Daybreak Game Company is looking for a Senior Producer and a Creative Director for an as-yet unnamed project according to job postings on the corporate site. The jobs will be housed in the company’s Austin office. At this point, there is no indication what the project could be.
General: Salt and Sanctuary – Romancing the Souls
Are you a sadist? Do you like inflicting pain upon yourself? Are you patient? Do you love learning challenging new encounters and eventually triumphing over your enemy? If you are we have a game for you. Read on for Rob’s impressions of Ska Studios’ platform RPG Salt and Sanctuary.
General: Game On #81 – Are AAA MMORPGs Over?
This week on Game On, Chris and Braxwolf take on the question of the year: are AAA MMORPGs on the way out? They also talk about the comparisons between The Division and Destiny, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC, the end of EverQuest Next and the future of Daybreak Studios, and more.
General: Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 Officially Launched
iOS and Android users worldwide can now get their hands on Marvel Alliance 2 thanks to its official launch earlier today. Players create a super hero-sized team to take on villains, all using iconic Marvel characters.
General: Indie CryEngine Licensees Talk About Their Games
The CryEngine team took to the road recently to visit a trio of independent studios that are building some pretty amazing games. Featured studios include Wolcen Studios, developers of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem and Warhorse Studios, working on Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
General: Action-Adventure RPG ‘Goliath’, to Hit Steam in May
Whale Box Studio and Octupus Tree have announced that their action-adventure-RPG hybrid title, Goliath, will be hitting live service on Steam on May 12, 2016. Players will be able to fully customize and control mechanical giants and take part in cooperative battles to dominate the world.
General: The Skies to Launch Steam Early Access on April 16th
The Skies team has posted notification on its Facebook page that the Steam Early Access will begin on April 16th. To celebrate the big news, a new trailer has been released to show off the post-apocalyptic world.
General: Nights of Azure RPG Launches for PlayStation 4
Koei Tecmo America has announced that its brand new RPG IP, Nights of Azure (Yoru no Nai Kuni in Japan), has officially launched for PlayStation 4. Nights of Azure has been developed by the same team behind the Atelier series, Gust. To celebrate the launch day milestone, a new trailer has been released.
General: Active Worlds – A Nearly Abandoned Digital World
What happens when an MMO dies but no one turns the lights off? Youtube personality ‘vinesauce’ decided to find out during a recent live stream event attended by over 6,000 viewers. Entering the mid-90s MMO “Active Worlds”, vinesauce found the place to be, as Kotaku put it, a “digital graveyard” but for the lone exception of a single other player “Hitomi Fujiko”.
General: Updating a Classic – Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Preview
In recent weeks we have heard that Blizzard is patching Diablo 2 and Warcraft (not World of Warcraft). It continues to be true that quality old games never die and Baldur’s Gate is no exception. The game was one of the most fun RPGs in the 1990s (published in 1998). With recent success on mobile platforms and a resurgence in isometric RPGs it is no surprise that Siege of Dragonspear is coming out for fans.