Retrospectiva săptămânii 12 - 18 ianuarie 2020

S-a încheiat AGDQ 2020, Call of Duty domină topul vânzărilor din ultimul deceniu, PlayStation sare din nou peste E3, Windows 7 a murit, vom avea un remaster al vechiului FPS Kingpin, Horizon: Zero Dawn pare că vine și pe PC, Epic Store a depășit 100 de milioane de clienți și avem niște amânări importante, dintre care se remarcă Cyberpunk 2077, care apare acum la toamnă.

Linkuri rapide:

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

Știri

• Un top al celor mai bine vândute jocuri din ultimul deceniu arată cât de mulți bani aduce Call of Duty - cu excepția primulului loc, pe care se plasează Grand Theft Auto 5, titlurile Activision ocupă 7 din primele 10 locuri și jumătate din top 20. ^{(VideoGamesChronicle, PC Gamer, Shacknews)}
• PlayStation nu participă la E3 nici în 2020. ^{(VideoGamesChronicle, Ars Technica, Eurogamer, Shacknews, PC Gamer)}. În schimb Xbox confirmă nu va avea nicio problemă să primească toată atenția publicului la E3. ^{(VideoGamesChronicle, EGM)}
• Un băiat din Anglia a fost salvat de la o criză de epilepsie după ce prietena din SUA cu care se juca online și-a dat seama ce se întâmplă și a sunat la poliția din orașul băiatului. ^{(Kotaku, Eurogamer, PC Gamer, Polygon)}
• Vom avea un film animat Mortal Kombat în prima parte a anului, intitulat Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge. ^{(Escapist, Eurogamer, Polygon)}
• Continuă eforturile oamenilor din industria jocurilor de a strânge bani pentru lupta împotriva incendiilor din Australia ^{(VideoGamesChronicle, RPS (1), RPS (2))}, inclusiv Activision care donează veniturile obținute din vânzarea unui DLC pentru Call of Duty Modern Warfare cu tematică australiană. ^{(Kotaku, Eurogamer, PC Gamer)}
• Suportul oficial pentru Windows 7 a încetat în această săptămână. ^{(PC Gamer)}
• În perioada 5 - 12 ianuarie s-a desfășurat AGDQ (Awesome Games Done Quick) ediția 2020, care a strâns o sumă record în scopuri caritabile: peste 3 milioane de dolari. ^{(Eurogamer, RPS, PC Gamer, EGM)}
  • Plus: The best speedrun videos from Games Done Quick 2020 ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}

Articole (critică, dev, design)

• Why is it so hard to make a good comedy game? ^{(A.V. Club)}
• We Keep Having The Same Video Game Arguments And It's Driving Me Bonkers ^(Kotaku)
• Full-motion video has found the perfect home: horror games ^(Polygon)
• Can real-time strategy come back from the brink of death? ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Is the Mainstream Ready for Transmedia Storytelling? ^(Escapist)
• The Closing Walls Around China’s Independent Game Developers ^(EGM)
• What Does It Really Mean to Be an Indie Game? ^(Vice)
• Book Review: Video Games as Culture ^{(First Person Scholar)}
• These Realities We’ve Constructed ^{(No Escape)}
• The Witcher proves games should adapt books more often ^(VideoGamer)

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Actualitate

• Video Game Delays Cause More Crunch ^(Kotaku)
• Cyberpunk 2077 delay does little to alleviate worker crunch ^{(GameDaily.biz)}
• Sony Skipping E3 Won't Hurt PlayStation, but It Shows E3's Irrelevance ^(Escapist)

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Not-a-review

• Visual novel Eliza explores the privacy risks of digital therapy ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Keita Takahashi and the Farce of Virtual Stuff ^(EGM)
• After the Storm: How Life Is Strange 2 Overcame the Pressures of Popularity ^(EGM)
• How Life is Strange 2 challenged video game representations of homelessness ^(Eurogamer)
• When in Hell, We Do Shots At the Bar ^(Unwinnable)

Disco Elysium

• Dying Like An Idiot In Disco Elysium Just Makes Success More Satisfying ^(Kotaku)
• Disco Elysium's Dialogue Is Like A Good Tweet ^(Kotaku)
• Disco Elysium's Brilliance Lies in Creating Chorus from Consciousness ^(Escapist)

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Industrie

• Subscriptions will "unlock the market to weirder things," says Outer Wilds dev ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Introducing the GamesIndustry.biz Academy ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Exclusive: Ubisoft revamps editorial team to make its games more unique ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Failbetter on the unlikely success of Fallen London’s first ten years ^(RPS)
• Xbox Series X Not Having Early Exclusives Isn't a Bad Thing for Players ^(Escapist)
• Microsoft goes all-in on the ‘evergreen platform’ ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Google Stadia is like the early days of Steam, says Tequila Works CEO ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}

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Istorie, retrospectivă

• All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen ^(Polygon)
• How Unreal Championship 2 Solved the Single-Player Hero Shooter Problem ^(Escapist)
• Revisiting System Shock, and the birth of immersive sim design ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Member Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic? ^{(Hardcore Gamer)}
• Star Trek: Judgment Rites is a joyful anachronism from an impossible past ^(RPS)
• How the Nintendo 3DS Became a Defining Console of the 2010s ^(Tedium)

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Dev, making of, mecanici

• What is frame data in fighting games, and why are Tekken 7 players willing to pay for it? ^(Polygon)
• The creators of Sunless Skies are giving tips on writing weird horror in our new forums ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Dialogue, Movement, and Innovation: For Better Stories, Games Need New Gameplay ^(Escapist)
• The unknowable chaos of physics in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator ^(RPS)
• How The Feature That Almost Sunk Disco Elysium Was Made ^(Gamespot)
• Randomness In Video Games Is Not All The Same ^(Kotaku)
• Run, Jump and Climb: Designing Fun Movement in Games ^{(Rempton Games)}
• Designing Manifold Garden’s believably unbelievable world and puzzles ^(Gamasutra)
• On Monster Design ^(Gamasutra)
• Realism in Games: What Makes Firewatch Feel Personal ^(Gamasutra)
• Designing the mind-bending perspective puzzles of Superliminal ^(Gamasutra)
• The Life Is Strange 2 Postmortem ^(USgamer)

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Design, world-building, artă

• Videogame subtitles could learn a lot from comic book lettering ^(RPS)
• Beyond Blueprints ^(Unwinnable)

Anunțuri şi lansări de jocuri

• Sources: Horizon: Zero Dawn Is Coming To PC ^(Kotaku)

Anunţate

• Might & Magic: Chess Royale ^{(Kotaku, PC Gamer)}
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Bonfire Peaks ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Black Book ^{(Destructoid)}
• Kingpin: Reloaded ^{(PC Gamer, Eurogamer)}

Acum cu dată de lansare

• Coffee Talk: 30 ianuarie ^(Shacknews)
• World of Horror: 20 februarie ^{(PC Gamer)}

Amânate

• Final Fantasy VII Remake: 10 aprilie în loc de 3 martie ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Marvel’s Avengers: 4 septembrie în loc de 15 mai ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Cyberpunk 2077: 17 septembrie în loc de luna aprilie ^{(Ars Technica, PC Gamer)}

Lansate

• 14 ianuarie: Orangeblood ^(Steam)
• 14 ianuarie: Darwin Project ^(Steam)
• 15 ianuarie: Wizardry: Labyrinth Of Lost Souls ^(Steam)
• 15 ianuarie: Lightmatter ^(Steam)
• 16 ianuarie: Total War: Three Kingdoms – Mandate of Heaven ^(Steam)
• 16 ianuarie: A Long Way Down ^(Steam)
• 16 ianuarie: Super Crush KO ^(Steam)
• 17 ianuarie: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot ^(Steam)

Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Epic Games Store surpasses 100 million customers ^(Shacknews)
• Epic Games Store avoids review bombing with OpenCritic integration ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• Stadia is aiming to add more than 120 games in 2020, including ten exclusives ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Steam is coming to Google’s Chrome OS ^{(PC Gamer)}
• GTA IV has disappeared from Steam because of Games for Windows Live ^{(The Verge)}

Articole

• The Epic Games Store is the best choice for buying games in the developing world ^(VG247)

Update catalog

• Xbox Game Pass PC adding Children of Morta, Gris and A Plague Tale: Innocence ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Sea of Solitude, Worms WMD and more join the Origin Access library ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Sokpop just Sok-dropped their entire catalogue on Steam ^(RPS)

Jocuri gratis și free weekends

• Horace is now free on the Epic Games Store, with The Bridge next ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Explore a cake-filled underworld in free Metroidvania Satan Loves Cake ^{(PC Gamer)}

Reduceri și promoții

• Buy The New Humble Bundle, Help Australia ^(Kotaku)
• Stardew Valley is cheap in the Humble Sweet Farm Bundle ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Best PC gaming deals of the week – 17th January 2020 ^(RPS)

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