Arrowhead chief executive Shams Jorjani has quashed any dreams of a linear story mode for Helldivers 2, but further discussions revealed features like forming guilds or a photo mode aren’t yet out of the question as the team preps for a summer break. Discussion about new additions to Helldivers 2 was sparked this week in the comments of a May 31 post on X (formerly Twitter). While sharing Arrowhead’s job posting for a new outsourcing producer, Jorjani took the time to answer several questions from interested fans—one of whom shared grievances with how the game was being run. After Jorjani responded, another Helldivers player mentioned they’d love a story mode with “epic moments and tragic scenes.” Jorjani swiftly shut the door on such an addition. View the full article
Bethesda Softworks head Todd Howard knows fans are looking forward to Fallout 5, especially in the wake of the Prime Video show's success, but he isn’t interested in rushing it out the door. Howard opened up about the future of the hit post-apocalyptic RPG series during an interview with YouTube content creator MrMattyPlays. He says Bethesda spends a lot of time plotting out how to handle the direction of its franchises. "For other Fallout games in the future, you know, obviously I can’t talk about those right now, but I would say, sort of rushing through them, or we kind of need to get stuff out that is different than the work we’re doing in 76…we don’t feel like we need to rush any of that," he said. "The Fallout TV show fills a certain niche in terms of the franchise and storytelling." View the full article
Paradox Interactive announced that its long-delayed The Sims-style life sim Life by You is officially canceled in a post on their website today. Life by You was initially announced in May of 2023. At the time, an early access release was planned for September of that year. It was initially delayed to May of 2024, then in February, Paradox announced an additional delay, pushing Life by You's Early Access release to June 4th. Two weeks before the June 4 release, it was delayed again, this time without a release date, because, in the words of Paradox Deputy CEO Mattias Lilja, "additional time [was] needed." Paradox Interactive released a statement from CEO Fredrik Wester explaining the decision on its website. The full statement is as follows: Paradox Interactive (Paradox) has today decided to cancel the release of the game Life by You. This means that the second quarter of 2024 will be impacted negatively by MSEK 208 from the write-down of the game’s total capitalized development costs. For a long time, we’ve held hopes for Life by You and the potential we saw in it, but it is now clear that the game will not be able to meet our expectations. A version that we’d be satisfied with is too far away, and therefore we are taking the difficult decision to cancel the release. Moving forward, we should perform at a much higher level, and it’s obvious that we have work ahead of us, said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. We’ve performed poorly in recent releases, continued Wester. Even though we now start new projects in a different manner, it is clear that we must make further changes so that quality is more consistent and the promises we make to our players are met. We have to evaluate how we manage projects and how we organize, for we will and must get better. We have a very solid financial position and a strong core game portfolio, which keeps us confident about our future. This disclosure contains information that Paradox Interactive AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market ****** Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person, on 17-06-2024 21:45 CET. Life by You's cancelation marks the latest in what has been, by Paradox's own admission, a years-long rough patch that has affected their last few games and development process. Cities Skylines 2 had a disasterous launch that Paradox is still trying to sort out more than eight months after release, and Steam reviews for the city builder remain mixed. Jail sim Prison Architect 2 has also been the victim of numerous delays, the most recent of which pushed the release date back to September due to "unexpected issues occurring too often.” The Paradox-published Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has also endured a troubled development that has seen several years of delays, the depature or ******* of several senior staff, and, ultimately, a change in developers. Thankfully, it seems to be back on track after new gameplay footage was revealed in January. The publisher's most recent release, the Ironclad Games-developed Sins of a Solar Empire 2, dropped it's Early Access label earlier this year ahead of its planned August Steam release. In our review, we said "Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is a faithful follow-up to a beloved strategy game, but it is still in a buggy and clearly unfinished state despite its stealth launch out of early access." Will Borger is an IGN freelancer. You can find him on Twitter @bywillborger. View the full article
The Sims 4 rival Life by You has been canceled. The game is estimated to have been in development at Paradox Tectonic for about half a decade. View the full article
A Skyrim player has clipped a genius idea for never losing followers with the help of quest-related miscellaneous items. There are a plethora of items that can be looted in the Skyrim open world, and these miscellaneous ones may help players keep track of their companions. View the full article
Eleven whole months ago, a South ******** ratings board indicated that the Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 HD Remaster collection existed for PC, despite 2023's Bandai Namco only announcing it for the Nintendo Switch. That's a long time for a PC release to be MIA with no other sign it exists, but all of a sudden, whammo, here we are—Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 are out on Steam right now, after being released on the Nintendo Switch last September... Read more.View the full article
EA chief executive Andrew Wilson netted $25 million last financial year while the company cut five percent of its global workforce and shuttered several offices to “drive growth.” These new financial details comes from EA’s Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement 2024 (courtesy of Game Developer) which details the company’s annual net bookings and executive compensation structure, among other things. What stands out more than anything is the $60 million bagged cumulatively by EA execs in a year plagued by staff layoffs. View the full article
Image: Paradox Interactive Life by You, Paradox Interactive’s in-development competitor to The Sims, has been canceled, the company announced on Monday. The game, which was first revealed in 2023, sounded impressive: it was designed to allow for the entire town to be simulated in real-time and have no loading screens. However, based on a forum post by Paradox’s deputy CEO Mattias Lilja, the game had some issues that may not have been easily fixable even with additional time for development. [/url] “A few weeks back, we decided to hold off on an Early Access release in order to re-evaluate Life by You, as we still felt that the game was lacking in some key areas,” Lilja says. “Though a time extension was an option, once we took that pause to get a wider view of the game,... Continue reading… View the full article
World of Warcraft Classic players may be able to share raid attunement between characters in Season of Discovery Phase 4. While the exact method is not yet known, a datamined World of Warcraft item from Season of Discovery Phase 4 suggests fans wont have to complete the attunement quests multiple times. View the full article
A Starfield player has recently recreated the movie star Willem Dafoe in the game, but with a curious twist: hes blue. Starfield has a pretty flexible character creation system, and the blue Dafoe is just the latest example of what skilled players can do with it. View the full article
One of the cutest upcoming co-op games has reached a massive wishlist milestone on Steam in just a couple of weeks since its initial reveal—and it deserves a round-of-a-paws. Haunted Paws has logged a whopping 100,000 wishlists on Steam since its announcement trailer on June 4, and it’s clear to see why. In the game, you and a friend play as customizable puppies exploring a haunted mansion in an attempt to save their human friend. You’ve got adorable doggos wearing hats solving a bunch of spooky mysteries—what more could you want? View the full article
A Fallout 4 player has put an incredible amount of work into building a custom toy shop in Sanctuary. The Fallout 4 protagonist's home town, like other settlements, lets players build structures and homes however they see fit, but a toy store is an unusual choice to see made in Fallout 4. View the full article
Iso’s popularity has skyrocketed among VALORANT agents following a huge buff, and players have discovered an unexpected interaction between his ultimate and Clove’s. Ever since VALORANT Patch 8.11 buffed Iso, the duelist has been seeing a lot more play, to the point where some believe it’s ruining the game. Only his Double Tap ability was changed, but this also indirectly buffed his ***** Contract ultimate. Now that Iso can immediately activate his Double Tap shield without getting a ***** first, he has an even ******* advantage to win the one-vs-one duel in his ultimate. That’s exactly what one Iso player did in a clip shared in a June 17 Reddit thread—except, what came after was quite bizarre. View the full article
Starfield is courting more controversy now than ever, and the situation has gotten severe enough to be directly addressed by developer Bethesda Game Studios. The spacefaring RPG has always been divisive, with complaints about repetition and a lack of interesting content compared to Bethesda's previous games sometimes overriding the game's strong points. The recent introduction of paid mods added fuel to the *****, and an official Bethesda mission being released through the Starfield Creations platform at a price resulted in a significant surge in negative reviews. View the full article
Banana is a game where you repeatedly click on a banana, and that's about it. If that sounds dull, it is: I downloaded Banana and clicked the banana for a while, and that's pretty much all there is to do... Read more.View the full article
A hilarious Destiny 2 clip shows one player's ***** Guardian seemingly being taunted by the Transcendent Mind Vex Hydra in The Glassway Nightfall strike. Although The Glassway is an old strike, The Final Shape's updated power level limits mean that the Nightfall version can still be challenging for Destiny 2 veterans. View the full article
Cadence demonstrated a PCIe 7.0 connection reaching 128 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) using off-the-shelf parts last week at PCI-SIG DevCon 2024. The test marks a significant step forward for optical PCIe connections, the proposed successor to CopperLink. Read Entire Article View the full article
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium users who are considering playing ****** Boss: Rockay City should note that its platinum trophy is currently unobtainable. May 2024 saw the addition of ****** Boss: Rockay City to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium lineups, lowering its barrier of entry and giving interested subscribers a chance to play it entirely. However, devout trophy hunters should be wary of some issues with the game's trophies. View the full article
One of the best things about the gaming industry is that there is no one way to make a video game. Some come from AAA studios with millions of dollars worth of funding behind them, while others come from indie developers with motivation and a dream. Sometimes, fans get together to make ground-breaking mods that end up taking off, leading to some of the biggest game franchises around, including PUBG: Battlegrounds and Counter-Strike. View the full article
Strongholds in Minecraft host End Portals, rare structures that help you reach a realm where the final boss of the game resides. Some of the best world seeds help generate a sandbox that puts you close to an End Portal, with some even having the structure nearly completed. Using a seed to put you near one of these Portals saves a lot of time normally used to find a Stronghold. View the full article
Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the most acclaimed RPGs of the decade, partially thanks to its healthy post-launch support. Since its initial release, the game has received new content, new game modes, and even new endings to the story. But this well of content could soon be drying up. Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has reportedly said that the team will step away from Baldur’s Gate 3 following one last major update slated for September of this year. Beyond that, he mentioned only “really critical bug fixes,” but by this point, the game is so polished that it’s doubtful it’ll require any. View the full article
A super lucky Fallout 4 player's Survival run has been saved by a "miracle" when they fall into an inlet instead of landing on the ground. The RPG nature of Fallout 4 is full of potentially lucky or unlucky occurrences, and this player may have clipped the most fortuitous moment so far. View the full article
Fantasian is about to go multi-platform, a well-known leaker has said. The Switch version of the critically acclaimed JRPG will supposedly be announced during the next Nintendo Direct, but more Fantasian ports are also said to be on the way. View the full article
In an unexpected turn, the persistent co-op issues of Elden Ring and all of FromSoftware's Soulsborne games prior to it have been addressed by studio president and director Hidetaka Miyazaki. Since the release of ******'s Souls, FromSoftware's RPGs (the Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring) have incorporated cooperative play in a way that many players see as unnecessarily limited and cumbersome, making full co-op playthroughs of any Souls game difficult to manage. While these obtuse multiplayer systems have come to be seen as part of the series' identity, future games by FromSoftware might incorporate changes from an unexpected source. View the full article
In the wake of a controversial release of a single Starfield mission costing $7 as part of the game's new Creations program, Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard says the studio "hears that feedback" from unhappy players and will "take a look at that and how we deliver content like that" in future releases... Read more.View the full article
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Arrowhead chief executive Shams Jorjani has quashed any dreams of a linear story mode for Helldivers 2, but further discussions revealed features like forming guilds or a photo mode aren’t yet out of the question as the team preps for a summer break. Discussion about new additions to Helldivers 2 was sparked this week in the comments of a May 31 post on X (formerly Twitter). While sharing Arrowhead’s job posting for a new outsourcing producer, Jorjani took the time to answer several questions from interested fans—one of whom shared grievances with how the game was being run. After Jorjani responded, another Helldivers player mentioned they’d love a story mode with “epic moments and tragic scenes.” Jorjani swiftly shut the door on such an addition. View the full article