General Gaming News II: Steam Helpdesk Site Leak

[Kaisha]

Knowing Konami, they’ll just give us 1-3 using Nesticle and sell it to us for $60. Their excuse being that the original games cost $50 a piece back in the 80s/90s.

They already charge $25 for SotN+RoB. I'd mostly expect this collection to be of the NES/SNES/Genesis titles and nothing more. What I wouldn't mind is one of the PS2-era Castlevanias since I've hardly played them. That or bring Adventure Rebirth to a platform that isn't the dead Wii shop.

[6souls]

Epic Admits to Scraping More Steam Data than Previously Disclosed Because they Rushed the Launcher
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...am-data-mining

[6souls]

No Halo 5 for the Master Chief Collection
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comm...q1e/?context=3

[Corrderio]

Shantae 5 confirmed later this year: https://twitter.com/WayForward/statu...23020277661696

[Madeline]

Hell yeah. Shantae has been pretty fun overall if not for a few bumps in the road.

[Cantih]

Sakura Taisen for PS4
Character Designs by Bleach's Tite Kubo

[6souls]

New Vegas U.L.T.I.M.A.T.E. is a project aiming on a complete remaster of iconic game, fixing, improving and logically finishing/expanding Fallout: New Vegas while fully sticking with canon - for both graphics and gameplay parts, bringing the legendary game to a completely new level. It's combining the best mods from the best authors, ensuring 100% compatibility and stable game without a single crash or freeze. Another main goal of this project is to give additional deserved shoutout to legendary mod authors and their works, as well as to small unknown gems - that's the titanic efforts of modding community that made this possible.

But there's more! U.L.T.I.M.A.T.E., besides being an A to Z modding guide, is a fully modular project, meaning it will fit your taste no matter if you're Fallout veteran of series newcomer. To get only vanilla game graphics remaster? Easy! Fix and improve gameplay in addition? Gotcha! Inject new gameplay mechanics, quest and story expansions (immersive and lore-friendly still)? We have that.

U.L.T.I.M.A.T.E. is what you've wanted and waited for so long - immersive and flexible - and so, available for absolutely any rig and up to any taste, while carrying nextgen improvements in its core.

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66521

[6souls]

https://www.jinx.com/p/mass_effect_g...dy_pillow.html



$29.99

[Koul]

I wish it was smuttier

[6souls]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...full-year-loss

GameStop lost $673M during their fiscal 2018 period. It's okay, they still made $8.29B.

[6souls]

FTC to Hold a Loot Box Workshop on August 7, 2019 in DC
“Inside the Game: Unlocking the Consumer Issues Surrounding Loot Boxes”

The workshop is bringing together a group to discuss concerns regarding loot boxes, particularly how they are marketed to minors. The group will include “industry representatives, consumer advocates, trade associations, academics, and government officials.”

The FTC group will also talk about consumer awareness and education about digital transactions. Presumably, this means they will be looking into the potential for loot boxes to be seen as addictive or to be viewed as a form of gambling.

For their part, the FTC is seeking public input before the workshop. The public can submit suggestions through June 7, 2019, via e-mail. You can also submit public comments through October 11, 2019.

https://www.dualshockers.com/ftc-loo...rkshop-august/
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pres...ted-loot-boxes

[arus2001]

"Send us your feedback that we'll ignore because haha $$$~"

[6souls]

Oklahoma Launches the USA's First High School eSports League as an Official School Sport

Esports have not fallen off. It has become a rich industry backed by major tech companies and internet startups. Colleges will recruit skilled gamers out of high school. Professional teams recruit college students and sometimes high school students. Mitchell said he’s pursuing esports as another avenue for scholarships, hoping that it can fund his education at Oklahoma State University.

Union Public Schools is hosting the league. Part of the league’s requirements, similar to other sports, is academic eligibility. There are also expectations that students’ in-game conduct will stay above the vitriol infamously attributed to some casual video games in public matches.

Oklahoma eSports League teams will compete in Clash Royale, Madden 2019, OverWatch, Rocket League and Super Smash Bros. Sapulpa students will form teams for several of the league’s games and League of Legends.

MSI, a Taiwanese tech company, sponsored the Sapulpa team, providing gaming computers and peripherals.

The esports league is in its infancy. Due to league rules and computer performance requirements, not every participating school will be able to host tournaments.

The league’s season will be September through May for the 2019-20 academic year. However, the first friendly match is scheduled for April 20 at Union Public Schools between Sapulpa and Union.

Other participating schools include districts in Broken Arrow, Cleveland, Kingston, Lawton, Putnam City, Salina, Sayre and Wilburton.

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/loca...aedd413d9.html

[Corrderio]

I'm cringing at that.

[Cantih]

I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner.

[Daydreamer]

Why the heck is a Pay to Win game (Clash Royale) included in this???

[6souls]

Dotnod (Vampyr/Life is Strange) & Focus Home Announce a Second Collaboration

Dontnod Entertainment, an independent French studio that creates and develops video games is proud to announce the renewal of its partnership with Focus Home Interactive.

Vampyr, the first game of the partnership, impressed press and players from around the world. Focus and Dontnod are proud to announce that more than a million copies have been sold to-date. Our new co-production promises to be one of the most ambitious in the history of the publisher and the studio.

“We are delighted to continue the adventure with the team at Dontnod who have already amply demonstrated their talents to create rich universes, enhanced by a masterful narrative and unique artistic direction. We are proud to once again allow the talent of the studio to express itself on this new project which is intended to be among the most ambitious in the history of Focus and Dontnod” said John Bert, COO of Focus Home Interactive.

“We are excited to be strengthening our successful relationship with Focus Home Interactive," said Dontnod CEO Oskar Guilbert. " Their proven and effective marketing, their ability to address new digital distribution channels, their experienced teams and the convergence of our editorial visions makes Focus an ideal partner for our new game. Vampyr is a great success and we are very happy to develop this partnership with this exciting new project. "

[6souls]

Dotnod (Vampyr/Life is Strange) & Focus Home Announce a Second Collaboration

[6souls]

Japanese Devs Hidetaka Miyazaki (Dark Souls) & Fumito Ueda (Shadow of the Colossus) Say RDR2 is Influencing Their Approach to Future Games
They want to Focus on Story & Dialogue Early on in Development Instead of Towards the End, Communication Within Their Teams Need to Improve
https://www.vg247.com/2019/04/11/sek...arrative-game/

[6souls]

Obsidian's Original Plan for KOTOR 3 via Chris Avellone

When we finished the second one we were all trying to restore our lives back to sanity. We did start working on the third game pitch, because we always imagined the trilogy. Even when working on the second game, we [tried] to foreshadow what Darth Revan was doing in the second game, and he wasn’t always just ruthlessly and mindlessly blowing everything up. He actually had a larger plan because there was some greater manipulation and threat going on.

The third game involved you, as a player character, following where Revan went and then taking the battle to the really ancient Sith lords who are far more terrifying than the Darths that show up. These guys would just be monsters. These would have a level of power that was considerable, but at the same time you’d be able to dig more into their psychologies, and their personalities, their history, and even how they dealt with the player, how they talk with the player, the different powers they cultivated and developed, and for some of them like – they’re the ancients, so they’re not just ruling a solar system, [but] swathes of the galaxy.

So the places you travel to [you’d see] how they left their stamp on that world, or that solar system, or whatever collection of moons. You’d see how horrible that was. Part of that environment would tell a story about that. [That] would be a great, epic way to end the trilogy. The Old Republic are out there. We just didn’t get a chance to do it.

https://www.dualshockers.com/star-wa...nt-sith-lords/

This is basically what BioWare tried to do in SWTOR with the Dread Masters.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Masters