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Gaming News in Britain
PlayStation Store’s May Savings promotion includes discounts of up to 75%
Sony has launched a new PlayStation Store sale featuring discounts of up to 75% on select games.
FF14 and FF16 senior translator Koji Fox says 'you can kinda tell' game director Naoki Yoshida is 'like: I'm done with dark fantasy, I want to do something light again'
Naoki Yoshida, also known as Yoshi-P, is the producer of both the (critically-acclaimed) MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 as well as Final Fantasy 16, which is still yet to come to PC.
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'
Last year, we were slightly surprised to learn that not only does the German government sponsor a videogame award ceremony, it gives serious cash prizes to most of the winners. At the 2023 German Computer Game Awards—aka the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP)—retro RPG Chained Echoes won Best German Game and a €100,000 endowment, and at this year's ceremony on April 18, the same honor and cash prize went to Everspace 2 and Hamburg-based developer Rockfish Games.
LittleBigPlanet Developer Working on New IP
A recent Sony job listing has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet and Dreams developer Media Molecule's next game will be a new IP. The project has been in production for around a year at Media Molecule, as the studio shuttered development on Dreams in 2023.
Dark Heart and WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria Ahead
Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7, and for the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria event on May 16 at 10:00 am PDT globally!
‘It’s been really painful’: Ex-Lionhead devs explain why they’ve announced, and shelved, a new game
An independent UK developer says it’s been forced to announce and postpone its game on the same day, and lay off more than half of its staff, due to the sharp downturn in investment in the games industry.
Final Fantasy XVI Team’s Next Project Is Likely Going To Be More Lighthearted
The next project from the Final Fantasy XVI developer, Square Enix's CBU 3, will likely be more lighthearted, as Yoshi-P seems to be done with dark fantasy for the time being.