This Week On Ghost!
A quick catch up of some of our great content from this week - 8th - 12th April, and some free samples to peak your interest!
The Quel'Thalas Revamp Is Huge: The United Elven City
For the first time since before the War of the Ancients, the elves will (apparently) be united as one. What does that mean for Silvermoon and Quel'Thalas? A whole lot.
Loading Screen: Dead Space, Dead Again
Everyone agrees, there will be no more Dead Space as Motive are now at work on Battlefield or Iron Man games. But where the internet is aflame is on the how and why - with it becoming a matter of semantics on what exactly constitutes development of a game and how success is defined.
Ex Blizzard Dev Admits They Couldn't Make Last Epoch
One of Diablo 3’s Systems Designers says that Blizzard couldn’t make Last Epoch. Thanks to a breakdown video from Andrew Chambers, not only do we understand how Diablo couldn’t match Last Epoch - we can start to understand why it probably never will.
Video: Roblox Studio Head Says The Quiet Part Out Loud
Ad Free Video! Here’s a quote from GDC: "you can say, 'Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labour, or..." - to which we say sorry, Roblox Studio Head Stefano Corazza, there is no good sentence that can follow that or!
Destiny Goes All Out - The Final Shape Revealed
“Facing The Witness is not the end of Destiny 2, and it's definitely not the end of Destiny” are the strong words of executive creative director Luke Smith as Bungie has stunned critics and fans with the first reveals for The Final Shape Expansions.
Peace in Our Time - Blizzard Returns To China
In a shock move, just over a year after the explosive break up of Netease and Blizzard that saw teams disbanded, insults hurled and a statue destroyed - Blizzard games will be coming back to the Chinese market.
Primal Storms Levelling: Worth The Hype?
Primal Storms: the old-yet-new levelling hotness? I'd say so, but with a few caveats.
Fix Your Loading Times
With a spreadsheet and a dream, I set out to fix my loading times. I succeeded. Now, I can help you fix yours.
Roblox Studio Head "you can say, 'Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labour, or..."
Here’s a quote from GDC: "you can say, 'Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labour, or..." - to which we say sorry, there is no good sentence that can follow that or. When you’re trying to spin Child Labour Exploitations as a good thing, you might be on a losing battle.
Lorewalking: Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire
Xal'atath, the Harbinger, residing within the Blade of the Black Empire, is responsible for a lot more than we know. While the world moved around greater forces, she has always known which domino to push to further her own end - bringing us to ours.
Paradox Published Game Abandoned After Six Months
A Paradox published title is ending updates six months after release. Cities Skylines II has been the headlines, but there are trends beneath the surface that suggest Paradox are failing in their role as stewards of their games and developers - which means a worse experience for you, the audience.
Suicide Squad Season One Feels Like A Bad Joke
As everyone expected, turns out that after the middling response to their big box launch for Suicide Squad, Rocksteady are now stuck trying to deliver a Live Service proposition that doesn’t play to any of their strengths. The Joker may be here now - but no one seems to be laughing.
Upcoming Games: A Packed April
After a bumper year so far - and a summer that's starting to fill up - April is a relative breather of a month with time to catch up, but that doesn't mean there aren't a whole range of good games coming out.
Video: Secret Allied Race?! The War Within Alpha Blown Wide Open (And Other News)
Ad Free Video! Datamining go brrrrr. The Harronir. A [redacted] called [redacted] that will be very important to our very own [redacted]. And So Much More.
Video: I Interviewed Warcraft's Boss, Holly
Ad Free Video! I got to sit down and have a long chat with Holly Longdale - and I got to question her on everything she does for Warcraft. Turns out, it's a lot.
Loading Screen: A Wicked Launch, More Paradox Delays and Hearthstone's Bad Maths
No Rest for the Wicked has launched, and it's no rest for the devs as they scramble for fixes to their mixed user review score, elsewhere Paradox have delayed another(!) game and the Hearthstone team have an interesting idea of how maths works.
Video: The Developer Behind The Most Wishlisted Game On Steam Needs You To Know Something
Ad Free Video! Steam's number one wishlisted game is coming out next week, but the solo developer behind Manor Lords needs those players to listen to him - Manor Lords might not be what they're hoping for.
Video: Paradox Admits Defeat On Cities Skylines 2 and Victoria 3
Ad Free Video! Refunds for those who bought DLC, a community council with content creators and more delays for paid DLC - Colossal Order are fully admitting the plan for Cities Skylines II has failed so far.
Video: Ybarra Wants You To Tip AAA Devs, Fallout London Gets Delayed & Content Warning 6 Million $ Gambit!
Ad Free Video! 2 Questions and a puzzle for you! Why don't we tip Game Developers? Why is Bethesda breaking Fallout 4 Mods and delaying Fallout London? How do you reach 1M Sales on an indie game after giving 6.6M copies for free? All these answered and more on this roundup!
Loading Screen: Player Expectation Problems
Steam's number one wishlisted game is coming out next week, but the solo developer behind Manor Lords needs those players to listen to him - Manor Lords might not be what you're hoping for.
Video: What We Did NOT Expect From War Within Alpha
Ad Free Video! Blizzard wants everyone to talk about the big features, the content, the story, all of the real juicy bits! We’re more interested in the surprises that will make you have a better time. So we tried stuff, looked around and found 22 NEW features that look tiny, but are huge.
Paradox Admits Defeat On Cities Skylines 2 and Victoria 3
Refunds for those who bought DLC, a community council with content creators and more delays for paid DLC - Colossal Order are fully admitting the plan for Cities Skylines II has failed so far.
Video: So, I Played The War Within...
Ad Free Video! I've been playing The War Within. Matt has been playing The War Within. So, let's talk about how it's been so far!
Video: Overwatch's Mythic Problem
Ad Free Video! With Season Ten of Overwatch, Blizzard give everyone the ability to earn mythic skins from past Battle Passes! One Step Forward. But they’re also allowing players to spend $80 to buy those skins in their complete form. Two Steps Back Let's talk about it shall we?
Loading Screen: More Delays For Paradox, Take Two's 400 Layoff Swerve and Playstation's PC Plans
Paradox may be learning their lessons, with delays even coming for DLC now, Take Two said no more layoffs and now they're firing more than 400 people while Playstation break down the barriers between PC and Console - while erecting a new one with account logins.
