NetEase closes a fifth Western studio: Just two years after it was founded, Bad Brain Game Studios will shut down for good next week

Just three days after Greg Street confirmed that Fantastic Pixel Castle is closing due to the loss of NetEase funding, yet another NetEase-backed studio says it’s suffered the same fate. Bad Brain Game Studios, founded in 2023 and headed up by former Ubisoft Toronto lead producer Sean Crooks, announced today that it will close its…

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Netflix is reportedly turning the best cooking game, Overcooked, into a reality competition, and if it doesn’t get Nicole Byer from Nailed It! to host, I will riot

What a strange time to be alive: Netflix and production company A24 are reportedly turning messy co-op cooking romp Overcooked into a reality competition, and I’m not going to immediately assume it will be terrible. Videogame adaptations don’t suck now, you may have noticed, and while I’m sure there are still plenty of TV execs…

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‘I briefly burst into tears’: After 11 years of work, the dev of this fantasy sim is ‘elated and grateful’ to reach Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam only 3 days after launch

Fantasy management sim Tavern Keeper has only been out on Steam for three days but it goes back a ways—quite a long ways. Developer Greenheart Games, maker of 2013’s Game Dev Tycoon, has been working on its pub sim for more than a decade. Looks like all that hard work has finally paid off: Tavern…

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