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Hideki Kamiya - the director behind Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and the Wonderful 101 - has his eyes set on one day making sequels to Okami and Viewtiful Joe.
Wizards of the Coast has said the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons rules revisions will be compatible with 5th edition rather than a replacement for it, and is calling the revised core rulebooks the «2024» editions. If you're a veteran of the edition wars, they seem more like 4th edition's «Essentials» line than 3rd edition's complete replacement by 3.5.
Setting out to design a Souslike game to be as accessible for newcomers as possible while still catering to veterans seems like an almost impossible task, and yet that's exactly the tightwire act attempts. It's a valiant effort that's supported by some excellent art direction, voice acting, and combat but when it comes to wrapping all those separate components together into a single package, it struggles to stick the landing. There's plenty of fun to be found in Nor Vanek's quest to kill the gods, but the story that ties it together is disappointingly thin.
Stockholm has a new game studio. Going by Blue Scarab, the announcement shared on the company's official website says it consists of over 20 'industry veterans' who have led development on games like World of Warcraft, Battlefield, and Helldivers 2.
World of Warcraft veteran John Hight is now taking over another behemoth fantasy franchise.
A newly released joint report from marketing, media, and data firm Comscore and in-game advertiser Anzu found that in 2023, 82% of US gamers made in-game purchases in a "freemium" game of some kind, per Games Industry's read of the paywalled report.
Some World of Warcraft, IMVU, and Star Stable veterans have joined to form a new studio based in Sweden, Blue Scarab Entertainment, which is currently working on a cozy new IP that also borrows from true crime.
Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts steward Tetsuya Nomura has many gestating game ideas in the vault, so there might still be plenty of new characters tied up in belts and zippers in our future.