Telltale Games churned out amazing games by amazing artists. So why is it closing? What went wrong?
Cheat software provider EngineOwning will pay Call of Duty creator Activision nearly $15 million in damages and legal fees.
Get a fresh look at Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and more on June 10.
That'd be too good if true.
But Henderson also leaked that next Far Cry setting was targeting some asian island.
Assassin's Creed Hexe is what I wanna hear about most. Yes I wanna play as a witch with magic during the 16 century witch trials in Germany (as per rumors). Sign me up
Yeah, Hex sounds amazing to me as well, and I've been playing since AC 1. I'm real curious how are they gonna fit the magic into the game, maybe in similar way the dlc introduced gods and god abilities. but I love that I've heard its gonna have a horror vibe.
The studio just completed Avatar and busy with Outlaws and also got their F2P Heartland cancelled ... IMO, Division 3 will surely come but it'll take more time.
I'd be most thrilled if Ubisoft greenlits a sequel or at least a remake of the studio's first game i.e World in Conflict
Hopefully gameplay of ac shadows or star wars outlaws, if they finally announce the new far cry I'm definitely getting that, far cry still fun af and gorgeous games, yeah ubisoft has their faults but atleast they're not copying souls like games their titles still have identity
I'm going to be an outlier amongst the rest of these comments.... give us something NEW! I'm pretty burnt out on Ubisoft franchises, unless you're giving us a new Rayman game!
*Edit - imagine what they could do with a Rayman 3D game in this day and age. I say now is the time to revisit the series.
Would love a AAA PoP too or a back to roots Ghost Recon (none of the open world stuff)
Hell yes! Ghost recon in the style of the originals with real consequences, permanent and all!
Their microtransaction monetization scheme on it will lie somewhere between good and evil!
Haha JK.... it'll be completely evil. 🙃
While Sony hasn’t revealed what some of its first-party studios like Housemarque is cooking currently, the company has revealed what focus they’re aiming for at the very least.
If it's live service it's a "no" from me. I'll take a Days Gone sequel though...
It’s confirmed Bend Studio next game is gaas… what a shame!
And why Returnal thumbnail?
Well this sucks. I just completed Days Gone last week and going through new game plus...and my God..i just love this game.
Days gone 2 would have improved a lot of features over it. God damn it Sony!!!
@Caca
Because the real headline in the article is:
"PlayStation Lists Housemarque in “Single-Player, Narrative-Driven Focus”; Bend Studio in “Evolving, Multi-Genre” Categories for In-Development Projects"
Kind of an odd way to have posted the article here with that title and description.
According to this article
https://wccftech.com/playst...
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"In today's Business Segment Meeting 2024 for its Game & Network Services Segment, Sony confirmed the names of the seven studios focusing on single-player games with a narrative focus - Asobi, Insomniac Games, Santa Monica Studio, Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog, Firesprite and Housemarque, and the nine working on pure live service games or hybrid titles - Bungie, San Diego Studio, Firewalk, Haven and Neon Koi for pure live service games and Guerrilla Games, Polyphony, Media Molecule and Bend Studio. "
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it seems that Bend was placed in the live service game category
Glad Housemarque isn’t doing live service. And Guerrilla is doing a hybrid title? Wonder what that’s gunna look like. Makes me nervous
Seven for single player but nine for GaaS
Come on Sony…sigh
You don’t need 9 GaaS titles. It’s over saturation and competing for players time with your own studios
@Psychonaut85
I am also curious about that one. Guerrilla is a top tier developer, and I like their single player games.
I really hope they dont ruin this
Bend, Media Molecule, Polyphony and Guerrilla on "Hybrid" titles? I wonder what they call Hybrid, PvP? PvE? Single player AND multiplayer? Hopefully we will know soon.
@Psychonaut85 and cthulhucultist
I think the rumors said they were working on Horizon multiplayer game.
I will boycott every single one of the gaas games.. i do not want that shit. If i want to replay them in a few years there is no way because the servers will be down. Forget it, even if it’s GT and Killzone
The funny thing is the cancelled sequel to Days Gone sounded like they were pitching this online co-op focused game which just didn’t sound appealing to me at all
I loved the first game despite its flaws but the sequel needed work yet they wanted to jump to online and co-op…that’s a massive red flag. Sort your main issues first before trying to do more complicated things.
If Helldivers 2 is anything to go by, and I think it is, then GaaS can clearly work if they aren’t designed to milk the community slowly with diminishing quality of follow up content.
I’ll play anything they make that is a GOOD game. I play single player games mainly but I am not opposed to any genre as long as it is good.
I’m not going to war with people who like GaaS. Lord knows everyone went apesh*t for Helldivers 2, but I will never buy a GaaS game and while PS5 is my system of choice I will not support Sony games that go in this direction.
I hate it, I don’t care how much Helldivers 2 was “GaaS done right,” and if the argument is these are the only way for the industry to make profit then all I have to say is something has gone terribly terribly wrong.
On the flip side I guess I’ll start saving more money if it’s mostly going to be GaaS games.
There's nothing inherently wrong with a multiplayer only game....but for fucks sake don't make me have to pay more. If they got those shitty mtx out then it would be fine. Release big dlcs every year or so...but instead these gaas oriented constipated individuals had to push monetization where it is easiest...online multiplayer games were the target.
MP only games are fine, GaaS is my issue.
You literally have to ask yourself why choose the GaaS model over a traditional game model, even if the game is MP only? There’s literally only one reason GaaS exists and the same reason it’s being chosen over traditionally made games.
MP only games are fine and in the past they existed without being GaaS. Again, my only issue is with the GaaS model and no matter how “good” it is, it still only exists to generate recurring revenue through battle passes, microtransactions, and hoping to string you along for an eventual “finished” product at some point before they shut the servers down and make it completely unplayable.
Yeah it's sad that one GaaS game comes out that isn't built as bad as the others and suddenly everyone is fine and dandy with them.
Helldivers 2 is still a GaaS game, there's no beating around the bush.
There's still a ton of people playing but from my friend circle and people at work, they've all went back to other games like Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Siege or Apex for example. The sparkle it had wore off pretty quickly.
Sony will bring all these GaaS titles out and all it will do is split the audience of their other released GaaS titles. Sooner or later they'll be competing against one another. It's insane thinking.
Bend has said they are making a multiplayer game for a while now. What that entails we have no idea yet
Online only title already been confirmed, sad to say but I'm not keeping in tune with this, idk why most devs hype up live service games after seeing the amount of failures past online titles caused for others smh DOA
Stop hosing Bend around and have them make a new Syphon Filter (or Days Gone 2) entry already.
Bring back Maniac Mansion (Thimbleweed Park)! We need more adventure games like that.
It's a shame this company went under, they definitely stuck to and specialized in the single player area. Never played a game from them though but I did hear mix things. From great stories to horrible, buggy gameplay.
They had a lot of great IP's too, very well known ones, it's baffling to see a company with so many IP's as such to go down like they did.
"This news is surprising to me and makes me feel a bit out of touch with the wants and needs of the market. Maybe I’m even more out of touch than I feel and games like these will fade away, but I can’t accept that yet. They’re just too good."
The writer is conflating poor decisions at Taelltale game with the an entire genre. Companies that make games in every genre have been closed and it hasn't spelled the end of those genre's either. They may have defeated their own selves with inundation of content that exceeded what the market would buy from them, but a smaller company, that could pay an appropriate size of employees to make content that meet demand of the actual market would have been just fine.
Once again someone doesn't do any research as to why TT went under and paints the genre with a wide brush.
Adventure games are here to stay and will continue to grow and be made into the future. TT was a decent company that made bad decisions and paid the price for it, plain and simple. No clickbait needed.
Sorry to say, but Big Bad Wolf, Quantic Dream, even Hazelight and Dontnod do more for the genre than Telltale ever did.
And «churned out amazing games», come on!
a. You can't be churning out (which means «to produce something automatically, without much thought, and in large amounts») amazing products, it just sounds wrong;
b. Batman season 1 (was playing it year after release, 2 times i lost my saves), Game of Thrones season 1, Guardians of the Galaxy, even The Walking Dead: A New Frontier were far from amazing.
This article should of been titled What Telltale's Death Says About mismanaging your game company. The death Telltale's games doesn't speak for the whole adventure genre.