Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

Former BioWare veteran Mark Darrah has weighed in with his thoughts on what the AAA video game business can do to make more money and become more sustainable: sell product placement. In a video on his YouTube channel, Darrah said the fascination with live-service games and "over-reliance on microtransactions" is stopping other genres from flourishing. Development budgets keep going up and up, and without an increase to the current $70 going rate for new releases, developers could look to product placement to help make money, Darrah said. He said the live-action Smurfs movie "paid for itself en

Night Street Games said earlier this month that it will not be pursuing future development of its CTF shooter.

Intel says: "That's definitely the technology that will change the experience."

Last Flag, a third-person hero shooter that launched just two weeks ago, is halting production. Read more

Kemuri is an action PS5 game that reaches hypebeast levels of cool. Fans of Spider-Man or Splatoon will want to check it out.