Riot made the shooter Valorant. They’re also doing a fighting game (??) and a side scroller, a little bit after doing an isometric action game. There are anecdotes that go the other way with developers, but I feel “x can’t do anything but x type of game” is not really a thing. Game development isn’t black and white…

I did “Kirby farting the universe into existence”.

This isn’t even gaming related lol. Apparently a famous person wearing a shirt with a videogame on it is enough for Kotaku to ramble about Elon and border control.

It’s so strange because every other big developer has been ramping up ““RPG”” elements of their games for a while now (with varying success), but Bethesda seems to be going in the opposite direction?

Would it matter?

Every store does this though, so I really doubt they were burning through money for the game store giveaways and deals. The games given away have regularly been pretty pedestrian anyways. Lots of indie games as of late.

I’m not optimistic about Skyrim 6.

This definitely seems like the Bethesda “””RPG””” to skip, even moreso than Fallout 4 was. It’s so strange, but everything I read about it just makes me think (falsely) that they wanted to make a bethsoft “No Man’s Sky”, but it’s equally as bland as that game was initially.

Is he the last of the execs from the 599 US Dollars debacle? Between him, Kaz and Ken he definitely came off as the least likeable of the bunch.

The phone costs one grand at minimum (128GB version, yikes). Like, if you’re one of those people, fake or otherwise, you’re probably not bothered by a price tag that’s more expensive than most folks entire phone plan.

Yeah. Supposedly hacks all of Sony, yet only has 6000 files? There’s no way a corp as big as Sony only has 6000 files in its data centers.

Found Justin’s burner, holy crap.

If you guys are going to throw in aggregate steam reviews like it means anything meaningful you guys may as well start including Metacritic user reviews, because those are equally useless and arbitrary.

I get the phrasing but calling Embracer group a smaller competitor is funny because they’ve been buying up studios and Ip’s left-and-right all the while almost getting 2 billion dollars from Tencent or whoever.

The game has everything the PS5/Series X versions have, it just looks like it would for a game running on 6 year old handheld. How is that a mess? What a weird article.

I have a hard time believing they could ever get any distributor to agree to that. That’s just a crazily insane thing to try and monetize.

They’ve always been like this, dating all the way back to the PS2 days. Maybe even longer. They’ve got a long and established history of doing development in a way that costs a lot of money.

My nephew told me that little fact a month or so ago and I was legit surprised. Like there’s no way the PC version makes more for them than XB1 & PS4 versions, so it’s baffling.

Yeah that’s true. EA is also a massive conglomerate so expecting the folks who brought us the FIFA Ultimate Team crap to be sensible about their microtransactions (with a supposed NBA Live competitor) is on it’s face ridiculous; but that’s where we’re at with the 2K games.

I miss the old 2K games. I played so much of the myplayer stuff around 2k10-14 era that everyone once in a while I get an itch to play something like that. But they’ve ramped up the unsavory parts of it and it just makes me sad this game has no competitor.