"We had talked, and I thought, 'God, what a great legacy to leave for my grandson.' So I started working out. I got bigger. Then, just the reality of it... because I did read! I did read for it. It was so hard for me to memorize my lines, which I never had a problem with. And that was my mind and body starting to tell me, 'You don't want to do this.' I was one of the leads of Stargate at 33 to 44 and then stopped. Now, at 62, to be the lead, I just have no desire to live that way again."

He also spoke on Dave Bautista as the live-action Kratos:

"With Ryan, I thought that was absolutely the right choice. He's played all the games. He's a gamer and new father; like, who better? Then when he got hurt, it was like, are they going to take time to read with and call people back? So when I heard the name of Bautista, I thought, 'Didn't he just lose like 100 pounds?' So I hope he's going to be great. I think he's going to be great. I just hope it doesn't cause any health issues to put back on all that weight."

But for many developers on the game, launch has been bittersweet. Fans love it. Critics prefer it to most recent Star Wars games. Zero Company, which is out for PS5, Xbox Series consoles and PC, is the top-selling game on Steam.

Much of the team that made it, however, is currently going without pay. They were furloughed, just weeks ahead of the game’s launch.

A rep for Bit Reactor confirmed to Game File today that the studio had furloughed many of its workers prior to the game’s release. They said it was a difficult decision and one that had been made before it was clear how launch would go. The rep emphasized that the call to do this was Bit Reactor’s alone (meaning not from publisher EA nor Star Wars license holder Disney).

While the rep declined to comment on the scale of the furloughs, a previously unreported lawsuit brought by studio co-founder Alison Kelly in 2024 noted in a filing from August 12 of this year that Bit Reactor “has furloughed most of its employees and terminated contractors…”

One source told Game File the furloughs impacted 80% of the team; another referred to there only being a skeleton crew left on Bit Reactor’s active payroll, ready to address any of Zero Company’s post-launch bugs.

The issue is that Bit Reactor, a studio formed in 2021, had run out of most of its money just ahead of the launch of its first game.

Over the weekend, Zachariah Scott, a senior technical artist who worked at Bit Reactor from early 2023 until an acrimonious exit this past May, said on LinkedIn that the studio was “concealing the fact that the team was Furloughed weeks ago.”

Reached by phone today, Scott told Game File that he spoke to nearly a dozen Bit Reactor workers over the weekend. “Everybody has essentially the same story, which is, ‘Yeah, I got furloughed three weeks ago.”

The Bit Reactor rep told Game File that the studio hoped to bring furloughed workers back with restored pay, suggesting that a successful launch of the game could be impactful.

Despite being unfinished and half baked, it still has one of the greatest (if not the greatest) third person tactical gameplay in the stealth genre. The Fox engine is a timeless technical marvel that sadly hasn’t been used on that scale since.

Happy 11th anniversary to MGSV The Phantom Pain!

If you had only one game to play forever, what would it be?

I love them bonemen, I love to raise the skellys, I love to make the boners be my friends, suggest me games where I can rise the skellys, Ive played diablo and elder scrolls already

So I loooooooved black and white 1 AND 2, when they came out, played the shit out of them. never seen a game like that after that (or maybe I missed it), recently I tried Masters of Albion, which is from the same guy, and is supposed to capture the fantasy of Black and White . . . I guess. it doens't feel the same at all tbh, and it is mixed on steam with low reviews.

So why don't we get anything like black and white anymore ? is it like, no one wants a game like that these days, or you guys want something like that too ?

Also would be nice to share the games that are trying to capture that feeling of being GOD, while being super interactive with people and world without being a deep sim game.

...on the Switch 😂

I'm in the mood to try something new. I don't care what era or genre, just something not well known and above all FUN.

If you could only recommend ONE game matching that description what would it be?

Let me know so I can look into it please. If I've already played it I'll let you know what I thought about it

What are your impressions? I hope they add innovations from Horn of the Abyss expansion.

Heroes III is 27 years old and somehow it is still one of the easiest games for me to recommend, largely because of Horn of the Abyss.

HotA isn't just a small mod. At this point it feels like the continuation of Heroes III that we never officially got.

You get three completely new factions: Cove, Factory and now Bulwark... five full campaigns, new heroes, artifacts, creatures, terrains, map objects, spells/mechanics, balance changes and a ridiculous amount of QoL improvements. The HD Mod is integrated too.

What impresses me most is how carefully it respects the original game. The art, music, lore and mechanics still feel like Heroes III rather than somebody bolting a modern mod onto a 1999 game.

Factory in particular is fantastic. It embraces the weird science-fantasy side of the original Might & Magic universe with automatons, engineers and technology while still somehow looking completely at home beside Castle, Dungeon or Necropolis.

And HotA isn't only for campaigns.

The competitive/random-map scene is enormous. Templates such as Jebus Cross, Jebus Outcast and Duel essentially turn Heroes III into a completely different kind of competitive strategy game. There are also decades of community-made scenarios and maps to explore.

For single-player, after the original campaigns I'd absolutely recommend playing the HotA campaigns, especially Forged in Fire. And once you start looking into custom maps, Heroes III becomes almost bottomless.

That's the crazy thing about this game: it isn't surviving purely because of nostalgia. It's still being developed.

A game from 1999 just received another faction in 2026, a major Steam release, Workshop support and continuing balance/content updates from a community that has been keeping it alive for decades.

If you like turn-based strategy and somehow never played Heroes III, this is probably the best excuse you're ever going to get.

Heroes III + Horn of the Abyss. Highly recommended.

Fatal Frame is my favourite franchise ever; I am so excited to replay and stream the series in October.

For me, North & South on the NES.

Hello everyone,

I have a question: as someone who spent decades gaming on potato PCs that could barely manage medium or even minimum graphics settings, I finally decided to treat myself to a somewhat high-end PC and I’m having an absolute blast with it so far (but honestly even now a part of me still expects every new game to somehow not work, and I’m always a little nervous about putting even older games on max settings :D).

That said, I often have the impression that many games, even when I run them on Ultra/Very High, don’t look quite as sharp or polished as they do in screenshots I see online.

Is that because those screenshots are photoshopped, or because people use graphics mods, reshades, etc.? Or could there be something else affecting the image quality on my end?

Or am I just imagining things?

one of my fav games is Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. a friend of mine was playing it so I made a checklist for her.

she wanted to 100% it but also stay spoiler free.

anyway, then others started helping me with other games, and so we started expanding it. check if your favorite games are on here already

https://hundowiki.com/games/legend-of-zelda-links-awakening-dx

Been eyeing both of these for a while and now they're the same price. Which one should I go with? Both are great I'm sure, but I love everyone's thoughts.