For those of you living in the UK, my friend Mr_JordanL will be hosting a charity stream for the British Red Cross' Anti-Loneliness campaign. He will be playing Hitman 3 for 20 hours! The link to the fundraiser campaign is here. Please check out his announcement video, edited by yours truly:
See i was thinking the opposite, I played the last Division and it felt exactly like Ghost Recon, which felt exactly like the first Division (which could be argued was gameplay wise very similar to the Assassins Creed/Watch Dogs games at that time) And i ended up dropping D2 very quickly after picking it up for £5. Most open world Ubi games are pretty much the same game with a different setting, so i'm not holding my breathe if this turns out to be Division 3 in space. I mean that and the people in charge at Ubi ARE THE WORST.
Game testers don't get nearly enough credit. Sure, they're getting paid to play games all day. But it's often just a small section of a game. And they're playing it over and over and over again. And it could be incredibly broken at that point. And it could be a terrible game. It's not nearly as fun of a job as it sounds.
It's good to see the socials are backing up QA testers (also noticed a few people in the industry and close to CDPR were liking a lot of the stuff) so i think it's safe to say they REALLY hit a nerve throwing the QA's under the bus.
This is true. I used to be one during the beginning of the PS3 era... It's also HARD to get a good game to test. Only game I was able to get a position in that was considered good was COD 4 and wait for it....... Madden 2007. You can also get canned at a moments notice.
Not really "news" but speaking of Aliens Colonial Marines in another thread, this mini-doc from the GVMERS youtube channel just dropped.
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Fall Guys is finally coming to Xbox this summer.
BioWare scraps 'Anthem NEXT' altogether.
To be honest, I played the demo when it first came out waaaay back in the day and was sorta ho hum on it...then when it became free on Xbox Game Pass I gave it some more time and found it actually quite fun to zip around in for a week or two. This sucks.
@allegate That is so awesome, I tweeted @ Victor Lucas from Electric Playground hoping he'll see that, he loves this kind of stuff and I'm sure he will be able to relate to the passion on display here. Vic was much older when he started his Electric Playground gaming newsmagazine style show in 1997, he was even doing some web version of it in 1995. Would so love to hear what he thinks about this.
The Witcher 3 is getting a next-gen update lol...
^^^ I just grabbed a copy of it on amazon for 13 dollars lol.
that's like three of the four reasons I listen to their podcasts. Holy shit. Like, I don't even care about gaming news anymore I just legitimately love the way these guys interact with each other. I've been listening to them talk since The Arrow Pointing Down days - also launched coincidentally the same week that I started working for my current overlords - and it's been so humbling listening to them for 13 years now. It's a weird word to use but listening to them get angry over the last couple years about the same things that everyone else is angry about instead of just toeing a corporate line and not offending anyone, and on top of that it's the same way I feel about things. Knowing that these people I've put over a decade of faith into feel the same way is, I don't know, affirming in a way I guess.
I wonder if it's something Red Ventures said. Also it's weird that this is almost the exact opposite of what happened last time where Jeff was fired and they all quit in solidarity.
Ubisoft moving away from 3-4 AAA titles every year (AC, Watch Dogs, etc) to focus on high-end F2P games; starting with the newly announced The Division: Heartland. Not surprising with the success of Apex Legends etc. but I still hope for future AC games.
Guess this kills any chance of a new Spilnter Cell! Though it isn't a surprise, all the big AAA publishers want ongoing live service games that generate continuous money, Atcivision has done it with CoD Warzone, EA with Apex and Genshin has just blown the lid of in depth JRPG's...all ready to play for free. Personally this won't effect me much, i'd given up on any new SC games long ago, and the only Ubi game i have actually played in recent years were the re-released Scott Pilgrim game and briefly Divison 2 (then Warzone came out and me and my friends haven't been back) but it does suck for those who like some Ubi games...this is unfortunately where AAA publishers have been wanting to go for awhile now, the problem being when they are all releasing new live service FTP games will the player base be spread too thin for them to actually make money?