Retrospectiva săptămânii 8 - 14 septembrie

S-au lansat Borderlands 3, Greedfall și Blasphemous, KFC urmează să publice un visual novel, Nintendo continuă lupta cu pirateria, iar loot box-urile suferă o nouă înfrângere în Marea Britanie.

Linkuri rapide:

• Știri
• Articole (critică, dev, design)
• Anunţuri şi lansări de jocuri
• Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Nintendo face ce știe mai bine - se luptă cu site-urile de piraterie. Au mai dat un site în judecată, iar săptămâna trecută au câștigat un proces important, în urma căruia instanța a cerut tuturor providerilor de internet din Marea Britanie să blocheze accesul la site-urile care distribuie jocuri de Switch piratate. ^{(Eurogamer, Kotaku)}
• Declinul GameStop continuă - compania a anunțat că va închide în jur de 200 de magazine din întreaga lume, pe fondul unei scăderi cu 14% a volumului global de vânzări. ^{(GamesIndustry.biz, GamesIndustry.biz)}
• O comisie a parlamentului britanic recomandă guvernului să reglementeze loot box-urile ca jocuri de noroc până ce alte studii ulterioare vor demonstra că nu sunt dăunătoare pentru minori. Cum era de așteptat, giganții din industrie nu sunt fericiți. ^{(Ars Technica, Eurogamer, PC Gamer, PC Gamer)}
• Între 12 și 15 septembrie a avut loc Tokyo Game Show, cel mai mare eveniment de gaming din Japonia, care ne-a adus noi trailere și dezvăluiri despre Death Stranding, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Nioh 2, Tales of Arise și multe altele.

Articole (critică, dev, design)

• PC gaming in China: Everything you need to know about the world’s biggest PC games industry ^{(PC Gamer)}
• “If You’re Not First You’re Last”: How MMO Players Race for World First Clear ^(EGM)
• The Perpetual Tomorrow of Virtual Reality ^(EGM)
• War Games: The Growing Alliance Between Esports and the Military ^(EGM)
• Video Games Face Mass Extinction. For Some, It’s Already Too Late. ^(EGM)
• Establishing relationships through childhood gaming ^{(Into the Spine)}
• Leveling Up: The Story of Human Evolution, As Told Through Video Games ^{(The Ringer)}

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Actualitate

• The Sights Of The Tokyo Game Show ^(Kotaku)
• The Merchandise Of The 2019 Tokyo Game Show ^(Kotaku)
• System Shock 3’s Shodan comes to life in new pre-alpha trailer ^(RPS)
• ‘Minecraft’ has been quietly dominating for over 10 years, and now has 112 million players every month ^{(Business Insider)}

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Reportaj

• Inside The Ghosting, Racism, And Exploitation At Game Publisher Nicalis ^(Kotaku)
• The Binding of Isaac developer halts work with Nicalis over allegations of racism and abuse ^{(PC Gamer)}

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Not-a-review

• A tale of revenge and murder in Rust ^(Eurogamer)
• Thinking Globally at the Microbial Level ^{(First Person Scholar)}
• Sometimes, Pixelated Spectacle Is All You Need ^(Unwinnable)
• The Rose Colored Galaxy ^(Unwinnable)
• World Of Warcraft Classic’s first two weeks have been one big high school reunion ^(RPS)

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Industrie

• Why Ubisoft isn’t abandoning its open worlds ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Mike Rose: Indie developers are pricing their Steam games too low ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• The Secret To The Success Of Bastion, Pyre, And Hades: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations ^(Kotaku)
• 'Gears 5' Director on His Career of Salvaging Game Development Trainwrecks ^(Vice)

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Istorie, retrospectivă

• Cool Japan Only PS1 Games ^(Youtube)
• Dreamcast: A Forensic Retrospective ^(Eurogamer)
• Great moments in PC gaming: The hotel chase in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Jet Set Radio may be with us no more, but its influence is everywhere ^(Eurogamer)
• How a basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 ^{(Ars Technica)}
• The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You’ve Never Heard Of ^{(A Critical Hit)}
• The Story Behind the Tireless Slog of Porting 'Double Dragon' to Genesis ^(Vice)
• An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia ^(MEL)
• Chris Bateman’s journey from Discworld Noir lead to making Lords of Midnight tribute Silk ^(Gamasutra)
• Nearly 30 years ago, Mortal Kombat’s blood forever changed the video game industry ^(Polygon)
• Amy Hennig, Hideaki Itsuno, and Other Developers Share Their Favorite Dreamcast Games, 20 Years Later ^(USgamer)

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Dev, making of, mecanici

• The making of Gears 5: how the Coalition hit 60fps - and improved visual quality ^(Eurogamer)
• How Outer Wilds built a planet which falls apart ^(RPS)

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Design, world-building, artă

• How Hollow Knight’s community crafted gibberish into a real language ^(Eurogamer)
• Body Horror: Anatomy, Resident Evil, and the Art of Turning Buildings Into Monsters ^(EGM)
• The Art Of Gears 5 ^(Kotaku)
• Fine Art - They Came From The Future ^(Kotaku)
• Off-World Palaeontology ^(Kotaku)

Anunţuri şi lansări de jocuri

Anunţate

• I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator - un visual novel publicat de… KFC ^{(Noisypixel, RPS, Steam)}
• Cthulhu Saves Christmas, sequelul lui Cthulhu Saves The World ^(Zeboyd)
• Project Resistance, un nou joc în universul Resident Evil ^(Kotaku)
• Book of Travels ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Argonus & the Gods of Stone ^(GameSpace)

Acum cu dată de lansare

• Mutazione: 19 septembrie ^(Eurogamer)
• Hot Lava: 19 septembrie ^(Eurogamer)
• Rise of the Ghosts, primul DLC de Rage 2: 26 septembrie ^(Twitter)
• Killer Queen Black: 11 octombrie ^(Eurogamer)
• Rune 2: 12 noiembrie ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Gwent va fi lansat și pe iOS pe 29 octombrie ^(Polygon)

Lansate

• 10 septembrie: Blasphemous ^{(Steam, gog.com)}
• 10 septembrie: WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship ^{(Epic Store)}
• 10 septembrie: Greedfall ^(Steam)
• 10 septembrie: eFootball PES 2020 ^(Steam)
• 11 septembrie: Queen’s Wish: The Conqueror ^{(Steam, gog.com)}
• 12 septembrie: Die Young ^(Steam)
• 12 septembrie: DemonsAreCrazy ^(Steam)
• 13 septembrie: Daemon X Machina ^(Nintendo)
• 13 septembrie: Borderlands 3 ^{(Epic Store)}
• 13 septembrie: Kind Words ^(Steam)
• 13 septembrie: Breathedge ^(Steam)

Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Discord’s Nitro Games will be closed in October ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Apple Arcade subscription offers 100+ games for $4.99/month on Sept. 19 ^{(Ars Technica)}
• Steam should now recommend a better spread of games to you ^(Eurogamer)

Articole

• Steam lets bizarre, obscure games rub shoulders with big-budget hits, and I love it that way ^(Kotaku)

Jocuri gratis și free weekends

• Bleak medieval “single-player co-op” adventure A Plague Tale gets free trial version ^(Eurogamer)
• Deep Rock Galactic, the badass space dwarf co-op FPS, is having a free weekend on Steam ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Conarium is currently free on PC ^(EGM)
• Free action game Goreball offers some sublime physics fun ^{(PC Gamer)}

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