Firaxis Games, known for XCOM, Civilization, and Marvel's Midnight Suns, just fired dozens of people.

Then the same fate hit Cat Daddy Games and Cloud Chamber, who worked on the next BioShock. All of them are owned by 2K, who previously stated that Civ7 performed well.

#LayOffs@GameDEV

Hell is Us is getting a fairly positive reviews for having a soul and vibe, and negative ones for messy core gameplay features.

So, let's investigate: here's a short documentary about the team behind it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rIr5uvexyg
#Documentaries@GameDEV

You can walk into ships now!
But should you?

#NoMansSky@GameDEV

Unfortunately for this passionate team of 65, here's how it starts: after deluxe edition players tried it out for a few early days, it's scratching almost 4K CCU.

And being destroyed by a 2D hornet.

By rough estimations, they sold only up to 12000 copies so far on Steam.

IOI publishing should have been branched and make several $10m bets, not a single $100m one.

How dare you!

#Programming@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Half-Life 2, but it's a Japanese slasher

#HalfLife@GameDEV

Self-irony

#AI@GameDEV

It was an odd week, folks,
Get some rest 😴

Kojima is known for more than just design corks: all his recent games are using unique engines and perform better than any game of such scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOoYOHoLvuU
#GameEngines@GameDEV

Morning, folks!

#meme@GameDEV
#DarkSouls@GameDEV

Poly Haven surpassed 2500 followers on Patreon and released extra 31 fabric textures for free!

https://polyhaven.com/textures/fabric
#Free@GameDEV
#GameAssets@GameDEV
#Textures@GameDEV

Here's how my code usually works

Hold up 😂

#meme@GameDEV
#Modding@GameDEV