Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has announced he’ll be wrapping up his acclaimed YouTube series Creating Games on 15th October, bringing his regular video uploads to an end.
Sakurai launched his YouTube channel back in August 2022, with the aim of helping “make games around the world a little more fun”. His Creating Games series, available in both Japanese and English, saw Sakurai sharing his decades of expertise on “good” or “fun” game design, and was intended to be as accessible as possible.
Since then, Sakurai has uploaded an impressive 265 videos for his Creating Games series, covering everything from UI design and tips for using audio to marketing and work ethic. It is, in other words, an incredible resource from a world-renowned designer, and…
Read moreLarian is in another of its celebratory moods, applauding the barnstorming – and apparently record-smashing – success of Baldur’s Gate 3 mods on consoles just a week after their arrival.
While Baldur’s Gate 3 has had official mod support on PC since August – giving players access to a new Mod Manager and a range of official modding tools – it’s only been available to console and Mac players since the beginning of October.
And it looks like players have been going wild following their arrival on new platforms, with an infographic shared on Larian’s social media channels revealing over 1.7m mods were downloaded in the first 24 hours of release on consoles. That is, admittedly, just a fraction of the 22m mods that have been downloaded since Baldur’s Gate 3’s Pat…
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