This Week On Ghost!
A quick catch up of some of our great content from this week - 22nd - 26th April, and some free samples to peak your interest!
Loading Screen: Tarkov's $250 PvE, Activision Saves Xbox's Financials and Capcom Delist More Games
Tarkov is asking folks to pay $250 for PvE - and players are revolting, Activision Blizzard has saved Xbox's financials and Capcom are making very weird decisions around delisting smaller titles.
The Hidden Arathor Kingdom
A true blood Arathi Kingdom? In my underground expansion? That’s way better than I could have hoped!
Video: Khaz Algar Has Been Infested By Raw Life
Ad Free Video! At first glance, it just looks like another WoW enemy. Some fella we'll melt for a quest and never think of again. But it's anything but that! From WoD to the Everbloom to Dragonflight; a story is building, and here, Blizzard are putting their foot on the accelerator.
No Rest for The Wicked Defies Expectations
With a dedicated vision that’s resonating with audiences and a flurry of post launch updates, in just a week No Rest for the Wicked has already started turning things around from a messy launch.
Loading Screen: Fallout So Popular It Breaks Modding Websites, Brackeys Return and Infogrames' Revival
The Fallout TV Show is wrecking modding platforms due to surges in popularity, Brackeys has returned to gamedev tutorials in the wake of Unity's very public disasters and Atari are resurrecting the Infogrames brand - which statistically at least some of you remember.
The Collapse of Embracer Group
Management frame the breakup as a glorious next step towards an idelological goal - but the fall of the Embracer Group as a result of their own hubristic desires is an object lesson for other publishers that the growth model they followed has no good end.
Loading Screen: Steam's Advanced Access and Call Of Duty's Monetised Friendship
Two money focussed stories for you today - Steam have closed loopholes around refunds as they try to get an industry trend under control while Call of Duty have opened a can of worms as they add monetisation that doesn't just encourage you to spend, it wants you to get your friends involved too.
No Rest for The Wicked Defies Expectations
With a dedicated vision that’s resonating with audiences and a flurry of post launch updates, in just a week No Rest for the Wicked has already started turning things around from a messy launch.
Loading Screen: Fallout So Popular It Breaks Modding Websites, Brackeys Return and Infogrames' Revival
The Fallout TV Show is wrecking modding platforms due to surges in popularity, Brackeys has returned to gamedev tutorials in the wake of Unity's very public disasters and Atari are resurrecting the Infogrames brand - which statistically at least some of you remember.
Video: The Collapse Of Embracer Group
Ad Free Video! Embracer Group is functionally dead. The company that became Embracer Group in 2019 grew from acquiring the wreckage of THQ, and then springboarded into one of the biggest games companies in Europe by spending the next four years acquiring developers and IP. Now it's all collapsing.
Video: This Is When The War Within Starts (And How)
Ad Free Video! This might be Blizzard’s best pre-patch event yet - here’s when we believe it is, what it is, and everything you can earn from it (so far).
Loading Screen: Playstation Shutter 15 Years Of Player Content, Stellar Blade's Censorship Shenanigans
Today, Playstation shows us they have no plan for the future of their libraries of User Generated Content, while Stellar Blade's PR team have managed to turn victory into even more victory by careful framing of what audiences think censorship means.
Video: How To Destroy An Indie Developer As CEO Possibilty Space
Ad Free Video! In one day, three years of work was wiped out for developers at Possibility Space, an indie team whose CEO seems to have decided that an unpublished leak to the press was so damaging that the team's game could not continue - and that he needed to shut the studio down immediately.
The Collapse of Embracer Group
Management frame the breakup as a glorious next step towards an idelological goal - but the fall of the Embracer Group as a result of their own hubristic desires is an object lesson for other publishers that the growth model they followed has no good end.
This Week On Ghost!
A quick catch up of some of our great content from this week - 15th - 19th April, and some free samples to peak your interest!
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.
