Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Graphic Novel Omnibuses Are 50% Off
Stephen King has published over 60 novels in his 50-year career as the most recognizable name in horror. Most of King’s books are standalone works, though he has penned a few series, including The Dark Tower. By far King’s longest story, The Dark Tower comprises eight books released over a 30-year stretch starting in 1982. In 2007, Marvel began adapting The Dark Tower into comic books. Although the adaptation was eventually canceled before reaching its proper conclusion, fans of original novels will still find lots to love in what was released. Publisher Gallery 13 recognized this and re-released the comics in hardcover omnibus format late last year. All three of The Dark Tower comic omnibuses are on sale for steep discounts at Amazon.
The Dark Tower Graphic Novel Omnibus Deals
The Dark Tower series features a compelling mix of high fantasy, science fiction, and horror. But at its most basic premise, The Dark Tower is a traditional hero’s journey. Set in the post-apocalyptic Mid-World, the story follows Roland Rechain’s quest for the eponymous tower and the Man in Black, a powerful dark sorcerer. The novels often jump across time periods and different worlds, but the graphic novels, for the most part, are more linear, which gives them a more intimate reading experience that can be interesting to both longtime readers and Dark Tower newcomers.
The Dark Tower: Beginnings Omnibus may be of particular note for longtime fans of the series. Essentially a prequel, this hardcover omnibus contains five graphic novels chronicling Roland Deschain of Gilead’s coming-of-age story that led to him becoming the last gunslinger. It covers and expands upon Roland’s backstory as alluded to in flashbacks and conversations throughout the series. Although King himself didn’t write the comics, he served as the creative supervisor on the project. Clocking in at 800 pages, The Dark Tower: Beginnings Omnibus is only $49. Considering it was still selling for $100 at times earlier this year, this is a pretty awesome deal.
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The other two omnibuses–The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three–are named after the first two books in the series. While they cover the same major plot points as their novel counterparts, the comics also cover new ground that many fans would find interesting, even if you recently read the novels themselves.
The Gunslinger Omnibus is 736 pages, while The Drawing of the Three comes in at 464 pages. All three hardcover volumes contain gorgeous artwork drawn by a team of illustrators.
As mentioned, you would be able to enjoy The Dark Tower graphic novels without prior knowledge of the series. That said, you’ll probably have a more fulfilling experience with these giant tomes if you first made your way through the original novels. It’s quite the undertaking at over 4,000 pages in all, but it is well-worth the time for fantasy and science fiction fans. You don’t have to be a fan of King’s traditional horror novels to have fun with The Dark Tower.
You can get a box set of trade paperback editions of all eight Dark Tower novels for $85 at Amazon from a third-party seller. Buying the set directly from Amazon will cost you $100 (list price is $161).
The Dark Tower features numerous characters you’ll find in other King novels. Fan-favorite characters appearing in seemingly unrelated novels has been a staple of King’s career. In fact, there’s a very interesting parallel between The Dark Tower and The Stand, the 1978 King novel that’s seen by many as his best work. The Stand is a doorstopper in its own right–even by Stephen King standards. It’s the longest standalone novel of King’s career; the current paperback edition, which you can get for $15 at Amazon, is 1,200 pages.
Stephen King’s next book, a collection of short stories titled You Like It Darker, releases on May 21. You can preorder a hardcover copy of You Like It Darker for $19, down from $30, at Amazon.
Get Fallout 76 And Explore The Appalachian Wasteland For Only $6
The popularity of Amazon’s Fallout TV show has reinvigorated excitement for the beloved series of RPGs, and that’s particularly good if you want to jump into some online multiplayer mayhem in the Wasteland. You can join the other vault-dwellers in Fallout 76 on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S for just $6, thanks to a deal from StackSocial.
Traditionally, the Fallout games have been single-player affairs, but Fallout 76 turns the experience into a shared-world RPG you can play with friends. It also includes other players who might be less than friendly, as well, and includes some of the base-building features that developer Bethesda Softworks introduced in Fallout 4. StackSocial’s keys were provided by Bethesda.
Bethesda’s purchase by Microsoft means that all the Fallout games are also available on Xbox Game Pass, meaning you can play them on either Xbox or PC, depending on your subscription to Microsoft’s gaming service. The cheapest way to purchase time is to grab either a three-month Game Pass Ultimate code (which is good for both Xbox and PC) for $45 or a one-month Game Pass Ultimate code for $15 from Amazon, where prices are about two bucks cheaper per month than most retailers.
Steam players can find deals on Fallout games at Fanatical during the May Madness sale. Fallout 76 and Fallout 4’s Game of the Year Edition are less than $9 each, and Fallout 3: GOTY Edition and Fallout: New Vegas: Ultimate Edition are under $6 each. These “complete” editions of the single-player Fallout games come bundled with every piece of post-launch DLC, including multiple story expansions.
Check out the full list of markdowns below, or grab the whole lot of Fallout games on PC for $25 in the Fanatical Fallout Bundle.
Best Fallout Fanatical Deals
Finally, there’s a way to get a Wasteland fix without paying anything. In celebration of the TV show and as part of Prime Gaming’s monthly free games, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (GOG) is free for Amazon Prime subscribers starting May 9.
X-Men ’97 Prequel Comic Book Collection Up For Preorder At Amazon
X-Men ’97 is nearing the end of its first season on Disney+, but if you can’t get enough of Marvel’s merry mutants, you should check out the comic book series that bridges the gap between the original animated series and this new revival. Preorders for the physical edition of the prelude X-Men ’97 comic series are live now at Amazon for $16 ahead of its November 26 release. But if you can’t wait that long, there is a way to start reading today.
Dubbed X-Men ’97: Great X-Pectations and written by Steve Foxe–though Charles Dickens would probably be pleased with the allusion to his classic novel–the four-issue arc features art by Salva Espin and Matt Milla as well as eye-catching lettering by Joe Sabino.
The comic series chronicles what the rest of the beloved ’90s X-Men cast have been up to in the time between the final episode of the original animated series to the beginning of the Disney+ show. Evil Eugenicist Mr. Sinister and his Nasty Boyz are also present, so you can bet someone is going to get a face full of optic beams that can barely be contained by a ruby quartz visor.
The 112-page trade paperback will be printed on nicer paper with better overall durability for multiple reads, but you can check out the individual issues long before Great X-Pectations releases in November. The first two issues of X-Men ’97 are available now. The third issue releases on May 22 and the fourth and final issue drops on June 26. You can buy physical copies of each issue at your local comic book shop. The trade paperback will be printed on nicer paper with a more durable binding.
Alternatively, you can pick up digital versions to read on your tablet, smartphone, or computer via Amazon. The first issue costs $5, while the other three are $4 each.
Comixology Unlimited subscribers can save 15% on each issue. If you’re unfamiliar with Comixology, it’s an Amazon-owned subscription service that grants access to over 45,000 comics and manga for only $6 per month. New Comixology subscribers can get a free 30-day trial to the service.
X-Men ’97 comic book series
There are plenty of other interesting books fans of X-Men ’97 should check out. X-Men: The Art and Making of The Animated Series is available for $38 (was $50) at Amazon; this coffee table book chronicles the development of the original X-Men animated series (1992-97) from the perspective of series showrunners Eric and Julia Lewald. There are several omnibus editions of previous comic book series inspired by the animated series that released last year, too:
X-Men: The Animated Series comic book collections
Riddick: Furya Will Begin Filming This Summer
Vin Diesel’s first appearance as Richard B. Riddick in 2000’s Pitch Black helped establish him as a movie star, and led to the franchise’s first sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, in 2004. Since then, the pace of the franchise slowed down considerably, with only a single sequel, Riddick, following in 2013. But now, after an 11-year hiatus between films, Riddick is going back in front of the cameras this summer.
Via Variety, the fourth film in the franchise, Riddick: Furya, is finally set to begin production in August. No other cast members have been announced for the film, but Diesel will be reunited with David Twohy, who wrote and directed the three previous Riddick movies. Diesel is producing the movie alongside Samantha Vincent, Thorsten Schumacher, Lars Sylvest, and Joe Neurauter.
The story for the fourth film will finally bring Riddick to his homeworld, Furya, where he discovers that he is not the last of the Furyans. However, the other Furyans are locked in an ongoing battle with a monster for their survival. And if that plot sounds familiar, it’s because Riddick also fought monsters in the first and third films.
Riddick: Furya doesn’t currently have a release date, but a 2025 premiere would likely be the soonest that the film could be sent to theaters.
WWE’s Shawn Michaels Invites Drake And Kendrick Lamar To Settle Their Beef In The Ring
The diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar seemingly brought the world together and held social media in a chokehold over the weekend with who won (It’s Kendrick, right?). Both men dug into each other with their singles and caught the attention of WWE Hall of Famer (and self-proclaimed Heartbreak Kid) Shawn Michaels.
Michaels made a career out of bringing his in-ring rivalries into the “real” world and for years was seen as professional wrestling’s bad boy with an even worse attitude. Decades later, he obviously has been reined in and taken on a more corporate role within producing and coaching the performers over at NXT, WWE’s developmental brand. He invited the rappers to come on NXT to settle it in the ring, one on one.
The memes and reactions that followed had fans fantasy booking the scenario, some even calling for Booker T on commentary. Kendrick actually referenced HBK’s finisher, Sweet Chin Music in his last hit, “Not Like Us.”
“Put the whole label on me, I’mma get ’em dropped. Sweet Chin Music and I won’t pass the aux.” With Lamar dropping that reference and Drake representing Razor Ramon by wearing a vintage Bad Guy shirt, the two have at least some knowledge of wrestling fandom.
They also wouldn’t be the first set of hip-hop artists to set foot in a WWE ring. Bad Bunny set a precedent for rappers stepping into the ring, and eventually actually added to WWE 2K games. There’s also Snoop Dogg who had to make a save at last year’s Wrestlemania when Shane McMahon blew his quad. And we are best left forgetting the whole Master P in WCW thing, teaming with Rey Mysterio.
As of this writing, neither Kendrick Lamar nor Drake have accepted the invitation.
This Compact And Stylish Mechanical Keyboard Is Only $25 Right Now
Mechanical keyboards can be expensive, with many name-bran models carrying price tags well over $100. But it’s possible to get a budget-friendly mechanical keyboard that doesn’t look cheap–and a great example is the MageGee Portable 60% MK-Box Gaming Keyboard. Though we haven’t tested this particular keyboard, its stylish look and thousands of five-star user reviews on Amazon caught our attention–and it’s only $25 for a limited time.
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This 60% keyboard boasts linear switches for fast actuation. Along with full anti-ghosting and universal compatibility (thanks to a USB-C connection), it benefits from blue LED backlights, dedicated arrow keys (despite its compact size), and built-in kickstands to help you find the most ergonomic typing position.
The affordable MageGee MK-Box looks surprisingly sharp for such a low-priced keyboard, as its black and grey keycaps are a nice contrast to its blue LEDs. Its compact size also makes it great for all desktops, as you won’t need to free up space to plop it down next to your rig.
If the MageGee keyboard isn’t quite your speed, you’ll also find the Keychron C3 Pro on sale for $27 (down from $50) with either brown or red switches. Step your price up a bit, and you can get the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Wireless Keyboard for $70 (down from $100), which offers a retro design as well as two Dual Super Buttons for additional macros. Amazon is also offering the 8BitDo keyboard at a discount, though it’s limited to Prime members and features a slightly different design.
If you’re okay with spending over $100, the ASUS ROG Strix Scope RX TKL Wireless Keyboard (Black) is on sale for $113 (down from $170), while the ASUS ROG Strix Scope NX TKL Wired Keyboard (White) is discounted to $100 (down from $120). Both are good-looking keyboards with nice builds. The wireless model is an 80% keyboard with a built-in wrist rest. You can round out your setup with the ASUS ROG Sheath Black Mouse Pad, as Amazon is slashing its price to $21 (down from $30).
Ryan Reynolds Reveals His Rejected Deadpool 3 Movie Pitches
Before Ryan Reynolds settled on the idea to make Deadpool and Wolverine a team-up film with those two main characters, the actor pitched numerous other ideas that never got off the ground. Reynolds told Empire that one of his first ideas was to create a Rashomon-style movie about Deadpool and Wolverine about an adventure the pair shared, but told from “three completely different perspectives.”
Marvel boss Kevin Feige, however, said no, in part because he himself wasn’t sure what the best approach would be for Deadpool as a Disney property following the company’s acquisition of the character. “The truth is, I wasn’t even sure how to incorporate Deadpool yet,” Feige said. “I was very much thinking about how to bring mutants and the X-Men into [the MCU], and I thought it needed to be more than just playing the hits. But the truth is, Ryan is an idea machine.”
Rashomon, a 1950 film from legendary director Akira Kurosawa, told its story from multiple perspectives, and Reynolds was thinking of something similar originally for the next Deadpool film. That was one of more than a dozen thoughts and ideas that Reynolds brought to the table.
“I went back to the drawing board, and I wrote up about 18 different treatments,” Reynolds said.
Another idea was to make a movie in the vein of a film that had a relatively small budget of under $10 million, not unlike a film that might make it into Sundance, Reynolds said. “Sort of using the IP in a way that they previously hadn’t used,” he said.
Reynolds said he also pitched “bigger” ideas and concepts that fell between small- and large-scale.
Executive producer Wendy Jacobson said the creative team took its time coming up with the best idea, and once Hugh Jackman signed on to come back as Wolverine, the process took off.
“We definitely spun our wheels a little bit trying to find the reason for this movie to be,” Jacobson said. “Once Hugh raised his hand, two months later we were prepping. It was honestly one of the fastest turnarounds I’ve ever seen.”
Deadpool and Wolverine releases this July in theaters, and it is Marvel’s one and only film for 2024. It’s directed by Shawn Levy and features a long list of cameos, including potentially Taylor Swift as Dazzler.
No Rest For The Wicked’s First Major Patch Improves Performance So Much It Lowers The System Requirements
No Rest for the Wicked, the new dark fantasy action-RPG from the makers of Ori and the Blind Forest, just received its first major early access update, bringing such big performance improvements to Moon Studio’s latest that it actually lowered the game’s recommended system requirements.
Though the game currently sports “Mostly Positive” reviews on Steam, some fans had taken issue with its performance issues following its early access launch on April 18 . Many of those issues look to have now been addressed, with Moon noting in its patch notes that the update brings “significant CPU and GPU performance improvements.” Moon Studios lists improvements to content loading and unloading to “reduce drop frames and improve baseline performance,” optimizations made to some of the game’s cinematics, improvements in certain problem areas like the Mountain Pass Gate, and much more.
Now Playing: No Rest for the Wicked – Official Steam Early Access Launch Trailer
As such, Moon has updated the game’s recommended PC specs.
For Performance Graphics setting (30 fps at 1080p):
- GPU Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
- GPU Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
For Quality Graphics setting: (60 fps at 1080p):
- GPU Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
- CPU Intel Core i7-11700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
But the improved performance is far from the only major addition in No Rest for the Wicked’s first major patch. It also adds a long list of quality-of-life improvements, ranging from the ability to acquire a house sooner (alongside more storage slots within said house) to the much-requested ability to rebind controls when playing on mouse-and-keyboard, with the ability to remap controllers coming soon. Players will now be able to access resources in their storage directly when using vendors or crafting tables, and the update has added improved item sorting across all of the game’s various item categories.
There are even a few gameplay balance changes, with bows now using Stamina instead of Focus, the rebalancing of enemy levels in the Nameless Pass area, and nerfs to a few different enemies. Some attack animations have also been updated for a handful of enemies, which should make reading their attacks a little easier. You can check out the full patch notes below.
Moon Studio CEO and creative director Thomas Mahler recently took to X to share more details on its future plans for No Rest for the Wicked, describing the RPG as the studio’s “Magnum Opus” and something it plans to work on for another 5-10 years. We called No Rest for the Wicked “brutal and ambitious, but a little confused” from our time spent playing it in its current state, but eager to see how the game continues to grow and evolve over the course of early access.
No Rest for the Wicked Early Access Patch 1 Notes
Performance:
- Optimized Prologue Outro, Ship Attack, Phalen Armada, and Sacrament Intro Cinematics
- Mountain Pass Gate area optimizations
- Significant optimizations to content loading and unloading in order to reduce dropped frames and improve baseline performance while traversing through environments
- Improved performance for Ice and Frost enchantment and combat effects
- Optimized enemies making them faster to instantiate across the board
- Improved GPU visibility culling and general handling of off-screen content
- Optimized micro physics objects across the entire game
- Various cumulative improvements to baseline CPU performance
- Fixed various cases where internal errors were firing rapidly and constantly, leading to potential performance degradations
- Added preloading for frequently used objects to further reduce performance drops during gameplay
- Additional timeslicing systems for streaming performance improvements
- Optimization of the Pooling System to further reduce performance spikes
- Optimized vast amount of meshes and textures
- Optimized numerous Visual Effects
- Optimized pre-placed and dynamic enemy ragdolls
- Optimized Character Rendering across the board
- Rendering performance optimizations for better GPU performance across the board
- Cleaned up and archived duplicated content for decreased memory usage
- Cleaned up legacy content in all areas across the game to reduce memory usage
Quality of Life:
- Vendors and Crafting Tables/Refineries can now access resources directly from storage
- Housing is now available sooner right after completing the “Sacrament” quest instead of after completing the “Of Rats and Raiders” quest
- Updated sorting for inventory to these categories:
- Gear – weapons, armor, rings, offhands, tools, runes, housing items and item blueprints
- Food – ingredients, food, and recipes
- Combat Consumables – Bombs, Vials, Oils, and Embers
- Resources – Resources, Gems, Components
- Realm – Ream and Key items
- Last equipped food/quick item will be saved when leaving and rejoining realm
- Deprioritized ingredients being the next auto selected food when the last currently selected food is eaten.
- Cinematic Skip prompt will appear upon pressing the button instead of holding it
- Improved legibility of some controller icons on the Steam Deck
Settings:
- Added custom key rebinding options for Keyboard (controller rebinding coming soon!)
- Menu key rebinding currently not available
- Localization in progress
- Added an additional Mouse and WASD Keyboard control layout (on by default)
Content Additions:
- New house “The Knot” for purchase near Sacrament Cemetery for 8 silver
- Tier 3 Armor Sets: “False Ones”
- False Guardian
- False Harbinger
- False Oathkeeper
- False Remnant
- New Character animations to Main Menu and Customization Screens
Loot:
- Increased number of slots of all chests and cupboards
- Engraved Hearthside Chest raised from 35 to 40
- Medium Chest raised from 20 to 30
- Small Chest raised from 10 to 20
- Large (and Large Noble) Cupboard raised from 30 to 40
- Medium (and Medium Noble) raised Cupboard from 20 to 30
- Small (and Small Noble) raised Cupboard from 10 to 20
- Nerfed Focus grant on all Focus Vials
- Large Focus Vial decreased from 300 to 150
- Medium Focus Vials decreased from 200 to 100
- Small Focus Vial decreased from 100 to 50
- Cupboards can now also store ingredients
- Increased Armor and Weapon Shard stack size to 25
- Increased buy/sell value of all Tools and Rings at Vendors
- Removed Refined Resources from Vendors
- All Weapon Oil Recipes are now Tier 1
- Dracaena Dumpling now requires 2 Potatoes and 1 Dracaena Herb instead of 1 Potato and 2 Dracaena Herbs
- Improved shinies visual effects
Balance:
- Attacking with Bows now costs Stamina instead of Focus
- Rebalanced enemy levels in Nameless Pass
- If neither “Of Rats and Raiders” or “Servant of God” quests were completed, entry of Nameless Pass is Level 8 and the rest of Nameless Pass is Level 15
- If only “Of Rats and Raiders” quest was completed, all of Nameless Pass is Level 15
- If both “Of Rats and Raiders” and “Servant of God” quests were completed, entry of Nameless Pass is Level 15 and the rest of Nameless Pass is Level 20
- Nerfed attribute scaling on all Staves
- Nerfed Focus Gain for Focus On Damage Dealt enchantment
- Nerfed Health Gain for Health On Damage Dealt enchantment
- Increased Focus cost on Elemental Throw runes to 75
Enemies and Bosses:
- Nerfed damage for Grab attack on Riven Twins and Nith Brute
- Updated timings for Breaker archetype and slightly changed behavior so now after some of attacks they will try to land additional attack
- Updated Risen Armored Great Axe patrol animation
- Polished backstab animation on Nith Screamers and Shackled Brutes
- Polished jump attack animation for Plague Boomer
- Polished heavy combo attack on Risen Axe Bruiser
NPCs:
- Polished multiple NPC portraits
Housing:
- “The Roost” house price reduced from 20 silver to 14 silver
Areas:
- Improved collision, faders and set dressing in Mariner’s Keep, Orban Glades, Black Trench Nameless Pass, Sacrament, Cerim Crucible and Potion Seller Cave
- Improved lighting and volumetrics for the ship in Prologue
- Improved lighting in the interior of Whittacker’s building
- Updated models and textures for pipes in the Black Trench
- Removed sidle from multiple locations where it was not needed
Audio:
- Updated ambience at Cerim Gate
- Updated audio for Sacrament Cemetery
- Updated audio zone for Sacrament Slums to include the river
- Improved audio for lanterns in Sacrament
- Improved female bandit voices
- Polished Nameless Pass Prisoner audio
Bounties and Challenges:
- Plague ichor for Duo Bruiser Bounty now drops when the second Bruiser is killed instead of given for the Bounty reward
Tutorialization:
- Large sidebar tutorial screen increased in size, now adjusts width based on content with added scrollbar
Localization:
- Added and updated localized text in many places across multiple languages
- Added support for multiple missing localized elements
- Fixed text overlapping for tutorials in multiple languages
- Fixed Russian font sizing
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed exploit where after removing a furnace/tanning rack, all resources used to refine are returned
- Fixed enemies t-posing when leaving camera view and coming back
- Fixed Danos stealing resources and putting them towards other upgrades
- Fixed being unable to activate a new bounty while there is an existing completed unclaimed bounty
- Fixed wrong prompts used for abandoning and replacing bounties and challenges
- Fixed attribute requirements on Ripper, Tongue Splitter, Coral Piercer, Falstead’s Fury and Brutish Cudgel weapons
- Fixed hitbox on Plagued Boomer’s worm lunge attack being too big
- Fixed players not getting a Rested bonus when sleeping in beds (literally No Rest for the Wicked)
- Fixed Old Leather Tome quest item failing to be added to inventory if Misc section is full. Item is now a realm key item.
- Fixed Character Avatar still showing the last worn helmet
- Fixed spots inside the ship in Prologue where you can dodge through collision and get stuck
- Fixed broken ladders in Orban Glades
- Fixed Focus Regeneration enchantment to regen correctly
- Fixed Plagued Boomer hitboxes
- Fixed Plagued Rat’s ability to see and react to the player
- Fixed Huntsman falling when using roll back
- Fixed Caged Exile being unable to path toward player correctly
- Fixed Health on Damage Dealt enchant on Wind of Death Katana
- Fixed arrows visually hitting player despite successfully dodging them
- Fixed Fire Bomb explosion radius not matching visual effects
- Fixed Kill Challenges that require a specific weapon type counting non-weapon kills (such as explosions, falls, parries, blocks, etc)
- Fixed Character Rim Light using incorrect color and intensity indoors
- Fixed dropped items bag black artifacts
- Fixed Rattigan appearing in Nameless Pass when he shouldn’t
- Fixed Finley getting targeted by enemies
- Fixed part of Heavy Bruiser Bandit armor set pants being invisible
- Fixed chest trying to hide in the ground in Nameless Pass
- Fixed chest trying to hide in another chest in Orban Glades
- Fixed marker sub labels on the map showing on markers that don’t have a sub label
- Fixed being able to see out of world at Filmore’s Level 3 area
- Fixed missing character lighting in Gordon interior
- Fixed interior candles not applying light
- Fixed burning sails clipping in Risen Attack cinematic in the Prologue
- Fixed sky cutting out in Ship Crash cinematic in Prologue
- Fixed Fallen Ones overlapping their own VO
- Fixed Return rune audio loop not ending
- Fixed dancing flowers outside Caroline’s Inn
- Fixed rain audio appearing in Cerim Crucible and War Room
- Fixed Wretched and Crestfallen Archer Tunic clipping into character
- Fixed broken rigging on Noble Leather Cloak
- Fixed Riven Twins intro cinematic using cut-to-black instead of fading
- Fixed Rusty Skewer Straight Sword using the Blood Rusted Straight Sword icon
- Fixed missing icon for Collect Mushroom Soup challenge
- Fixed typo in “equippable” for Inventory tutorial
- Reduced locations where Caroline spawns to just one for before Inquisition Arrival and one for after
- Removed duplicate lantern and torch in Sacrament
- Fixed small texture artifact on cloth in the Phalen Church cinematic
Manor Lords Dev Can’t Just Go On Hiring Spree To Increase Updates
Don’t count on the development team behind Manor Lords ballooning into a big operation, no matter how much fans ask for more content. For starters, one person was in charge of the medieval strategy game–Greg Styczeń. On top of that, publisher Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender noted “that’s just fundamentally not the way things work.”
Bender opened up to PC Gamer about how fans are already asking for “faster updates” for Manor Lords, which put up huge numbers on Steam when it launched late last month. That led to someone chiming in that the developer should just add more workers. But that won’t happen, according to Bender.
Now Playing: Manor Lords – Official Medieval City Builder/RTS Launch Trailer
“The best growth is very slow,” Bender said. “It’s keeping the core vision intact. It’s the importance of Greg and his work process. And so, as a result, people are going to be clamoring [for updates], and I think that’s just virtually guaranteed. There’s no pace of updates that would not result in people clamoring for more, and would not result in a bunch of people saying the ideal solution is to just hire 50 people.”
Manor Lords had over 150,000 concurrent players near the end of April, with a peak today of more than 77,000 people on Steam at the time of publication. It’s been another surprise hit for this year, joining the likes of Palworld, Balatro, and even Helldivers 2. The city-builder game will come to Xbox eventually, but it’s not confirmed for PlayStation yet. Manor Lords also launched day and date on Xbox Game Pass for PC (Game Preview).
For more, check out 14 things to know before playing Manor Lords, or if you’ve already started building and battling, venture over to GameSpot’s Manor Lords guides hub.
