Nurture tiny sociopaths in Crusader Kings 3’s next event pack this August-
Terrifying little goblins are in the spotlight in Crusader Kings 3’s upcoming event pack. I am of course talking about children, the most horrible monsters of all. No, I have not forgiven my nephew for attacking me with a lightsaber. Chosen by the community, the Wards & Wardens pack hones in on the “perils and potentials of being a child ruler”, as well as educating the little blighters and continuing that education into adulthood.
Kids are an important resource in Paradox’s medieval grand strategy RPG, as both potential heirs and marriage candidates. Raise them to rule, marry them off to forge alliances, or just become incredibly disappointed in them as they squander their days tormenting peasants and pestering you incessantly with dumb questions. Sometimes they end up …
Read moreThe Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought- devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one’s sure where the bosses are-
A new documentary from German games sites Game Two and GameStar has shed some more light on the disastrous development of The Day Before, and boy howdy, it’s worse than you thought. Game Two says it spoke to 16 former Fntastic employees, one of its former “volunteers,” and seven staff from The Day Before’s publisher Mytona. The picture they paint is, well, staggering.
Speaking anonymously, Game Two’s sources allege that working at Fntastic—The Day Before’s now-defunct development studio—was pure, megalomaniacal chaos. As they tell it, the game’s development was constantly buffeted by the changing whims of the Gotovtsev brothers, the studio’s founders, and the scope and style of the game would change whenever one of them got their hands on whatever the big game of the m…
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