Staff members who worked on Unknown 9: Awakening are reporting layoffs across the team at Canadian company Reflector Entertainment. The lost jobs include roles within Reflector's art, marketing, narrative and quality assurance (QA) teams, Game Developer reported. Unknown 9: Awakening launched last month to mixed reviews. On Steam, where it has a mixed rating, fewer … Read more
Metro Awakening VR delivers some terrifying moments in its deep, thought-provoking story, but after a strong start, repetitive levels and pacing issues kill most of its momentum. Based on its first few hours, Metro Awakening could be considered quite the challenger to Half-Life: Alyx’s VR crown. The first thing you see once the game starts … Read more
Every time I play Link's Awakening, there's one moment I always look forward to: getting Roc's Feather. That first dungeon treasure can't come soon enough, because it's the key item that allows Link to leap like he's suddenly grown kangaroo legs. It's strangely liberating in so many ways, not just as a traversal tool, but … Read more
Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has admitted that getting the game ready for Microsoft’s less powerful Xbox Series S will be a “challenge.” Speaking to VG247's Connor Makar, Dune: Awakening product manager Scott Junior said “there's a lot of optimizations we need to do before we release it on Xbox.” He noted that this is “one … Read more