PlayStation Blogcast 149: Class of 2015

PlayStation Blogcast 149: Class of 2015

Today, the PlayStation Blogcast crew looks ahead to the new year and beyond. Which game is everyone most eager for? What exotic and wonderful sauce recipes await Sid? Will Nick ever trim his beard? Can Justin balance Destiny with Final Fantasy? Has Ryan lost his connection with the infinite well of souls? All this and…

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Game developers launch North America’s first industry-wide union ‘to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status’

Videogame workers throughout North America have launched a new union as part of the Communications Workers of America called “United Videogame Workers—CWA,” a “direct-join organization” that enables “artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status.” UVW-CWA said in its announcement that the union’s…

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Mewgenics’ developers made one of my favourite hardcore platformers, and you can grab it right now for less than $4

The End is Nigh is effectively an unofficial sequel to Super Meat Boy: it’s a reflex-oriented platformer with quick deaths, quick respawns and very dark humour. Protagonist Ash “flops his way through a future of pain and suffering” in search of a friend whose body parts are spread around a spike-filled hellscape. Collectibles are tumours….

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Arrowhead is delaying Helldivers 2 updates to fix its performance problems: ‘We’re focusing way more on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of things doesn’t happen again’

The last major update to Helldivers 2, Into the Unjust, caused all sorts of performance problems that developer Arrowhead said were a result of unaddressed technical debt. As the game grew in size and complexity, it became increasingly unstable, and Arrowhead said in September that it had plans to address it. Arrowhead dropped a new…

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