Author: Garry Smith
Budding urban planners that somehow still haven’t found their way toward Colossal Order’s enormously entertaining city builder Cities: Skylines now have no excuse. You can pick up the base game and almost all its DLC on PC for around £16 in the latest Humble charity bundle. Cities: Skylines was a solidly entertaining city builder when it released all the way back in 2015, but seven years of expansions and other post-launch DLC haved created a game of truly amazing scope. However, getting your hands on absolutely everything that’s released thus far is, inevitably, an extremely pricey undertaking even during sale…
As part of its latest earnings report, CD Projekt has shared a revised breakdown of the projects currently occupying the studio’s time, confirming the “bulk of” its development capacity is now focused on Cyberpunk 2077’s story expansion, which is still expected to launch next year. Following Cyberpunk’s disastrous release at the tail-end of 2020, the majority of CD Projekt’s development resources (as shown in the chart below) were focused on remedying the game’s most pressing issues. At the same time, a smaller team was working on its next-gen release, promised long before the project’s launch woes, and an even smaller…
Belarusian-based developer Sat Cat Studio has been forced to delay its upcoming game, Replaced, until 2023 due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sad Cat Studios has a team of developers based both in Belarus and Ukraine. “The priority for Sad Cat was for the safety of the team and their families. As a result, part of the team has now relocated and work has only recently restarted on Replaced,” the studio wrote in a tweet. 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…
Sony is set to release two more live service games before the end of this fiscal year, according to a new presentation from exec Jim Ryan. That would take its current slate of live service games to three, following the release of MLB The Show 22 and its Diamond Dynasty mode. What’s more, by 2025 it’s projected to release a total of 12 live service franchises (six by 2023 and ten by 2024). 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…
PC and mobile games will make up almost half of PlayStation’s overall game releases by 2025, Sony said in a recent investor meeting.Additionally, it expects to make a tidy $300m on PC games alone this fiscal year (which ends March 2023).Needless to say, these are some quite impressive figures that Sony has put out there. 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.
Developer IronOak Games’ wonderful tabletop-RPG-meets-digital-board-game adventure For The King is getting a sequel, and it’ll be making its way to PC some time next year. The original For The King, if you’re unfamiliar, was a thoroughly entertaining (if sometimes brutally challenging) blend of familiar RPG stables – think dungeon crawling, questing, turn-based exploration and combat, loot acquisition, and so on – streamlined into a light-hearted, optionally co-operative rogue-like adventure. More than anything, it was a wonderfully designed little story generator – encompassing everything from haunted carnivals to suffocating jungles – with enough potential combinations across its moving parts to feel…
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s free Top Gun: Maverick expansion has remained something of a mystery since its announcement last June, but now, with the update finally here on Xbox and PC, developer Asobo has detailed exactly what to expect when it’s fired up for the first time. One notable oddity of the Top Gun expansion is that it’ll be launching without what’s arguably its biggest feature: the F/A-18E Super Hornet. However, that’s only because Asobo made the decision to release the plane early as part of last year’s free Game of the Year Edition update when the expansion was delayed alongside…
Jerry Hook, Halo Infinite’s head of design, has announced his departure from 343 Industries.”Today marks my last day at 343i, Microsoft and Halo,” Hook wrote in a statement shared on Twitter. “This journey has been filled with creating new worlds, platforms and products from Xbox, Xbox Live to Halo. Most of all it has been working alongside some of the most passionate and driven people in the industry, that have impacted millions of players around the world.””Thank you to all that have let me run alongside you in this amazing industry,” Hook continued. “And thank you to this community.” Read…
Enad Global 7 (EG7) has announced the cancellation of Daybreak Games’ Marvel MMORPG.”Based on the re-evaluation of the development risk profile, size of investment, and the long-term product portfolio strategy for the group, the board has decided to change the development priorities and reallocate resources within the group to focus on alternative long-term projects,” the company stated today. EG7 went on to reveal it had originally planned to invest more than SEK 500m (£40m) in this project over the coming few years. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated…
A new staff group within Activision Blizzard has been formed to fight for worker rights. The Worker Committee Against Sex and Gender Discrimination has been founded by 12 current and former staff members, including high-profile ABetterABK member Jessica Gonzalez, and has presented a list of demands to embattled boss Bobby Kotick, The Washington Post reported. Issues raised include improvements to private breastfeeding areas, an end to undocumented meetings with HR, improved support for transgender employees, two weeks extra paid time off for parental leave (up to 12 weeks), and the need for independent investigations into allegations of discrimination. Read more…