After Payday 3 Flops, Starbreeze Removes CEO And Looks For 'Different Leadership' (kotaku.com)
Sony Reportedly Halts PSVR2 Production As Headsets Fail To Sell (kotaku.com)
GOG adding cloud gaming support via Amazon Luna "soon" (www.eurogamer.net)
The Mirror: Open-Source Roblox & UEFN Alternative by The Mirror: Open-Source Roblox Alt (themirrorgdp.itch.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13311273...
Apex Legends tournament hack forces Easy Anti-Cheat to defend software safety (techcrunch.com)
Apex Legends finals got hacked; Star Citizen goes 1.0; Marcus Lehto: nothing positive about EA. (peervideo.club)
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Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA" (www.eurogamer.net)
The Alters release date estimate, trailer, gameplay, and latest news (www.pcgamesn.com)
Modder created lo-fi VR powered by N64 (www.youtube.com)
Very impressive project!
Halo Infinite Getting Big Update on March 19 (gamerant.com)
Tinykin is a Great Inventive 3D Platformer (www.youtube.com)
Tinykin is a fantastic 3D platformer that experiments with the genre by taking elements of other games and seamlessly combining them with parts of the genre we know and love. Part Pikmin, part Mario, and full of charm, Tinykin is one of the best 3D platformers I’ve played in years.
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Review - The Final Verdict (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2066783...
Saber is actually rescuing more studios from Embracer than was announced - and that includes Metro dev 4A (www.vg247.com)
Geoff Keighley Finally Tweets About Layoffs, And The Timing Is Awfully Convenient (kotaku.com)
Revealed: Tim Sweeney's 'Epic' rant to Valve re: 30% platform cut (newsletter.gamediscover.co)
Jagex co-founder and ex-employee (Andrew Gower) announces new MMORPG inspired by RuneScape (store.steampowered.com)
I mean, when I saw an ex-Jagex employee making a new MMO I thought it was going to be slightly inspired by RuneScape… But this game looks exactly like RuneScape, and the description of the gameplay also matches it perfectly - this is essentially RuneScape 3 but managed by someone else (and with a much newer engine)
Brazil is close to approve law to stimulate gaming development (www.cartacapital.com.br)
The benefits include reduction on revenue taxes, classifies gaming development as technology and innovation research, which allows company to pay up to 50% less on the Tax on Manufactured Goods, simplifies the incorporation of gaming companies and regulates in-app purchases in games targeted at children, while also requiring...
Divine Automation: Factorio and phantasies of mechanization (reincantamentox.substack.com)
Switch 2 is crunch time for Nintendo and backward compatibility (www.polygon.com)
Who is qualified to make a world? In search of the magic of maps (www.eurogamer.net)
EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with it (www.pcgamer.com)
600 Activision QA staff have become gaming's biggest union to date (www.eurogamer.net)
Ex-PlayStation Boss Has Mixed Feelings About Console Exclusives (kotaku.com)
FBI against gamers; Apple's Epic fear and backtrack; exclusives "Achilles’ heel" (peervideo.club)
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