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If you one day find yourself staring down the tragedy of finishing everything of interest in your new favorite game, just remember this sterling advice from the (mostly) solo developer of city builder hit Manor Lords: "Enjoy other games for a while."
After Larian metaphorically, and quite possibly literally, wiped up the champagne and vacuumed the confetti after celebrating Baldur's Gate 3's long-awaited full release, studio boss Swen Vincke joined writing director Adam Smith around a monitor to watch the RPG's Steam numbers rocket into the stratosphere. Vincke's response to the game's surprising success was simple: "We get to do it again."
Old School RuneScape does a lot of things that other games, let alone other MMOs, just plain don't, and one of the most fascinating examples is the way that player input impacts many changes and updates. Virtually all games respond to player feedback, but few games straight-up poll proposed changes via proper voting booths and require a supermajority 70% approval for things to get the green light. But OSRS does, and it has for years, which can lead to amazing moments like the recent division around the decision to finally take the megaphone away from some obnoxiously loud monsters.
The 2002 Jango Fett story Star Wars: Bounty Hunter has found a new life on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and PC thanks to a new HD re-release from Aspyr in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, and early reviews and comparisons confirm that it's head and shoulders above the maligned Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection from earlier this year.
For years, rumors and purported leaks have claimed that Bungie is working on a would-be Destiny 3, and those claims have only escalated in recent months following the end of Destiny 2's 10-year Light and Darkness saga with The Final Shape expansion. Reputable insider Jeff Grubb now reports that, following shocking layoffs at Bungie cutting 220 people alongside Sony integration shifting 155 more, "the next Destiny" is "going on the shelf" indefinitely.
Update: In a statement released after this story was first published, Humble Games confirmed reports of layoffs at the company, but did not specify how many employees were affected. Humble Games described the layoffs as part of a "restructuring" rather than a function of total closure, as some employee accounts suggested. Here's the company's statement in full:
The big Helldivers 2 update Escalation of Freedom is coming August 6, and among the new bots and bugs and other difficulty-ratcheting mayhem, the standout addition for me is easily the new mission type where you transport a jarred Terminid larva across planets. For science, I guess.
Helldivers 2's first truly massive update is coming soon: "Escalation of Freedom" is due August 6, packing a huge injection of content across the game, from enemy and mission variety to difficulty and quality-of-life features.