Jioplaygame’s Weekly news, 7th April 2026
Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction.
Star Wars Zero Company bears some resemblance to BioWare’s classics, but this is where narrative director Aaron Contreras hopes the two diverge.
Contreras said as much in a recent interview with PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield. “This is a game about a team, a team of operators who come from all over, and it’s not a personal fantasy game,” Contreras said. “Hawks isn’t the lone chosen one who’s going to step out and do all the things with the swing of their mighty, mighty saber or whatnot. Hawks is a leader, negotiator, has to be cunning, strategic.
“It’s a tactical strategy fantasy. So it had to be about how you manage and lead this team, and how you deal with these different personalities and their strengths and weaknesses.”
You might think of Star Wars as a classic tale of good vs. evil, but Contreras is eager to shake some more moral ambiguity out of the Clone Wars setting—the time before everything was so cut-and-dry as it seems in the original film trilogy.
“We know the way that these ideologies will shake out,” said Contreras. “The dust will settle into an era of Rebels and Empire, of very light and dark, good and evil. But things aren’t so clear during the Clone Wars era, and that makes for a really interesting opportunity.”
In-game, that means you’ll have to consider interpersonal conflicts and different characters’ worldviews as you make the tough calls; Contreras reckons it’s all “part of the fantasy of being a leader.”
Creator of Double Dragon and ‘grandfather of the beat ’em up’ dies at age 64.
Former Technōs developer Yoshihisa Kishimoto has died, leaving behind a legacy of influential beat ‘em-ups including the Renegade and River City franchises.
One of gaming’s unsung heroes has sadly passed away, with news that Yoshihisa Kishimoto died on Thursday, April 2. He was only 64 years old but was responsible for a number of iconic video games, which earned him the epithet of the ‘grandfather of the beat ‘em up’.
Full article here.
Mass Effect TV show ordered to rewrite scripts and make them “more appealing to non-gamers”
Amazon has allegedly asked for the TV adaptation of Mass Effect to be rewritten to make it “more appealing to non-gamers”.
That’s according to The Ankler, which reports that the new head of global TV, Peter Friedlander, has asked to read the scripts of all in-development projects before awarding that all-important confirmatory green light.
Nick Offerman Joins Alex Garland’s ‘Elden Ring’.
Offerman joins Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw, and Cailee Spaeny — more actors will surely be announced in the coming days. He previously played the U.S. President in Garland’s “Civil War,” released in 2023.
Released in 2022 and co-created with George R. R. Martin, “Elden Ring” sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. It’s being backed by A24, which is eyeing a 2027 release for the film.
