Deep Rock Galactic studio remakes cosmetic DLC after fans complain- ‘You’re putting down good money for these items, and you want them to stand out—we hear you!’-
We said back in April that Deep Rock Galactic has “one of the last positive communities left in gaming,” but even among that crew, there are limits. Those boundaries were reached earlier this month when developer Ghost Ship Games unveiled the new Decontaminator Pack cosmetic DLC. To put it bluntly, players did not care for it.
- “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it, these frameworks are kinda ass” – Mayor of Pyroland
- “I usually buy all cosmetics dono about this one lol its really bad looking compared to all the others” – 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
- “Looks extremely low effort compared to the previous ones” – Badger
- “Not a fan of this one. Lots of medicore paintjobs and no armor or pickaxe parts. The paintjobs do…
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Geralt and Dave the Diver are in Balatro now-
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Geralt of Rivia is a well-known card game aficionado, and not just for Gwent. It turns out the famed witcher is also a big fan of Balatro—so big that he’s now actually in the game.
Geralt and a couple of familiar friends have joined Balatro in the game’s first ever “Collaboration Pack,” a crossover that adds optional face card backs from not just The Witcher 3, but also Dave the Diver, Vampire Survivors, and Among Us. The card cosmetics can be unlocked through a new “deck settings” menu that enables players to customize their decks with new cards.
“It was surreal having these conversations,” Balatro developer Localthunk said. “Some of the biggest names in gaming praising my little project and wanting to collaborate—absolutely wild. I’m glad we made…
Read moreMany of Epic’s exclusivity deals were ‘not good investments,’ says Tim Sweeney, but the free games program ‘has been just magical’
Epic has been giving away games on the Epic Games Store since it launched at the end of 2018, enticing Steam users to install its launcher with freebies as big as Grand Theft Auto 5 and Civilization 6. More than 580 million free games were claimed just last year.
Giving away half-a-billion game copies a year, even when paying a small fraction of each copy’s list price, is not cheap. Thanks to documents that came out during Epic’s legal fight with Apple, we learned that the company spent $11.6 million on free games in just the first nine months of the program. Epic has been giving away games for six years now.
However, responding to a question about Epic’s free game strategy on a call with press earlier this week, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said that it’s been a “very economical”…
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