That’s a typo. Microsoft aquired RARE in 2002.

At least for PC blizzard hasn’t done physical copies in years. Since the collectors is only from Blizzard’s own store, this really has no effect on the PC market for that problem. They would know who purchased it and could send the digital code separate from the box.

This is only beneficial for console players and…

I think you missed the point.

The reason level designers didn’t freak out is because procedurally generated levels are as old as manual level design. That and as technology has improved, level designers use procedural generation to speed up their creation process where in levels that the layout is not critical to the…

The accuracy of this statement can’t be said enough. While that hasn’t gone to court, art style cases have and courts have repeatedly said you can own a character, but you can’t own a style. If something “sounds” like someone it’s just that, an imitation. Now if you imitated something to the point it’s…

Many many many people prefer procedurally generated levels in games. That being said it depends on what game it’s for, the level’s purpose, it’s significance in the game.

He has always had a more creative and story design role within the company. He likely never really had much input on things like that.

He was one of the few OG employees that came off as “one of us”

Based on his old position and responsibilities he was likely spread thin.

I believe he is in the camp of when these things happened the company was so large that even though he knew some of the individuals named he only had a high level view of their work…

As history proves it won’t be all gone. Will it change? Absolutely, it already has and it always has.

There is no need for individuals to be artistic. The ones who feel that desire will still be artistic. Just like the ones who find joy in basket weaving still retaining that skill.

I believe there are many valid arguments against AI art. Like the ethics of training data, or the legal issues of trademark/copyright at…

Why is this a problem? There is no need to “art” any more than there is a need to know how to make a basket, and yet people still know how to make baskets.

Consoles have typically needed significantly less ram than PCs. This has greatly to do with how optimized specialized hardware and operating systems can be. Typically system requirements for PCs include the assumption of background tasks.  Additionally, consoles running games at “4K” usually aren’t actually running 4k…

Sometimes games just don’t click. I felt that way about the Guardians of the Galaxy game. It just felt, bland, and uninteresting.

Games are subjective experiences by nature. I hate that you didn’t love FF7 Remake, Spiderman the way that I did. Miles changes things about the Spiderman gameplay that adds a lot of depth that you’ll either love or hate.

I mean...he’s also not wrong. The weird dialog writing was a big part of what was wrong with the game. It’s hard to have a narrative driven game that is supported by jarring dialog.

If the merger fails or not it’s good for Kotick. We don’t know the details of the deal but these deals always have clauses making the buying company responsible for the merger. If it fails, it is on them and there is some sort of compensation. The ATT-Tmobile merger failing saved T-Mobile and gave them the money to…

In contracts you have to set a duration of the contract. At the end of said contract you could negotiate a new deal or do nothing. FF7 remake is a good example. It had a 2 year exclusivity deal, they then renegotiated a deal that made the game console exclusive to keep it off Xbox.

It’s worth noting that Redfall and…

If you think for a second OWL was doing anything but bleeding money before this you’re crazy. I’d say Overwatch wasn’t their “flagship” as much as where Blizzard was putting most of their money.

HGC was still growing and they pulled the pug there way too early for sure.

SC2 on the other hand was still booming but they…

There’s still a significant cost due to the logistics involved in availability. With physical stock you still have to over-produce in order to get the sales you want or else you’ll have regional availability and low sales due to regional supply chain issues. You still have to deal with shipping costs, and in cases of…

To be clear that’s ChromeOS and not Chrome the complaint is about. The same ChromeOS that google is vastly limiting it’s own OS by retiring apps. I have no clue what leg Google has in the game other than just wanting Microsoft to not be as big of a company.

The people who want these mergers to succeed want to make sure the IPs they care about to not fail. To let Activision fail is to let many IPs people  care about also fail. Sure someone would buy up the IPs but the damage would be done. Most IPs would never be the same if they were allowed to continue. A corporate…