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Honestly, I could see a new Soul Reaver game being a Souls-like if anyone was actually serious about resurrecting the franchise. I mean, between the ruined world and characters who can come back from death you could definitely market it as “Dark Souls, but vampires” towards newcomers. Shame the rights are with Embracer, meaning we aren’t likely to ever get a new entry unless someone buys it off them.

Good riddance. Shame he’s probably walking away with a massive payout for all his incompetence and negligence.

Glad to see this get preserved somewhere. It’s always a shame when someone pours a lot of time and passion into a project like this only for it to get wiped from the internet once they get the cease-and-desist.

All valid points and it is perhaps for the best that E3 just ended rather than continuing on as a shadow of its former self. Still, I hope something emerges that fills the void E3 left behind, even if I don’t think that is likely. Summer Games Fest is fine, but it’s still a far cry from what E3 used to be and all the scattered streams and announcements don’t really capture that concentrated excitement you had back when E3 was at its peak.

Game looks cool, but I always have mixed feelings about articles like this. On the one hand it helps raise awareness about the game to the people who want to play it, but it also helps raise awareness about the game to the people who are going to send the cease-and-desist letter.

Not surprised, it feels like E3 has been on life-support for a while now. Still disappointed to know that it’s over. Back in the day E3 was a highlight of the summer. Maybe it’s just nostalgia talking but classic E3 was just so exciting. All these major announcements dropping at once combined with all the booths showing off new games. It was just great. I guess we have the Game Awards and Summer Games Fest as the big gaming events, but none of them feel quite like E3 use to.

Not terribly surprised they are shutting down, but I am a little shocked that it is happening less than a week after the game released. I kind of expected them to at least attempt the old “we’re sorry you are disappointed and are working to fix the game” routine before bolting. Then again judging from all the articles and videos it doesn’t really look like there was any way to fix it or even really bring it close to the game they promised they were going to release.

Oh man, these all look great. I knew there were images floating around from a new Jet Set Radio game, but the rest were a complete surprise. Obviously too early to tell how the games will turn out, but it’s good to see Sega doing something new with their old IPs instead of just doing re-releases.

This is a very important public service announcement. Nearly every gaming site I’ve been to has had at least one “All the details you MISSED in the GTA 6 trailer!!!” article somewhere. We’ve officially entered the next phase of the GTA hype life cycle.

On the one hand I’m not opposed to mod creators getting paid for their work. There are a lot of great Skyrim mods, released and upcoming, that I wouldn’t mind paying for. Total conversions like Enderal, giant content expansions like Beyond Skyrim, and especially a lot of the great companion mods. The pay what you want option seems like a good way to let people support mod creators while not creating a paywall. On the other hand I just don’t trust Bethesda to deal with all of the issues this is going to create and it’s hard to see how it doesn’t end up negatively impacting the wider modding community.

Can’t wait to play Florida Simulator in 2025! More seriously, the game does look great and I’m curious to see just how accurate all the leaks over the years were, since the Bonnie and Clyde premise is seemingly confirmed.

Interesting read. I really liked Fable 3’s Industrial Revolution setting, but it did feel like the game was on fast forward once you actually got the throne. It’s a shame they weren’t able to make it the experience they wanted it to be.

Kind of in between games at the moment. Been digging through my backlog, looking for something to play, but nothing has really clicked yet. In the meantime I’ve been doing this little gaming advent calendar thing with Mission in Snowdriftland. It’s a platformer that used to be a flash game that was used to promote Nintendo products back in the 2000s. It’s set up like an advent calendar, with 24 levels. You could probably beat it in a few hours, but I’ve been enjoying taking it one level a day,

Well, that was vague and didn’t tell me anything. At least we know the game is eventually coming out, I guess?

Well, it looks like Fallout. The people behind the costumes and set design certainly did good work. Hopefully it ends up feeling like Fallout too.

On the one hand I’m always excited for more Witcher. On the other hand Cyberpunk 2077. More seriously, I hope they make a great game and it that lives up to the expectations people are going to have for a new Witcher game, but I’m keeping my expectations in check until I see the finished product.

And Embracer claims another victim. It feels like they aren’t going to have many studios left when they finish their “restructuring” process. At least Wingefors was nice enough to acknowledge that the employees, who might be about to lose their jobs, are going through a slightly more challenging time than the executives who are deciding which studio is next on the chopping block.

Well. This isn’t going to end well. I mean there’s a tiny chance they’ll be bought by someone who knows well enough to be hands off, but more likely they’ll be run into the ground and then have their staff slashed as a cost-cutting measure. Hopefully things turn out all right for the people working at these sites.

Every time I think Musk has written his stupidest Tweet he goes and proves me wrong. It’s honestly impressive.

I mean, is it too soon if people are still going to buy it? More seriously, I think one whole console generation is a good standard for remasters. Just so long as you can point to something that looks or plays better than the original did. For a remake, I think you need more time and the game your making needs to feel like it couldn’t have been made on the original hardware. Either way three years feels way too soon, especially for what is essentially a next-gen port or a definitive edition.