I think it’s going to be wildly successful because it’s a too-big-to-fail situation. Continuing their profit stream of just shitting out CoD and Warzone DLCs and updates to Candy Crush is working quite well for them. A lot of it is already gaurunteed marginal revenue. This is the fastest selling Call of Duty ever,…

Please let this be the harbinger of a sea change within the industry. The world needs fewer of these live service abominations - not more.

Social media has given every narcissistic moron with access to a computer or a phone a megaphone, and we’re all dumber and worse off for it.

Princess Peach has her own game next year.

Fucking Bowser.

Destiny wasn’t a flop at all. it was such a hit that it spawned a trend of pubs seeking GAAS games despite the flagship title for the genre being aggressively mid and literally nobody else

I wish it was a flop. A flopped destiny would mean we’d be on mass effect 6 and Prey 2 by now. We would probably have gotten a new…

Also, Hironobu Sakaguchi can tell you all about how creating games do not translate 1:1 into the skills needed to make a movie.

Not surprising.

“Hoberman continued, noting that the team decided not to “always evenly match people” in games because those matches are always “the most stressful,” which can get tiring for the player if they happen over and over again.”

The Wii U sold 13.5 million consoles. The Switch has sold 132 million. So for uh, most people, Mario Kart 8 was brand new to them. And Nintendo has certainly been keeping it updated with DLC.

I think it’ll be interesting what a theoretical MK9 or new Smash Bros looks like, considering all the content in the current…

They compete with every console, it’s just after the Wii the other guys decided to pretend they didn’t.

This is genuinely pathetic. The Part One remaster was barely justifiable so soon after the release of the PS4 remaster, but at least that was actually updating it for a new platform. Part Two is already one of the best looking games on the PS5; asking people to pay another $70 (because you fucking know it’s not gonna…

You’re out there fightin the good fight, thanks to people like you we might get more games like this, I for one appreciate you and your addiction!

Its not just video games - but why is it these CEO clearly screw up and make a mess of things yet remain employed? This sounds like string of bad management decisions. C-suite should pay the price. And not with a golden parachute - they should get the same severance any other employee gets. It amazes me with the focus…

I think saying Twitter was forced to sell is a little bit of a misnomer. Elon overpaid like crazy and I think the shareholders were too in shock by his sheer stupidity and wanted to grab the cash before the banks realized what a colossal mistake they were making by giving that moron a blank check. Thus the perfect…

Twitter was “forced” to sell itself to some dumb fuck

It’s worth noting that game developer salaries in Japan are considerably lower than what we’re used to here in the U.S. According to the job tracker Glassdoor, the average salary for a Japanese game developer is approximately 5,230,356 yen. At current exchange rates this is just shy of $35,000 USD, which is about…

Not well!

Fuckin absolutely bonkers that this awful, stupid shit comes back up like this. I lurked KiA for a while just out of morbid curiosity and it really was a collection of some of the dumbest, most reactionary idiots around. I still remember when they treated Gamasutra (RIP that old name) and its press release section…

We really do live in a time of diminished personal accountability.  “I’m sorry that he got hurt.”  He didn’t “get” hurt.  YOU HURT HIM.