G’day Gamers,

I've been getting absolutely cooked at Golf With Your Friends with the boys, turns out rushing and not really looking where the hole is, is a recipe for 40 over par. Besides that, its been an interesting week in gaming with Saros releasing, NACON shutting a studio and the whole playstation licenscing ordeal.

Anyways,

Let’s get into it,

Eighteen years and a couple million Greedfall sales later, Paris-based RPG studio Spiders has been liquidated. The team confirmed it on Wednesday with a short post on X saying "the company as a whole no longer exists" and that all functions would cease immediately. The remaining Greedfall: The Dying World DLC will still ship through Nacon.

Spiders was the studio behind Mars: War Logs, The Technomancer, Bound by Flame, Steelrising, and the Greedfall games. The first Greedfall sold over two million copies in 2019 and earned the kind of devoted following that mid-budget RPGs almost never get anymore. The Dying World left early access in March to a colder reception than the studio needed, and the maths from there was always going to be tight.

The closure is the first full studio shutdown in the wider Nacon collapse that has been brewing since February, when the parent company filed for insolvency after Bigben Interactive defaulted on a 43 million euro obligation. A French commercial court placed Spiders into a creditor protection process that gave the studio roughly eight weeks to find a buyer or a viable restructuring plan. Neither came through. Three more Nacon subsidiaries are also in insolvency proceedings, including Nacon Tech, with the publisher having tried and failed to sell off two of them as part of its restructuring.

Less than 24 hours after confirming Spiders was finished, Nacon announced its delayed Nacon Connect showcase would now run on May 7, with new gameplay for The Mound, Edge of Memories, Endurance Motorsport Series, and Hunter: The Reckoning Deathwish.

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Saros (PS5) – April 30 Housemarque's follow-up to Returnal, with Rahul Kohli playing a Soltari Enforcer trying to figure out what the eclipse on planet Carcosa keeps doing to his mind. PS5 Pro enhanced and reviewing in the high 80s.

Aphelion (PS5/Xbox/PC) – April 28 A sci-fi survival narrative set on a derelict ship in deep space, leaning hard on atmosphere over action.

Invincible VS (PS5/Xbox/PC) – April 30 The Invincible 3v3 tag fighter from ex-Killer Instinct devs, with the show's full animated voice cast.

inKONBINI: One Store, Many Stories (PS5/Xbox/PC/Switch/Switch 2) – April 30 A 90s Japanese convenience store sim with a strong slice-of-life narrative bent.

Constance (PS5/Xbox/Switch) – May 1 Hand-painted metroidvania about an artist trying to escape a decaying inner-world built from her own mental health, hitting consoles after a successful Steam launch in November.

Mixtape (PS5/Xbox/PC/Switch 2) – May 7 A coming-of-age story from the Beethoven & Dinosaur team behind The Artful Escape, set across the last night of high school and soundtracked by a curated 80s playlist.

WILL: Follow The Light (PS5/Xbox/PC) – May 7 First person adventure puzzler about a lighthouse keeper sailing the northern seas to find his missing son.