Supergiant Games’ Transistor got a number of previews recently, and it must be said that the game looks pretty darn cool. It also looks rather familiar, of course, to those of us who have played Bastion…but that sort of similarity is by no means a bad thing.

And like Bastion, Transistor will make heavy use of narration to drive its story. Supergiant have a great formula at work here, with in-game narration adapting to the circumstances unfolding on screen. It worked to great effect in Bastion, and I’m sure they’ve improved on it since then.

Irrational Games has let some staff go in the last week or so, probably as a consequence of wrapping up development on BioShock Infinite and its DLC.

Infinite’s setting, Columbia, is now featured in Disney Infinity, by the way.

Did ArcheAge actually fail? XLGAMES did recently undergo a restructuring, but it’s probably too early to label the game a failure. That’s Massively’s take, at any rate.

By the way: Torchlight 2 won’t see a console release. You know, in case you were hoping that it would.

And development on Might & Magic X is proceeding apace. The developers have recently been musing on what sorts of puzzles to include in the game, as well as asking the community what the focus of the first game patch should be. More interesting than all that, I think, is this development blog post, which talks about how the developers scout out real-life locations as inspiration for in-game scenery.

Oh, and Richard Garriott’s publicist sent me a link, earlier this week, to this Kickstarter campaign, which is for a game called Neos Land:

The Calgary, Alberta-based developer aims to create a “high fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game” that can quite literally claim to have been “developed by fans”. Essentially, the developer (NeoJac) is — not unlike what’s being done with EverQuest Next — allowing backers to shape the world thanks to a voxel-based engine (which runs atop Unity, actually). Backers are also being invited to submit assets to the Unity store, and to participate in roundtable discussions, all with the goal of allowing players to shape the game in every way, and at every step of development.

For those of you who are curious about such things, it aims to create an open-world, open-PvP game at the end of that process. Which, granted, kind of kills my interest in it…but your mileage may vary.