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Sellers of revamped retro PC games and also newer PC games GOG have been accused of using AI-generated artwork to promote their store’s new year sale. Meanwhile, a job listing the Polish company have recently posted for a senior software engineer to work on their desktop app GOG Galaxy lists among the role’s responsibilities that they must “actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools”.
Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone confirms Haunted Chocolatier “is still in development” and that he’s making great progress on the project, despite relative radio silence on the highly anticipated follow-up to his megahit Stardew Valley. There was a period in time where Barone was regularly dropping hints about the new life game, yet we haven’t heard much about it for some time now. Rearing his head as a show of reassurance, the developer sets out “to debunk a few myths and false assumptions,” including fears that Haunted Chocolatier was on the chopping block. “I know, I know, I shouldn’t have announced the…
More than a quarter of game developers responding to a new survey said they were laid off in the past two years.This year’s annual State of the Game Industry survey, which is managed by the Game Developers Conference and surveys more than 2,300 games industry professionals around the world, asked its respondents a number of questions about layoffs.According to the survey, 17% said they were laid off in the past 12 months, while another 11% said they were laid off during the 12 months before that, making for a total of 28%. When limited to just US respondents, that percentage…
Fallout season 2 is something truly S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Building on the foundations of an already brilliant first season, it expertly fuses the serious backdrop of nuclear-laced political tensions with the franchise’s inimitable brand of gaudy, retrofuturist humor.Yet, its penultimate episode introduces us to the backstory of Vault 32 Overseer, the eyepatch-wearing Steph Harper. It’s here where the Prime Video series drops its first real payload of mediocrity.Previously, we had assumed she was simply one of many of the ‘Bud’s Buds’ Vault Dwellers, happily toiling away in the subterranean society and navigating the complicated relationship between the paired Vaults in service to…
Oop, beefy boy alert. I know that’s a bit of a rude way to introduce Nioh 3’s freshly released Steam demo, but to be fair said demo is asking for about 70GB more of my precious drive space than the Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties demo I grabbed last week. Well, at least progress made in Nioh’s not small demo will carry over to the full game when it comes out next week.
You can learn a lot about someone from their favorite Final Fantasy games, and there are certainly those that get the bulk of the attention from the wider audience. But then there are those that don’t always get the immediate shout-outs, but deserve your attention because, if they do click for you, they’ll hit harder than anything else. I’m here to give you that little push today, because four Final Fantasy games that fall into that category have just arrived on GOG, meaning no DRM and a guarantee for the future, and you can grab them at less than half…
Superhero narrative adventure Dispatch has been censored on Switch and Switch 2, and players are trying to figure out who’s ultimately responsible.The episodic narrative adventure game by AdHoc Studio – set up by veteran developers from Telltale Games, Ubisoft and Night School Studio – released last year and was critically acclaimed for its art style, branching storyline and sense of humour.The game was released on Switch and Switch 2 on Wednesday, but players have been reacting negatively to the news that some of the adult content in other versions of the game can’t be accessed on Nintendo‘s consoles.Dispatch features occasional…
Stardew Valley mastermind Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has been hard at work on both his beloved 2016 farming sim and new game Haunted Chocolatier – a title he assures fans he is indeed “still working” on currently.Late last year, ConcernedApe revealed that he wants to “take a more ‘creative director’ role” on Stardew Valley 1.7, the farming gem’s upcoming update, so that he can “focus the vast majority” of his attention on Haunted Chocolatier. This word came around the same time he admitted the 1.7 update might delay his new cozy sim “a little,” but “not as much as you might…
“We want to put Runescape back on the map,” associate director of design Ryan Philpott says. But, reader, I need you to know the cost of this metaphorical cartography. Over the years, the Monty Python-infused medieval world of RuneScape has expanded in many directions. It’s gained new landmasses, professions, raids, and characters, but also many many many odder cosmetics. Some of them, like the delightful sharksuit, walk a distinctly non-medieval path. Philpott says these are a problem. The meanie.
Comcept, the Mighty No 9 studio founded by Mega Man producer Keiji Inafune, has been dissolved.According to public documents uncovered by Japanese site Game Biz, a “Notice of Dissolution” was published for the company today, January 29.For more than 20 years, Keiji Inafune was the core artist and producer for the Mega Man series. He left Capcom in 2010 to launch Comcept, where he created Kickstarter project Mighty No 9.Mighty No 9 broke crowdfunding records at the time but was highly criticised after its release for perceived quality issues. Comcept was also criticised for deciding to fund another project, Red…