Valve marketing guy Doug Lombardi says the developer may have chosen the wrong word when it described the follow-ups to Half-Life 2 as "episodes."
Ever get annoyed by the fact that Valve seems to take longer to make an "episode" than most developers take to make an entire game? Lombardi says it's because they're not really episodes at all, they're just shorter games. "The notion of the word 'episode' conjures up this idea of television where you get something new every week," he said in an interview with CVG. "And people say, 'We thought that episodic meant we were going to get something new every six months or every year.'"
The Outerhaven lists each and every upcoming Soulslike title that is either being released or supposedly being released in 2024. This list includes Another Crab’s Treasure, Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn, Phantom Blade Zero, and more.
Arrowhead Game Studios chief Johan Pilestedt revealed that Sony PlayStation doubled the development budget of Helldivers 2.
Which is pretty good that they supported them in making it a high quality game with more funding. Basically shutting up the complainers about Sony making a GaaS game. The GaaS game turned out well and doesn't bombard gamers with micro transactions and doesn't signal the death knell of single player gaming.
Same with Sony's online. Microsoft offered nothing for a decade when XBL started on the OG Xbox going past 360. Sony launched theirs and gave away games to play for subscribing to their service. More bang for your buck than what you paid in. A better way of doing it compared to what was before.
Now we see gamers complaining about AI. But maybe Sony will use AI correctly and do it right that benefits their company and their employees. We have to see the results before bitching and complaining.
And the beat goes on in this innovative shooter.
"We thought we could rip off our customers by releasing games based on the the same sh!tty engine (where everything has to be orthogonally aligned), take ages to do so, release a "value box" that includes the games you've already bought, and make our games much shorter and call them "episodes" to appease people. And we were right."