MrBrown

https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-finds-no-evidence-of-widespread-misconduct-at-activision-blizzard/

I preferred 5 and 6 over 4, so I'm kinda suspicious of people making those arguments...

Did Old World turn out bad? Was kinda interested in it... I'm sure there'll be a new Civ soon too...

Bigger is the absolutely not what those games need.

Though, they did also say you couldn't buy items in immortal, so... (Which is technically true, just very misleading).

Diablo4 in 2023. We'll see what's it like... at least it looks pretty, so it'll probably be worth it to playthrough the story once.

Microsoft showing off they've bought Kojima, no need to show an actual game.

Everybody's favorite class, it seems. I played D3 at the start, and god people were constantly crying for necromancers.

So you just rely on everyone else to post the news? Freeloaders. I bet you don't even pay taxes!

Looks like the release of the next game is close, because they're starting to make stuff other medias.

Visually nothing interesting so far. But they do really promise a lot, gameplay wise. We'll see.

I'm not into WH40k, so to me it seems like at least a dozen 40k games were announced last week and my feeds are full of previews of them.

You're supposed to moan about how much things cost, isn't that the point? And, well, I should also mention design made to obfuscate the amount of money required to reach content, or design made to make psychologically weak people to spend more money. That's why lots of countries have gambling laws, after all.

Meanwhile... So, x Get money x Alienate your previous fanbase Mission successfull!

This is another level of stupid. Sven, or other people working on this, don't seem to understand the basic premises of RPGs. Players are never free to do literally anything they want, there's always a framework you're working in. If the GM is very good at making up things on the fly without preparation, the framework can be very large, like "you can do anything that sticks to the world of D&D, but nothing outside of it". If the GM is a mere mortal like 99.9% of people, they will have some kind of content prepared, and the framework will be smaller, like "your quest is this, your characters want to do this" or "you start at this situation, from it you can do anything you want". Going outside the framework will break the game, and generally make it impossible to play. For CRPGs, this basically means a GM that's huge on content preparation. That's just how it has to be, technically. If the framework for BG3 means that you have the box, then just force them to take the box. Don't belittle people on the some kind of illusion of choice if you don't want them to make that choice. You can't have it all up to the player in any case; Players will come up with thousands of decisions that would be rational and logical in some sections of BG3's story that they won't have coded in, so no reason to pretend they can do anything they want. It's wasted resources, and an insult to players. But here's the worst thing they can do: Force you to take the box, and then have a character say "You idiot! You kept the box!". Don't make negative-McGuffins.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Official_Paizo

BTW, if you happen to have phones, Diablo Immortal released today. There's also an open beta for the PC version. Played for 30mins, plays a lot like a simpler version of D3.

Bioware made non-announcement: https://blog.bioware.com/2022/06/02/our-next-adventure-dragon-age-dreadwolf/

Oh, Rogue Trader is by Owlcat. Not sure if this is good or bad news. Probably means it'll really be a old-style CRPG, but very buggy and with a bloated character generation.

Unfortunately, espionage is mostly useless. The "intel" part of it works fine, but the espionage actions are just woefully weak.

It's possible to play a 4-year old version of it, using the beta feature. Obviously still not original, but that's pretty far back.

https://www.fanbyte.com/news/activision-inexplicably-introduces-tool-to-rate-character-diversity-metrics/

I know some other games that could benefit from this. Path of Exile comes to mind.