Daily Briefing: Monday 7th February

Loads of Dying Light 2 fixes are coming this week

Zombie survival sandbox Dying Light 2: Stay Human may be one of the biggest games of the year but that doesn’t mean its launch last week was entirely without incident. While the game is by all accounts a solid blockbuster action sequel, it’s still a AAA game releasing in the year 2022 and so it has its fair share of bugs, glitches, and crashes. That’s not ideal by any means, but developers Techland are showing themselves to be very willing to communicate with the community with a kind of openness we haven’t seen in a while. Cough Battlefield 2042 cough.

• Techland took to Twitter over the weekend to outline some of the changes and updates that have been pushed to Dying Light 2 in the past couple days, and also to detail the various hotfixes rolling out for the different platforms in the coming days. The PC version will continue to receive “regular fixes” while the PlayStation and Xbox versions of the game will receive new updates in the form of hotfixes by the middle of this week “at the latest.” Solid.

Sony are still negotiating PSVR2 tech

That’s according to a new statement from Tobii AB announcing that the company - reportedly “the global leader in eye-tracking and pioneer of attention computing - are “currently in negotiation with Sony Interactive Entertainment to be the eye-tracking technology provider in SIE’s new VR headset, PlayStation VR2.″ That’s about it as far as actual information goes, as Tobii confirmed that the company are “not commenting on the financial impact of the deal at this time as negotiations are ongoing.”

• As a company, Tobii sell high-end eye and head tracking cameras that retail in and around $230. These cameras use a custom infrared optical sensor to track eye movements, and currently support over 50 games from Far Cry 5 to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Sony have yet to give many details on their upcoming next-generation VR headset. Sony announced PSVR2 as part of their CES 2022 keynote last months, but gave nothing in the way of release date or RRP. Which, considering they’re reportedly still in active negotiations with component-making partners, makes a lot of sense.

Itch.io really don’t like NFTs

The indie game platform took to Twitter to issue a very public (not to mention harshly worded) condemnation of NFTs. In a series of tweets, the indie marketplace said "NFTs are a scam. If you think they are legitimately useful for anything other than the exploitation of creators, financial scams, and the destruction of the planet then we ask that you please reevaluate your life choices.”

• Itch weren’t done there, either, and carried on by saying “also f*** any company that says they support creators and also endorses NFTs in any way. They only care about their own profit and the opportunity for wealth above anyone else. Especially given the now easily available discourse concerning the problems of NFTs. How can you be so dense?” NFTs are obviously a hot topic at the moment and industry backlash against them has been pretty pronounced. More reactions like Itch’s, please.