When Vivat Slovakia comes out, zombies broke BF 2042, most developers don’t want NFT and the first movie in Dreams -apkrig
After the vidcast, which we published on Monday, we also have a news summary for you at the beginning of the week. Of course, it reflects last week’s reverberations – such as a message from President Blizzard or the growing tension over the formation of unions at Raven Software. But we also have other news for you, such as the Slovak game Vivat Slovakia, which we talked about with its authors, the end of Horizon Forbidden West or confirmation that Dying Light 2 on the consoles of the previous generation will receive a free next-gen upgrade. You will find this and more in today’s summary.
List of topics
00:37 – Vivat Slovakia is a full-fledged double title, says Roman Lipka. The authors showed us the hero, fresh screenshots and indicated the release date of the new Slovak game
05:45 – Raven Software intends to form a union. The testers are behind her. If it succeeds, it will be the first unions in the gaming industry in the US
11:34 – Remaster Rise of the Triad will be released this year. The publishing rights completely take over Apogee and promise a true classic with several upgrades
15:19 – Blizzard wants to work in 2022 to restore trust. President Mike Ybarra describes the planned changes. But he mentions the games in a single sentence
18:29 – Steam Deck handles another anti-cheat tool. After the BattlEye middleware, Proton can also handle the Easy Anti-Cheat tool
20:33 – Zombie mode disappeared from Battlefield 2042 after just one day. As in the case of the Portal, the allocation of experience is a problem. DICE LA developers apologize
24:42 – Dying Light 2 offers a free upgrade to the new console. Cross-platform and cross-gen cooperation will, but not right away. The whole game will be completed in the coop
26:48 – The author of Yakuza establishes his own studio under NetEase Games. Toshihiro Nagashi becomes president of Nagoshi Studio. He will work on big console games
31:29 – The sequel to Syberia will be released on PC in March. He will arrive at the console later. You can already listen to the soundtrack
33:10 – An animated film is made in Dreams by Media Molecule. John Malkovich will play in The Winter Journey. We do not know anything more about the involvement of Dreams yet
36:30 – Ubisoft announces the end of Watch Dogs: Legion support. Less than a year and a half had to suffice, the developers will move on to other projects
38:23 – Developers from Riot Games are suing a Vietnamese studio on suspicion of stealing the concept as well as direct components of Teamfight Tactics
41:18 – Horizon Forbidden West will offer one end, but its tone will be subject to partial decisions and actions in the game
43:01 – According to the GDC, 70 percent of the nearly 3,000 American game studios and developers surveyed are not interested in the NFT. Questions about cryptocurrencies copy a similar (dis) interest
47:23 – Shortly after the announcement of the postponement of the launch of the 2nd season in Call of Duty: Vanguard comes the first escape of new operators
48:58 – Sony denies that it would produce a PS4 console during 2022 due to a lack of PS5. The production of the previous generation may take another two or three years