Star Wars Galactic Racer's devs tested it by turning it into a board game https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/star-wars-galactic-racers-devs-tested-its-roguelite-progression-system-by-turning-it-into-a-board-game/
Frederik Wessberg's work-in-progress Seamless Landing mod for Starfield lets players descend from orbit and land anywhere, including on water, without picking a landing spot or watching a loading screen. It replaces the game's floating planet textures with 3D rendering based on Starfield's biome and surface data, using clouds only to mask the final cell switch. The finished mod will be freely available on Nexus Mods, with manual low-orbit flight or autopilot that lets you walk around the ship during descent.
Solo developer Steelkrill Studio's upcoming survival horror game Where Dolls Hang features dolls modeled from real photographs of Mexico's Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls. The photos can also be found within the game, and the title appeared in the Horror Game Awards' showcase this past summer.
The upcoming D&D interpretation of World of Warcraft sounds great, but don't expect it to work like the MMO does
Rockstar senior vice president of narrative Rupert Humphries said the GTA series has never had "much focus on national politics" beyond GTA 4's Homeland Security and Patriot Act themes, and that GTA 6 won't get "too specific" about any particular person, event, or movement. He said the studio's satire of Florida aims to be "larger than life" rather than a direct mirror of the real world, and described the American dream today as perhaps just a house and paid-off loans. Rockstar is also currently in an employment tribunal over its firing of 34 developers last year.
Eurogamer reports that Ace Combat 8 is far and away the series' biggest launch on Steam. No specific player or sales figures are given in the post, which links to the full article.
Final Fantasy Resonance feels so good to play because Square Enix 'experimented' with combining the best bits of FF5 and FF6
Warhorse Studios co-founder Martin Klima told PC Gamer he is tired of RPGs built around being "this chosen one" with a grand task of saving the universe, calling such straightforward power fantasies repetitive. He said many RPGs being made are "still the games for teenagers," and that this boredom with the formula led to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Klima also criticized publishers for recycling the same formula, citing the original Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs as fun first iterations that grow stale by the 10th time.