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Monday news, part two:

E3 2023 organizer says the big game companies were 'enthusiastic' at first, but then 'the mood changed'
https://www.pcgamer.com/e3-2023-organizer-says-the-big-game-companies-were-enthusiastic-at-first-but-then-the-mood-changed/
GamesIndustry.biz, whose parent company ReedPop was organizing E3 2023 before its cancellation this week, has published an editorial which details some of what happened. The short if it, according to the site's head of games B2B, Christopher Dring, is that "the industry just didn't want this E3."

Dark and Darker dev starts and then pauses GoFundMe for Nexon legal battle: 'The reality of the situation is that their end goal is to bleed us dry in court fees'
https://www.pcgamer.com/dark-and-darker-dev-starts-and-then-pauses-gofundme-for-nexon-legal-battle-the-reality-of-the-situation-is-that-their-end-goal-is-to-bleed-us-dry-in-court-fees/
The legal battle between publishing giant Nexon and a small group of ex-employees at Ironmace who left to make their own game is only getting uglier. Nexon's claims that Ironmace's Dark and Darker illegally uses code and concepts from its own cancelled "P3" project have so far resulted in a police raid on Ironmace's South Korean studio and the official removal of Dark and Darker's Steam page.
Ironmace is fighting the claim, having this week published its own evidence that Dark and Darker was developed from scratch and utilized purchased assets from the Unreal library. Whether or not Nexon has a case against Ironmace, the verdict isn't likely to come before months of expensive legal proceedings.

Kratos calls for ceasefire in console wars
https://www.pcgamer.com/kratos-calls-for-ceasefire-in-console-wars/
Voice actor Christopher Judge, the man behind Kratos in the modern God of War and God of War Ragnarok, took a moment after winning the BAFTA for Performer in a Leading Role to ask you all to please be more polite to each other: "Thank you to the fans. Be easier on each other. You have more in common that what separates you. No matter what platform you love, no matter what game you love, you're still part of the gaming community, and give each other a break."
>> Kratos? I can only see Teal'c.

Resident Evil fans vote for their favorite character, pick Leon
https://www.pcgamer.com/resident-evil-fans-vote-for-their-favorite-character-leon/
A recent poll in Japanese gaming rag Famitsu ahead of the release of the Resident Evil 4 remake asked fans of the survival horror series to select their favorite character, as well as the most detestable (via @bioranger_PT on Twitter). Albert Wesker unsurprisingly took the prize for most detestable, with Nicholai Ginovaef from RE3 in second place, and the Licker in third. Funnily enough, Wesker also rated in the favorite characters poll, where he placed sixth.

Naughty Dog apologizes to Last of Us players on PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/naughty-dog-apologizes-to-last-of-us-players-on-pc/
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"We know some of you have not experienced the Naughty Dog quality you expected", begins the developer's Twitter thread addressed to The Last of Us Part 1 PC players. "Our team is working hard to resolve issues currently preventing some of you from experiencing the game to ensure it reaches the quality level you expect and deserve.

I had my weekend turned on its head by this stop motion-animated pagan fever dream of a game
https://www.pcgamer.com/i-had-my-weekend-turned-on-its-head-by-this-stop-motion-animated-pagan-fever-dream-of-a-game/
Judero left an immediate impression on me⁠—its stop motion animation is the first thing that hit me, beautifully recalling the work of Ray Harryhausen or Phil Tippett. As the developers themselves put it, "For us, this art style invokes something nostalgic; in part comical but perhaps a bit creepy too."

This upcoming FPS is a love letter to soul patches, JNCOs, nu metal, and everything else 1999
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-upcoming-boomer-shooter-is-a-love-letter-to-soul-patches-jncos-nu-metal-and-everything-else-1999/
"Seven weapons, blood and gore, twisted music by Seepage & Psyko Syndikate, and maps where you can blow up everything," Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer promises with its YouTube trailer. "Its awesome. started making it in 1998 in high school with my friend and now im 37, so i have life experience now."

Cyberpunk life-sim RPG Citizen Sleeper's third, final free DLC is live
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-life-sim-rpg-citizen-sleepers-third-final-free-dlc-is-live/
Citizen Sleeper was already one of the best cyberpunk games on PC, and now there's even more of it. The narrative life-sim RPG that casts you as an escaped synthetic worker trying to carve out a new life for yourself in the off-world colonies—sorry, I mean on the space station city called Erlin's Eye—has received several free DLC updates since it launched last year. The third of them is live now.

Everything's underwater but you and your friends in survival game Sunkenland
https://www.pcgamer.com/everythings-underwater-but-you-and-your-friends-in-survival-game-sunkenland/
An upcoming survival game is set in a world covered by a huge ocean, with the ruins of former civilization beneath and the remnants of humanity dwelling on mobile boats and the last handful of scattered islands above the waves. Developers Vector3 Studio explicitly call out the 1995 Kevin Costner movie Waterworld as an inspiration for their game, depicting as it does a flooded world that has lost all hope of returning to land.

Obviously, this is a fast-paced roguelike where you are a crab with a gun
https://www.pcgamer.com/obviously-this-is-a-fast-paced-roguelike-where-you-are-a-crab-with-a-gun/
Remember that incredibly goofy dance music video with the dancing crabs that everyone loved back in like 2018? People did a bunch of memes of it. Anyway, the artist who made that, Noisestorm, made a roguelike third-person action shooter about crabs. It's called Crab Champions, and though it released into early access on April 1st, 2023 it's anything but a joke. It's actually kind of... good?

Here's 23 free game prototypes from the creators of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-23-free-game-prototypes-from-the-creators-of-totally-accurate-battle-simulator/
Indie development studio Landfall has made a big collection of their unfinished and unreleased game prototypes from years of development, including an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator that dates back to 2017. Landfall has made a name for themselves in the past few years with TABS, as well as games like Clustertruck and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.