.com)
Today’s Penny Arcade is a near perfect commentary on the Unity debacle....
Unity Apologizes For Runtime Fee Policy, Promises To Alter Plan This Week (twitter.com)
https://twitter.com/unity/status/1703547752205218265
Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB Into a Handheld Gaming PC (www.tomshardware.com)
What if the modular computing evangelists at Framework decided to make a handheld? YouTuber Pitstoptech has largely answered this question by building a “fully upgradeable gaming handheld” around one of Framework’s upgradable motherboards....
Pokemon and the Van Gogh Museum have announced collaboration (www.gamescensor.com)
How Diversity Won the War: the Western Approaches Tactical Unit Wargame (yt.artemislena.eu)
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....
Karting Superstars is in early access now (store.steampowered.com)
New game from the creators of Circuit Superstars. A 3rd person kart racer.
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.
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th
New thread!...