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Lost Boys Interactive, an Embracer-owned support studio for Diablo 4, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, and PUBG, has been hit with another round of layoffs. The total number of affected employees is 139, and according to the studio's website, there were around 200 employees before the layoffs.
What's the most you've ever overreacted to an annoyance in a game? I'll quicksave before murdering an NPC who sent me on a fetch quest to the dungeon I just came from, sure, but Baldur's Gate 3 player jakethebrick_ took things to a whole new level: Killing off the Lower City's somewhat obnoxious street performers with a doom stack of over 100 oil, firewine, smokepowder, and runepowder barrels, producing the biggest explosion I've ever seen in the game.
Oxenfree, the gloomy adventure game from Night School Studio, will leave indie game storefront Itch.io on October 1, according to an email sent to users who own it this week. And nobody, including anyone who has the game in their library, will be able to download it after it's fully removed.
As slowly gets closer to its planned 2025 release window, a few problems are already cropping up — one of them being a publicized pay dispute over soundtrack licensing. As has grown into one of the biggest franchises in the gaming industry, the expansive library of licensed music that populates the games' various radio stations has become one of its greatest strengths, with in particular boasting over 241 licensed tracks. As developer Rockstar looks to expand on the previous game for the Vice City-set , however, it's already run into a few problems.
's expansion pack is out now, bringing a wide variety of new features to the game. Most prominent is the introduction of a new, expansive map, consisting of various layers of cave passages flooded with mutating radiation and strange new creatures. However, there are also plenty of new plants to grow, new recipes to craft, new tools to use, and, of course, new dinos to tame.
The long-running but relatively niche crafting JRPG series Atelier is aiming for mainstream, international appeal with the recently announced next entry, Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land.
I fear and respect Old School Runescape players. As someone who has a long history with MMOs and live-service games, I've stomached plenty of grind over the years. But the OSRS player doesn't merely tolerate grind—they relish in it, willing to devote themselves to the near-ascetic self-denial of killing a mole for 8 months. And soon, there will be grinds to endure that we haven't even begun to imagine. Over the weekend, Jagex announced Project Zanaris, the studio's name for customized OSRS community-run servers, where players will be able to design the parameters for the Runescape grind themselves.
Old School RuneScape is getting custom servers, client updates, including an official HD mode, the return of Leagues, and the second part of the Varlamore trilogy of updates (and a peek at the third and final one!).