It's disheartening how many people are raising their pitchfork against the new nexus mod owners when, in this case, they're just bound by the many anti-freedom laws being enacted all around the world.

As Liam said himself, even GoL had to make changes to accommodate the ridiculously overreaching and vague new UK laws. Including nuking the forum out of existence.

If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at your government (or at yourself if you didn't vote the last time you could).

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Not a "backroom deal" but there could hardly be less information on the actual deal.

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Gave the demo a spin. The base concept is quite good and reminds me a bit of transistor's system (which is brilliant).

However the content currently available is pretty limited and I didn't find many interesting synergies. We'll see how it matures.

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Although, to be fair in the other way, IIRC, DuckDuckGo, for example, does primarily use Bing, although not strictly so.

DDG was down when bing was down a while ago, so was yahoo and pretty much all "alternative" search engine.

Just look at recent news, with Microsoft cutting off access to Bing Search APIs on August 11 2025 as they continue to pivot to AI.

Ironically this could be a huge boon for openwebsearch. Since several search engines rely heavily on bing APIs, they will need to find an alternative. Whether intentional or not, good timing on their part.

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Pretty fun game, you can get to blindingly ridiculous levels of on screen chaos! There is a demo available if you want to try before the full release.

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It's like a mix of risk of rain 2 and evolva. Pretty fun, albeit the time limit mechanic gets rather annoying quickly I much prefer risk of rain's way of managing time.

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would Guacamelee! qualify? [...] stardew valley coop is not "necessary" but is substantial

Thank for the names, some I hadn't looked at. I wouldn't really consider overcooked or stardew as fitting, too lacking in the puzzle side. But it's a made up genre any way... (also they're good games regardless, just not scratching that specific itch for me).

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I curious if you all can pick genre you want, what will it be ?

I'd love to see more asymmetric coop puzzlers. I made that genre up, but I mean games where cooperation feel significant/necessary to overcome problems and which are not primarily revolving around violence. Examples would be portal 2, the trine games, the we were here games, it takes two/split fiction, ibb & obb and sadly can't think of many more.

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Place your bets on how many games will be roguelikes. I'd go %80.

However many are not open-world-surival-craft. /s

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That's pretty terrible messaging. "Shut down without releasing the game" isn't necessarily better, but they're saying "this game won't be good enough" (because if they were confident it would sell like hot cakes they wouldn't need to close)

Don't forget that a lot of games are "mortgaged" (through publishers, kickstarter, investors, personal loans, ... or any combination of these). Meaning that most of the initial income will not go to the devs (because it was given to them in advance during the development phase).

Maybe they have an unfavourable deal for Reignbreaker or maybe they came to the conclusion that the sales required to be self reliant are unrealistic. Whatever the case, I'd argue it's wise to quit whilst they can still afford to help their employees move on, rather than barrel onward hoping for the best only to go bankrupt in 6 months.

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