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1 week ago | 
gamesradar.com | Iain Harris
The publisher behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 says the likes of GTA 6 maker Rockstar can weather the ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes we're seeing across the industry, but most can't and "there is a human cost to running things that way." Speaking to GamesIndustry.Biz, Sandfall COO and Clair Obscur producer François Meurisse says the studio will resist the urge to scale up dramatically in the face of success to churn out its next games quicker, instead looking to keep the core team...
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Iain Harris
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can'tThe publisher behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 says the likes of GTA 6 maker Rockstar can weather the ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes we're …
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1 week ago | 
gamesradar.com | Iain Harris
It's been said on several occasions that the JRPG-inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been inspired by the genre's finest – Final Fantasy, Persona, you name it. However, creative director Guillaume Broche has revealed some of the game's more lesser-known inspirations, and one of them essentially validates a theory I had about the game's combat.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Iain Harris
The Best Games That Are Hard To ExplainAfter you play a great video game, you may have the urge to recommend it to others. Sometimes, this is easy; just explain the basic premise of the …
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2 weeks ago | 
gamesradar.com | Iain Harris
Nintendo has revealed that Mario Kart World isn't simply called Mario Kart 9 because the plan was to do more than add a couple of courses into the mix. Before we knew what the next Mario Kart would be properly called, plenty settled on MK9 for ease more than anything, though it did kick off a debate over whether that's what it should be called – does the existence of Mario Kart Tour mean we should have gone to 10?
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2 weeks ago | 
gamesradar.com | Iain Harris
Kojima Productions' chief technical officer Akio Sakamoto says the jump from PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," but has at least made achieving design goals in Death Stranding 2 "more efficient."Talking to Edge Magazine in its latest issue – on sale now, by the way – Sakamoto takes a question over what the team can achieve on PS5 that wasn't possible when PS4 was the lead format. The jump from PS1 to PS2 this is not, but the new hardware system certainly helps in making development easier.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Iain Harris
8 hours agoThe 'Late Show' host wasn't having any of it. Taylor Swift has become the latest celebrity for Donald Trump to have a tantrum about, and Stephen Colbert isn't having any of it. During Monday's Late Show, the host brought up a recent Truth Social post in which the President of the United States wrote …
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2 weeks ago | 
gamesradar.com | Iain Harris
Square Enix might have called quits on Final Fantasy 11 last year if it wasn't for the MMO's dedicated fan base. That comes from producer and director Yoji Fujito, who has been speaking about what the future of the original Final Fantasy MMO might have looked like if things played out a bit differently. Speaking to Dengeki Online, Fujito reveals that at one point prior to Final Fantasy XI’s 20th anniversary in 2022, Square Enix considered ending support for it as a living game.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Iain Harris
1 day ago10 Underrated SNES Games You Need To PlayOriginally released in 1991, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, better known as the SNES, is Nintendo’s seventh-best-selling video game console …https://cogconnected.com/review/death-end-request-code-z-review/4 days agoDeath end re;quest: Code Z Review – No Semicolon ExplanationDeath end re;quest: Code Z is the third game in the Death end re;quest JRPG series. What makes past series installments stand out from other JRPGs, …
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4 weeks ago | 
gamesradar.com | Iain Harris
The leads behind J'RPG of the moment Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have clarified that the team isn't working on DLC at the moment, but rather on making improvements to the current game. Last month, an image of an Instagram exchange between lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and a fan circulated online, sparking hopes among many that DLC could be on the cards. "Nothing concrete that I can say at the moment, we're honestly still just trying to process everything that’s happening," she said.
