I remember a game developer saying back in 2020 that the year would not actually be super bad in terms of releases as by that point anything releasing in 2020 was already in a polishing stage that could be done more easily remotely. What they said, though, was that the next few years would be drier than usual because…

See, all of that is awesome and I would totally be down for that... But those are also not really what RDR2, a game that is dour and grounded almost to a fault at times, would jive with. Its telling to me that when they started to do the wackier stuff in RDR1 with Undead Nightmare, they had to explicitly position it…

I’ve heard an interesting theory that its because its much more difficult to make buzzy content for a serious Wild West game than a tongue-in-cheek Modern Crime game. Its easy to think of what you could add to GTA (new vehicles, big missions in cool locales, additional crazy modes like lightcycles from Tron) than it…

I think they aren’t actually that popular, but its much much easier to raise capital with a known name and script. Revivals pass so many of the steps to Broadway (book, theater booking, capital raising, getting major creatives involved) so much easier that they end up as a higher proportion than they should be.

Apple poached HBO staff after the AT&T merger

After how much Season 2 felt like a rehash of Season 1 except with less depth, I think unless this one really turns it out I’m going to be skipping it. I wanted to like Season 2 so much but by the end I got why Netflix did not pick it up for another season if they were already retreading

Oh man, that’s actually a huge thing, because they were/are in the middle of a HUGE remodel of World for the 50th anniversary and used the pandemic to sneakily do a huge redesign of their FastPass system, but the pandemic delayed multiple new rides and caused the big event to have a ton of congestion. Even now…

Its also worth noting that, given that 40+% of their revenue pre-pandemic was in parks and cruises and stuff like that, they are not in a great place to be having box office issues too

This is Kingdom Hearts combat, except in UE5, which KH4 is gonna be in, so... I guess it may beat it to market?

The adoration of Gamepass has always squared weird with me, because while it is absolutely a fantastic value proposition, its transparently a very Silicon Valley strategy of being a loss-leader to the nth degree, using cheap loans in hopes of hitting such levels of growth and market dominance that they can do whatever…

I agree, I definitely think that the shittiness of the game is overstated. In practice I think the game as is, if tomorrow it was announced that absolutely nothing else would ever be done to it, would be considered a bit content-light but overall pretty good and a promising direction.

Theres speculation that Ncuti was about to get leaked and that there is supposed to be a bigger and more formal thing during the BAFTAs

found the tory

When did Squenix say KH3 was wrapping things up?

I feel like that just ends up incentivizing people to hide it, because now if you catch it and test positive you have to get HR involved and are known as the guy who got Covid spread in the office, so you just don’t disclose your testing to your employer. But then all of the coworkers you just infected get hit with it…

I’ve heard that rumor swirling for a long time, I believe theres been some merit to it as the movie is basically stuff from the first few volumes of a 6 volume series with its own ending, so doing a long form TV version would be different enough to be worth it, and Katushiro Otomo has good respect in the industry and…

On the one hand, its comments like this that are *supposedly* part of the problem that caused the crunching. On the other hand, I thought the exact same thing. Crunching is not good but honestly they probably do need more people or budget or something because the quality coming out of the narrative team is a bit…

I think that Triangle Strategy is called that because its the same title in Japanese, as in the title in Japanese is literally the english words Triangle Strategy, which sounds cool to somebody who does not speak English. In America they should just call it Sankaku Senryaku, because that sounds cool too but its just…

I think part of the problem is also that I don’t think Bruce Willis gets the appeal of Die Hard and I would not be surprised if, if you handed him a script with a schlubby, down and out Jon McClane, he’d demand you make him more of a Capital B Badass before he agreed to do the movie