DIYGamer: This November has been an enormous month for gaming, with major mainstream titles coming out every other day. Now, the indie scene rolls out its own heavyweight in the form of Serious Sam 3. Developed by tiny Croatian studio Croteam (named after their own country, as it is so unknown in game development circles) and boosted into stardom by equally tiny indie publishing outfit Devolver Digital, Serious Sam 3 promises old-school FPS gameplay with hundreds of weird and ugly monsters to kill per level, mixed in with modern production values and online co-op for up to 16 players. Beyond the break, a very metal launch trailer, and play-by-play first thoughts on the initial sections of the game.
As part of its latest financial report, Devolver Digital has announced that upcoming physics platformer Human Fall Flat 2 has been delayed beyond 2025.
Special Reserve Games will be a little different in 2024, shifting to only making physical editions in collaboration with the good folks at Devolver Digital.
This is what I like to see. Let's continue to show there are those of us who still want physical media!!
Devolver Digital have revealed the company is beginning to reject deals from Sony and Microsoft to put titles on Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus.
Makes sense, oftentimes developers are losing money when they allow games to be on Game Pass because of how undervalued they are. Just look at developer testimonies for games like Outriders, Furi, and Inside. Sure they're not exactly huge games, but games used to be able to continue to sell and have a long sale life.
Now with Game Pass there's no incentive to buy those games and whatever the lump sum Microsoft offers is what you as a developer are forced to accept, otherwise you're turning down being accessible on one of the major marketplaces. It's practically a hostage situation, and Xbox is bleeding smaller developers dry with it.
Sources for the developer testimonies by the way. I know how this site gets.
https://www.videogameschron...
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https://www.vice.com/en/art...
Sadly whether we like it or not this is the direction we're slowly heading towards. It won't be until it's a wide spread obvious issue that people will finally unite and complain.
Good for them. Know your value and don't become beholden to someone else's release expectations.
