Witcher 3’s official mod editor launches this month
- It will be available free for everyone who owns the game on PC
- The Witcher 3 REDkit will be released May 21st
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 8 May 2024.
General2 stories
Redfall will get no further updates, players who paid for DLC will get ‘make good offers’
- “The game and its servers will remain online for players to enjoy and we will provide make-good offers to players who purchased the Hero DLC.”
- The DLC referred to in the email was included in the $99.99 Bite Back Edition of the game. This included the ‘Hero Pass’, which was originally promised to include two extra heroes. That content has now been cancelled.
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May’s PlayStation Plus Essential games have been released
- Now Available:
- EA Sports FC 24 (PS4/5)
- Ghostrunner 2 (PS5)
- Tunic (PS4/5)
- Destiny 2: Lightfall (PS4/5)
Business3 stories
Support dev PTW opens mocap studio to grow partnership with Imaginarium Studios
- PTW, a support developer that's previously worked on Starfield and Exoprimal, has opened a new studio exclusively for motion capture.
- Located in the same building as audio developer SIDE London, it's meant as an expansion of PTW's partnership with Imaginarium.
- The aim is to make it so full-body capture and voice recording can be done simultaneously in the same place
Activision to pay $23.4m for patent infringement
- Acceleration Bay's legal battle with the Call of Duty maker ends after eight years
- The case filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware claims that patents for networking and broadcasting were used in Activision's multiplayer title.
- The publisher owes Acceleration Bay $18 million in copyright infringement for World of Warcraft and $5.4 million for two Call of Duty titles.
- Editor's Note: I tried to look into the specific patents and what was infringing in the two games mentioned, but I could not find any public mention on the specific infringements
- While the case against Activision Blizzard has been decided in favour of the tech incubator, it has also filed similar patent infringement suits against EA, Take-Two, and Amazon Web Services.
- Activision will appeal.
In less than a day, Hades 2 Early Access has doubled Hades’ all-time peak player count on Steam
- It should be noted that the first Hades game was originally an Epic Games Store exclusive, where it was released as an Early Access title in 2018, and didn’t come to Steam until 2019.
- However, its peak on Steam wasn’t reached until the game came out of Early Access and officially ‘launched’ in September 2020.