a New Year's letter from the Square Enix president talks about new tech/concepts including NFTs, the metaverse, and particularly how blockchain games "hold the potential to enable self-sustaining game growth"
It's really frustrating that Microsoft has been able to maintain this image of being "pro-consumer" this year as they continue to roll out some of the most heinous DRM in the industry
This should be a legal requirement for all gaas games that shut down. It would serve as a good deterrent for publishers thinking these games are infinite money generators.
We have an important announcement to share. On February 28, 2023, Rumbleverse servers will go offline. Players who have made any purchase since launch will be eligible for a refund. We thank you so much for playing. Please see the full details on our blog
After 13 years this was my final week working at Gamestop. Surprisingly this has nothing to do with the current pandemic and I've been working on permanently closing my store for the past month. Hopefully I find something new soon.
You know, having worked retail for most of my life I shouldn't be surprised by this reaction to a minimum wage increase. Most customers made it very clear that they didn't respect me as a fellow human being or have any form of empathy.
Bethesda has confirmed it's highly anticipated role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 6, which was officially announced in 2018, has entered early development.
Seth Green’s Bored Ape NFT, which was set to star in its own animated show, was stolen through a phishing scam.
Green no longer owns the commercial rights to the NFT and thus the show cannot move forward.
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It's really sad that Japan first heard of the term JRPG 15 years ago during 7th Gen when game journalism was its most xenophobic and JRPG's were bad. I'm almost certain that we had been using the term all the way through the PS1 era and maybe before.
"For us as developers the first time we heard it, It was like a discriminatory term", Naoki Yoshida speaks up about how he does not want Final Fantasy XVI to be called a JRPG
This is that last series you can possibly make the quality of the product justifies the price hike argument. It's been reviewing worse every year because it's stagnated and it has become a glorified slot machine that people are literally addicted to.
Take-Two: Next-gen game price hikes "reflect the quality of the experience".
"From our point of view, it's an extremely modest price change given that prices haven't changed for a very long time", says CEO Strauss Zelnick.
This makes Taylor look pretty bad, but I hope it doesn't cause people to be less trusting of voice actors coming out about pay in the future. I wish that Kyle McCarley coming forward about Mob Psycho got nearly as much traction as the Bayo stuff.
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I really hope that journalists are brave enough to be openly upset with Microsoft about the gold price hike. It is literally double the price with no increased benefits, they need to see large scale backlash for this.
The new Xbox dashboard is out. It might be the most usable the menus have been in years but it’s kind of hilarious that the background is just a picture of the Xbox.
Microsoft‘s head of gaming says getting rid of physical media isn’t a strategic goal for Xbox, but it will follow what players are doing, “and right now, a majority of our customers are buying games digitally”.
Wow, another statement seemingly made to trick people into thinking the buyout has gone through. Also it's really funny that the Tweet says Xbox games and the message attached is just about Call of Duty.
Maybe if someone did a large scale release of it and sold it for a decent amount of time then it could become an item that is actually preserved for the masses to experience and not a collector's item for only the hardcore fans.
I'm going to take the bold stance of not feeling sorry at all for the Horizon series always launching next to a much more interesting open world game. It's totally on them for somehow making giant robot dinosaurs boring.