AGDQ 2023 will be online due to Florida’s LGBTQ+ and COVID-19 policies
Charity speedrunning event AGDQ 2023 will not be held in Florida next year or at any in-person venue, although the event will go ahead virtually as it has in recent years.
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Vodeo Games, the first game development studio in North America to unionise, are shutting down. The team behind turn-based RPG Beast Breaker announced their closure on Twitter, after being unable to find financial backers for another project. Beast Breaker wasn’t a game I was familiar with but its little mouse protagonist looks charming, as you can see in the trailer below.
Update: 11:23 a.m. ET: Today’s launch has been scrubbed on account of the hydrogen leak. Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson formally agreed to the scrub at 11:19 a.m ET. The rocket, which remains in a safe configuration, will now be drained of the ultra-cold propellants. We now await word on whether NASA will…
Real-time tactics game Men Of War 2 has been pushed to 2023 to incorporate more features and content sparked by feedback from closed playtests. Developers Best Way and publishers Fulqrum say the impact of having to pause development because of the outbreak of war in Best Way’s home country of Ukraine has led them to take extra time on the game for these to be implemented. Watch the latest trailer below.
The WW2 real-time strategy game Men of War II, originally due out later this year, has been delayed into 2023, the publisher has announced. Developer Best Way had been based in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk and was forced to relocate ahead of heavy bombardment by invading Russian forces that eventually left the city in ruins.
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