Roughly 20 employees that worked on The Callisto Protocol were cut from the game's credits. In speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, five former Striking Distance Studios developers specifically say that they were omitted from the game's credits. They say that they know of several others who were also cut. Additional sources told GI.biz that about 20 people across several different departments were left out...
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Several Developers Omitted from Credits of The Callisto Protocol
One of 2022's most disappointing titles continues to disappoint in all new ways.
Roughly 20 employees that worked on The Callisto Protocol were cut from the game's credits. In speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, five former Striking Distance Studios developers specifically say that they were omitted from the game's credits. They say that they know of several others who were also cut. Additional sources told GI.biz that about 20 people across several different departments were left out... -
Physical Game Sales Down to Just 10%
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Physical Game Sales Down to Just 10%
Those in the UK vastly prefer digital to physical.
According to a new report by the BBC, physical game sales seem to be on the verge of being completely wiped out. Last year, the digital entertainment and retail association (ERA) says that 89.5% of all games sold in the UK were digital purchases. That leaves the remaining 10.5% as physical disc-based sales. In addition, about 30% of all total sales were for mobile apps.
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SpongeBob and Pals Showcased in New Cosmic Shake Trailer
SpongeBob, Patrick, Gary, Sandy, Squidward, and more are all here.
THQ Nordic and Nickelodeon showed off yet another new look at SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake today. This new trailer features a fresh look at SpongeBob along with his pals such as Patrick, his pet snail Gary, SpongeBob's not-girlfriend Sandy, Squidward, and more.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake send SpongeBob and crew on a mysterious adventure. After some magic Bubble Soap is given to SpongeBob... -
Meta Quest 1 Owners to Lose Social Features
Meta outlines other changes coming to their forgotten about device.
If you purchased the first release of the Meta Quest VR headset, you are probably already used to getting shafted on features and support. Ever since the Meta Quest 2 was released, parent company Meta has essentially abandoned releasing updates for the previous generation hardware.
Today, that feeling that Quest 1 owners had got that much more concrete with an email sent out by Meta. In the email, Meta... -
Get Dead Space 2 for Free When Buying the Remake
This free offer is for those on PC and only through Steam.
Electronic Arts is sweetening the deal when it comes to those interested in purchasing the upcoming Dead Space remake. Those who pre-purchase the Dead Space remake on PC through Steam, will get a free copy of Dead Space 2.
Dead Space is slated to be released on January 27 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, though it seems as though only PC users will get this freebie. The Dead Space remake aims to... -
Games Done Quick Founder Steps Down After 13 Years
13 years and over $41 million raised for charity.
Long-running lead of Games Done Quick, Mike Uyama, says that he will leave the organization that he founded roughly 13 years ago. Uyama says that his departure begins when Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2023 comes to an end. AGDQ 2023 began just this past weekend and is currently scheduled to end on Sunday, January 15.
Set to replace Uyama as the owner and managing director of Games Done Quick is Matt Merkle. Merkle is... -
Steam Surpassed 10 Million Concurrent Players and 33 Million Online Users this Past Weekend
Online players surpassed 33 million.
Steam has once again hit all new highs. Just this past weekend, Steam reached a new high of 32 million users online at at the same time. During this record-breaking peak, Steam also saw over 10 million of those players actually in-game concurrently. This is the first time that Steam reached 10 million concurrent in-game players.
These milestones were shared first by SteamDB. They show that these new records were set on Saturday, January... -
MSI Afterburner Development Comes to an End
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is partly to blame.
MSI Afterburner has been one of the more popular tools used by users looking to overclock graphics cards. Despite being under the MSI branding, Afterburner was free to be used across all makes and models of GPUs, and helped everyone from gamers to professionals dial in the perfect overclock on cards from Nvidia and AMD.
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Play The Anacrusis for Free this Weekend
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Play The Anacrusis for Free this Weekend
This sort-of-Left-4-Dead-but-in-space game is free to play all weekend.
Stray Bombay's The Anacrusis is having a free weekend. Which weekend? This weekend. From now through Sunday, you can play the PC version of this cooperative shooter for free through Steam. What's more is that The Anacrusis is 67% off until January 19, allowing you to purchase the game at a discount to keep playing after the weekend ends.
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CD Projekt Red Settles Another Cyberpunk 2077 Lawsuit for $1.85 Million
This is the lawsuit from investors that dates back to 2020.
CD Projekt Red has settled a lawsuit with investors concerning the rough state that Cyberpunk 2077 launched in. The settlement with investors comes out to $1.85 million (USD). This settlement (PDF) will cover the administration costs, taxes, attorney fees, and more for investors that bought stock in CD Projekt Red from January 16 to December 17, 2020.
The class-action lawsuit was filed at the end of 2020. At... -
Poll: Which Horror Remake Are You Most Excited For in Early 2023?
4Dead Space (January 27)25.00%1Resident Evil 4 (March 24)50.00%2System Shock (March)25.00%1There are at least three of them coming this year.
It's near the start of the month. It's a new month, a new year, but probably the same you. 2023 will have a number of remakes and remasters released, same as the previous few years. While there are remakes and remasters of games such as Like a Dragon: Ishin and Risk of Rain Returns slated to be released in 2023, we're going to focus only on the horror remakes in the pipeline.
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Sony Says PlayStation 5 Shortage is Pretty Much Over
If you want a PlayStation 5, you can probably find one to buy.
Sony says that their PlayStation 5 console sales have surpassed 30 million units. They also say that the console shortage, at least for them, is essentially done and over with.
This news come via Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan and Sony's CES conference. The 30 million units sold figure is an increase of 5 million from the last time Sony shared sales data back on November 1, 2022. Ryan says... -
Project Leonardo Announced for PlayStation 5 - A Customizable Accessibility Controller Kit
Sony joins Microsoft in offering players with disabilities a way to play games more easily.
In late 2018, Microsoft launched the Xbox Adaptive Controller. This controller was designed for those with disabilities, making user input far easier than a traditional controller. The Xbox Adaptive Controller launched at $99.99 (USD) and allowed for a huge variety of assistive input devices to be connected.
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Neil Druckmann Promises to Share The Last of Us Multiplayer Details Later this Year
Plus, a new piece of concept art has been shown off.
Co-president of Naughty Dog, Neil Druckmann, posted a new blog post from the company that shares a new piece of concept art from The Last of Us multiplayer game that they are working on. Druckmann did share a couple of smaller pieces of information alongside the new art but promised that far more information will be coming later in 2023.
Druckmann did say that even though this will be a mulitplayer focused title, it... -
EA Unable to Recover 60% of Corrupt Madden NFL Franchise Saves
Looks like EA really fumbled this one.
There was a period of about 22 hours where, if you logged into Madden NFL 23, there was a chance your Connected Franchise Mode saves became permanently corrupted. The 22-hour long span took place from December 28 through December 29. Those dates happened to come just after EA told players they were good to log in and play. Oops.
Now, the good news here is that if you logged into the game during this time there is a 40% chance that...
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