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"What if Larian had shut down after Divine Divinity?": Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare in favour of "AAA veteran" start-ups and AI "magic beans"

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Star Trek Online exec producer Thomas Marrone has poured scorn on companies who close maturing teams in favour of "AAA veteran" start-ups and "magic beans".

#rockpapershotgun #game #marrone #team #teams #publishers #article #englishlanguage

3 days ago

Helldivers 3 "only makes sense" if it’s so unlike Helldivers 2 "that both games can exist side by side", says Arrowhead boss, discussing their new prototype game

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"The biggest competitor to a Helldivers 3 would be Helldivers 2," says Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt, while touching on the studio's unannounced prototype.

#rockpapershotgun #helldivers #game #pilestedt #players #next #article #englishlanguage

3 days ago

Woim is the earth-guzzling, self-bisecting sokoban pick-me-up I needed after a week of games industry disasters

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Fans of gentle sokoban puzzlers and cheery soil-swallowing wigglemonsters should enjoy Woim, out now on Steam.

#rockpapershotgun #worm #week #really #across #golden #article #englishlanguage

3 days ago

"This was not a Creative Assembly developed game": Total War boss points the finger at external partner for Shogun 2 Complete Edition disaster

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"We are a craft studio": Creative Assembly clarify that they don't AI-generate art following Shogun 2 CE disaster, and are "investigating" an external partner.

#rockpapershotgun #collum #creative #assembly #sega #total #article #englishlanguage

3 days ago

Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"

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Open world ecosatire Future? No Thanks! has been updated to replace some genAI voices, with developer Molleindustria also offering refunds to upset players.

#rockpapershotgun #pedercini #game #generative #speech #article #ama #englishlanguage

3 days ago

"We made a very difficult decision": Australian indie showcase Freeplay reject antisemitism claims after delisting a Jewish sponsor who was allegedly accused of being a "zionist"

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Australian indie showcase Freeplay reject antisemitism claims and cite "violent threats" after delisting a Jewish sponsor who was allegedly called a "zionist".

#rockpapershotgun #freeplay #brier #parallels #jewish #event #article #englishlanguage

4 days ago

Even at their most chaotic and conflicted, BioWare were the heart of the western computer RPG

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As EA close BioWare down, RPS reflect on the original Baldur's Gate studio's adventures and misadventures over 30 years of role-playing game development.

#rockpapershotgun #bioware #words #mass #effect #studio #article #ama

4 days ago

You don't just paint the map your colour in new WW2 RTS Battleplan, you redraw the frontline with a pencil and hope your troops do the rest

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Battleplan is a new single-player WW2 RTS with a novel map-drawing mechanic from the makers of the excellent Kaiju Wars.

#rockpapershotgun #battleplan #drawing #units #steam #mightier #photo #video

4 days ago

You need not hunger for that Zelda Ocarina of Time remake when we already have Indigo, a colossal N64 romhack featuring mushroom forests and bearded Link

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Indigo is an ambitious Zelda Ocarina of Time romhack in which Link has become Obi Wan Kenobi (not really) and must explore a mushroom forest.

#rockpapershotgun #indigo #beard #zelda #time #article #ama #englishlanguage

4 days ago