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Another aspect of the recent report is the admission that Xbox never managed to organically cultivate talent Failed to build up leadership capable of producing great games in over 25 years The only studio they founded that’s still under Xbox leadership is the the coalition

I’m generally against the idea that all remakes are pointless (and evil), but it’s kind of wild that Halo Campaign Evolved was unequivocally that They canceled a new multiplayer project to finish this, only for the studio to shut down anyways  Ends with a teaser for a now canceled Halo 2 remake

Sergeant Johnson saying see you in the sequel

there will be no sequel

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

Btw, you did not have to “hand it to them” for anything Decades of mismanagement and poorly thought out acquisitions led all these studios to their current state. “Activision can make banjo kazooie :D” Be for real

Feels like the first time in decades where graphics didn’t peak during the first year of a console On Switch graphics peaked with botw+odyssey. DS on PS5. Makes following the console more exciting, many reactions went “this is on a switch 2??” Imagine what the next 3D Mario game will look like

Screenshot of Young Link, looking at the great Deku treeScreenshot of the legend of Zelda, ocarina of Time

Fighting the big spider boss

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

orlandosentinel.com