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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Kurvitz, Rostov and Hindpere are working together for a company called Red Info, but there has been no further info at this time. I think rumours are they might be ready to announce something this year.

    Argo Tuulik is heading up Summer Eternal, so that is another one to keep an eye on. Sadly his work got halted by a legal injunction made by the people at Longdue.

    Longdue themselves though have managed to recruit Martin Luiga. Whether he will actually contribute much or is there to lend credence to the project by virtue of his name remains unclear.



  • No. This is not a Disco Elysium dev, and especially not a writer. Everyone who worked on Disco Elysium has left the studio by now as far as I know and ZA/UM is nothing but an empty husk trying to exploit the reputation and name of the genius of others.

    That C4 trailer was completely shameless. “We brought you Disco Elysium”… No you fucking didn’t. Now give the IP back to its creators you evil, soulless capitalistic pieces of trash. Fuck all the way off.











  • I mean, to me those examples feel a little unfair. It’s easier to be groundbreaking in a nascent medium, and those came out thirty years ago - way before the term AAA was even used in the games industry. The bar for interesting and groundbreaking can’t be “literally invent a new genre à la Wolfenstein 3D”. That’s a little bit like saying “I feel like the blockbuster movie climate is so stagnant these days. When was the last time someone did something groundbreaking like The Jazz Singer?”

    For my money what Remedy is doing with both their mixed media, their connected universe and their storytelling is pushing the boundaries of AAA gaming, but if that is not enough for you then how about Half-Life: Alyx (2020)?

    For the record, I do agree that the overall AAA landscape has become stagnant and risk-averse, much like blockbuster movies. But it’s also unfair to say literally nothing interesting is happening.