The Daily Reset: February 4th, 2020
Welcome to The Daily Reset. A chill article series where I try and bring y’all the biggest headlines for the day, at the end of the day, so you can wind down and enjoy a relaxing night while keeping up-to-date on what’s going on in the games industry.
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Co-Founder of Rockstar Games leaves the company
Rockstar Games, publisher behind hit games like the Grand Theft Auto Series and 2000’s Smuggler’s Run, expects one of its co-founders to spend their last day with the company on March 11,2020. This comes directly from an SEC filing released just a few hours ago:
“ After an extended break beginning in the spring of 2019, Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving the company. Dan Houser’s last day will be March 11, 2020. We are extremely grateful for his contributions. Rockstar Games has built some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful game worlds, a global community of passionate fans and an incredibly talented team, which remains focused on current and future projects.”
Dan Houser has credit for writing throughout most of the Grand Theft Auto series, and the Red Dead Redemption games. He‘s also listed as Executive Producer, and has provided voice acting, for some of those titles.
Blizzard offering full refunds to dissatisfied fans of Warcraft 3: Reforged
Warcraft 3: Reforged launched exactly one week ago today, and fans have not been happy with their experience. The Reforged update has fundamentally changed the game, and the general consensus is that the final product does not match expectations set by Blizzard.
“…a host of launch performance problems, major issues for custom games, and the fact that everyone is forced to upgrade to Reforged from the classic client,” Polygon’s Cass Marshall writes, “…it’s easy to see why fans of the original are up in arms.”
Blizzard’s community manager has taken to the forums to address the issues, and has even begun to offer full refunds to anyone who reaches out.
Nvidia launches GeForce Now, its cloud-based streaming service
After being in closed beta since back in 2015, GeForce Now has officially launched with two separate membership tiers: free, and a premium membership priced at $5 a month. Nvidia has made sure to provide features and options that give players more control over the games they stream.
“While you can customize your stream quality, three presets are available: Balanced, Data Saver, and Competitive. Data consumption for Balanced is said to consume around 10 GB of data per hour of gameplay, while Data Saver uses about 4 GB per gameplay hour and Competitive is at around 6 GB per hour. Customization options include max bit rate, resolution, frame rate (60 FPS or 30 FPS), dynamic settings for network conditions, and VSync,” (Higham, 2020).
Google Stadia is Rudy in this situation.
That’s it. Catch you tomorrow, peace.
SOURCES.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (2020). 2020 Form 8-K. Retrieved from https://ir.take2games.com/node/26571/html
Marshall, C. (2020, February 4). Warcraft 3: Reforged review: a relic ruined by upgrades. Retrieved from http://polygon.com
Higham, M. (2020, February 4). GeForce Now Game Streaming Is Live: Free Vs. Paid, How It Works, And More. Retrieved from http://gamespot.com
