Summer Eternal is an RPG studio co-founded by ex-ZA/UM designers Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić, as well as developer/organizer Aleksandar Gavrilović (quoted above). Given the former two developers' experience working on a canceled Disco Elysium expansion, it makes sense they'd want to try something radically different for their new studio's financing and governance.Worker-owned cooperatives are rare but not unheard-of in games, but Summer Eternal is also looking to offer ownership...

Spotted in Tokyo: It appears that brothers Mario Mario and Luigi Mario are getting lit at this barbershop I passed in Harajuku. Really puts the Super Mario Bros. Super Show's "hooked on the brothers" in a different light. Do you think anyone from Nintendo's ever stopped by Mr. Brothers for a haircut?(Image credit: Wes Fenlon)

Warzone is trying something newIn Warzone, a "cosmetic toggle" that will disable legacy character skins at a client levelWith this toggle, players will instead see operators from Modern Warfare 4, making the game stylistically cohesiveThis toggle only exists within Warzone, as Modern Warfare 4 itself won't carry forward any cosmetics from past games.This time last year, Call of Duty had to look itself in the mirror and admit that all...

Here are those 74 seconds of scorpion-clubbing ASMR you wanted, boss. You may not like it, but this is what peak MMO gaming looks like.

A message to a videogame boss: Look, Slay the Spire 2's Knight Gang, if you can't handle being stabbed with 19 tiny little knives that are paradoxically big enough to hit you all simultaneously, maybe you don't belong in the NBA

After some heavy controversy and arguments with the internet writ large, Discord is now trying to fulfil legal obligations to roll out age verification systems that snoop on you as little as possible. How so? Well, with an "age estimation model" that tries to figure out how old you are, which I'm sure will put everyone at ease."Our age group estimation model looks at patterns of account behaviour on Discord....

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader's three-year run of expansions is drawing to a close this December with Processional of the Damned. Like the previous DLCs, Processional will introduce a new storyline and companion, both integrated into the existing story rather than coming after the end of the campaign. And your new buddy, well, she sounds pretty extra. A bit risky, maybe? Here are some red flags:Cries tears of bloodUnstable powersMight be...

If there's one thing that Blizzard nailed with World of Warcraft: Forever, it's the atmosphere. There's nothing quite like walking under the moonlight in Tirisfal Glades listening to distant howls and flapping wings on the way to your next quest. But many players familiar with the era of WoW it's based on felt like it was missing something."I miss running through Dun Morogh hearing the iconic music with a massive...

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