You’re likely underestimating just how major a change it is to add an open world and mount to the Dark Souls formula. With Dark Souls games while players are able to choose where they’re going, most of the level design is fairly linear. So when players come across an obstacle, you don’t have much choice except beating…

I think the biggest difference is Bungie truly believed in Destiny as a concept. Anthem and The Avengers were cynical attempts at making a quick buck.

A quick glance at the top-played games on Steam suggests otherwise. CS:GO, Apex Legends, Dota 2, PUBG, Lost Ark, CoD:MW2, Destiny 2, GTA 5, Rust, Unturned, Naraka, TF2, Crab Game, War Thunder, Warframe, ARK, Civ 6, Elden Ring, and Hogwarts Legacy. So, of the top 20 games, only one of them has no multiplayer component.…

Love that these crazy motherfuckers made a goddamn billion dollars without having to cannibalize their clients.  Just the opposite, really.  From’s next game is probably also gonna be a banger and it will probably also sell like crazy, which is exactly correct.

I will always have this stance on single player games and the “old ways”. All these “always online” games do not last. Only ones that do are those that get there first and do gameply well enough like Destiny. The suits notice and then get the copy cats like Avengers and Anthem; look how they turned out. 

It’s crazy how some publisher/dev heads have come out in recent years to say that live-service elements are a must for sales and bottom lines, yet

NGL

tl;dr for the idiots in the Board room: good single-player games sell, and sell well. Make more of ‘em. 

wild how i wrote this to specifically call out halo infinite then didnt even need to mention it by name

I recently saw a side by side of Madonna and Susanna Hoffs (same age) and....lets just say maybe stay away from the knife a little. 

I feel like Madonna is one of those cases where, yes the ageism and misogyny of the industry is alive and well, but also....... Madonna, specifically LOVES this. She made her entire brand being a “rebel” and sticking it to misogynists and being edgy and shocking. She thrives off of this discourse, she is absolutely…

Soon people are going to realize they can live their lives without interacting on social media. And in some cases, their lives may even improve 

Guessing the article is just click bait... and we clicked, so good job Giz.

What you don’t realize is that Elon is playing the long game. At 33M a year, he’s currently on track to recoup his entire twitter investment in only 1,333 years.

This is dumb as shit.

“The platforms say it gives also you a boost in their algorithms, surfacing your posts higher in other users’ feeds.” = throttling you if you don’t pay up, keeping people who WANT to see your posts/tweets from seeing your posts/tweets.

“Nice following you’ve got here, shame is something happened to it!”

I gotta say: with the way Microsoft is kicking and screaming, I hope the FTC shuts the deal down quickly. This performative “10 year deal” bullshit they’re trying to pull is as transparent a monopoly play as I’ve ever seen.

It’s a huge merger, and huge mergers are ultimately bad for consumers, especially in already-rapidly consolidating industry like video games, to say nothing of the employees that will undoubtedly get laid off after the merger is approved. It’s not about just CaLl oF DUtY.

That’s nice. The merger still shouldn’t be approved though.

Yeah no they’re zombies Druckmann. A zombie isn’t a just brand of fantastical monster, it’s a mindless husk of a human lumbering around and responding to animalistic urges. I don’t care that they aren’t pop cultures familiar zombies they’re still the lumbering around mindless monsters. I know this is a crappy example…