“I had a tiny violin around here somewhere…” Nice Games Bulletin

Join us in the Nice Games Clubhouse/Newsroom to hear the latest and greatest news from the video game world. Mortho makes a return (and another and another), Stephen doesn't want to say "git gud," (but...), Mark wants to press all the buttons, and (STOP THE PRESSES!) Martha likes board games now.

Bulletin topic (Recent releases) Timecode 0:01:15 “Needle Felting Gives Us All the Feels”  - Ashley LittleBluprint“Islanders is a bite-sized palate cleanser of a civilization builder” - - Cass MarshallPolygon“‘Super Mario Odyssey’ and ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ are both getting VR supp… - Jacob SiegalBGR

Labo VR kit launches April 12th, Mario/Zelda support coming April 25th.

“The Division 2 has a lot to say, but it’s very hard to hear over all the gunfi… - Charlie Hall and Cass MarshallPolygonLessons learned creating UI for the Division - Christian SavoieGDC

In related news, this week a lot of new free content from GDC 2019 became available on the GDC vault: https://www.gdcvault.com/free/.

Bulletin topic (News) Timecode 0:10:02 “She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off.”  - Siobhan RobertsThe New York Times“Wingspan review: A gorgeous birding board game takes flight”  - Aaron ZimmermanArs Technica“EA Lays Off 350 People In Marketing, Publishing, And More”  - Jason SchreierKotaku“How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong”  - Jason SchreierKotaku“BioWare Boss Addresses Studio Issues, Vows To 'Continue Working To Solve Them'… - Jason SchreierKotaku“All the latest details on the new Borderlands game”  - Harry ShepherdPCGamesN“Borderlands 3 On PC Is Exclusive To Epic Games Store Until Early 2020”  - Tamoor HussainGameSpot“Review-bombed Borderlands 2 is the first to have user scores thrown out by Ste… - Owen S. GoodPolygon“Lawsuit alleges Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford improperly siphoned $12M for perso… - Charlie HallPolygon“Google Stadia has a lot of ‘last mile’ challenges”  - Jeff GrubbVentureBeat“The Nintendo Switch in Japan offers a peek at the cloud gaming future”  - Sam ByfordPolygon“'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice' and the debate over difficulty vs. accessibility”  - Adam RosenbergMashable“An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined A Game”  - Joshua RiveraKotaku

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