TechRaptor News Byte 8/22/20

Last Weeks News Today

Welcome to the first episode of the Techraptor News Byte. On this weekly show ill go through some of the more interesting news stories from the past week as well as highlight other events that have happened in the games industry and TechRaptor as a whole.

This week we look at the following

The Unceremonious Departure of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2's Lead Narrative Designer Brian Mitsoda

Brian Mitsoda, who has been a part of the development of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 from its inception has been booted from the project. While its speculated that he was let go due to the project not being finished in time. He will be replaced by Alexandre Mandryka as a creative consultant.

You can read Brians full statement and the entire article here

War is Peace – The US Army Twitch Stream is an Ethical Problem

Why Hitman 3 Is Coming to the Epic Games Store as a Timed Exclusive

Hitman 3 is coming to the Epic Games Store as a timed PC exclusive early next year. While there are still a few holdouts that see this as a bad thing, the developer/publisher IO Interactive give a pretty good reason why they choose to go with epic. (hint, it makes the game better)

Read the article and direct quote from the developer here

505 Games Sticks To No Next-Gen Upgrade For Control Owners

To the dismay of many gamers and high profile influencers. 505 games has announced that after careful consideration, they will not include the ability to upgrade to the next gen version of the game in the standard edition of Control. If you want an upgraded next gen experience with Remedys excellent adventure game, you'll need to pony up the money for the upcoming Control: Ultimate Edition.

Read the article and reasoning here

It looks like the next gen versions of Ubisofts special editions won't have a disc inside…if you buy it on the Xbox Series X.

Why they did this? We're not sure.

Read the full story here

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