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Making sense of the big game industry controversy
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This week on The Resties: Gunbrella
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The goal of Gunbrella is revenge. As a distraught husband, you must find those responsible for your wife's death by wielding her murder weapon: a gunbrella. But wait, this isn't just a gun that turns into an umbrella. It can also block bullets, zip you into the sky, and grind rails like a pro skater.
We really enjoyed the developer's previous game, Gato Roboto; can Gunbrella take their talents another step forward?
In the second half, we make sense of this month's big video game industry controversy: Unity's baffling decision to change its payment structure, infuriating tons of developers and potentially causing a glut of delays as designers move their games to new engines.
News discussed:
In the episode, we explain how Unity made a massive mess. Below we’ve picked some links providing additional context, analysis, and news on what happened and where things go from here.
Unity’s unreal pay-per-install plan leaves mobile devs stunned – and potentially out of business
Mobile developers boycott Unity ads in pricing change protest
Unity changes: why PC & console devs feel like the 'ugly duckling'
Unity offices closes for 'credible death threat' after week of ire
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Games discussed:
Gunbrella, Lies of P, Baldur’s Gate 3
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Over at Polygon, we published a beautiful oral history of Street Fighter II. Our store also has an exclusive vinyl record. It features two original compositions from Yoko Shimomura and Harumi Fujita, who both worked on Street Fighter 2’s original soundtrack.
Asus released a cheaper, less powerful ROG Ally. Is it any good?
Disney’s 100-movie Blu-ray set is like Disney Plus in a box
We haven’t played Videoverse yet, but it looks very Besties-friendly
New Summoning Salt dropped!
Making sense of the big game industry controversy
Just would like to add here if your at all interested in a deep dive into the whole Unity debacle I recommend listening to the latest episode of Dropped Frames featuring indie dev. Rami Ishmail. It's on YouTube and podcaster of choice.
Gunbrella looks awesome! in ode to avenging your beloved with a dope weapon that also killed 'em; an oldie but goldie is Transistor too. super excited to try it and Lies of P, I'm a lil busy with Starfield at the minute but they're on my list to check out next!