Seems pretty simple to me. Sony sees live service games as a major, lucrative trend that is only going to get bigger in the next decade, and they want to acquire someone with extensive experience developing and maintaining live service games.

Agreed - even as someone who only played Shovel Knight and a bit of Plague Knight before deciding I was done with the whole thing, I respect the hell out of the studio for the dedication. They easily could’ve put out a few nominal updates to meet the stretch goals and rode into the sunset with their bags of money, but…

Yeah, they honestly could have put a lot less effort in and just skipped out with a lot more money a lot quicker while still technically having fulfilled their requirements, but instead they gave us 3 full fledged campaigns with fresh story, mechanics, and stages. The amount of effort they put toward making each…

My understanding is it's been less "milking the same cow" and more "our KS campaign was successful beyond our wildest dreams so we added a bunch of stretch goals that unexpectedly took years to work through".

I’m picturing something that charges up like a Scorch Cannon, where the longer its charged, the more rockets are fired per salvo.

I’m very glad they chose not to make a baby Eliksni launcher.

It’s like, these fucking people....do they think workers are unionising for fun? For a laugh? The history of unionisation is that it comes about when conditions for workers SUCK SO BADLY that they feel they have no other choice.

A normal person: “wow how unsportsmanlike!”

I’d be pretty proud of myself if I could play Magnus Carlsen to a draw too...

I mean in fairness Microsoft spent 70 billion and Sony spent 3.6, we are talking a lot less overhead here and Bungie has proven to be reliably good developers when given free reign. 

So sony spent billions of dollars...to get no new exclusives.

pictured: the AAA gaming industry in a few years.

Man AAA development is in a concerning state

If this article proves anything is that the crossword constructors care and this level of debate and scrutiny is probably healthy for the crossword platform in the long run. I recently got into American Style crosswords. I bought a book of NYT’s and can handle maybe 70-80% of a Monday, but I start to fail pretty badly…

From the softball questions to the bizarre YT videos to the contempt from the ubisoft exec, this is truly dystopian levels of coverage, im almost impressed

It’s made me incredibly happy. :) 

This will likely be the best thing I read today. Thank you for sharing.

Sorry, DBZA, I will no longer be supporting the official release.

And what I’ve learned from toei’s shitty tactics is that it’s ethically fine to steal as much toei owned content as possible.

We gamers can be so ridiculous. In the absence of news, we seem to decide that there has to be something and then start making things up out of whole cloth and then get disappointed (at best) or even angry (at worst) when the stuff we made up in our heads turns out to be wrong. I include myself in this because I’ve…