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This is nice for a 30 minute freebie, for those that liked limbo and the likes.
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Other than sustaining the Steam Store I do wonder what Valve's ambitions for the company are in future. They largely have nothing of worth on any front in terms of long term plans. All these half arsed hardware releases are dead ends for them and whilst they've milked the likes of TF2, Counter-Strike etc for absolutely ages their playerbase will end one day and there's little to suggest Valve see's software as much of a direction or interest anymore for themselves. They're massive yet feel utterly aimless too.
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Make $billions and have no shareholder control to worry about. Means they can take their time and risk. They did release Artifact which bombed of course. And in Dota and CS:GO they have 2 of the most active games on PC. I do believe they are probably working on engines and new games somewhere.
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Fairly big news breaking on ResetEra that Epic just purchased Psyonix, makers of Rocket League (I couldn't see an RL thread). Rocket League is an UE3 game so this move makes a lot of sense for Epic.
It will be removed from Steam as part of the acquisition, although exactly as to whether that effects matchmaking or future patches for existing users is unknown at this point. I would imagine there is huge value in trying to shift those customers to EGS though.
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Epic probably already have dev kits and some resources working on next-gen ports of Fortnite, or at the very least have the capability to. And that is another synergy between the two. I got the sense RL had a healthy engaged, player base but either way at the very least Epic gains a bunch of talented UE resources that have a history of working very closely with Epic.
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I caved and bought Demon's Tilt last night, and had a couple of quick plays before hitting the sack. Menus are a touch ropey, but in game it seems good! Absolutely no question that their main inspiration is Devil Crash - theming, layout, music etc are all very reminiscent, and this is no bad thing - it's what drew me to it in the first place. With the added visual fidelity and power behind it, there's a lot going on visually at any one time though - it's actually a little disorientating - but I'm hoping I get used to this. Definitely worth checking out if you're hankering for some of that Naxat magic.
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