I believe they only bought Weta’s tech/tools development division, not the whole company.

Meanwhile, in reality, Pokémon only becomes more popular and profitable year after year.

I would also like to point out that already since this mass shooting we’ve had another, at a church in California. We average more than 1 a day now.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099008586/mass-shootings-us-2022-tally-number

“It is also the 198th mass shooting in 2022. With just over 19 weeks into the year, this averages out to about 10 such attacks a week.”

It’s an awesome thing, but I guess I don’t see how portals on an N64 are any different from any of the N64 games that had rooms with ‘mirrors’, where they would have a duplicate of the room with a duplicate of the character model. Isn’t it the same effect?

Oh man, the same artist just posted some way cooler ship renders since this article was published. Luke, you’ve gotta add these!

Rotten Tomatoes literally is this.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call it mediocre even if it eventually got overplayed. Artillery / tanks games were stale, Worms games adding humor, crazy multileveled stages and a wide variety of zany weapons to the formula was incredibly fun.

I learned this from Pokémon, where you have to go to a separate building from the casino to get the prizes. Also it’s run by the mob (Team Rocket).

Just checked the trailer and it looks like the mermaid is full CG- like Alita Battle Angel not looking like Rosa Salazar despite it being her mocap performance. From the blurry / low quality I can’t judge the westernization though.

Not only is this kind of thing possible, it’s being done, Disney put out a paper on it literally a week ago. Their current focus is on using neural networks to add in photoreal eyes and mouth interiors, rather than expressions. Right now deepfake tech takes the motion from whatever is underneath it, it doesn’t add new…

That’s what the last 6 months could have been for.

Who is the creator though when it’s a collaborative work though? Like, the tracks that O’Donnell released have Paul McCartney and an orchestra performing on it. O’Donnell didn’t pay for McCartney’s or the orchestra’s recording studio time, Bungie did. Which of them gets the rights?

Yeah. Back last year when Blizzard employees were protesting low pay, an anonymous salary survey spreadsheet was shared if you want to look around at big game company salaries: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/119RI3oS9XNOjq2X8VLpUOMpyarcMsNzid-nA1OqbXkA/
The range hugely depends on your role, like lowly assoc…

Come on now. Obviously it wasn’t a uniquely Blizzard problem at all, I was alive in the 90s and know what companies and media were like back then - sexist as hell. It was the norm, but 90s Blizzard was a bunch of 99% men acting like bros, getting drunk and doing drugs and making games with all of their favorite movie…

Definitely- from that angle, IMO Blizzard hit that point in the early 2000s, WC3 or WoW was their peak and WoW’s runaway success ruined everything after.

There’s another aspect to the situation though where the old ‘spark’ and beloved games were built atop a pile of sexism and crunch conditions. (Also probably true across the industry.) Everyone gets excited when ex-Blizzard devs announce a new game studio, but I don’t just want them to go back to the ‘spark’ that made…

FWIW, they were basically tricked into cancelling it and rushing a new engine for SC by a competitor. They went to a trade show in 1996 and got blown out of the water by a demo of the RTS “Dominion: Storm over Gift 3,” that had isometric graphics with sprites rendered from 3D models. So they decided to restart…

Ever since the news broke there’s also been a steady exodus of Blizzard employees, announcing on twitter that they’re excited to start at various other game companies around Southern California. Who knows how many were people who no longer wanted to work at a company like Blizzard and started looking for jobs after…

There were at least 4 others- Goldeneye, Mario 64, Diddy Kong Racing, and Rayman 2.