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A Pirate's Life For Us - A Preview of Risen 2: Dark Waters

Pixels or Death's Henry McMunn recants his tales of his early look at Risen 2. The game is going in a brave new direction, and it's looking fantastic.

"On the 23rd of February, 2012, I was invited to a sneak peek at Risen 2: Dark Waters, an upcoming RPG which aims to take the fantasy IP into a new direction. I’ll give you three clues: it involves sailing the seven seas, searching for gold and fortune, and use of the most hilarious insults imaginable.

Pirates."

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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.

shinoff2183228d ago (Edited 228d 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.

Sonyslave3228d ago

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

blackblades228d ago

Circle of life of meh games

mkis007228d ago (Edited 228d ago )

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

phoenixwing227d ago

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

Flakegriffin226d ago (Edited 226d ago )

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

Zeref227d ago (Edited 227d ago )

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

Charlieboy333227d ago (Edited 227d 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.

Aloymetal226d ago

Nope, like Redfall, Craig infinite

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ravens52227d 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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Why Risen might be one of the best RPGs you haven't played

Here's why Risen might be one of the best RPGs you probably haven't played. We'll consider various aspects of Risen and discuss its strengths.

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Dudeson283d ago

I played it a bit, but it's one of those games I just forgot about. Same with the two worlds games, gothic 3 and Arcania: Gothic 4. It sounds and looks nice (for the time) but it just doesn't scratch that itch quite right.

shinoff2183283d ago

Idk why but I usually like their games , risens, elex etc. I've only played risen 2 risen 3, elex and elex 2. I'm gonna get the risen 1 at some point

isarai283d ago

Two Worlds 2 was also incredibly ambitious, wish the sequel would've happened

jznrpg283d ago

Their games have a certain level of jank and wouldn’t hurt to be more difficult but I still had a good time with Two Worlds 2 and would have bought a 3.

shinoff2183283d ago

Shit elex took me a minute to stop being killed but once I learned a few tricks , etc I was doing good

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Plaion is restructuring, layoffs planned

Publisher formerly known as Koch Media will merge Deep Silver, Prime Matter and Ravenscourt under single brand.

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