Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51’s studio doesn’t benefit much from sales of its old games: ‘It’s really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though’

Despite a reputation for making cult games, Japanese director Suda51’s studio Grasshopper Manufacture has survived for 27 years—long enough to have now ported much of its back catalog of console games to PC. A look at the difference between Grasshopper’s developer listing page on Steam and its publisher listing page, though, reveals a too-common struggle…

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Subnautica 2 devs show off multiplayer while constantly reassuring solo players it’s totally optional

There’s been no shortage of drama surrounded Subnautica 2, from the leadership of Unknown Worlds being axed by publisher Krafton because they’d allegedly caused a delay, to those developers claiming it was Krafton who had caused that delay, actually, so it wouldn’t have to pay those devs a contractual multi-million dollar earnout, to the big…

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Fallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: ‘It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another … it’s the complete opposite’

The funny thing about Arc Raiders is how friendly it is. Trios mode is fairly reliably violent, and you’ll occasionally get popped by people like Fraser, but in solos mode most players are, unexpectedly, quite cooperative. It’s a little weird, given the nature of videogames, and developer Embark Studios was perhaps a little surprised by…

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Genshin Impact fan wiki operator may be having second thoughts about datamining after Cognosphere unleashes the lawyers, says it ‘will only update live game data in the future’

Cognosphere, better known to most of us as HoYoVerse, has opened a new front in its long-running war against leakers by suing Jianuo “HomDGCat” Zhou, the operator of the HomDGCat wiki. The lawsuit, available via Aftermath, alleges that Zhou “has engaged in a sustained, coordinated campaign to steal and publicly disseminate Cognosphere’s confidential, trade secret…

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Relooted is a fine heist game—but it’s a better history lesson

In a 2018 report commissioned by French president Emmanuel Macron, Senegalese academic Felwine Sarr and French art historian Bénédicte Savoy assessed that 90% of the tangible cultural heritage of sub-Saharan Africa is held in Western collections—a product of centuries of colonial exploitation. In the fictional future of Relooted, the heist-planning platformer from South African studio…

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Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn’t expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop, and they scrambled together a solution but ‘I’ll give us an average grade on that’

Fallout season 2 is wrapped up and, no, we didn’t get a surprise remaster dropping at the end. Instead, senior Bethesda types have been giving a bunch of retrospective interviews about the series, the latest of which is a mega-feature from GameInformer that dives into the creation of Fallout 3 and where the series went…

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