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Remember when you use to buy a Switch game and the game would atleast partially before updates, be on the cartridge?

Studio head Thomas Mahler is having one, with a series of confusing, contradictory social media posts

The wall-to-wall union of Blizzard Team 4 includes nearly 200 developers

Atari has put out updated versions of multiple classic consoles in recent years, following up its Atari 2600+ replica console from 2023 with the 7800+ in late 2024, all accompanied by honest-to-god physical cartridge releases containing classic Atari games like Berzerk, Space Duel, and Ninja Golf. However, the retro game maker just informed fans that those physical copies will now be more expensive due to tariffs.

No Mercy was already removed by Valve in the UK, Canada, and Australia before the announcement

Buy games from other European brands

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41041241

Sony's PlayStation Visual Arts team faces fresh cuts as the company continues reorganizing

This is the leftist talk show streamer's fifth ban

The Original Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Generals, and Renegade have all been released under GPL licensing to the public.

Warner Bros. is shutting down the team responsible for one of the most interesting narrative design mechanics in recent memory

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/119024

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/119024

NetEase's Overwatch-like has been a hit across PS5 and Steam

The inshitification of the automotive industry intestifies.

At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.

PS5 Online multiplayer and other PSN functions are currently down

As announced during Xbox’s latest Developer Direct, Doom: The Dark Ages, the next main installment in the demon killin’ franchise, is launching on May 15 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24551496

What if the next Witcher game starred a vampire instead of Geralt? That’s one of the selling points behind The Blood of Dawnwalker, a new RPG from some of the masterminds behind The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. Rebel Wolves, formed in 2022 by a bunch of ex-CD Projekt Red developers, revealed the game this week in a new teasertrailer. It looks pretty legit.

The Arrowhead Game Studios exec was asked about 'DEI' in the sci-fi shooter

Last year’s remake of Dead Space proved a critical hit, reviving the beloved space horror series after it had been left fallow for ten years. However, despite being January 2023's second-biggest selling game (behind Modern Warfare II), this seemingly wasn’t enough success to satisfy EA, and it was reported in April of this year that the studio had shelved a remake of Dead Space 2, though EA then denied that one had ever been in the works. We’ve now found out that an attempt by the original creators to pitch Dead Space 4 earlier this year was immediately rejected by EA.

Pretty hilarious and depressing all at the same time.

I mean I guess it's a logical move after being found to be a soliciting a minor.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15479109

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15479109

Will enshitification begin?

Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

Don't forget the campaign for StopKillingGames

A new report claims that Amazon is officially developing a TV show based on Bioware’s hit sci-fi franchise, Mass Effect. This follows previous reports indicating that Amazon wanted to make a Mass Effect show. Seems the retail giant is finally doing it.

Not to continue beating a dead horse, this article is really about mainstream media's relationship with video games, or the lack thereof. For the first time in my life, I pay for a subscription to news, because the same problems that crop up from getting news from reddit happen just as easily here in the fediverse. There are actually really great pieces written about video games and their creators in the New York Times, but they've only got a couple of bylines between them, and a frequency that matches how many people they've got working on it. Meanwhile, they do have a section under Arts dedicated to Dance, which I somehow doubt has anywhere near as many readers interested in the subject.

The 30-day bans were handed out seemingly simultaneously and came after days of social media dialogue accusing several Arab and pro-Palestinian Twitch streamers of being antisemitic. A clip of Fr0gan saying that she “hoped” American soldiers got PTSD during a livestream was shared across X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit and commented on by YouTuber Ethan Klein and Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, aka Destiny.