Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
Hyper Light Breaker, the imminent sequel to Hyper Light Drifter, is one of those sequels that over-reaches itself. The ambition is simple: Take the immaculate vibes and stylish combat of the top-down isometric original, and do it all bigger and better in full 3D. The game is due to release in early access this year, though there's no firm date yet, andThe difference in scale between the original and Hyper Light Breaker, however, did mean one big change for the studio.
Yes it's rather confusing."I don't want to depend on megacorporations doing X, Y, and Z to dictate our future in some way or another as much as I can help it," says Preston, thinking back to when the game first got signed,"but sometimes you get caught in that crossfire.
"This cascading effect across the industry, where it isn't just the people who get laid off because it's the teams," says Preston."Maybe that project still exists but now you don't have the resources you once did, you have to reformat, restructure that project in some way or another, or cancel it because you just don't have the people any more.
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