Retrospectiva săptămânii 2 - 8 august 2020

Încă un director pleacă de la Ubisoft în urma scandalurilor, Intel se confruntă cu o scurgere majoră de informații, Apple blochează accesul Xcloud și Google Stadia pe platforma lor, avem date de lansare pentru Spelunky 2, Mortal Shell, Serious Sam 4, și s-au lansat Fall Guys și Horizon Zero Dawn pe PC.

Linkuri rapide:

• Știri
• Articole (critică, dev, design)
• Made în România
• Anunțuri şi lansări de jocuri
• Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Scandalul de la Ubisoft continuă să zdruncine managementul firmei: un alt director, Tommy François, a părăsit compania în această săptămână. ^{(GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer, PC Gamer)}
• Intel investighează o scurgere de informații interne - peste 20GB de date confidențiale au fost făcute publice de un hacker anonim. ^{(PC Gamer, DSOGaming)}
• Apple confirmă că nu vor permite accesul serviciilor de streaming precum Xcloud sau Google Stadia pe dispozitivele cu iOS. ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Săptămâna asta au avut loc și câteva reveniri ale unor nume mari pe scena de streaming:
  • Ninja face din nou streaming pe Twitch după închiderea platformei Mixer. ^{(GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, Kotaku)}
  • DrDisrespect a revenit pe Youtube, susținând că nu a primit nicio explicație oficială pentru ban-ul de pe Twitch. ^{(Polygon, Forbes, The Verge)}

Articole (critică, dev, design)

• De ce să înveți despre jocuri video la facultate ^{(Scena 9)}
• The Game Changers: Decolonizing video games ^{(Play the Past)}
• How a Vigilante Fights Cheating In The World’s Biggest Video Games ^(Vice)
• Open Worlds, Open Minds ^(Unwinnable)
• Give Me Games With Pre-Apocalypse Utopias ^{(Finger Guns)}
• How well do you know the sexual side of Nintendo? ^{(Destructoid)}

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Actualitate

• China Just Held Its Biggest Gaming Expo In Person ^(Kotaku)

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Reportaj

• After a thrilling trailer debut, indie developers reveal they quit over ‘one year of psycho terror’ ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Focus Interactive responds to "serious allegations" of crunch, harassment, abuse at Aeon Must Die studio ^(Eurogamer)
• Angry Blizzard Entertainment Staffers Share Their Salaries to Protest Pay Inequities ^(Variety)

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Not-a-review

• Everyone Is Friends In Fall Guys, Until You Want To Murder Each Other ^(Kotaku)
• Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy is one of the best new protagonists in years ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Fall Guys Brings New Life to Battle Royale ^{(Hardcore Gamer)}
• Horizon Zero Dawn is as fresh now as it ever wasn’t ^(VideoGamer)
• A life after capitalism, after colonialism: Mutazione's small-town trajedies ^(KRITIQAL)

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Industrie

• World of Tanks 10-year anniversary interview: An opportunity to reflect on history ^(Shacknews)
• A different kind of “gamer” hotline: Free, anonymous emotional support ^{(Ars Technica)}
• Xbox Game Pass could be a boon for indie developers ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}
• What a good (and bad) indie game publishing deal looks like ^{(PC Gamer)}
• The DeanBeat: What we’ve learned about pandemic gaming ^{(VentureBeat)}

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Istorie, retrospectivă

• Let’s revisit the greatest Star Trek game ever ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Shaq Fu and the Strange Afterlives of Bad Games ^(Uppercut)
• Clone Wars Adventures, the Star Wars MMO everyone kinda forgot ^{(Massively OP)}
• Qix (1981) ^{(Arcade Idea)}
• The RetroBeat: Why the heck didn’t the GameCube sell better? ^{(VentureBeat)}
• 1,100 words of praise for Thirty Flights of Loving ^{(GamesIndustry.biz)}

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Dev, making of, mecanici

• In Conversation With Charles Cecil (Beyond a Steel Sky, Revolution Software) ^{(Alternative Magazine)}
• Unsolved Mysteries of the Mortal Kombat Universe ^{(Ars Technica)}
• The Value Trap of Free to Play Design ^(Gamasutra)
• Inside the twisting, turning development of Hardspace: Shipbreaker ^(Gamasutra)

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Design, world-building, artă

• How Revolution built Union City ^{(Wireframe magazine)}
• Game art: Eric Adams on Microsoft Flight Simulator ^(GAMESCENES)
• 'Tis But A Flesh Wound ^(Kotaku)

Made în România

• Galeria virtuală creată în România cu tehnici din producția jocurilor video ^{(PLAYTECH.ro)}

Anunţuri şi lansări de jocuri

• Official: Rocksteady Is Making A Suicide Squad Game ^(Kotaku)

Anunţate

• Guilty Gear Strive ^(EGM)
• Pikmin 3 Deluxe ^{(The Verge)}
• Tombstar ^(RPS)
• The Ancient Gods, Part One primul expanion pentru Doom Eternal ^(Eurogamer)
• Impostor Factory (sau To The Moon 3) ^{(Destructoid)}

Anunțate la Sony State of Play

• Braid: Anniversary Edition ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Hood: Outlaws & Legends ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Control: AWE Expansion, ultimul expansion pentru CONTROL ^(EGM)
• Aeon Must Die ^(DSOGaming)

Acum cu dată de lansare

• Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice: 15 octombrie ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Mortal Shell: 18 august ^(DSOGaming)
• Spelunky 2: 15 septembrie ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• PACER: 17 septembrie ^(DSOGaming)

Amânate

• Serious Sam 4: 24 septembrie ^(Eurogamer)
• Baldur’s Gate 3: versiunea early access nu va mai ieși în august, cum era estimat inițial ^{(PC Gamer)}

Lansate

• 2 august: Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition ^(Steam)
• 4 august: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout ^(Steam)
• 4 august: Relicta ^(Steam)
• 4 august: Skully ^(Steam)
• 4 august: Hellbound ^(Steam)
• 4 august: The Battle of Polytopia ^(Steam)
• 4 august: Spitlings ^(Steam)
• 5 august: Tesla Force (early access) ^{(Steam, gog.com)}
• 6 august: Post Void ^(Steam)
• 6 august: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ^(Steam)
• 7 august: Fast & Furious Crossroads ^(Steam)
• 7 august: Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition ^(Steam)
• 8 august: Company of Crime ^{(Steam, gog.com)}

Prăvălii de jocuri

Știri

• Microsoft says Game Pass isn’t dropping ‘Xbox’, despite logo change ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Adds Cloud Gaming September 15 ^(Kotaku)

Articole

• Getting a bunch of negative user reviews is not automatically a ‘review bomb’ ^{(PC Gamer)}

Update catalog

• PlayStation Now adds Hitman 2, Dead Cells and Greedfall ^{(VideoGamesChronicle)}
• Final Fantasy VII, Darksiders Genesis, and more are coming to Xbox Game Pass ^(EGM)
• Xbox Game Pass for PC adds Trailmakers, Final Fantasy and more ^{(PC Gamer)}

Jocuri gratis și free weekends

• UnMetal is a top-down free parody game of Metal Gear Solid, demo available for download ^(DSOGaming)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is having a free access multiplayer weekend ^(EGM)
• Quake free to download if you log in to the Bethesda launcher this weekend ^(Eurogamer)
• Kinoko Is a Free, Peaceful Stroll Through a Snowy Forest ^(Escapist)
• Borderlands 3 is free to play this weekend ^(EGM)
• Family is a free detective game about a forgotten music scene ^{(PC Gamer)}
• Here’s a great free strategy game about medieval water supplies ^{(PC Gamer)}
• F1 2018 is free to own on Humble Bundle for the next 3 days ^(DSOGaming)
• Arkane 20th Anniversary Bundle brings the studios’ best games together on the cheap ^(Shacknews)

Reduceri și promoții

• Bohemia Interactive’s new Humble Bundle has a surprising number of non-Arma games ^{(PC Gamer)}
• GOG and Green Man Gaming are having a huge Quakecon sale ^(RPS)
• It’s all warm fuzzies and feel-good vibes in the DayZ and Arma Humble Bundle ^{(Destructoid)}

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