Friday, 7 June 2024

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 7 June 2024.

General3 stories

Yooka-Laylee is getting a remaster called Yooka-Replaylee

  • The new version offers overhauled art and animations, as well as “enhanced performance and resolution”.
  • Improvements have been made to the game’s controls and camera, two of the areas where the original game received the most criticism.
  • No release date given
VGC
Free Games / Subscription2 stories

Xbox Game Pass June titles announced

  • Arriving:
  • Octopath Traveler (Cloud, Console, and PC) - Available now
  • Octopath Traveler 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S) - Available now
  • Depersonalization (PC) – 12th June
  • Isonzo (Cloud, Console, and PC) – 13th June
  • The Callisto Protocol (Cloud, Console, and PC) - 13th June
  • Still Wakes the Deep (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – 18th June
  • Leaving:
  • Bramble: The Mountain King (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • High on Life (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • Rune Factory 4 Special (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • Spacelines from the Far Out (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • The Bookwalker (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Eurogamer
Business1 story

Mediatonic alumni form Kindred Spirit Games

  • Co-founders Megan Ralph and Joel Herber made the announcement on Linkedin, saying the studio was created six months ago. Ralph is the firm's design director and Herber its technical director.
GamesIndustry.biz
Rumors1 story
Rumour

Summer Game Fest trailers can cost devs up to $550K

  • On the low end, developers will pay $250,000 for a one-minute trailer.
  • The price goes up depending on length, from $350,000 for 90 seconds to a high of $550,000 for two and a half minutes.
  • Major publishers get "earned editorial placements" for free
Game Developer