Yeah they have generally struggled to make big sales. The sell well enough but not to the standard most publishers want.

They could just hire up a new studio rather than close a bunch down. I did see some stuff around Tango Gameworks and that a lot of staff left to join Mikami's new studio and there weren't many people left at the studio. Theoretically yes, but that's just not how these things work now. I suspect at ...

There are rumours that Bethesda is being given a dedicated Fallout team and this is the reason for the cull. Not convinced it's true yet but there was a comment from Todd Howard last week that they're trying to increase their output for their core RPGs. If it is true then what a shitty way to go ab...

As I understand it, Redfall was something they didn’t want to make but were pushed in that direction. Which sucks even more. Didn't want to make is strong. When they were part of ZeniMax they wanted a more service based game which is what Redfall started out as and when they joined Microsoft they p...

Terrible news for all involved and especially with so many studios being shuttered, hard to see how everyone getting laid off is going to be able to find a new job. I don't think it is that surprising to see these two go through. Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin both made big budget games that didn...

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Wed May 01, 2024 3:39 pm

In other words, because modders abandoned the game already, Bethesda is forced to fix everything itself for once

Weirdly the Creation tools aren't even out yet.

Along similar lines Bethesda just announced what is coming in the first big Starfield update since release. Coming May 15th. Headlines are: the ability to change the difficulty of combat, so you could make gun combat harder but ship combat easier for instance; massively improved surface maps; interi...

May!

Like I said, it's not as successful as Skyrim, especially in terms of keeping people playing but I don't think a drop off in players is an indication of a failed or unpopular game, most games drop off in a similar way. People rightly make a big deal of concurrent players as they are a good guide but...

It's hard to imagine anyone being that bothered about that :/ I think there will be plenty of people looking forward to it. Starfield is one of those games about which the agenda was set by the people who didn't like it and ignores the thousands of people who did like it. Because the general consen...

A load of old fanny I don't think this patch is really aimed at people playing on PC, they seem to have focused mostly on console stuff from what I have seen. Also I think the media, and by extension perhaps Bethesda, have done a poor job of communicating what this is. There seems to have been a ge...

It is a spectacularly bad patch. Considering the size of Bethesda their approach to quality control is mesmerisingly shit. They all know that the TV series is being made which could bring a revamped interest in a whole series of games the most recent of which (discounting FO76 because, well, it is ...

No Rest for the Wicked New ARPG from Moon Studios, the people behind Ori. It's been described as a cross between Diablo and a Soulslike but it mostly avoids ARPG staples. The world is handmade rather than procedural, combat is very considered a feels a lot like a Souls game. The only thing they tak...

April's round-up. A little late as I was busy most of Easter weekend.

I think it makes sense as everything is stored on the Battlenet servers.