General Gaming News.

[Bedinsis]

Embracer Group have made their yearly report. Apparently, they had a major "strategic cooperation" in the works(worth 2 billion USD over 6 years time of development) that fell through in the last moment, and a weak overall showing meant the stock lost 40 % of its value.

Kurskrasch för värmländska speljätten Embracer

Embracers aktie kollapsar på börsen efter en sänkt vinstprognos. En mångmiljardaffär sprack i natt, som var tänkt att presenteras i ett bokslut. Dessutom dräneras kassan av förseningar för kommande titlar.

www.svt.se

Embracer Group net sales rise to $3.5bn in "challenging year"

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Embracer Group has published its financial…

www.gamesindustry.biz

I believe Embracer has the rights to Lord of The Rings, so I imagine that the title was one where they'd use that IP, though it could frankly be anything.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Interesting. Unlike MS, they release their games on their consoles first, wait a few years, THEN release to pc.

But I do think outsourcing the PC ports to other studios can be a gamble.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Let us know how you find it if you do try it out. I'm kinda surprised this isn't on Game Pass.

KILL! MAIM! BURN!...errr...for the Emprah of course.

I'm only 4 levels in but it feels very satisfying I have to say. I was never a fan of the key access labyrinth style of Doom because I suck at finding my way through things but I've only had one period of wandering round a level for 5 minutes wondering WTF I'm meant to do next and TBH it was mostly me being unobservant as usual. If oldschool Doom is your bag you'll definitely enjoy it from what I've played. It has given me that slight feeling of motion sickness after an hour, but I kind of expected that, those types of games always did.

One mild annoyance, although they do actually work, if you rebind the keys to use numpad, insert, home, page down etc or mouse buttons beyond mmb it doesn't display on the menu or various in game prompts. As an arrow key using scrub, this pisses me off.

 

[Gyrobot]

After killing legal access to hundreds of 3DS games, now Nintendo's going even harder on illegal access

Modding your 3DS is surprisingly... difficult?

www.gamesradar.com

Good, the sooner franchises like Senran Kagura go further down the memory hole. The better
A small price to pay for the loss of game preservation

Blessed be KonradLeijon!

 

[BrawlMan]

Phantom Blade Zero: a new beginning in a long journey

Studio founder reveals the origins and inspirations behind this hack and slash RPG.

blog.playstation.com

Martial Arts RPG Phantom Blade Zero announced for PS5 and PC

As part of the 2023 Playstation Showcase, we’ve been given an extensive look at Phantom Blade Zero. Coming to PC and PS5.

www.destructoid.com

GameInformer - The Final Level

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The developer is called Cruel Man Studio, and they're based in Kowloon Bay, HK. Give me an actual release date, and I will sure more excitement.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I feel like we'll get tired of Black Suit Spidey really quickly. Also I wonder why Miles has two colors of venom strike now.

Anyway, it still looks freaking great. There's so much that you can do in the first game, I was wondering how they could possibly improve things in the sequel. Well, there you go. Sigh. Now I have to get a PS5.


Well, it's happening. Never got a chance to play it on PS2, so hopefully this is good. But, you know, Konami.

 

[BrawlMan]

Why? Fans have been waiting forever on this, and you're going to go digital only? Remedy says it's to avoid the $70 charge, but they're self-publishing now. They can still charge $60, and make discs. No future plans for a disc version either. Fucking dumb.

Alan Wake 2 Won't Be Releasing On A Disc

Welcome to the latest precedent set by a AAA game release

kotaku.com

 

[FakeSympathy]

GTA 6 "needs to be something you've never seen before" says Take-Two CEO

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has been speaking on the challenges publisher Take-Two and developer Rockstar are facing creating Grand Theft Auto 6.

www.videogamer.com

Fans: Well, we'd love to see something that's not completely saturated by microtrans-

T2 CEO: NFT?

 

[meiam]

GTA 6 "needs to be something you've never seen before" says Take-Two CEO

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has been speaking on the challenges publisher Take-Two and developer Rockstar are facing creating Grand Theft Auto 6.

www.videogamer.com

Fans: Well, we'd love to see something that's not completely saturated by microtrans-

T2 CEO: NFT?

You know what they should that's never been seen before? How about making the game all about heist and then slowly releasing more heist as part of DLC over the lifetime of the game, there's so much potential there, can't believe they never did that.

 

[FakeSympathy]

You know what they should that's never been seen before? How about making the game all about heist and then slowly releasing more heist as part of DLC over the lifetime of the game, there's so much potential there, can't believe they never did that.

IDK, I feel like GTA is more than just about heists. Yes they are fun, but what about all the stuff you can do when you picture a word "adult playground"? GTAO did go all in with this idea adding series of narrative missions, some of them being heists. But I feel like the problem came from how much player earns from those missions vs how much the cool shits cost. The grind was atrocious and it was obivious they were trying to get players to buy shark cards.

In other news, here are some more in-game screenshots of MGSD:

 

[FakeSympathy]

Gollum game reviews are rolling out. And go figure, it's not that good. I guess it can be slightly forgiving since it's made from a small team, but we've seen how much these types of devs can accomplish (Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, etc)

 

[BrawlMan]

Gollum game reviews are rolling out. And go figure, it's not that good. I guess it can be slightly forgiving since it's made from a small team, but we've seen how much these types of devs can accomplish (Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, etc)

So it's not PrEciUssss?!

 

[Chimpzy]

So it's not PrEciUssss?!

Nah, its RAW and WRIGGLING

 

[CriticalGaming]

Gollum game reviews are rolling out. And go figure, it's not that good. I guess it can be slightly forgiving since it's made from a small team, but we've seen how much these types of devs can accomplish (Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, etc)

Fuck them they are asking full AAA price for that garbage.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Fuck them they are asking full AAA price for that garbage.

Also, they are charging extra for the option to have Elven language spoken. Because apparently it's hard to train the VAs for the language. I guess that's true, and both in the books and movies the elves switch between human language and their own, but that's is such a slap in the face for hardcore fans

 

[BrawlMan]

Nah, its RAW and WRIGGLING

Fuck them they are asking full AAA price for that garbage.

Exactly why the price hike extra garbage ! Fuck the AAA; fuck this industry!

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[hanselthecaretaker]

Gollum game reviews are rolling out. And go figure, it's not that good. I guess it can be slightly forgiving since it's made from a small team, but we've seen how much these types of devs can accomplish (Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, etc)

I know nothing of it but based of the video thumbnails all I can think is why, why, WHY did they settle on a realistic art style when it should’ve been clear VERY EARLY ON that they couldn’t do it worth a shit.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Message from MGS dev team:


The intentions are good and all, but who are these guys? Third-party porting studio? Konami's in-house dev team?

 

[Casual Shinji]

I feel like we'll get tired of Black Suit Spidey really quickly. Also I wonder why Miles has two colors of venom strike now.

Anyway, it still looks freaking great. There's so much that you can do in the first game, I was wondering how they could possibly improve things in the sequel. Well, there you go. Sigh. Now I have to get a PS5.

I'm gonna make a prediction;

Kraven is going to fill the Mr. Negative role - the initial villain for the first 2/3 of the game. In which time Peter gets the symbiote suit, goes nuts, and Miles will have to fight him. This then ends with Peter managing to rid himself of the suit and the symbiote finding maybe Eddie, maybe Harry (who probably fills the role of best friend in an Aunt May or Otto Octavius way), and then we get Venom who will fill the Doc Ock role for the remainder of the game.

 

[CriticalGaming]

I'm gonna make a prediction;

Kraven is going to fill the Mr. Negative role - the initial villain for the first 2/3 of the game. In which time Peter gets the symbiote suit, goes nuts, and Miles will have to fight him. This then ends with Peter managing to rid himself of the suit and the symbiote finding maybe Eddie, maybe Harry (who probably fills the role of best friend in an Aunt May or Otto Octavius way), and then we get Venom who will fill the Doc Ock role for the remainder of the game.

Sounds like a Spider-Man game. There will be other smaller time villains in there too, like the Lizard whom we've already seen.