Rend is dead, as Frostkeep announced today. A post on the official website confirms that the servers for the survival game will go offline permanently as of January 31. “We’re sad to announce that on 1/31/2020 we will sunset Rend. This was a difficult decision for our team and was not something we approached lightly … Continue reading “Frostkeep To Sunset Rend This Month”
The 2010’s brought us closer than ever with developers and that means a lot more instances of people shall we say fudging the truth and maybe being a little more optimistic about their company’s future than was realistically possible. We’ve seen plenty of games in the past decade disappear after promising us that there was … Continue reading “2010’s: Remembering Those Games That Went Out For Gas (And Never Came Back)”
Remember last year when we talked about how Daybreak would likely be splitting off its properties into separate studios? They’ve done that. Daybreak today announced its “Franchise First” initiative, establishing three new studios; Dimensional Ink Games, Darkpaw Games and Rogue Planet Games. Dimensional Ink will be captained by Jack Emmert and continue work on DC … Continue reading “Daybreak Game Company Announces Franchise First, Studio Spinoffs”
What do you get when you combine an MMO environment and an RPG dialogue? A game that is dead as a corpse. In doing my end-of-decade round of Kickstarter follow up stories, I came across Eminence: Xander’s Tale only to discover that the game has very recently been pronounced dead in the water. Eminence is … Continue reading “Kickstarter Ketchup: Eminence: Xander’s Tale Dead Of No Revenue”
Say what? If you’re one of those people who doesn’t particularly care about the Game Awards, well now you have a reason to be at your computer this week (outside of the usual reasons). Geoff Keighley’s annual public display of affection toward Hideo Kojima is also renown for having a fair number of game reveals, … Continue reading “The Game Awards Will Have Playable Demos On Steam”
Just when you thought Bethesda was going to take home the trophy for 2019’s “stupid and greedy” decision, Cryptic Studios rolls in and says “we can do it better, and possibly commit fraud in the process!” This weekend saw the launch of the Mudd Market in Star Trek Online, a feature that by all means … Continue reading “Star Trek Online’s New Mudd Market Is Probably Fraudulent”
The Writers Guild of America has decided to take the video game award portion of its show hostage, and who the hell cares? In case you weren’t aware, the Writers Guild of America has a video game category of its award show that shows the respect and acknowledgement to great writers in the industry and … Continue reading “Editorial: Writers Guild Holds Game Award Hostage, Nobody Cares”
It’s that time again. This past week saw roughly 250 new games listed to the Steam store, and odds are a large portion of them are absolute trash. Actually, I can confirm that most of them look like absolute trash considering that out of those that actually came out, I could only find maybe sixteen … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Another Week Of Interesting Steam Releases”
Earthrise was a sandbox MMORPG that some of you might vaguely recall from many, many years ago. It launched in 2011 under Masthead Studios and could best be described as an unmitigated disaster from the get go. The game just wasn’t good, it offered manual aiming but neither the server or client performance to pull … Continue reading “Whatever Happened To: The Earthrise Reboot”
What else can I say? A whole lot. Incompetence is a word that has dogged Hellgate: London from the day when Electronic Arts and Flagship thought that a subscription on a Diablo clone would be a guaranteed money maker. Following the completely timely demise of Flagship Studios and the departure of Bill Roper, Hellgate traded … Continue reading “Impressions: Hellgate London Is Lazy And Incompetent”
MMO Fallout 