Videogames
There's a cozy game about the Shire. It's by Weta Workshop.
Prison City is an NES style fighting platformer
New Crazy Taxi will be AAA game
Terra Memoria is an old school Grandia style game
Arzette is a Zelda CDi style game, and is now out.
I just realized these are all new games based on classic ones. N64 3D exploration game Cavern of Dreams
Mika and the Witch Mountain is a great mini Open World. That's the levels you saw in games that ended in 64 back in the day.
Play a cybernetic sheep out for revenge against evil wolves in Stand_Alone
Last Epoch technical trailer
Mortal Kombat 1 gets a party game style training story
VG: WarHammer 40K
A list of things to do when playing Warhammer 40k: chaos gate Daemon hunters. Turn based combat
Power wash simulator gets a 40K DLC
VG: Next Fest
Rotwood is a co op roguelite
Steam Next Fest has a lot of games to play. This article talks about the games that got attention.
Islands of the Caliph is a grid based RPG
Soul mask is a tribal survival adventure sim
Guild Saga: vanished Worlds is a tactics game. It's like final fantasy tactics.
Up Next is a slice of life game based on the Phillipines
Ducktective is an LA Noire style game where you play a private eye duck.
VG: Pirate Sims
I got a link to Skull and Bones. A pirate sim.
Tortuga is a Pirate Sim
VG: Minecraft Universal
Minecraft Universal trailer
There will be discontinued rides on display as well.
It's in response to the Disney deal with Fortnite.
Some pictures of the rides and areas
It has a lot of the same elements as this awful GameCube game based on Universal Parks
VG: PalWorld
The company is hiring
Palworld has lost 2/3rds of its players in two weeks.
Down 1.3 Million players
It's no longer number 1
VG: Business
Ubisoft declares Skull and Bones is a AAAA Game, and should be charged accordingly.
Ubisoft president doesn't consider XBox going 3rd party to be a big deal. The majority of games by Microsoft are multiplatform anyway.
After Unity fell, Terraria developers donated $200,000 to open source competition
Nintendo Switch has outsold the DS
There is sexy box art for sale
Capcom has removed DRM after fan backlash
Thaumaturge moves to March release to avoid big name releases
There will not be a Doctor Who Fortnite meet up
Disco Elysium is never getting a sequel
Satoru Iwata once halved his salary to help get through hard times at Nintendo. Other leaders don't do this.
From Software reacquired the Elden Ring IP from Bandaid Namco
Usually this is in tech, but the Flipper tool just got a videogame add on
Epic Games returns to iOS in Europe
Forever Skies is now a PS5 exclusive
New Switch Controllers
Ubisoft defends high price for game
GTA 6 comes out in 2025. It's been 12 years, and the game sold 195 million. Sadly it's been the same fans over and over again.
Banjo Kazooie Revival
_B: ad News
Kingdom Maker team layed off
Threshold games is no longer
A creator of Suikoden has passed away.
Latest Payday not selling very well
Embracer fired 1400 employees
A lot of companies are firing employees right now.
Embracer canceled 29 games
Blackbird has layoffs
The major theme at DICE was surviving 2024
The creators of Baldur’s Gate III act defiant at award ceremonies to the incoming financial storm.
_B: PS5
PS5 has no new games planned for the coming year.
PS5 is beginning to go down, but won't get a price cut.
Sony boss says they need to cut costs
PS5 at “Latter Stage of Its life”
There will be aggressive game releases to PC.
This means games go multiplatform much earlier. Sega watches knowingly with a smile
This is coming from a quarterly report by the new stand in president. He says the game studios are dedicated, but have no idea how to make a game that fits for their business needs.
PS5 sales numbers are being slashed.
Sony is down $10 Billion because of these announcements
When does PS6 come out?
_B: XBox
The likely games being released to other consoles.
Every Screen an XBox. PalWorld likely to end up on Switch. Sega looks on knowingly and frowns.
Call of Duty to release this year. It will be multiplatform
Could there be an XBox handheld soon?
_XB: The Announcement
Phill Spencer said they are going multiplatform, but not fully just yet.
4 Games are the test run. 2 are a year old or more, and the other 2 are Indies. Rumours are saying Sea of Thieves.
Phill Spencer says XBox is now the biggest 3rd party company in the world
The Verge got the full scoop, and reported it. They gave explanations on why, and how. No statement on what.
Spencer sent out a memo to employees about the announcement
Spencer promises they will not abandon consoles
The announcement itself
The video of the announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlD9SO3rKU
_XB: Phil Spencer interview
Phill Spencer would like Sony games on XBox. He mentioned Helldiver's 2 directly.
Another article on his desire for Sony games
This is from an interview.
Another interview
_XB: The Response
The last roll of the dice for Xbox
It's now time for Xbox on every screen
An article asking why they don't just go 3rd party entirely. Game Pass on Switch? It's now a possibility
VG: Switch 2 Rumours
Nintendo switch 2 to have upgraded older games
Switch 2 not coming out this year
There was going to be a Nintendo Direct, but all the craziness with Sony and Xbox going 3rd party stalled it.
All the speculation on games for Switch 2
More rumours from Reuters
VG: Lists
Tried for one, got several
- Silent Hill games coming to modern consoles
- Silent Hill shouldn't glorify suicide.
- Hogwarts legacy DLC
- Red Dead Redemption 2 has an event that can haunt you, but is rare
- PS5 users are still major pornhub users.
Videogames again
- Free Bionocle RPG
- Dead Island was free on steam
- I was a teenage exocolonist
- Genforge is like Baldurs Gate
- Deathly Stillness zombie shooter
- Tax-Force is a side scrolling roguelite with in game economy
- Best free PC Games. Long list.
Worse than that, they went full woke and never bothered courting the audience that made them money in the first place.