Just started Pillars of the Earth game (by the folks who made Deponia and State of Mind). I still remember how we watched the TV adaptation with my then wife and it was oddly violent and nasty long before Game of Thrones.

Welp, the game is exactly this... it painfully follows the book and the TV show. No idea what I expected but somehow not this. Also, it's ridiculously expensive (the production value — tons of detailed arts, animated scenes, vooce overs everywhere). The 2D quest that weighs 22GB+

Daedalic are also owned by Nacon and will definitely be the next after Spiders to get liquidated. After the failure of Gollum this outcome was probably sealed.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/234270/Ken_Folletts_The_Pillars_of_the_Earth/
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How curious: Microsoft is losing money on nearly everything. Numbers in () are negative values.

Xbox lost 7% of revenue, content and services by 5%, and Xbox devices sales plummeted by 33%. The department is in decline for years in a row. The only 3% boost was back in 2023.

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Xbox@GameDEV
#Business@GameDEV

Yep!

#meme@GameDEV
#Fallout@GameDEV

The new Heroes of Might and Magic just dropped to early access:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3105440/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_Olden_Era/

A rare moment for memes in Russian 😅

#meme@GameDEV

Hogwarts Legacy is free (again) on Epic Store. For me the game is both a great theme park and a horrible Hogwarts experience:

- You're in school, but classes are very brief and limited. The whole experience of Persona series, Bully, etc. is ignored.

- Barely any friendship with just a few real characters. For 90% of the time you're alone or hang out with teachers.

- Nothing is even remotely believable (even by Harry Potter standards). It's literally a theme park.

You kill 5000+ humans and goblins proudly shifting the blame to another character. Even without unforgivable spells, the hero is a damn maniac.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hogwarts-legacy
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#Free@GameDEV

I'm not even surprised...

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#FAIL@GameDEV
#Blender@GameDEV

It's been over a decade since McGee's sister Mercy Covington went missing.

On April 30th 2015, American was threatened on Facebook via several messages regarding Gamergate (the public outrage over links between media and publishers in the game industry, affecting review scores, etc. And it was the first stand against forced diversity in videogame industry).

The message not only stated the city where Mercy lived, but mentioned her by name. Whether or not this person was involved in Mercy’s disappearance is still unknown.

Later in November 10th of 2015 she disappeared. McGee and other relatives tried to find her, but there were zero clues.

The police failed to do anything meaningful, locate the Facebook message author, and only started to make public statements months after the disappearance.

Emergency clown nose for Andrew, please!

#Blender@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Valve recently imported a huge amount of "game consoles" to the United States. Half-Life 3: confirmed!

The search of the imported goods is private but you can look for the keyword "Valve" and get literally pipes + game controllers and game consoles.

#Valve@GameDEV

The more you know: Gabe wants to be effectively immortal (which was reported earlier and joked about in their own Aperture Science lab demo game for Deck). But he was also in touch with OpenAI and Musk to progress with his ideas faster...

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#AI@GameDEV

Subnautica 2 is coming into early access in just a few days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZhCzFaQuw
#Subnautica@GameDEV

Oh, they will

#Journalism@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

GPD (the folks who made all the handhelds I've been using since 2017) are building the first MCIO device (sadly, a mini-PC) and a universal eGPU box for it.

No pricing yet, but I'm curious about G2. The advantage is near-zero loss compared to internal PCI connections (vs 10-40% on modern eGPU boxes via Thunderbolt, USB4, and Oculink).

#Hardware@GameDEV

Just tried RiME again and was surprised that the performance is abysmal. It isn't even reaching 100 FPS, consumes 100% of RTX 5070, and looks worse than modern mobile games.

It was supposed to be a cozy empty world with puzzles (which I like in some way), but it's just crappy kind of empty world + the performance is a joke. Can't recommend!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/493200/RiME/
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Literally 1984

#meme@GameDEV

Once I trusted Bleakmill Games and their first game Industria was a piece of shit. I followed their socials for ages, the 3D artist did a good job on certain models and environments.

But the game itself was 3 hours of shame. People told me that the sequel will definitely be better, they will learn from their mistakes. Hell no! 😅

Industria 2 is buggy, poorly optimized, barely playable, and right away boring asset mashing. And the best reviews are from 5090 owners, not even kidding.

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#Fail@GameDEV