Month: December 2024

Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment and Tencent have announced the cancellation of the upcoming “premium cooperative multiplayer game” that the companies were building together. Codenamed Kestrel, the game was in the “early concept stage” of development.

Tencent, the Chinese internet giant, was co-financing and co-publishing the game. Development began in November 2023 after a reboot when the project was known as Vanguard.

A “small team” was working on the latest iteration of the game prior to its cancellation, Remedy said.

Game development is a highly iterative process, and cancellations of this nature happen across the entire video game business. What it is a bit more unusual here is the granular detail and transparency that Remedy has provided on this project, …

On March 22, Kalamba Games, an international gaming studio that provides data slots and casino content based in Krakow, Poland and Floriana, Malta, released Megaways Duel Of The Dead, a slot that combines zombie and cowboy themes, with a sheriff who is locked in an epic battle with the zombies and their leader Deadeye Bob.

It is the latest slot to feature the popular Megaways game mechanic and comes after the smash hit 9 Blazing Cashpots Megaways.

Outstanding visual:

True to its title, the main theme of the game is zombies and cowboys, fighting to exterminate each other. The game takes place in a haunted, abandoned western town, where players can see empty buildings and a church on fire.

As mentioned above, the slot is boosted by the Megaways game mechanic, which…

After a grueling 47-day standoff, the Detroit Casino Council announced the ratification of a groundbreaking labor agreement with MGM Grand Detroit, effectively bringing an end to the strike that commenced on October 17. The agreement, hailed as historic, follows similar resolutions with Hollywood Casino at Greektown and MotorCity Casino, solidifying a united front for the city’s casino workers.

MGM Grand Detroit Workers Secure Record Wage Increases

The union members, comprising nearly 4,000 employees under the Detroit Casino Council, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the five-year c…

Ruf, who brings an extensive experience with her, will be responsible for helping the company expand in existing markets as well as strategize about expansion in new jurisdictions where and when possible. She was naturally pleased with the development:

I am looking forward to developing new geographical markets and implementing exciting projects together with my team. One particular focus will be on developing the online markets.

Merkur Casino managing director Irina Ruf

She is taking the reins over from Stefan Bruns, the outgoing incumbent, who will be now part of Gauselmann Group’s Management Board. The rotation of the new positions was welc…

Update: I reached out to Keywords Studios for comment on the claims made by Leonoudakis in the below article, and this is what it told me: “As a services provider to the global video games industry, it is standard procedure to provide the names of all who worked on the game with the understanding that this is no guarantee of inclusion in the final credits. Crediting decisions remain with game developers and publishers, who will consider and balance multiple aspects of this process”. The specific claim that Keywords workers are forbidden from speaking out about this practise was unaddressed.

Original story: Persona 3 Portable was released from its PSP shackles last Thursday, and Persona 4 Golden got a sizable update too. Both games—wherev…

We all know by now that Baldur’s Gate 3 is a huge game, but weeks after release I’m still surprised not just by how much good stuff I’ve seen, but how equally much I’ve missed. It speaks to Larian’s confidence in its breadth of stories that it’s so easy to choose dialogue or take routes that lock off entire chunks of the game, not least of which the stories of its six core companions.

Note: Act 1 spoilers below.

For me, that was the Githyanki Creche. I took the Underdark and never looked back, and in taking that path I apparently missed the chance to witness this rare “Astarion being Astarion” moment, as shared by user gokkyun on the BG3 subreddit.

“What in the sweet hells were you THINKING activating that lance, I was right there!” Astarion …

Sometimes a feature seems so obvious, but once it’s been implemented you wonder why it wasn’t always there in the first place. If you’re the proud owner of a gaming laptop, rejoice, for the latest Windows 11 Insider Canary build finally lets you pick different power modes depending on whether you’re plugged in, or running off the battery.

Windows 11 Build 27686 adds the new settings to the power menu, with drop-down boxes for both plugged-in and on-battery settings—allowing you to choose from options like Best Performance, Balanced or Best Power Efficiency (via Bleeping Computer) for each.

This allows you to ramp up performance for when you’re plugged into the wall and set it to a power-efficient mode for when you’re on the battery—eeking out a little more batt…