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Nexon’s 2024 looter shooter The First Descendant was never truly healthy, and its 110,152 Mixed Steam reviews and slowly collapsing PC concurrent player count make that clear. Nexon can’t deny it, but to its credit, it doesn’t want to. Instead, the studio is introducing a “Completing the Game” roadmap to possibly, finally find gold in the mess it’s made.Game director Minseok Joo and community manager Jason go into detail in Korean and English, respectively, about Nexon’s plans in a Dev Talk livestream from April 2; you can watch the entire stream here. Following Nexon president and CEO Junghun Lee’s recent…
Oscar winning Sinners director Ryan Coogler is continuing his trend of bringing fan-favorite ’90s sci-fi stories into the modern era signing on to executive produce a new Animorphs show for Disney Plus through his company Proximity Media, with Bayan Wolcott serving as showrunner.Announced via Variety, Animorphs joins Coogler’s upcoming X-Files reboot as classic ’90s properties he’s now attached to as a producer. Animorphs is a bit more of a cult-classic than X-Files, but it’s still remembered with reverence by a generation of readers who grew up with the books.Created by writer KA Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, the series…
New action RPG Arknights: Endfield turned heads not just because it’s a major release from Hypergryph, home of tower defense powerhouse Arknights, but also because none of these other post-Genshin Impact gacha action RPGs have tried turning themselves into Factorio yet. This mix of genres immediately stood out, and I’ll be damned, it actually works. Lead developer Ryan of Hypergryph tells me the factory and automation side of the game was something the developers just wanted to try, but it does have the added bonus of feeling different in a space crowded with similar RPGs.At GDC, I spoke to Ryan…
Japanese crowdfunding site Ubgoe owes game designer Jiro Ishii and independent developer Skeleton Crew Studio over half of the 55 million yen – approximately $345,000 – they raised for new visual novel Shibuya Scramble Stories. CEO Kazuo Okada says the platform kinda, sorta lost it, or something.Actually, it was a misunderstanding – Ishii says Okada told him the cash was unfortunately “mistakenly wired to a different client,” according to an Automaton translation, and now Ubgoe can’t hand over the missing $173,000 because they won’t give it back. But Okada won’t show Ishii proof of this transaction, and now Ishii and…
When State of Decay 3 was announced, the Covid-19 pandemic was in its infancy, Gary Whitta was hosting an Animal Crossing talk show, and everyone was watching Tiger King. It feels like an eternity ago, and other than a trailer in 2024, it’s the last we saw anything substantial from the project. Today, that finally changed, as the game has risen from the dead with the promise of “a series of alpha playtests” starting next month.Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan said we’d be seeing more of State of Decay 3 this year, and he wasn’t lying. In a two-minute…
Marvel and DC are in the midst of a series of crossovers bringing together the best loved characters of both universes, with Spider-Man/Superman #1, the next one-shot in the series, arriving later this month. If you’re ready for it now, you’re in luck, as we’ve got your first look at one of the stories in the anthology one-shot.The story, titled ‘Metropolis Marvels,’ is written by Dan Slott, who has written more Spider-man comics than anybody else, along with Marcos Martin, one of the best modern Spidey artists who has worked with Slott multiple times. ‘Metropolis Marvels’ brings together Spider-Man Noir…
It’s been 13 years since the last mainline Splinter Cell game, 2013’s Blacklist, and although Ubisoft insists the Splinter Cell remake is still happening despite its ongoing “major reset” and downsizings, one indie developer isn’t holding his breath.Lizard State is a new stealth action game from solo developer Benjamin Rose “inspired by the classics.” Nothing in any of the game’s official press materials mentions Splinter Cell by name, but one look at the game’s reveal trailer is all you need to see to know Lizard State is a spiritual successor. See for yourself: Lizard State – Reveal Trailer – YouTube…
If you had shown me what I’m about to show you back in 2016 when I first played No Man’s Sky, I don’t think I would’ve believed it was the same game. Thanks to the base-building feature that was added shortly after launch, and more importantly continuous updates from Hello Games allowing for incredibly deep base customization, we have creations like this stunning underwater city from Reddit user Pleasant-Disaster837:“Lost Sunken City” NMS base build. from r/NoMansSkyTheGameThe build is titled “Lost Sunken City,” and it’s highly reminiscent of the main setting of BioShock, Rapture. According to Pleasant Disaster, “there’s much to…
This guide to the best new to Prime Video movies will help you plan out your weekend’s viewing. We’ve selected three films that will keep you thrilled, scared, and deliver a few laughs along the way too.We’re kicking off with Crime 101, an underrated new thriller starring Chris Hemsworth that rather came and went at the cinema last month. Now it’s on Prime Video and already finding a new audience. We’ve followed that up with one of the all time classic sci-fi films in James Cameron’s The Terminator – still a banger all these years later. Finally, we’ve picked out…
The developers behind AdventureQuest Worlds have been talking about a modern upgrade of the Flash-based MMORPG for over a decade – you know, for about as long as Flash has been irrelevant. The game’s been locked in a custom launcher for ages now, and the devs are finally building a modern port for PC and mobile. Judging by the massive success of their Kickstarter, I’d say the audience is along for the ride.AdventureQuest Worlds: Infinity aims to rebuild the MMO in Unity, so it can be distributed on Steam, iOS, and Android. Existing accounts will transfer over, and the devs…