'Hytale is saved': Riot sells cancelled game back to original co-founder, who promises to take it 'back to the original vision for Hytale'

‘Hytale is saved’: Riot sells cancelled game back to original co-founder, who promises to take it ‘back to the original vision for Hytale’

Five months after cancelling the development of Hytale and closing the studio working on it, Riot Games has sold the whole thing back to original co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme. And yes, that means work on the game has resumed: Collins-Laflamme said more than 30 former developers “who know this game inside and out” have been brought…

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Breakout & Kung-Fu Master Join The Antstream Library

Brick breaking and side-scrolling martial arts action are on the cards for retro game fans this week. This week, Antstream players can enjoy Breakout (Atari 2600), the game that launched a million bricks at walls, and fight for love in the side-scrolling beat ‘em up Kung-Fu Master (Arcade). Also, players can give the “Life, Duty…

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Remakes are the backbone to Capcom’s success as they provide ‘financial resources’ for new Resident Evil games or standalone ideas like Pragmata

Capcom is on a roll. It had a successful year, what with the release of Resident Evil Requiem and Pragmata, the latter of which sold 2.5 million copies in just three months. And part of this continued success is thanks to all the remakes Capcom has under its belt. “One of the reasons for creating…

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A Highland Song review

What is it? A platformer, a rhythm game, a branching story—in other words, another inkle narrative experiment. Release date December 5, 2023 Developer inkle Publisher inkle Reviewed on Radeon 5700 XT, i5-9600K, 16GB RAM Steam Deck N/A Link Official site Experimental, genre-bending approaches to interactive storytelling have always been inkle’s stock-in-trade, from the increasingly ambitious…

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“An Epic Action JRPG” – Indie Dev Behind The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa Reveals Latest Retro-Inspired Project

The Concrete Sutra #1 coming next year. Vadim “Yeo” Gilyazetdinov, the independent developer behind games like the River City Ransom/Street Gangs-inspired titles, The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, and Fading Afternoon, has just announced his latest beat ’em up RPG. The new project, titled The Concrete Sutra #1 (h/t: Gematsu), is scheduled to arrive on PC…

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