Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today (www.pcgamer.com)
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum gets a big patch with multiple fixes (gamerkick.com)
The new update for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum one of the lowest rated games of the year includes bug fixes and progression crashes.
Welcome To Aftermath - Worker-owned video game journalism (aftermath.site)
Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them. Just launched today.
Bungie Longtime Composer Michael Salvatori Is Laid Off (www.kakuchopurei.com)
Unity apologizes and updates their infamous Runtime Fee (blog.unity.com)
How Cyberpunk 2077 clawed its way back from disaster to complete one of the greatest redemption arcs in gaming history (www.pcgamer.com)
A 3-year breakdown of Cyberpunk's bugs, lawsuits, and the many, many patches that brought it back.
Sea of Stars sold 100,000 copies on day one (twitter.com)
People were worried that big games releasing these few weeks would overshadow indie games. Seems like that’s luckily not the case.
Microsoft's £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass offer cut from a month to 14 days (www.eurogamer.net)
Earlier in the year they removed the trial offer. Now it’s returned, but worse than before.
Hasbro Wants Old Transformers Games To Return, But Activision Lost Them (kotaku.com)
“Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,” Hasbro told TFW2005. “When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating.”
Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo (www.theverge.com)
The leaks revealed plans for a revised Xbox Series X.
The Metal Gear Solid Collection is so true to Hideo Kojima's "original vision" that it needed a new content warning (www.gamesradar.com)
Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya thinks Japanese devs should be proud of 'JRPG' (www.gamesradar.com)
A Hades player defies the gods, completes ‘impossible’ run (www.polygon.com)
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is five times shorter than Valhalla (www.pcgamesn.com)
The Invincible is now available on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Days Gone now on GOG ($16.49) (www.gog.com)
PlayStation Blog: New Look for PS5 console this holiday season (blog.playstation.com)
Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 (www.tomshardware.com)
For context: DirectX support in Intel’s ARC GPUs were really lacking due to running on a transition layer, it was one of the sore spots of their new graphics card. This update looks like it will help massively.
Humble Bundle - WB 100: Play the Legends (www.humblebundle.com)
$5 Tier:...
Cities: Skylines II - Performance, Post-Release Plans & Goals (store.steampowered.com)
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑 (arstechnica.com)
No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.
Stray is being turned into a movie (www.theverge.com)
Stray, the hit Annapurna Interactive game starring a cat, is getting a “feature adaptation” from Annapurna Animation, according to a press release. Annapurna didn’t share much else about the movie — we still don’t know when it might come out or what it might look like — but if you were a fan of the game and looking...
Tencent to acquire Techland (www.gematsu.com)
“Tencent is currently in the process of becoming Techland’s majority shareholder,” Techland founder Pawel Marchewka said in a message. “Teaming up with Tencent will allow us to move full speed ahead with the execution of the vision for our games. We have chosen an ally who has already partnered with some of the world’s...
How to connect an iPad to a Nintendo Switch for a bigger screen (appleinsider.com)
This would be great while on vacation.
Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games (www.theverge.com)
