Apparently there was barely any change from the playtest version.

Key points:

• Bastions are acquired at lv5.
• Each player has their own bastion. Bastions can be grouped together into one bastion, but they are still treated as different bastions for the purpose of mechanics, except that grouped bastions can defend each other from attacks.
• Bastions can be populated with "basic facilities" (whose only purpose is flavour, apparently) and "special facilities". The latter provide actual tangible benefits by issuing orders to them during the "bastion turn" (once every 7 days). Special facilities are acquired as the players level up: two at 5th and 9th level, and one more at 13th and 17th level.
• Both types of facilities come in three sizes: "cramped" (4 squares), "roomy" (16 squares) and "vast" (36 squares), and can be upgraded later on. Some special facilities may have a minimum size requirement.
• The article provides three examples of special facilities. I'm not going to copy-paste them (click the link, you cowards).
• Project Sigil (WotC's own Virtual Tabletop) ad. Multiple ads, actually. My God stop talking about Sigil pls.
• Attacks seem... Lackluster. "In the event of an attack on your Bastion, a number of d6s are rolled. For each die that rolls a 1, your Bastion loses that many Bastion Defenders. If you don’t have any Bastion Defenders or lose them all in an attack, a random special facility is shut down for your next Bastion turn." Bastions that are grouped together can sum up their defenders total.

From what I'm reading, there are very few changes from how it worked in the playtest. I guess they were either lazy, didn't have enough time to integrate feedback, or both. This thing only exists to sell Sigil.

Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, has mandated its developers to work seven days a week to meet deadlines for Citizencon on October 19th.

The entire staff of one of gaming's most beloved publishers walked off the job in early September. Why?

“They say cricket is not for Italy. But I’ll tell you the truth: it’s because we are foreigners"

As spotted by Windows Central, though, Jyamma CEO Jacky Greco later went into additional detail on Discord. Following a community manager's statement dismissing speculation the studio had been "paid by Sony", Greco shared his own frustrations relating to the delay. "You can ask Xbox why they haven't answered us for two months," he wrote. "Obviously they don't care about Enotria and they don't care about you... We've Xbox Series X/S version ready, but we can't proceed with submission and release, I spent a lot of money for porting and they decided to ignore us."

A similar statement also appeared on Enotria's X/Twitter feed. After a fan inquired about the "main challenge" holding up release, Jyamma wrote, "Communication with Xbox. The game works fine on Series S and X but we cannot go through the submission process and they can take even two months to reply to us."

Greco later shared a little more on the issue the studio had enountered, explaining it was unable to open Enotria's Xbox store page and submit the game - something Microsoft's support teams reportedly initially took responsibility for, before further communications were ignored. "We really want to release the game on Xbox ASAP," Jyamma added elsewhere, "but with lack of communication on their side it is a hard task indeed."

The suggestion seems to be things might be resolved pretty quickly if Jyamma could get a response from Microsoft, but in the meantime, Enotria: The Last Song will only be available for PlayStation 5 and PC when it launches on 19th September.

Source (Reddit)

I'm a huge Talisman fan but I wasn't aware that a new edition was being released, and I thought that others would appreciate the news.

This is exciting news for every aspiring game developer! Brackeys, a popular YouTuber who used to make in-depth and very user-friendly tutorials about Unity, is returning after a long hiatus, and will now create tutorials on Godot (for those who don't know, it's a FOSS game engine, but I'm pretty sure that, if you have an account here, you already know it).

Brackeys' tutorials were (and still are) the best tutorials for Unity, and have helped many aspiring devs (some of whom I know personally, and who later made a career out of it). His return, and the fact that he's now chosen to specialize on Godot, is a game-changer (pun intended) for the accessibility of the FOSS engine. Considering the recent Unity debacle, I'm happy that Brackeys will help people jump the ship, and I'm sure it will be instrumental in its success in the future.

Some trailers have been shared here, but not all. This is a list of all 35 announcements from the Triple-i initiative showcase.

• Slay the Spire 2 (Mega Crit, early access 2025 - Steam)
• Risk of Rain 2 - Free content update (Gearbox Publishing, coming soon - Steam, Epic Games Store, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
• Kill Knight (PlaySide Studios, 2024 - Steam, XSX|S, PS5, Switch)
• Shadows of Doubt - Console announcement + Update (Fireshine Games & ColePowered Games, 2024 - Steam, XSX|S, PS5)
• My Time at Sandrock - Cross-platform multiplayer announcement (Pathea Games, Focus Entertainment & PM Studios, 2024 - Steam, Epic Games Store, XboxOne, PS5, Switch)
• Dinolords (Northplay & Ghost Ship Publishing, Early Access - Steam)
• Gestalt: Steam & Cinder (Fireshine Games & Metamorphosis Games, May 21st 2024 - Steam)
• Vampire Survivors - DLC + PS announcement (Poncle, May 9th 2024 - Steam, XBoxOne, PS4, Switch)
• Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (A44 & Kepler Interactive, Summer 2024 - Steam, Epic Games Store, XSX|S (GamePass), PS5)
• Never Alone 2 (Humble Games & E-Line Media, TBA - Steam (not clear if it's coming on console as well))
• Cataclismo (Digital Sun Games, July 16 2024 - Steam, GoG)
• Death Must Die - Act II (Realm Archive, April 20th 2024 - Steam)
• Endzone 2 (Gentlymad Studios & Assemble Entertainment, Summer 2024 - Steam, GoG)
• Dyson Sphere Program - Free update (Youthcat Studio & Gamera Games, Coming Soon - Steam)
• UnderMine 2 (Thorium, TBA - Steam)
• Norland (Hooded Horse, Early Access May 16th 2024 - Steam)
• WHAT THE CAR? (TRIBAND, September 5th 2024 - Steam)
• Darkest Dungeon II - Free update (Red Hook Studios, 2024 - Steam)
• RKGK (Wabisabi Design & Gearbox Publishing, Summer 2024 - Steam)
• Broken Roads (Drop Bear Bytes, Out Now - Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
• Ravenswatch - Early access update (Passtech Games, April 22nd 2024 - Steam)
• Cat Quest III (The Gentlebros & Kepler Interactive, 2024 - Steam, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
• Hyper Light Breaker (Heart Machine, Early Access Summer 2024 - Steam)
• The Last Spell - DLC Announcement (Ishtar Games & The Arcade Crew, April 24th 2024 - Steam)
• Laysara: Summit Kingdom (Quite OK Games & Future Friends Games & Quite OK Games, Out Now - Steam)
• Wizard of Legend 2 (Dead Mage & Humble Games, TBA - Steam)
• Let's School (Pathea & PM Studios, Summer 2024 - Steam, XboxOne, PS4, Switch)
• Brotato - DLC + Local Co-op announcement (Blobfish Games, Summer 2024 - Steam, XboxOne, PS4, Switch, Android, Apple Store)
• Tchia - Switch announcement (Awaceb & Kepler Interactive, June 27th 2024 - Switch)
• Streets of Rogue 2 (tinyBuild, Early Access 2024 - Steam)
• Old World - DLC announcement (Mohawk Games & Hooded Horse, May 28th 2025 - Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store)
• Palworld - Arena update (Pocket Pair, 2024 - PS4, XboxOne)
• 33 Immortals (Thunder Lotus, May 24th, 2024 - Epic Games Store, XSX|S (GamePass))
• MOUSE (FUMI Games & PlaySide Publishing, 2025 - Steam)
• V-Rising - Update (Stunlock Studios, Early Access - Steam)
• The Rogue Prince of Persia (Evil Empire & Ubisoft, Early Access May 14th 2024 - Steam)

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If I sort a multicommunity by 'Hot', it will show all posts from community 1, then all posts by community 2, etc... kind of defying the purpose of a multicommunity at all. I solved it by sorting by 'New' instead, but I figured I'd mention it here because it took me a while to notice - I thought people were not making new posts at all, while in fact, it was just displaying all posts by a lowly populated community first.