Author: Garry Smith
A majority of game developers see harassment from players as a major problem for the industry. That’s according to a new State of the Game 2023 survey from the Game Developers Conference and its affiliate Game Developer. Of the 2300 developers surveyed, 91 percent said player harassment and toxicity towards developers is an issue – 42 percent said it’s a “very serious” issue. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
A former Sega localisation specialist has criticised the lack of credit for French, Italian, German and Spanish (FIGS) language translators in Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, which launched for PC and modern platforms this week. Katrina Leonoudakis worked on the games at Sega until her departure from the company, and said she had urged the publisher to ensure the games’ translation team made it into the game’s credits. “I am absolutely outraged. I was the Localisation Coordinator on the project up until I left Sega, constantly in connection with the FIGS teams,” Leonoudakis wrote on Twitter last night.…
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 will bring back a 1v1 Gulag with the delayed launch of Season 2, its developer has said. “1v1s are back in Battle Royale,” Warzone 2.0 co-developers Infinity Ward and Raven Software tweeted. Expect more information in a blog post next week. One of the original Warzone’s best and most popular features was its 1v1 Gulag, which gave players a straightforward battle in a tight arena to potentially fight their way back onto the battle royale map after death. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is…
Amplitude Studio’s Dungeon of the Endless spiritual successor Endless Dungeon – which it calls a “unique blend of roguelite, tactical action, and tower defense” – has been given a release date and will launch for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on 18th May. Endless Dungeon, which was announced toward the end of 2020, shipwrecks players on a mysterious space station and tasks them with recruiting a team of heroes in an effort to transport a crystal to their vessel’s core, protecting it – via some frenetic top-down twin-stick shooting action – from ceaseless waves of monsters along the way. It features…
After its year-long delay, EA Sports PGA Tour finally has a release date, and is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 24th March. EA Sports PGA Tour – which marks the publisher’s first golfing sims since 2015’s Rory McIlroy PGA Tour – was officially unveiled back in March 2021, with an anticipated launch window of “spring 2022”. However, in March last year, EA made the decision to push its release back an entire 12 months, although no reason was given at the time. With its launch now in sight, however, EA’s PR machine is back in…
Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ superhero crew is expanding by one on 26th January, when Deadpool enters the fray as the acclaimed strategy game’s first paid DLC addition. At launch back in December, Midnight Suns featured a 12-strong base game roster of playable heroes, consisting of Blade, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Iron Man, Magik, Nico Minoru, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Wolverine. However, publisher 2K confirmed shortly before release that Midnight Suns’ line-up would begin to expand in early 2023, when Deadpool arrived in the first of four planned post-launch DLC packs. That pack has now been given…
Joeseph Staten, veteran of Halo development at both Bungie and 343 Industries, is reportedly departing Microsoft’s blockbuster space shooter franchise once again. Staten will remain at Microsoft but is no longer at its Halo studio 343 Industries, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier stated last night, after joining the company to ensure the beleaguered Halo Infinite made it out the door. Last night, reports indicated that Microsoft’s enormous round of layoffs would impact several Xbox studios, with 343’s Halo Infinite campaign team in particular “hit hard”, according to Schreier. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners.…
Former 343 Industries employees have taken to social media to criticise Microsoft following a round of layoffs. Yesterday, 10,000 Microsoft employees lost their jobs, including staff at Bethesda Games Studios, Gears of War developer The Coalition, and Halo maker 343 Industries. Patrick Wren, former senior multiplayer designer on Halo Infinite (and now working at Respawn on Jedi Survivor), was one such former employee who criticised the “incompetent leadership up top”. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
This week, developer Respawn published a blog post pulling the curtain back on Apex Legends skill-based matchmaking, or SBMM. In the blog post, technical director Samy Duc dives deep into the inner workings of the battle royale’s matchmaking system, explaining in granular detail why players end up facing the players they do. It’s a fascinating exploration of one of the key features of any competitive multiplayer game, and Apex Legends players have certainly enjoyed the transparency. As a Call of Duty player, I couldn’t help but look at Respawn’s blog post and wish Activision would do something similar. Call of…
The ever-expanding Sims 4 continues its ever-expansion with official word of two new Kit packs arriving tomorrow, 19th January, this time focusing on messy bathrooms and sexy underpants. Additional bathroom clutter comes courtesy of The Sims 4’s sensibly titled Bathroom Clutter Kit, which promises to embrace the “mess of daily life”. It’s not all about chaos though; EA says to expect everything from “cute wall decals for kids to grandma’s dentures”, with enough scope among its addition to create an “elegant retreat” as well as an untameable toiletry explosions. “Whether you want to leave makeup and combs scattered on the…