Koukou Studios has today announced Lethe, a first person exploration game that features supernatural physics-based gameplay as the only means of survival.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
I suppose this game doesn't necessarily fall into this genre, but I guess it KINDA does. I just wanted to say that I'm loving the recent surge of popularity in the Survival Horror genre, but we're seeing a LOT of these no-weapons-allowed kinda horror titles. Amnesia, Outlast, Daylight, Anna, Slender, Routine, and the new Alien game just to name a few.
I just don't want to see the genre saturated with 'Amnesia clones' that try to capitalize and cash in on the success of said game. Personally, I felt Penumbra was a more successful series anyway. Still, there's many ways to do survival horror, or horror in general. But yet we only seem to see either 'boo scares' and lots of gunplay ala Doom 3, or no weapons period, such as Amnesia.
I miss games that have inventive and creative ways of conveying horror. While I admit that being unarmed and viewing the game from a first person perspective makes things more tense, you can go so much further with disturbing imagery and visuals. Silent Hill (the first three in particular) were superb survival horror games. You could still shoot and kill things, yet it was the imagery, use of sound, and psychological disturbing aspect of the game that scared us that still made us feel we were very much having to fight to survive. All these 'Amnesia clones' are pretty decent, but they're all too similar. You can't just make a game with a first person perspective that takes place in the dark with no weapons to fight back and call it survival horror.
Oh well, it's still better than Capcoms recent offerings...
This game looks interesting. Visuals are also pretty damn good.