I think the key tell in this article is “get players to spend more time on our games”.

As a HOTS player when ActiBlizz unceremoniously destroyed that game Esports scene by just making a blithe social media post, I kind of knew where this whole mammoth undertaking was heading.

Before this article, I never knew that rule 34 had made it into the speedrunning scene.

Agreed on the whole: a single-screen brawler would not be the right thing for such a roster.

The Rabbids are known far and wide as video game characters go and yet not one of them have a name. Most people who know who they are don’t even know the name itself, just the look and feel of the characters.

Little known fact that Microsoft bought Activision for the console heft of Modern Warfare, Blizzard’s IPs on PC and King’s cash-printing machine on mobile.

Better yet: get HotS out of maintenance mode by actually adding content to it.

Well, they already have one: it’s called Heroes of the Storm and it’s dying off (unfortunately).

I get the feeling that most of these characters would be very, very out of place in a “Smash bros” like brawler.

Easy answers: Inklings (Splatoon), Pikmins, Shulk & Rex (Xenoblade Chronicles 1 & 2 protags).

Keeping an IP or trademarked characters relevant all these years implies two things: Protect/Promote your IPs and release new games for these.

That was Elder Scrolls Online player’s hope as well.

I, for one, would be tempted to buy a product that has lot of content for a higher cost IF I get the whole thing without hidden costs.

I guess it’s a bandwagon effect: nobody wants their game to be the priciest one (say, 20$ over the average, or like 90$ for argument’s sake) even if it has massively more content.

Honestly, for me, this was second best fight scene of the series (first for me is Trevor and Death finale).

Even if you don’t use your own money or shares and tell someone to do it, or even just suggest to, that’s still insider trading.

Annnnnnd now you jinxed it. Congrats :-(

In all seriousness though, if they can strike the right tone, I’d watch the hell of that movie!

This is most a cop-out out of insider trading charges. A legal workaround if you will.

I remember a quote from a second-party dev in America about a game with motocross (can’t remember the game’s name, or the dev name. Sorry about that).
He basically said a spur-of-the-moment though about pressing the gas button when the motocross launched across jump ramps to get a small “bump”. It was so easy to…

My bet is on “assets re-use”. There must be years of Martinet’s voice on record at Nintendo studio to use, remix and put in games.