Grounded 2: 100 Reasons to Run in the Rot and Ruin Update

Founder of bankrupt Samson studio mulls how to use AI for his next attempt: ‘Cutting corners in game development has a habit of coming back to bite you in the ass’

Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Samson developer Liquid Swords, has confirmed the studio’s closure, saying that while the console version of the game enjoyed “much greater success” than the PC release, it “wasn’t enough to get the company across the finish line.” Reports over the weekend revealed that Liquid Swords had gone bankrupt just six…

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Helldivers 2 studio warns mods may break as it switches to new anti-cheat, and the negative reviews are dropping on Steam like Hellbombs

Heads up, Helldivers: Arrowhead Game Studios is moving Helldivers 2 from GameGuard to Easy Anti-Cheat today, and that means some mods—including those that don’t have any impact on gameplay—may stop working. Helldivers 2 doesn’t have official modding support, but there are plenty of them out there—most either cosmetic or audio replacements. Arrowhead said in a…

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Magenta Down: A Journey Across a Hostile Exoplanet

Summary Magenta Down is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure about traversing a hostile exoplanet to save yourself and your missing crew. The developers provide a glimpse into their design goals and approach. Magenta Down is coming in 2027 to XBOX Series X|S and XBOX on PC. Magenta Down is designed around a simple premise: you and…

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