Horizon owes more than a little DNA to Monster Hunter, a series partially defined by its multiplayer. It’s not shoehorning if the inspiration already relied on it.

Monster Hunter but it’s Horizon Machines! Give it to me!

Monster Hunter: Horizon would be pretty cool, I think.  You can use the setting for all kinds of unique weapons, big monsters exist, mounting exists, etc.  

This is part of the same initiative as the Last of Us battle royale that was rumoured a while back, right? Could see Horizon’s shaping out as a sort of Monster Hunter-y affair since PVP wouldn’t mesh the best with that combat.

Nintendo isn’t going to fuck you.

Yuri Lowenthal, who voiced Spider-Man in the PS4 Insomniac games, also voiced him in the recently released Marvel Midnight Suns game from Firaxis. I like to think this is a subtle way of implying it’s set in the same continuity as the Insomniac games and thus the larger world of Into the Spider-Verse.

He must have fucked with rich people’s money. It’s one thing to fleece the poors, but once you steal from the investor class, the US will get you. 

Spencer went on to contrast Xbox’s strategy of bringing its games day and date to PC and Game Pass with Sony’s focus on keeping its latest first-party blockbusters like Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarök exclusive to console for the first few years.

I feel like the Xbox has been in “wait until next year” mode since Quantum Leap came out.

It sounds like she thought she had more clout than she did. I lol’d at the petty passive aggressive move of sending her boss a Wikipedia link for character arcs. That’s some god tier narcissism.

However, Horizon developer Guerrilla Games is also splitting its time with work on a VR spin-off, Horizon Call of the Mountain, which is being made in collaboration with Firesprite. It’s already available for pre-order for the PSVR2, though it doesn’t have a release date yet.

“While overtime is not mandatory, The Washington Post reports that Blizzard is using company stock bonuses and $25 DoorDash gift cards to encourage staff to work longer to get the game done.”

The merger tanking would be very bad for Kotick. Without it, he’s not only out a fortune, but he also won’t have Microsoft’s resources to hide behind and the behavior of Activision as a corporation indicates that as bad as things look now, we haven’t even seen half of the rot under this particular log.

Yes, what matters is Microsoft being able to compete financially with Sony in one specific market. That’s what antitrust laws are about, right? Has nothing to do with less competition between game developers making competing products. Ignore that Microsoft as a whole has a revenue of $168 billion, while Sony’s as a…

My favorite part from the WaPo article is when MS claims that buying Activision will increase competition.  Definitely one of the funniest lies ever told.

“It’s not her JOB to prevent spoiler babies from having stupid tantrums.”

As someone who deals with IP and NDA’s all the time in the normal course of business....get over it. 

She didn’t read the script but her post apparently had some of the text from the script in it.  Apparently she can’t actually be trusted to be discreet about this kind of thing.

I think people are being a bit harsh on the game. It was a solid game that fall into the “more than the sum of its parts”. It had a rough launch and off the heels of last of us is why it probably didn’t sell well. I get why his comments about the game really doesn’t do it any favors. Many gems don’t sell well for a…

No, no they do not. They don’t even proofread their own articles before submitting them.