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Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Horse Armor Sold Millions Despite Backlash, Ex-Bethesda Dev Says
16.10.2024
Back in 2006, Bethesda released its first piece of downloadable content on console for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was armor for horses and it cost $2.50. Players were outraged, but Bethesda made bank. “That was kind of a head shaker for us: you’re all making fun of it and yet you buy it,”...
MultiVersus Selling Players Extra Lives Was A 'Bug,' Dev Says
6.6.2024
In MultiVersus, Warner Bros. crossover fighter, there’s a feature that lets you pay real money to refill your lives during its campaign missions. That sounds scummy, right? Well after fans were rightfully annoyed by it, developer Player First Games has claimed that the feature was a “bug” and...
Hellblade II Dev Says People Want Shorter Games, And They’re Right
4.4.2024
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is set to follow in its predecessor’s footsteps as a digital-only, shorter experience. Ninja Theory’s follow-up to the 2017 psychological horror action game will run about eight hours and cost only $50 compared to the $70 most AAA games cost on the Xbox Series X/S. If...
The Day Before Dev Says ‘Sh** Happens’ As It Deletes Everything
12.12.2023
Everything going on with failed Steam zombie shooter The Day Before continues to shock and amaze. The latest wild development is studio Fntastic’s response to the entire self-inflicted debacle: “shit happens.”Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Says The Game Was A Lesson In Avoiding Crunch
16.10.2023
Callous, crunch-heavy work culture keeps shaking the games industry, but it seems like some developers are at least trying to safeguard against it. Colin Walder, a CD Projekt Red engineering director with over a decade of AAA audio programming experience, discussed game industry leadership during...
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Says Their Other Mega RPG Series Is Still Alive
31.7.2023
There seems to be another Divinity: Original Sin sequel in the future, but eager fans will need to wait until well after developer Larian Studios releases Baldur’s Gate 3 to get their hands on it. Read more
Today in Crypto: Crypto's 'Inherent Structural Flaws' Make It Unsuitable for Monetary System, BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases Can be Turned into Colors, Dev Says He Reverse-Engineered Brazil CBDC Source Code, Algofi to Shut Down
11.7.2023
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Pokémon Go Dev Says Everyone Loves Going Outside When Fans Are Mad About It
24.4.2023
Pokémon Go has been riddled with controversy over the past month after developer Niantic made changes to Remote Raid Passes. The changes included limiting how many times people could use these items to play the game remotely, rather than having to leave their home to take part. Alongside this,...
Ex-Sims Dev Says Men Lie About How They Play Game Out Of Embarrassment
28.3.2023
You know that new-age internet saying, “all women do is eat hot chip and lie?” Well, now we’ve got a new gamer saying for men. And no, has nothing to do with them chugging Monster energy drinks and punching holes in the wall when they lose in Warzone, because all men do is “play The Sims and lie,”...
Tornado Cash dev says 'sequel' to crypto mixer aims to be regulator-friendly
7.3.2023
Soleimani explained that the “critical flaw” with Tornado Cash is that users cannot prove that they’re not associated with a criminal enterprise stealing or laundering crypto funds
Ethereum’s Shanghai Hard Fork Could Happen in March 2023, ETH Dev Says Staking Withdrawals Is the ‘Highest Priority’
9.12.2022
According to a recent Ethereum Core development meeting on Dec. 8, developers disclosed that the next Ethereum hard fork, called Shanghai, could be implemented by March 2023. It’s been suggested that the Shanghai hard fork will be able to manage the network’s staked ethereum...
Disco Elysium Studio Accused Of Ousting Creators, Dev Says It's 'Bad News' For Sequel
3.10.2022
Some of the core developers behind beloved 2019 indie RPG Disco Elysium, including the author of the novel it’s based on, are no longer working at the studio that created it. The news was revealed in a blog post written by an editor on the game, Martin Luiga, who claims studio leadership at ZA/UM...
Rockstar Forced Takedown Of GTA Prototype Footage, Original Dev Says
22.8.2022
For a video game series all about irreverent satire, Rockstar takes its legal control over Grand Theft Auto extremely seriously. The studio and its parent company, Take-Two, are notorious for crackdowns on mods and fan projects, but now it appears they’ve gone after one of the original creators...
Sonic Frontiers Dev Says Negative Reactions Are Because People 'Don't Understand' It
13.6.2022
This month, IGN has released a lot of new footage of Sega’s upcoming open-world speed ‘em up, Sonic Frontiers. The fan reaction has been mixed, to say the least, with some even suggesting online that the devs delay the game to improve or change things they don’t like about Frontiers after seeing...
Ethereum Has Destroyed $8.10 Billion in Ether, ETH Scarcity to Increase After The Merge
21.5.2022
According to current metrics, the Ethereum blockchain has burned 2.35 million ether since the implementation of Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559. The $8.10 billion in value was burned over the course of nine months and during the last seven days, 18,110 ether worth $34.9 million...
Black Dev Says It’s ‘Highly Probable’ Doctor Strange Sequel Fight Scene Copied His Game
17.5.2022
Sword of Symphony, the in-development music-based JRPG from solo developer Stephen Ddungu, is back in the public conversation again. Apparently, after director Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hit theaters earlier this month, Ddungu’s fans took to Twitter to share an...
Ethereum Dev Says The Merge Could Be Delayed a Few Months, ‘Strongly Suggests’ Not Investing in ETH Mining Rigs
13.4.2022
According to Ethereum developer Tim Beiko, The Merge is likely to be pushed to the third quarter of 2022. Despite the delay, Beiko also said he “strongly suggests not investing more in mining equipment at this point.” The Merge May be Delayed, Ethereum Hashrate Taps New ATH Four days...
After Cyberpunk 2077’s Big Update, Dev Says It’s An RPG Now—But Fans Differ
17.2.2022
Cyberpunk 2077 disappointed a lot of players when it launched without many of its originally promised features. The quests were incredibly light on dynamic player choices, and advertised features like apartment customization and body augmentations were not in the final game. The gameplay was...
That Dark Souls III Twitch Streamer's Bananas Single-Button Run, Explained
27.10.2021
Earlier this week, Twitch streamer Dylan “Rudeism” Beck blew our minds by beating Dark Souls III using a single-button setup to hammer out Morse code. It’s an impressive feat to be sure and one that also touches on something Rudeism is quite passionate about: accessibility in games.Read more
Solana Restarts Mainnet, SOL Users Complain, Dev Says Network Stall Not Similar to ETH in 2016
15.9.2021
The blockchain network Solana had issues processing blocks on September 14 and according to a status report on September 15 at 2:01 a.m. (EST), the Solana validator community “successfully completed a restart of Mainnet Beta.” Solana Validators Restart Mainnet Beta Solana is now...