Retrospectiva săptămânii 8 - 14 decembrie

Principalul eveniment al săptămânii a fost The Game Awards, în cadrul căruia au fost anunțate mai mult jocuri noi, dar a fost prezentată și noua consolă Xbox. Dintre titlurile anunțate se remarcă o continuare pentru Hellblade, primul joc pentru PlayStation 5, un nou joc Dungeons & Dragons, iar The Wolf Among Us 2 a fost reanimat și reanunțat.

Linkuri rapide:

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

Știri

• Compania care publică cărțile „Choose Your Own Adventure” au trimis scrisori de încălcare a copyright-ului mai multor studiouri care au publicat jocuri pe Itch.io și au folosit sintagma “choose our own adventure” în numele sau descrierea jocurilor. ^{(The Verge, PC Gamer, Kotaku, GamesIndustry.biz)}

• Nintendo a organizat o nouă prezentare Indie World. Sumarul evenimentului: Kotaku, The Verge, Games Informer, EGM.

• Sony a organizat o nouă prezentare State of Play. Sumarul evenimentului: EGM, Destructoid, Kotaku.

The Game Awards

A avut loc evenimentul sfârșitului de an, în care au fost anunțate mai multe jocuri și s-au decernat premii pentru jocurile apărute în acest an^{(PC Gamer)}

• Cel mai însemnat anunț a fost cel al viitoarei console Xbox, fostul Project Scarlett: Xbox Series X ^{(Ars Technica, PC Gamer, Eurogamer, Escapist, VideoGamesChronicle)}

• Jocuri noi: au fost anunțate mai multe titluri, printre care: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, continuarea lui Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, două jocuri singleplayer în universul League of Legends: Ruined King și CONV/RGENCE, New World, un MMO dezvoltat de Amazon, The Wolf Among Us 2 este readus la viață și intră în producție, un joc Fast & Furious, Weird West primul joc al studioului WolfEye înființat de fostul fondator al Arkane Studios, Dark Alliance, un action RPG D&D ce se desfășoară în Icewind Dale, Godfall, un action RPG fantasy de la Gearbox și primul joc pentru PlayStation 5, și un joc nou de la PUBG Corporation cu numele Prologue

• Trailere noi: Gears Tactics ^{(PC Gamer)}, Final Fantasy 7 Remake ^{(PC Gamer)}, Maneater ^{(PC Gamer)}, Ghost of Tsushima ^(Eurogamer), Humankind ^(Eurogamer), Ori and the Will of the Wisps ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}

• Premii: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice a fost desemnat Jocul Anului, iar Disco Elysium a câștigat 4 premii, printre care și cel pentru Cel Mai Bun RPG ^{(PC Gamer, Polygon, Kotaku)}

• Sumarul evenimentului:

  • Every trailer and announcement at The Game Awards 2019 ^{(PC Gamer)}
  • The Game Awards 2019: All the news, trailers, and world premieres ^(Polygon)
  • The Game Awards 2019 winners, announcements, & trailers ^(Shacknews)
  • All The Big Announcements At The 2019 Game Awards ^(Kotaku)
  • Game Awards 2019 Recap: The Night’s Big Trailers and Reveals ^(USgamer)

• Alte articole:

  • Xbox Series X Specs: Twice As Powerful As Xbox One X ^(Gamespot)
  • Microsoft has admitted defeat in the console wars and just built a PC ^(PCGamesN)
  • Xbox Series X is Microsoft's best-looking and most striking console design yet ^(VG247)
  • The Wolf Among Us 2 Rebirth Makes the Best out of a Bad Situation ^(Escapist)

Articole (critică, dev, design)

• Meet the Player Protesting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Violence by Playing as a Pacifist ^(USgamer)
• The cult of Hideo Kojima ^(Eurogamer)
• 12 years later, players somehow keep Team Fortress 2 alive on the PS3 ^{(Ars Technica)}
• Portraits of Roblox’s leading makers: the roleplayers ^(RPS)
• Hypertext Transfer: How Wikipedia and its Forerunners Inspired a New Kind of Game ^(EGM)
• Mountains of Trash ^{(First Person Scholar)}
• Due Diligence: The Loop is Dead, Long Live the Loop ^{(Haywire Magazine)}
• The Golden Age of Video Games ^(Gamasutra)
• Gravity in Computer Space ^(ROMchip)

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Not-a-review

• Shenmue 3 shows what games have lost since 2001 ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Shenmue 3: the view from Guilin ^(Eurogamer)
• My Favorite Witcher 3 Quest Has No Fighting, Just Drunken Shenanigans ^(Kotaku)
• Red Dead Redemption 2’s biggest success is loneliness ^(Polygon)
• The Outer Worlds is a vicious parody of capitalism, with a very accurate twist ^(Polygon)
• Mutazione’s gardening reminds me that when video games give me order, I want chaos ^(Eurogamer)
• Why Early Access is a particularly good time to play Hades ^{(Destructoid)}
• Pathologic 2 and the Anatomy of a Metaphor ^(Unwinnable)
• If We're Going to Talk About Untitled Goose Game Then By God Let's Talk About Untitled Goose Game ^(Sidequest)
• Once the King of PC Gaming, MechWarrior is Now the Big Stompy Ghost of a Bygone Era ^(USgamer)

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Industrie

• Everybody's Gone: Dan Pinchbeck on Rebuilding The Chinese Room ^(EGM)
• Epic’s exclusivity push leads to ugliness ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Interpret: Games are strong entertainment brands, but their fan bases are fragmented ^{(VentureBeat)}
• In advertising, the ‘gamer’ demographic is useless ^{(VentureBeat)}

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Istorie, retrospectivă

• After RuneScape’s controversial 2019, Jagex plots "direct and deliberate" changes for 2020 ^(Eurogamer)
• Goodnight, sweet Steam Controller ^(RPS)
• Nine years on, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is still scary as all hell ^(RPS)

Retrospectiva anului 2019

• The 50 best games of 2019 ^(Polygon)
• The year of PR disasters ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Best of 2019 video games: How diverse storylines and streaming platforms shaped culture ^{(L.A. Times)}
• The 15 Best Games You Probably Missed in 2019 ^(USgamer)

Retrospectiva deceniului

• Turn-based tactics won the decade ^{(PC Gamer)}
• How battle royale changed the last decade of games (and the next one) ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The 69 biggest, weirdest moments of the decade in PC gaming ^{(PC Gamer)}
• What PC gaming was like in 2009 ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The Most Underrated Games Of The Decade ^(Kotaku)
• The Decade In Five Games ^(Kotaku) —

Dev, making of, mecanici

• Halo: Reach's Remastered Graphics Are Almost Too Perfect to Be Good ^(Vice)
• The Seven-Year Saga Of Shovel Knight Is Finally Over ^(Kotaku)
• Watch the lead dev of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition break down the game’s rebirth ^(Gamasutra)
• How Audio Design Enhances Diablo 2 ^(Gamasutra)
• The Life Is Strange 2 Postmortem: "[W]e Knew That It Wouldn't Have the Same Huge Success Right From the Beginning" ^(USgamer)
• USgamer publică o serie de articole making-of despre Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment scrise chiar de către studioul Yacht Club Games: Partea 1, Partea 2, Partea 3, Partea 4, Partea 5 ^(USgamer)

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Design, world-building, artă

• Gotham's Multiple Masks ^(Unwinnable)
• You Better Believe This Is Another Witcher 3 Art Post ^(Kotaku)
• Game Art: ARCH8’s Tetris ^(GAMESCENES)

Anunturi

• 2K confirms a new BioShock game is in development ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Kalypso Media is working on a next-gen Commandos game ^(DSOGaming)

Anunțuri şi lansări de jocuri

Anunţate

• Resident Evil 3 Remake ^{(EGM, Destructoid)}
• Corepunk ^{(DSOGaming, PC Invasion)}
• The Survivalists ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Receiver 2 ^{(PC Gamer)}

Jocuri anunțate la The Game Awards

• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 ^{(PC Gamer, Eurogamer, VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Ruined King ^{(PC Gamer, Shacknews)}
• CONV/RGENCE ^{(PC Gamer, Shacknews)}
• The Wolf Among Us 2 ^{(PC Gamer, Eurogamer)}
• Naraka: Bladepoint ^{(PC Gamer, VideoGamesChronicle)}
• New World ^{(PC Gamer, RPS)}
• Fast & Furious Crossroads ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Nine to Five ^{(PC Gamer, Escapist)}
• Weird West ^{(PC Gamer, Escapist, Eurogamer)}
• Dark Alliance ^{(PC Gamer, Eurogamer)}
• Godfall ^{(VideoGamesChronicle, PC Gamer, Eurogamer)}
• Sons of the Forest ^{(PC Gamer, Escapist)}
• Prologue ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}

Acum cu dată de lansare

• The Suicide of Rachel Foster: 19 aprilie 2020 ^(DSOGaming)
• Predator: Hunting Grounds: 24 aprilie 2020 ^(EGM)

Amânate

• Ori and the Will of Wisps: 11 martie 2020 în loc de 11 februarie ^{(VentureBeat)}

Anulate

• PlanetSide Arena se închide ^(VG247)

Lansate

• 9 decembrie: Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard ^(Steam)
• 9 decembrie: Ashen (relansare după un an de exclusivitate Epic Store) ^{(Steam, gog.com)}
• 9 decembrie: SuperMash ^{(Epic Store)}
• 10 decembrie: MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries ^{(Epic Store)}
• 10 decembrie: Dragon Quest Builders 2 ^(Steam)
• 10 decembrie: Last Year ^(Steam)
• 10 decembrie: Hades (relansare după un an de exclusivitate Epic Store) ^(Steam)
• 10 decembrie: Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek (relansare după un an de exclusivitate Epic Store) ^(Steam)
• 10 decembrie: Shovel Knight: King of Cards ^{(Steam, gog.com)}
• 10 decembrie: Shovel Knight Showdown ^{(Steam, gog.com)}
• 11 decembrie: Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York ^(Steam)
• 12 decembrie: Jamestown+ ^(Steam)
• 12 decembrie: Sayonara Wild Hearts (lansare surpriză pe PC) ^(Steam)
• 12 decembrie: Detroit: Become Human ^{(Epic Store)}
• 13 decembrie: DEMON’S TILT ^(Steam)

Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• GOG Galaxy 2.0, the all-libraries-in-one launcher, is now in open beta ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Valve Removes Nazi Steam Profiles After German Complaints ^(Kotaku)

Jocuri gratis și free weekends

• Insurgency: Sandstorm is free to play until Tuesday ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Conan Exiles Is Free To Play This Weekend ^(GameSpace)
• Anno 1800 will be free to play from tomorrow and until December 18th ^(DSOGaming)
• The Wolf Among Us is free for a limited time on Epic Games Store ^{(Destructoid)}

Reduceri și promoții

• The Humble Paradox Management Bundle is a cure for boredom ^{(Destructoid)}
• GOG Winter Sale 2019 is a go, Wasteland 2 Director's Cut available for free for the next 48 hours ^(DSOGaming)
• The Nintendo Switch eShop has some crazy good games on sale ^{(Destructoid)}
• Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo holding The Game Awards Sales ^(EGM)
• Weekend PC Download Deals for Dec. 13: The Game Awards 2019 ^(Shacknews)
• Weekend Console Download Deals for Dec. 13: The Game Awards 2019 ^(Shacknews)
• Best PC gaming deals of the week – 13th December 2019 ^(RPS)

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