It’s another example of how even a successful AAA release doesn’t necessarily translate into job security anymore..

The new one has better stats. The old one has been through some shit.

A24‘s fantasy video game adaptation Elden Ring is heading to the American Film Market where it’ll be the biggest-budget standalone project ever on sale at a film or TV market.

We hear from sources the budget is being pegged between $175M-$200M, but closer to the latter, which takes the project beyond previous tentpoles that have hit markets, including the latest Hunger Games instalment. Mel Gibson’s upcoming Resurrection Of The Christ films came with a near-$200M price tag but across two films.

Currently in post, the Alex Garland-scripted and directed action epic is the talk of the acquisitions community given its scale and ambition. We can reveal today that Amazon MGM has pre-empted that interest by taking a bunch of international pay-1 streaming rights off the table in a big deal. The pact is understood to cover a large number of international markets and sources speculate to us that it is easily worth tens of millions of dollars. We hear the deal could also potentially lead to interesting activations on Amazon’s Twitch platform.

Cast includes Kit Connor, Nick Offerman, Ben Whishaw, Cailee Spaeny, Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonathan Pryce, Ruby Cruz. The A-list creative team includes costume designer Jenny Beavan, hair and makeup designer Paul Gooch, and production designers Mark Digby and Michelle Day. David J Thompson is DoP.

Garland wrapped over the summer and is now in post with Industrial Light & Magic. Release is set for March 2028 in theaters and IMAX.

The script has been closely guarded in the period leading up to next week’s AFM in Los Angeles in ways generally reserved for the biggest IP. In what seems to be an industry first, A24 is flying members of its team directly to international buyers for them to read the script with the staffer present. It’s a long read. We hear it runs to at least 180 pages with visuals, implying the movie could push towards three hours.

While plot details are largely being kept under wraps we understand that in-demand Heartstopper actor Connor is the protagonist and the “faithful” film will follow his journey. There are said to be battles between his character and impressive monsters and dragons. But such is the secrecy around the project that parts of the script are being held back from buyers in what is presumably a bid to avoid spoilers and increase intrigue. There is due to be some kind of presentation at the AFM, potentially with footage.

I imagine some program that has many different campaigns, whichever you choose you then create your character from scratch (or take some default one) and then the narrator/DM starts and it's understandable even for people who never played DND.

It would be lots of text probably (no voice for DM/narrator) but still has some nice map and items and such.

I've always been interested and wanted to try DND, but none of my friends has time for this, and even I don't really have time for it, so I much rather trying first at my pace such that my schedule isn't a problem, and when I come back to the game there could be an option of quick recap or something like that.

Anyone who played 2 knows how good it was and knows how addicting the Chao garden was. The game was a lot of fun, great art, and had one of the most underrated original soundtracks like ever. They really hit gold with that entire system of playing a level then taking what you collected to this totally innovative and fresh pet competition system. How can they just leave that and never expand upon it ever again? I know many grown adult men who would instantly purchase a sequel to this. 1000 worse games have gotten sequels since.

Edit: Some people are saying Sonic 06 was basically adventure 3 but in this interview the Sonic team head says "When we talk about Chao Garden specifically, I know everyone’s like “I want Chao Garden, I want Chao Garden”. But Chao Garden is a piece… it’s part of the whole Sonic Adventure series game. It’s not a standalone game, it’s integrated into the whole Adventure series gameplay, so we can’t just break it off and make it a thing. And so it’s like, alright, well if you’re asking for Chao Garden and Adventure 3 then that’s pretty much asking for Adventure 3." https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/interviews/interview-sonic-team-on-how-looking-back-helped-sonic-move-forwards/

So no we haven't had Adventure 3 yet lol.

Hey Reddit!

We’re Feed 64, a small indie team. We spent nearly five years making Gennady, invested over $300,000 in development, and today we finally released it.

You know, the quiet life.

Who’s Gennady?

Your average, slightly out-of-shape, middle-aged dude. He finds himself in his underwear inside an alien meat factory and has to figure out how to escape.

“Figure out” mostly means fighting grotesque creatures, dashing through enemies, and using his own body as a weapon.

The result is a fast-paced action roguelike platformer with mostly black-and-white visuals and absurd humor.

Everything is drawn by hand. Yes, all 7,000 animation frames too.

In an age of AI slop, we’re especially proud to show off our artist’s work. All the artwork and frame-by-frame animation were created by hand, with no AI-generated images.

There’s an artist behind every movement Gennady makes and every disgusting alien creature he encounters. We’d love to talk about how we drew this world and brought it to life.

And it all started as a mobile game.

During development, the project grew into a game for PC and consoles. Along the way, we had to rethink decisions, tackle new challenges, and learn from our mistakes. Nearly five years later, Gennady is finally available to buy and play.

Answering your questions today:

- Denis Zorin - Art Lead u/Zealousideal_Rule_14
- Ivan Chikalenko - Game Designer u/Feed_64

Ask us about:

- How a mobile project became a PC and console game and what had to change.
- Why development took nearly five years.
- Where the money went and how we funded the project.
- What it’s like to draw thousands of animation frames by hand.
- The combat, enemies, and game mechanics.
- What inspired us, where we went wrong, and what we’d do differently now.

Or anything else. It’s an AMA - see you in the comments!

Game Launch Trailer: https://youtu.be/QC3mMOwxHt8

Steam, PS4/5, XBOX

https://www.pokemonunite.jp/en/topics/notice/20261027-en/

I think everyone would be a little happier with more Nintendo in their life! Thanks Earthbound!

At least when there's a monster, you know where to look.

I was stuck for several days in metroid prime 2 because I didn't know how to use the screw attack

While many games have various levels of customization as to what information is available to you where do you tend to fall on the scale?

Do you prefer minimal UI where information is built into the gameworld (think Deadspace health meter) or an MMO maximalist UI where every bit of information you can possibly want to see is available at a glance?

Does your preference change with the genre?

I personally prefer minimalist UI's. In BOTW I turn on the 'pro' HUD and prefer to get lost in the game world it's surprising how much you pick up and notice about the game world when the UI isn't competing for your attention. It helps that the game gives fairly clear directions on quests and you can fallback to the map when necessary.

For me it is:
Florence + The Machine - I'm not calling you a liar (Dragon age II)
Florence + The Machine - Stand by Me (Final Fantasy XV)
Metric - Help I'm Alive (Dying Light 2 Stay Human)
P.T. Adamczyk, Olga Jankowska - Never Fade Away (Cyberpunk 2077)
P.T. Adamczyk, Dawid Podsiadło - Phantom Liberty (Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty)