Crimson Desert's latest update beckons you to abandon the last of your attention span with its new 4x cutscene speed option

There are a myriad of reasons you might want to skip a cutscene in a game. It plays right before a boss you keep dying to and you just want to get back to it, you're a speedrunner, hell, you just don't care all that much about the story but like the gameplay. Different strokes! What I don't really understand is a desire to watch all the cutscenes, but sped up, an option Crimson Desert has offered right from the get go. Which, through its latest update, can go even faster. So long attention span, I knew thee well.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

After months of pleading for the sun to show its face, I'm actually feeling quite warm now. Potentially, I'd go so far as to say I'm too toasty. I'm not saying I'm looking forward to winter. But I'm not not saying it.

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Crimson Desert has more endgame busywork coming with boss rematches and enemy reinforcements, plus Pearl Abyss are making Pywel's distant towers even sexier

If you've been demanding more red pudding, then I bring good news. Crimson Desert developers Pearl Abyss have revealed a bunch of additions and changes they plan to make going forwards, as part of their continued efforts to sand off bits of their big creation which folks haven't vibed with. Boss rematches, resetting enemy camps, and new difficulty options are the headliners. The game's towers are also getting a glow up.

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"There is a new narrative from haters," Off the Grid studio boss says of accusations Gunzilla haven't paid workers on time, claims full-timers' salaries "have never been delayed by more than a week"

The CEO of Gunzilla Games, the studio behind NFT-infected battle royale game Off The Grid, has responded to accusations from former employees that Gunzilla failed to pay them on time. He's done so in the form of a lengthy tweet which contains both the words "Haters keep making predictions. We keep delivering" and "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused".

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District 9 director's studio Gunzilla accused by former staff of not paying employees "for many months"

Gunzilla Games, the studio co-founded by District 9 director Neill Blomkamp and developers of NFT-infected battle royale game Off The Grid, have been accused by a number of former employees of failing to pay staff for months on end. One former animator at the studio has also accused them of attempting to "silence" workers attempting to get the money they claim to be owed.

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Road to Vostok's hot start on Steam has "secured the entire production budget" the Finnish survival shooter needs for "years to come", dev says

As noted in this week's Maw, the burgeoning genre of survival shooter which involve a lot of crouch-walking in fields got a new addition on Tuesday. Road to Vostok, a single player Tarkov-ish field-croucher solo developed by an ex-Finnish army officer arrived in early access following some popular demos. According to that former armyman, the early returns on its release have already helped set up the cash reserves its development will need for "years to come".

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Samson devs announce big patch to start fixing its "unacceptable" launch bugs, and boy am I glad to see it'll add in multiple saves

As you may be aware if you read myself and Julian's Samson verdict the other day, the launch version of the gritty minor crim simulator included plenty of bugs - ranging from the harmlessly jany to the debilitatingly playthrough-breaking. The good news is that developers Liquid Swords are on the case, with studio creative director and long-time Just Cause lead Christofer Sundberg having announced that a big patch is due before the week is out.

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