Steam customers have taken to the service to assessment bomb Tango Gameworks titles Hello-Fi Rush, The Evil Inside, and The Evil Inside 2 – however in a constructive method.
Assessment bombs are normally made in anger over some motive or one other, primarily as an assault on the sport as a complete, its developer, or over being “woke” or not “woke” sufficient. The explanations are infinite, actually.
However typically, people band collectively and positively assessment bomb a sport in help, as is presently the case with three Tango Gameworks titles.
Not that Hello-Fi Rush didn’t have Overwhelmingly Optimistic critiques already, however the latest critiques quantity over 1,000. What number of of these have been “bombs” is unknown. The sport was not solely an enormous hit with gamers, however critics too, and one in all our Video games of the Yr in 2023. It was additionally the winner of varied business awards.
In the meantime, The Evil Inside Video games are additionally being proven some love by Steam customers giving the primary entry many, many “Very Optimistic” critiques, and the identical will be mentioned concerning The Evil Inside 2 (thanks, Dexerto).
Earlier this week, information broke that Microsoft was shutting down different studios alongside Tango Gameworks. The opposite studios have been Arkane Austin, Alpha Canine Video games, and Roundhouse Video games. The information was damaged to employees through an e-mail despatched by Matt Booty, the top of Xbox Recreation Studios.
Within the e-mail, Booty said the closures weren’t a “reflection of the creativity and talent of the gifted people at these groups or the dangers they took to attempt new issues,” and that these “powerful selections” have been made to “improve funding” in different components of the corporate’s portfolio and “concentrate on precedence video games.”
When addressing staffers throughout an inside city corridor assembly later that day, he said the corporate desires “smaller video games that give us status and awards”.
Kinda like Hello-Fi Rush, we reckon.