Jank Mail: BG3TV, indefinite Overwatch, types of quest
It’s Saturday, which means it’s time to review the week in PC gaming. Chez Jank, Brendy completed his mountain-climbing adventure by being eaten by the developer of Cairn, before killing all his squad members in Menace, reviewing TR-49 and proposing some additional Types of Quest. Graham found the perfect Speed Racer game but can’t play it, and a perfect PICO-8 that he can’t stop playing. The minds at Total Playtime decreed that the Splinter Cell novel and Split Fiction are both bad.
Beyond these walls, we learned that there's a Baldur's Gate 3 TV show in the works, although Larian are not involved which is another little data point on why they're sticking with their own IP for their next game. It's being made by Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin, which I prefer to think of as Chernobyl showrunner Craig Mazin because that was much better television.
i think in the name of fairness the producers of the baldur's gate tv show should demand that tv writers do at least a year of running around in circles doing unpaid writing tests before they're allowed to write for the show
— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T16:09:42.534Z
Google Genie bombed the share price of a number of game publishers, so they had to talk up AI in their earnings results. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick tried to thread the needle between "AI will not make GTA 6" and "we have always loved AI" to limited effect while Roblox, with their usual flair, demonstrated their love of AI with a slop approximation of Expedition 33 which made everybody mad at them and also didn’t help the share price. Meanwhile GOG were carefully non-specific about AI use and you know what that means.
Valve realised that component prices are insane now and walked back the Steam Machine launch date from “soon” to “later”. Ubisoft’s ongoing bloodletting apparently claimed a multiplayer Assassin’s Creed game. Epic Games Store is going to try adding a forum in a bold leap into 1995. They also said they aren’t going to beat Steam and claimed to love Santa Regione, which was neither accepted nor reciprocated.
Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us
— Santa Ragione (@santaragione.com) 2026-02-07T11:44:28.467Z
Build A Rocket Boy announced a “reset” of MindsEye which didn’t really change anything but includes a commitment to change things in future, which apparently will include inserting the names of some YouTubers who criticized the game and also suing them for “espionage, sabotage, and criminal interference”. Everything’s going fine over there, why do you ask.
Blizzard announced that Overwatch 2 is just Overwatch now, which somehow infuriated everybody who hated it being Overwatch 2 in the first place, while also denying us the sense of any sort of social development that would have been implied by the existence of Overwatch 3. There will be no new AAA games, we have to keep the ones we have forever. Jordan Mechner said that the cancellation of the Prince of Persia remake makes him glad he doesn’t make games any more which is fair enough, honestly.
That’s it for this week. Go play some videogames, and we’ll see you next week.
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