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Dead Space- och The Callisto Protocol-skaparen har fått nog av folk som "kritiserar AAA-spel"
Har så kallade AAA-spel gjort sitt? Borde branschen överge konceptet till förmån för mer påkostade AA- och indietitlar? De frågorna har vi, liksom i princip alla andra, ställt oss allt oftare i takt med att storspelen förvandlats till en slags glorifierade butiker med feg speldesign, medan mindre studios istället levererar succé på succé.
Glen Schofield, skaparen av {Dead Space} och {The Callisto Protocol}, ser dock annorlunda på saken. Han menar att det finns lösningar på AAA-sektorns nuvarande problem, och att vi borde vara lite mer överseende med de största utvecklarna. Till Gamesindustry.biz säger han:
"Everyone is putting down AAA these days. Who do you think started every single new console or platform? It started with AAA games blasting through it."
Han menar att att covid-pandemin var en avgörande period för branschen, eftersom den visade att AAA-utvecklare inte kunde producera spel snabbt nog för att möta efterfrågan när alla satt hemma och ville spela.Han fortsätter:
"Billions of dollars poured into the industry. When you have that much money coming in, you inevitably give it to the wrong people. I look at who they are (and some of them I know) and I think, 'He's 10 years away, she's 5 years away from being able to do this'. They're handed a studio and a game at the same time.
"The due diligence by the people who are investing is terrible. Think of Bungie! They were overpaying, and they weren't paying the right people in many cases. All you have to do is find who the true creative person is, as opposed to the person who just says they're creative. There are a lot of people who copy very well. The non-creative people just have to scratch the surface harder to find some creative people that in turn will help them hire the right creative people."
Till skillnad från andra branschveteraner efterlyser Schofield inte mindre team i AAA-projekt, utan snarare en mer fokuserad utveckling där "rätt personer" väljs för jobben. Det låter enkelt i teorin, men kan visa sig svårt i praktiken med tanke på hur branschen ser ut i dag.
I've found a Dark Messiah-inspired action sandbox where you can make banana spike traps and possess enemies to walk off cliffs, and I need it now
The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot is a very fitting name for the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic-inspired sandbox action game by solo developer Stéphane Le Roy. You sure do a lot of kicking: punting enemies off cliffs, booting their weapons out of their hands, and even lobbing barrels at them.
But there's a lot more going on than just kicking. After playing the demo for myself, it's got the bones of an immersive sim, letting you interact with just about anything to take out enemies—or avoid them—in a myriad of ways. truewildgame.online
There's direction-based melee combat, letting you attack from specific angles, disarm enemies, and block. You can do stealth, which actually takes shadows into account, and you can create distractions or hide in barrels to pass by unseen. Hell, you can relive your Skyrim stealth archer fantasies if you'd like. There's even a magic system where you can blast enemies with different elements, create traps, infuse weapons, or even mind-control guards into walking off cliffs.
Grab a net, whack it on an enemy, then pick them up and throw them 'em in the sea. Enemy throws a spear at your leg? Retrieve it and give them a taste of their own medicine. Lure a guard over to you and make them slip on a banana into a pit of spikes. Grab someone's head and chuck it at their friend to bump them into a wall. You can get very creative in your methods of murder and subterfuge.
In the tutorial, I was told to kick an enemy into the spikes behind him. I did as I was told. Just as I was about to read the nearby note and continue, I decided to test the limits of my tools. I then discovered that you could dismember enemies, too, when his leg came flying off. So I yanked the fella up off the spikes and threw him back on, grabbed his leg, and tried to place it next to him, mounted on the wall. In case you're curious, limbs won't stick to the spike walls like enemies do. Only then did I check the nearby note and discover that this enemy was a loving husband named Gary on his final day of the job. Sorry, Gary.
The point is, even in the rudimentary demo, The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot has a pretty robust sandbox to mess around with, and a sense of humour to boot. My only hope is that the melee swings get a bit more oomph behind them in the future, as a massive battle axe feels a bit too similar to a baguette outside of its durability.
There are a few levels to play through in the demo, giving you a chance to level up and unlock more creative skills, but I'm looking forward to the game's full release, which has recently been revealed to be just four weeks away on May 15.
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Scotland ready for Murrayfield ‘landmark’ against depleted but relentless England
Saturday’s Women’s Six Nations hosts hope to end 28-game losing streak against the Red Roses in front of record crowd
Murrayfield usually looms over Scotland women’s home games. Its fortress walls arch over the team’s regular home at the Hive like a villain in a children’s cartoon. The two rugby stadiums are direct neighbours in Edinburgh but on Saturday Scotland are swapping one for the other and making history by hosting their first standalone match at the home of Scottish rugby against the old enemy England in the Women’s Six Nations.
Almost 30,000 tickets have been sold for the game, obliterating the current attendance record for a women’s rugby game in Scotland. That record stands at 7,774 and was set in the 2024 Six Nations when the team played the Red Roses at the Hive. It will not just be a record for rugby either: the expected crowd is the biggest for a standalone women’s sporting event in Scotland too. The captain Rachel Malcolm, who won her first cap for Scotland in 2016, never thought a standalone game would materialise.
Continue reading...Asobo visar nya bilder från Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
Med tanke på slutet i {A Plague Tale: Requiem} är det oklart vad framtiden har att erbjuda för huvudserien och om vi kommer få återvända till Amicias resa. Tidigare har platsannonser antytt att ett tredje spel skulle ha varit på gång, men det är troligt att dessa i själva verket syftade på den kommande spinoffen
från utvecklaren Asobo.
Spelet heter {Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy} och är ett fristående prequeläventyr som inte är kopplat till huvudberättelsen. Här följer vi Sophia, en protagonist som måste ta sig genom Venedigs gator, hustak och kanaler i ett försök att nå Minotaur's Island och möta den mytiska varelse som lever där - och som ligger bakom en förödande förbannelse.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy väntas släppas någon gång under 2026, men något exakt datum har ännu inte kommunicerats. När det väl lanseras ska spelet finnas till PC, Playstation 5 och Xbox Series S/X. För en första inblick i vad som väntar har Asobo nu släppts några nya bilder från äventyret, vilka du kan se nedan.
Bilderna visar ett ljust och vackert venetianskt landskap, med en tydlig avsaknad av faror... i synnerhet råttor. Förhoppningsvis dröjer det inte länge innan mer konkreta detaljer presenteras, vågar vi kanske hoppas på Summer Game Fest?