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.”

According to Dring, all but one major game company had been enthusiastic about participating in E3 2023 at the start.

“Companies were talking about taking up huge spaces,” Dring wrote. “The E3 team was looking at how we could expand into the car park and use the extra areas that hadn’t been used for years.” 

ReedPop said as recently as February that the event was “full steam ahead.” But even with E3 2023 just a few months away, contracts hadn’t been signed, and the “mood …

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Today’s answer involves dishing out high praise for someone or something with great enthusiasm and sincerity, to _____ their virtues. There are two vowels toda…

Dwarf Fortress has existed as a free game for near-enough two decades, but its 2022 premium version—now with graphics—has gone from strength to strength. It turned Tarn and Zach Adams (Dwarf Fortress’ original creators) into millionaires, and had sold over half a million copies as of March last year.

But that’s old news, because the brothers told PCG at this year’s GDC that it’s now sold 800,000 copies and taken root on over a million wishlists. At this point, it seems like a million sales for one of the most profoundly free games in existence is all but assured. Do the brothers have a plan to reward themselves when they hit the milestone? Ah, well, not really.

“I mean, I didn’t actually think of [hitting a million sales],” Tarn Adams told PCG, “Because …

Here are two things I learnt today. One, T-Pain—of Buy U a Drank fame—is working on Grand Theft Auto 6 in some capacity. Two, he’s a major GTA Online roleplay fan, and can often be spotted hanging out on the popular NoPixel RP server.

Or at least, that used to be the case. In a recent Twitch stream, T-Pain mentioned that his work on GTA 6 had actually gotten in the way of his GTAO double life. “I used to be [on NoPixel],” T-Pain told the audience, “and then, how about this shit? I used to be on NoPixel, then I started working on… GTA 6, and [Rockstar] told me I couldn’t do RP anymore.”

“They had this whole speech, like, ‘What if somebody took your album and re-recorded it, and more people were listening to that?'” elaborated T-Pain, suggesting Rockstar fel…

The Augmentation Evoker came to World of Warcraft with patch 10.1.5 last week, bringing a whole new type of DPS to the game. For the uninitiated, this new spec works by buffing party members to bump their damage numbers rather than melting faces itself. It’s comparable to the Dancer from Final Fantasy 14 or the Bard from Dungeons & Dragons—basically, when an Augmentation Evoker’s in the group, everyone does better.

So obviously they’ve been getting kicked out of groups for no reason. A reddit thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit emerged with a compilation of screenshots from the Wyrmrest Temple discord, community server for Evokers. Typing “!augdps” in the augmentation channel will have Carlygos, the server’s friendly bot, drop an ever-evolving montage of people mis…