Wait, I thought industry consolidation was a good thing though?!?!

Super super cool how they acquired a bunch of (seemingly) stable and successful developers and now are gonna lay off a bunch of people and shut down those same studios because they got greedy and bought more than they could afford.

“The fires of Isengard will spread, and the forests of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once great and good in this world will be gone. There won’t be a Shire, Pippin.”

Being an Overwatch fan in 2023 is an emotional rollercoaster, they’re all used to it by now

You know... for the Christmas tree!

I fail to see the problem here

There’s statues of Lois Lane holding Superman’s dead body, this isn’t that extreme.

There are a massive studio with the manpower to handle. They just need to make their worlds not bland. 

Man, can’t recall when I was last this excited by a Star Wars game, but that looked really fun. Also I am glad that I was wrong as I was constantly prepared to groan when someone pulled out a lightsaber, but avoided that trap.

Reddit is a solid site - the base idea is good and very quickly replaced forums because the idea of “Digg but everyone can make their own section” was attractive. But it’s always been run by people who don’t code and don’t understand the appeal of the site at all, so every decision is baffling even more than the usual…

I’ve become more and more certain that most of those “gaming sites” are written entirely by AI.

I was never a fan of Reddit until lately.

People that care about that kind of thing will have a mod list 100 deep of graphical overhauls and 4k texture packs that would melt the average spec computer.

Glad to see Green got a payday for this. They’ve had enough trouble with this meme spreading around and being used by everyone without credit, and I’m glad to see Epic isn’t just doing their usual rip-off thing with pop-culture stuff either.

I’ve never thought of the “this is fine” meme as emblamatic of people “facing crushing realities they could not control.”

Yep agreed. Never understand why people preorder games anymore when the release date is unclear / far away. It made sense 20 years ago when a highly-anticapted game like Zelda would sell out if you didn’t pre-order to do so a few months ahead of time. And it still makes some sense nowadays if a game is coming out in a…

I mean, if that were true, they’d ask for a reasonable rate for using the API, that reflected the cost of those requests, not the exaggerated sums they appear to be asking the developers of popular reddit reader apps like Apollo for.

The bandwidth itself is relatively cheap. At an average 1kb payload per request, Apollo’s 7 billion monthly requests add up to about $500 on AWS (where, as far as I know, Reddit is hosted). The compute costs of retrieving and assembling the request data are much harder to estimate but they’re going to be the bigger…

I’m genuinely curious to know whether or not Doctor Gray has actually put forth any ideas of her own as to how one might make a game she would accept as being truly “decolonialist” — if so, I would love to read them, and I wonder why they aren’t linked or mentioned in this article.

With so many games fundamentally about taking over spaces or harvesting them for our own gain—something arguably reflected even in the wonderful new game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, where as Link, you can plunder Hyrule to your heart’s content—how do we make games that challenge such ideas?