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Saints Row 'Penetrator' Replaced with Alien Tentacle in Dev Diary #4

The infamous/famous melee weapon introduced in Saints Row: The Third, the 'Penetrator' has now been replaced with a similar weapon...but it's an alien tentacle instead. Needless to say, the hentai buffs will be all over slapping people around with this slimy thing.

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cootdog1234310d ago

What no purple dick to slap a fool around with.

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A zillion years before Hogwarts Legacy, Volition was making a Baldur's Gate-style Harry Potter RPG

"When Volition and THQ pitched this game, at least some of the THQ executives came dressed in robes and had owls with them"

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Bethesda & Xbox To Meet Up With Laid-Off Deep Silver Volition Employees

According to a LinkedIn post, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studio representatives will meet up with Deep Silver Volition employees.

shinoff2183629d ago (Edited 629d ago )

That's pretty cool, but didn't they just lay of 10k as a whole. Reportedly some from the gaming division even.

Confused in pa.

Sonyslave3629d ago

Yes they did , it the circle of life in the tech bizz.

blackblades629d ago

Circle of life of meh games

mkis007629d ago (Edited 629d ago )

This is called good PR. And an opportunity to hire veterans over scrubs.

phoenixwing628d ago

Not to call them scrubs but yeah some veteran devs are more welcome than others with less experience

Flakegriffin628d ago (Edited 628d ago )

You can hire veterans all day long but it’s the talent Microsoft lacks.

Zeref628d ago (Edited 628d ago )

It was mostly outside of gaming. Most of the game studios weren't affected besides 343i and Coalition from what I recall

Charlieboy333628d ago (Edited 628d ago )

But of course. Just look at the latest Saint's Row....that is exactly the level of quality and writing that Xbox strives for these days.

Aloymetal628d ago

Nope, like Redfall, Craig infinite

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ravens52628d ago

There u go. This is way more acceptable than buying up studios. Buy individual talent until you strengthen your already owned studios. 👏🏽

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Saints Row & Red Faction IPs Will Be Kept Alive Despite Volition's Closure

Today publisher Deep Silver took to X (formerly Twitter) to follow up on the announcement of the closure of Saints Row developer Volition.

Terry_B643d ago

Who knows...maybe we see a remastered SR2 after all and a new studio that makes good SR games again. Still..thanks a ton Volition for the excellent Punisher Video game

Christopher643d ago

We will keep making money off of these by giving them to new teams with zero experience with them.

DarXyde642d ago (Edited 642d ago )

Not necessarily a bad thing having zero experience. Insomniac took a crack at Spider-Man and did it very well. Sucker Punch also made Ghost of Tsushima. Heck, some would say Ninja Theory did a great job with DmC.

jambola642d ago

None of those are new teams

DarXyde642d ago

jambola,

Perhaps we're looking at "new teams" differently. I mean handing it off to a different team (one with no experience in these franchises or types of games). I don't mean a newly formed team.

But even then...a new team doesn't mean they're new to game development.

I'd also like your input on where The Initiative stands. They're new in the sense they've yet to produce any games and formed relatively recently, but comprised of industry veterans.

chicken_in_the_corn643d ago

I'd love another Saints Row game but I can't see it happening after the response to the reboot.

Battlestar23643d ago

I enjoyed the Saints Row reboot and i hope we see more titles in the franchise.

cammers1995642d ago

Reboot was trash and killed the developer.

ChiefofLoliPolice643d ago

I'm very happy to know the SR and RF franchises won't die. RF was a revolutionly fps at the time and loved the 4 og SR games.

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