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"Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards"
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"Roguelike can be anything": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched "Balatro with different cards"

At Digital Dragons this year I somehow found myself attending a panel about games industry investment and publishing deals, featuring various senior M&A people gathered under the dread banner of "Capital Reality". It felt like visiting another planet, occupied by towering creatures of gold and green paper, who spoke an earwax-curdling vocabulary of phrases like "there's dry powder out there, but I'm seeing dealflop". The best practice when you are stranded on a strange new world is to bond

Rock Paper Shotgun 20.05.2026 12:30 Uhr
The rumours were true, Warhorse are making an open-world Lord of the Rings RPG alongside a new Kingdom Come game
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The rumours were true, Warhorse are making an open-world Lord of the Rings RPG alongside a new Kingdom Come game

If you've been hanging on tenterhooks since May 1st, when Edwin reported on the rumours that Warhorse, the developers of medieval sandbox Kingdom Come Deliverance, were working on a Lord of the Rings RPG, then, firstly, that must have been very sore, sorry about that, but, secondly, the rumours were true. You may climb down from those hooks: Warhorse have confirmed they are creating an open-world RPG set across Tolkien's Middle-earth. Not only that, the studio announced they are also making a n

Rock Paper Shotgun 20.05.2026 11:40 Uhr
Hasbro cancel Dungeons and Dragons action game helmed by Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order director, leaving studio hunting for new publishing deal
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Hasbro cancel Dungeons and Dragons action game helmed by Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order director, leaving studio hunting for new publishing deal

Hasbro have opted to pull the publishing plug on the Dungeons and Dragons action game they and developers Giant Skull announced last June. Said plug was reportedly pulled at some point earlier this year, leaving the studio headed by former Star Wars Jedi series director Stig Asmussen hunting for a new publishing deal. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 20.05.2026 11:08 Uhr
"Seven or eight years is not that unusual": Diablo 4 lead says AAA games are taking longer to make, which is bad news for junior applicants
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"Seven or eight years is not that unusual": Diablo 4 lead says AAA games are taking longer to make, which is bad news for junior applicants

The biggest videogames are taking longer to make, according to Diablo 4 lead engine engineer Marcin Undak, and one consequence is that there are fewer junior openings at industry dreadnoughts like Blizzard and CD Projekt, because companies prefer to hire juniors right at the start of development. This isn't ideal, Undak suggested, because "the best teams" have a healthy mixture of crabby old wizards and sparky bantlings. OK, he did not call anybody either a wizard or a bantling. Maybe next time

Rock Paper Shotgun 20.05.2026 09:59 Uhr
Proton 11 Beta 5 released with more regression fixes
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Proton 11 Beta 5 released with more regression fixes

We're hopefully close to the full release of Proton 11, with Valve releasing a small Proton 11 Beta 5 update with some needed fixes.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux 20.05.2026 09:14 Uhr