MediaKick writes: It’s been quite a while since we last saw a rugby video game. EA’s Rugby series seeing it’s final outing with Rugby 08 marked the last rugby game released in quite a while, something quite strange considering the sport’s immense popularity. Now, in 2011, it seems they’re the Gods of Fate are attempting to rectify that with two rugby games released in a single year, the first being the officially licensed game of this year’s tournament, 2011 Rugby World Cup. Unfortunately, “licensed” is a strong term, but we’ll get to that in a bit. Fans of previous rugby games will recognise the developer HB Studios as the studio behind EA’s aforementioned Rugby 08 game. With a studio on board that knows how to make rugby games and the official license for the tournament, one would assume not much could go wrong. Unfortunately, quite a bit has.
The news that Digital Bros. (and its publishing subsidiary 505 Games ) is in the process of restructuring is not new. It was last November when, in the midst of the maelstrom of layoffs in 2023, they announced that they were laying off 30% of the workforce , especially employees belonging to the development studios. This restructuring, like the international maelstrom, seems to be still underway and now affects the offices of the Italian multinational located throughout Europe.
505 Games has issued a very self-aware satirical update for Crime Boss: Rockay City, given the poor reception to the game.
I would of checked it out but far as i know its an online gta5 type game. Had it been single player inwouldve bought I to try by now
I play it as a single player from the start. Game is massively updated. Its much better than when it started. But has its flaws of course. And its not gta 5 type game. Its totally different. Here, it is something like heist centered defender of the crown mixed with rogue lite genre. Definitely worth it.
Of course with some friends, it would be much more fun.
It's no secret that it won't flush. It's pathetic and something just about every actor on that roster will likely not mention with serious excitement or promote it themselves. The cringe is the talent that went snuggling up to it for the $$$ opportunity. So lame and backyard buddy homebrew-level feeling. Total cash grab. Minimum efforts all around. Nice Hollywood reverse engineering a plot based on their talent pool to carry a game into lame territory.
Game was ass.
Bought it to give it a try and it was beyond dead, as was the discord server.
Impossible to play online.
The Milan, Italy-headquartered company announced the planned job cuts on Tuesday as part of an “organisational review across its development studios and publishing units”.
