Night 2 is here and we are playing my favorite multiplayer horror game @DEVOUR_GAME ! Hosting for the wonderful @FAC_Event Come join us in our next Scream break adventure! @Knoxler_ and @synicalxwraith are joining us tonight! https://www.twitch.tv/frightagainstcancer

This week meant the closure of the #Nintendo Wii/3DS portion of multiplayer servers, rendering most Nintendo developed & server-dependent games limited to local games and some extreme cases, games got just literally as collector's item. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

CD Projekt Red recently told investor that the next #TheWitcher game has entered pre-production and have over 400 devs (or studio's 60% of dev workforce) working on in & expect full dev phase by second half of 2024. This is part of the so-called Project Polaris, which aims a to have a new The Witcher game trilogy in a 6 years period starting with the release of the first one. Also and talking to local press, CD Projekt Red acknowledged that single player games are not compatible with micro-transaction or for their POV, they don't see a place for microtransaction but, cannot be ruled out on multiplayers games. Of course, this came on the initial reception of Capcom's Dragon Dogma 2 which many of the negatives about the game was the focus on microtransaction first than the whole game lore/single player playthrough, which Capcom has already apologized. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

Tonight is another night with the lovely @horror_hunnies ! @xDianaxGaming is back fend off the Stranger, along with @synicalxwraith & @plzimaprincess ! Created by Lost Frame Development StrangerZ is a 4 person multiplayer game! See us try to win here: https://www.twitch.tv/gothipire

Latest noise within #Bungie is that the now Playstation subsidiary is on high alert as Sony can enact a clause on their agreement that the studio's board of directors can be dismissed and Sony take over at all. The possibilities of Bungie being folded within Playstation Studios is now more real than ever and pretty much the underperformance of Destiny 2's sales can pretty much justify Sony to enact the mentioned clause. Currently, Bungie is operating as an independent subsidiary after surprisingly, Sony announced acquiring it under that condition. Since last year, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all GaaS project including the long awaited The Last Of Us multiplayer game and actually, most of them failed the assessment and explains why Sony decided to have Naughty Dog to scale back the game. Recently, Bungie has come under fire after running a surprising layoff process as revenue of sales by Destiny 2 are under target and reportedly management has not been empathic with the people that got fired and doubled-down on improving things regardless the environment. Now it has been rumored that a new layoff run is possible if the next expansion, The Final Shape, needs to be a success, while Bungie has not acknowledged publicly, but Marathon has been internally delayed by 2025. #Gaming #GamingNews

Unfortunately #Bungie will be running a layoff run and while the exact reach could be revealed later this week the effect is already seen on Destiny 2 and Marathon with respectively The Final Shape expansion and the remake were delayed further 2024 & 2025. The now Playstation subsidiary is the latest of noise in the industry that there are troubles at Playstation Studios were many of the 1st party developers are resisting the Game-as-a-Service strategy implemented by Jim Ryan since last year. Reportedly, thing has escalated to the point that non-attached Playstation Studios has threaten to go independent again while Playstation pressed back on folding studios who continues to object the plans. Some are speculating that this crisis is probably a one of the hidden reasons of Jim Ryan leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment next year besides an almost 30 years career within Sony and traveling between USA and Japan being a European resident. To avoid objections from regulators, Sony bought surprisingly Bungie (formerly an independents studios in the 80's and the 90's and by the New Millennium a first party studio for Xbox to Microsoft own the Halo franchise & going independent again a decade ago) as subsidiary. In return to maintain complete independence on gaming plans, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all current in-development games that could be Playstation exclusives GaaS games & MOST didn't passed the evaluation and that is why the planned The Last Of Us Multiplayer was scaled back. #Gaming #GamingNews

https://www.twitch.tv/nerdsoftheasylum Another Saturday, Another Multiplayer Co-Op Stream! This time it's Scott Pilgrim Vs The World : The Game!

While Microsoft is defending their case on trying to buy them, Activision confirmed that Call Of Duty Warzone Caldera will shut down on September 21, 2023. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remake, Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard respective multiplayer modes will be unaffected.

As per Jason Schreier, Naughty Dog scaled back the development of The Last Of Us Multiplayer because it failed an assessment by Bungie, that it can keep players engaged in long-term questions quality & long-term viability. Bungie making its presence felt on Playstation Studios.

It is a Friday to apologize in the Gaming Development community with a record of 3 open letters with Front Mission 2 remake undefined delay, Diadelic Entertainment due LOTR Gollum poor performance & Naughty Dog scaling back The Las Of Us Multiplayer in favor of next main project.