Josh Broadwell

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

What the EA deal could mean for BioWare, The Sims, and more The $55 billion deal would take the publishing powerhouse private

I spent the last week combing through reports and speaking with analysts about where EA's studios and most well-known franchises will likely fit under its new owners - and how that massive debt will potentially influence the way EA handles them

www.polygon.com/ea-deal-pred...

Yakuza Kiwami 3 And Dark Ties is RGG operating like a well-oiled machine Ryu Ga Gotoku's remake of Like A Dragon's black sheep is slick and polished, but might have lost some of the game's charm.

I played a bunch of Yakuza Kiwami 3 at TGS.

RGG obviously has an impressive pipeline for producing high-quality games quickly... HOWEVER, while the new combat looks great and the Dragon Engine has never looked better, I am not sold on several creative choices.

www.shacknews.com/article/1462...

What the EA deal could mean for BioWare, The Sims, and more The $55 billion deal would take the publishing powerhouse private

I spent the last week combing through reports and speaking with analysts about where EA's studios and most well-known franchises will likely fit under its new owners - and how that massive debt will potentially influence the way EA handles them

www.polygon.com/ea-deal-pred...

Happy anniversary, and congrats to you both!!!

Yeah the latter definitely makes sense. The style's even a bit Illumination but you'd think if they *were* involved, it'd be mentioned or a logo would show up

The name and the pacifier make me think it's either some Sims-like family management game (the player is moving the pacifier) OR some horrendously sad animated short about a deceased relative staying close to the family from The Beyond (a ghost is moving the pacifier)

Nintenbabies

That silent hillf feeling

People ran wild with it to the point where Blizzard had to run a brief video explaining the rationale, but everyone was just like well this was in an interview and wasn't NDA'd, so *shrug*

More of that please

Have encountered this a few times myself this year. But I have to shout out Triple Point and Blizzard PR for not being weird over me publishing their lead Overwatch artist saying they wanted heroes to be "aspirational" from a physical perspective, hence fewer "oddball characters" recently

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

Excellent piece! Pretty much my thoughts as well. I've enjoyed First Chapter well enough, but the script actively irritates me

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter – Unsophisticated Fight Once-in-a-lifetime dream remake (dreamake!) Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter should have been my perfect video game. It wasn't. Here I hope to process that disappointment and let it go. I've gone on record ad nauseam that The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky was the video game that inspired me to tread my career path. Or maybe it's more accurate to call it the final push over a threshold I'd been approaching all my life.

Today on Astral City Mini, my hopes for a dream remake of Trails in the Sky are scattered to the winds. How and why did its new localization falter? I’ll tell you.

Hollow Knight: Silksong's story comes so close to nailing it Silksong's story can't decide whether Hornet or the player is the main character, and the central theme suffers as a result

Wrote about some of the cool things Silksong's story does and how it all kinda falls apart toward the end since it can't decide if you or Hornet is the main character

www.polygon.com/hollow-knigh...

In the GOTY race, localization really matters — which is bad news for Blue Prince One of the year's best games will have a tough time breaking into The Game Awards

I've wanted to break this down for a bit: Wrote about a big quirk in how Game Awards is structured that makes it tough for small games to compete at a top level. Localization matters! And it creates a tough battle for the Blue Princes and 1000xResists of the world. www.polygon.com/blue-prince-...

Hollow Knight: Silksong's story comes so close to nailing it Silksong's story can't decide whether Hornet or the player is the main character, and the central theme suffers as a result

Wrote about some of the cool things Silksong's story does and how it all kinda falls apart toward the end since it can't decide if you or Hornet is the main character

www.polygon.com/hollow-knigh...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

It got away, but by god it won't forget this day (nor will the neighbors, probably)

Me getting ready for battle with the harmless snake in my garden

Yeah! It's a really odd thing to throw at the player as soon as you introduce the open world, like you're going "here it is! I'm sorry"

Don't get me wrong, I think Yotei's speed boost flower pads are pretty and cool. But I think the real answer to the question "how do we move players through the open world faster" is to make it smaller with less dead space

Atsu from Ghost of Yotei

Clive from Final Fantasy 16

All the cool protagonists have big gray dogs as their best friends

A friend told me I was too earnest once and I'm glad the only effect that had on me was not really being their friend anymore

Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.

B+, points deducted for not enough hand trauma

Fallout 76 developers reveal the unlikely inspirations behind pet Radhogs in the upcoming Burning Springs update – 'when I was growing up, I had a pet pig' They'll also be new enemies in the update

The real life pig behind the giant radioactive hogs in the next Fallout 76 update.
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