Tag: Games

Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director John Epler told a Rolling Stone reporter that BioWare has no plans to release DLC for the fantasy RPG. The team has since turned its attention to the new Mass Effect. The Dragon Age games have traditionally received story add-ons after their release (Dragon Age: Inquisition even included the story's epilogue as DLC), but Dragon Age: The Veilguard will go a different route. BioWare mentioned in the lead-up to the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard that it had no plans for add-ons for the game, and in the first post-release interview with Rolling Stone, they confirmed this once again. IGN adds that the studio's ambitions for post-release support for Dragon Age: The Veilguard are limited to patches with improvements and a few small content u...

Dean Hall, known as the creator of DayZ, together with his studio RocketWerkz took on an ambitious project - a simulator of space agency management Kitten Space Agency. This game in many ways resembles the legendary Kerbal Space Program, only instead of green men there will be cats. According to Hall, Kitten Space Agency (KSA) was born out of a rejected pitch for KSP 2 by publisher Private Division (owned by Take-Two) — RocketWerkz was in the running to develop the sequel, and was even in the top three candidates. “I had put a lot of effort into a good design document and decided to focus on the design/technical aspects of the project — which turned out to be a major issue for the two people on the call who said we were the only ones without art. Apparently, we weren’t chosen,” Hall rec...

Sony has decided to close Firewalk Studios, the developer of the infamous multiplayer game Concord. PlayStation studio business group CEO Herman Hulst announced this in a letter to employees. Along with Firewalk, mobile games studio Neon Koi will also close. Let's recall that on August 23, Firewalk released Concord on PC and PS5. The game did not attract enough attention from players, and just two weeks later Sony shut down the project's servers and refunded all buyers. At that time, Concord still had a chance to be relaunched, but, as SIE co-head Hermen Hulst now reports, "after much deliberation" it was decided to finally bury the game, and at the same time close the studio. Well-known insider Jason Schreier reported that 172 people lost their jobs due to the studio's closure. But ...