I am mostly posting this article because MMORPGs are one of my favorite genres, despite my lack of time to play them these days. But overall I have been pretty disappointed with the direction the genre has taken. Moving more towards solo-play, story-heavy, and small-scale theme-park style content.
Halo Infinite Season 5: How Forge's New AI Toolkit Works - IGN (www.ign.com)
Diablo IV is free-to-play on PC through Battle.net until Monday (massivelyop.com)
Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item (www.polygon.com)
Diablo 4’s second season is shaping up to be a major upgrade to Blizzard’s flagship action game
System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition - Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2023 (www.youtube.com)
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Gotham Knights, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (blog.playstation.com)
Also included are Alien: Isolation, Dead Island Definitive Edition, Outlast 2, and more.
Upcoming James Bond game Project 007 is being described as "the ultimate spycraft fantasy" (www.gamesradar.com)
Nintendo Switch 2: Everything We Know - IGN (www.ign.com)
Brilliant visuals and growing pains: examining the first generation of Unreal Engine 5 games (www.eurogamer.net)
Lords of the Fallen reaches 1m sold in 10 days (www.eurogamer.net)
Every Rockstar Game Ever Released: A Full History - IGN (www.ign.com)
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Overwatch 2’s new tank hero leaks ahead of BlizzCon 2023 reveal (www.polygon.com)
Dead Space 3 producer "would redo it almost completely" (www.eurogamer.net)
Coming Soon to Game Pass: Cities: Skylines II, Dead Space, Jusant, Mineko’s Night Market, and More - Xbox Wire (news.xbox.com)
Coming soon to @XboxGamePass and @XboxGamePassPC: Cities: Skylines II, Dead Space, Jusant, Mineko’s Night Market, and more!
Super Mario Bros. Wonder sells 4.3m worldwide (www.eurogamer.net)
Vague Patch Notes: Default MMORPG genre features change over time, and that’s OK (massivelyop.com)
I am mostly posting this article because MMORPGs are one of my favorite genres, despite my lack of time to play them these days. But overall I have been pretty disappointed with the direction the genre has taken. Moving more towards solo-play, story-heavy, and small-scale theme-park style content.
World of Warcraft’s 3-expansion Worldsoul Saga announced at BlizzCon (www.polygon.com)
Blizzard releases a World Tier-focused hotfix to combat power leveling (www.pcgamer.com)
Writing games the blog dedicated to text-based game development (MUDs) (writing-games.com)
Super Mario RPG Remake: Release Date, Gameplay Updates, and Latest News - IGN (www.ign.com)
WoW Is Finally Adding A New Endgame Activity, Made With Smaller Groups In Mind (www.gamespot.com)
Microsoft offering generative AI tools to its studios (www.eurogamer.net)
Netease Promises that its New Open-World RPG Project Mugen Is an Unprecedented Experience (techraptor.net)
Stronghold: Definitive Edition - Stronghold: Definitive Edition - Out Now - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
Early PS5 Black Friday Deals Have Officially Started - IGN (www.ign.com)