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Ironically, considering the rampant dysentery moving through my campground in brown, sputtering waves, the problem I’m facing in Transport Fever 3 is a blockage. The trucks I’ve loaded with antibiotics are stuck in a traffic jam that stretches all the way to the pharmacy in the next city over. If I’m to save the inaugural Woodstock festival, I must find a way to get traffic flowing again before the timer runs out.
Crusader Kings 3 developer Paradox Black is in the midst of working on a big ‘spring cleaning’ update, and it’s turned to modders for some assistance. Riad Deneche, QA manager at the Crusader Kings 3 studio, explains that the focus of its upcoming patch is “tackling bugs that have been haunting our backlog, and introducing a set of changes and smaller features that we believe will meaningfully enhance the CK3 experience.” In service of this, it’s calling upon one mysterious, upstanding member of the community to help – and Deneche says the team was “genuinely shocked” by their list of…
The Cyborgs are attacking in Helldivers 2. Do you understand what a threat to freedom they are? They’ll turn us into meat puppets in their endless pursuit for power. They must be stopped and – defection? What? Now. No way. Not if you want to keep that goldfish, anyway.This is the reaction at least one player apparently got when they contacted Helldivers 2’s dedicated support staff about jumping sides to join the Automaton empire. As one person found out, the response is swift, cynical, and wholly justified in the defense of Super Earth.”Your dissidence against Super Earth has been noted,…
Replaced, the long-in-development dystopian platformer from Sad Cat Studios, has had its release pushed back a little further. The studio have taken on feedback from the demo they recently released on Steam – that’s the one which kept surnaming me – and reckon a few more weeks of acting on it are in order to get the game ready to go.
Sure, we’re only seven weeks into the year, but Mewgenics has already established itself as one of this year’s breakout success stories. There are those that argue the latest game from the mind behind The Binding of Isaac was always guaranteed to be a hit, and there’s a sliver of truth to that. However, seeing it swiftly surpass a million units sold and beat Hades 2’s all-time Steam peak player count is a genuine, pleasant surprise. That surprise extends to the developers of the game itself, with Mewgenics’ co-creator Tyler Glaiel saying that its huge success has “blindsided” him, greatly…
The lead story designer on the original Witcher game says the story team had nothing to do with its twist ending.The first game ends with a CG cutscene in which protagonist Geralt defends King Foltest from an assassin. After the assassin is killed, it’s revealed that they’re a witcher.The twist then leads onto the second game, hence its full title The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, but lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec says this wasn’t supposed to be the ending.Ganszyniec has just finished playing through the entirety of the game in a 26-part video series on YouTube (as spotted by…
Although we have The Witcher 4 to look forward to, another exciting prospect is the remake of the first The Witcher that’s also coming from CD Projekt Red. Details are relatively limited as of now, but a prominent writer on the original game believes a couple of alterations will be necessary, particularly around the Wild Hunt.In a video providing commentary on The Witcher in real-time, Artur Ganszyniec, the game’s lead story designer, speaks about how the current team will likely revisit the mythological group’s physical form. “In the first Witcher, the Wild Hunt is more like the Wild Hunt from…
Why is everything rolling sideways on my desk all of a sudden? What’s this mysterious force, dragging my chair towards the wall? Why are all the cars in the vicinity tumbling and rolling in the direction of *checks press release* …North Carolina, USA? It can only be gravitational disturbance caused by the impending 1.0 release of a massive strategy project. This time it’s Heart of the Machine, a “4X-style”, “dimension-busting” sci-fi game developed by Arcen Games and published by Hooded Horse.
Godot developer Rémi Verschelde says a rise in AI-generated code is weighing down on the resources of its dedicated maintenance team. The open-source game engine has been around since 2014, but has gained increasing relevancy in recent years as an alternative to the likes of Unity, with Mega Crit switching to Godot for the development of Slay the Spire 2 as just one example. That growing popularity has been reflected in increasing submissions from budding contributors, but Verschelde cautions that an abundance of “AI slop” code is becoming overwhelming. Godot has now been used in many notable projects. While indie…
I pride myself on being able to game on a budget and have never been ashamed of being a digital-only gamer. I got my Xbox Series S on sale for $200 in 2023. It weighs less than the clunky gaming laptop it’s tucked behind. The newest member of my desktop crew is a PC monitor for a PC tower I do not own, hooked up instead to my Series S. It, too, cost far more than the console, despite having purchased it as a cheaper alternative to a 4k TV. Above my glorious setup, action figures from all walks of…