.Decluster: Into the Bullet Hell

Sony's best first-party studio hasn't published a new game for almost a decade, and that's a problem.

Team17 and Expression Games have announced that Hell Let Loose: Vietnam has been delayed, and is now set for release on August 13. The game was previously set to launch on June 18. "We have identified several areas where additional development time will allow us to deliver a stronger launch experience," the developers said. Delaying the game will allow players to experience a version of Hell Let Loose: Vietnam that is at the "quality level we expect and you deserve," the statement added. "We understand that many of you have been waiting patiently for this next installment in the Hell Let Loose

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

Another deluge of layoffs in a year full of them.

It's still Amazon Prime Day for a few more hours, with the steepest discounts ending tonight. If you're like me, you haven't actually bought anything from the sale yet and have been waiting until the last day. Procrastination aside, it's not too late to find discounts on pretty much everything you can think of. From the gaming and collector side, there's some decent video games still on sale, plus book box sets, Blu-rays, LEGO, and KPop Demon Hunters Squishmallows, to name a few.As much as I want to buy dozens of Blu-rays to add to my movie collection, I'm being pretty