Making sense of the big game industry controversy

Plus, a Lovecraftian platformer with a gun that's an umbrella!

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.

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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

• Game devs say Unity's big change puts studios at risk

• The death of Unity

• Unity changes: why PC & console devs feel like the 'ugly duckling'

• Unity offices closes for 'credible death threat' after week of ire

• Unity vows to change controversial new pricing policy

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Games discussed:

Gunbrella, Lies of P, Baldur’s Gate 3

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Lies of P

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Bonus links:

• 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

• Eurogamer reviewed En Garde

• We haven’t played Videoverse yet, but it looks very Besties-friendly

• New Summoning Salt dropped!

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