Jioplaygame’s News Bulletin
Lies of P Sequel Enters Full-Scale Development Stage
About 2.5 years after director Choi Ji-won confirmed the sequel’s existence, it seems NEOWIZ and ROUND8 are ramping up production.
Forza Horizon 6 devs threaten “franchise wide” bans after game leaks ahead of launch.
Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground Games has threatened “franchise-wide” and hardware-level bans after leaked copies of the racing game began circulating online ahead of launch, with at least one YouTuber already permanently suspended for uploading gameplay footage.
The Making Of: Metal Slug – “I Never Thought That It Would Have Sequels”
“At first only the tanks were to be the main characters, […] but in the end we had soldiers like Marco and Tarma,” reveals Kazuma Kujo, director of the first Metal Slug, dropping a bombshell that would resonate through interviews for years to come. He’s describing the fabled “Metal Slug Zero”; in its original completed form, the game did not have playable humans, only the eponymous Metal Slug Super Vehicle 001. It was a radically different game, and its very existence was due to a series of unfortunate events.
Vietnam Once Warned Against Gaming. Now It’s Going All In.
A wall of sound sweeps across the convention floor as ear-splitting music competes with video game effects and booth hosts shouting into microphones. Teenagers in elaborate cosplay weave through the crowd: a princess in a satin pink bodice, metallic heels and long violet hair; a masked warrior in red armor and feathered black wings carrying a plastic assault rifle. Promoters dressed as giant Block Blast puzzle pieces shuffle through the throng as developers clutching swag bags look on.
Sure Seems Like Subnautica 2’s Developers Are Going To Get Their $250 Million Bonus.
Subnautica 2, the sequel to Unknown Worlds’ underwater survival mega hit, released into early access today. It’s doing reasonably well, I guess, having sold 1 million units within an hour of coming out. This is the culmination not just of a lengthy dev cycle, but also some truly wild legal proceedings in which publisher Krafton was accused of attempting to avoid paying out a $250 million bonus to Subnautica 2’s developers—specifically because CEO Changhan Kim regularly turned to ChatGPT for advice on how to deal with the situation. I doubt Kim and his unthinking, unfeeling, not-even-a-real-robot pal are in a great mood right now.
