FromSoftware sleuth unearths earliest footage of Demon’s Souls to date: A prototype with a first person camera mode

Seasoned FromSoftware investigator Lance McDonald has shared a recently uncovered early internal showcase of Demon’s Souls, FromSoft’s crucial pivot point between King’s Field and Dark Souls, and the progenitor of its own subgenre. The demonstration consists of a PowerPoint presentation deck and early gameplay trailer. It was shown at “Gameshare 4,” an internal Sony event…

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BioWare veteran says Baldur’s Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn’t try to be too much like Baldur’s Gate 2

Mark Darrah was a programmer on the original Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2, along with Neverwinter Nights and Jade Empire, and served as executive producer of the Dragon Age series from Origins through Inquisition before leaving in 2020—and coming back in 2023 to kick in on The Veilguard. He knows a thing or two…

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Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in ‘commercial streaming mode within 3 years,’ which is great news if you hate owning things

During Take-Two’s latest earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick said the current computing hardware crisis—you know, the one that’s making it more economical to fly roundtrip from the UK to buy an MSRP GPU at Nvidia’s QuakeCon booth than it is to buy one anywhere online—is, to quote the man directly, “not a good thing.” But…

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Big Walk patch addresses voice volume complaints with restraint: ‘We consider it an important part of the game’s design that you can only hear players who are close to you’

Fantastic new puzzle game Big Walk drew some early complaints over the volume of its proximity voice chat, which was too quiet for some players and mic setups, and developer House House has now released a patch that it hopes will resolve the issue while respecting the spirit of the game. The studio has a…

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Japan has reportedly asked the US to stop using Mario, Pokemon, and others in social media posts

It seems that the government of Japan is not happy with the US government’s habit of using images from Japanese videogames in its political rhetoric, which has included racist, war-mongering social media posts. A Mainichi Shimbun report (Google translated, via IGN) says Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “repeatedly expressed concerns” about the use of…

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