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That's seven times the number of steam alone. Probably more than all of PC gaming combined at this point. Locking in to this insane goal *again* is just not healthy for your career. But Sharma is very much just a willing sacrificial lamb to sunset Xbox.
IGN@ign.com · 5d agoXbox boss Asha Sharma tells staff she expects to be halfway to a billion daily players by 2030. https://bit.ly/4h7KyQI
Great now it's not even the question *if* the AI bubble could burst but *how* hard, and mainstream financial journalists downplay the extreme risks. We know it's coming and we know It's going to hurt workers - but stopping the orphan grinder would mean less profits four our sweet billionaires!
Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.Could an AI market crash rival 2000 or 2008? Unlikely reut.rs/4pVoZFh
Great. Now the Star Wars AND cool superhero movies starring Ryan Gosling are made by the director of Free Guy. People love their bland nothingburgers when going to the cinema, can't have nice things ever again.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago'Ryan Gosling joins the MCU in Marvel Studios' Ghost Rider, directed by Shawn Levy. Only in theaters 2028'
Dark Souls 2 is so mechanically obtuse that it makes me love it more. Armor is basically meaningless and a full Havel’s set has the same damage reduction as a single specific ring. Poise is fake. Your I-frames are dictated by two arbitrary stats that both contribute to a third arbitrary stat. ❤️
We at Bethesda aim to please with at best mediocre crowd-pleasers that take decades of development time. Somehow we also never learn about announcing our titles two generations before they release. Here, have some remasters that don't work with thousands of mods the community painstakingly crafted.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Bethesda has announced a slew of new Fallout games, including Fallout 5 and Fallout 3 + New Vegas remasters. The company also confirmed my scoop last week that it is working with Obsidian on a Fallout game. I spoke to Todd Howard about the roadmap: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The newest 'Top 10 Games'-trend is pretty humbling. Even outside 'Gun & Ball'-gamers like 95% of the participating accounts post only AAA open world titles and not a single indie. This, the crashing industry and young people pretty much playing Roblox exclusively seems really bad for the future, huh
“Terrible posters are nothing new,” Jonathon Yule, executive creative director for design at Concrete Design tells us. But with these posters, it comes with “none of the charm” that may accidentally come from a business owner making something low quality.
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 4w agoeverywhere you look, things are goin' great
We knew it was coming but seeing those numbers spelt out is just... numbing. Sacrifices for a hallucinating machine-idol that makes everything worse for the majority of people.
IGN@ign.com · last mo.3,200 Xbox staff are set to lose their jobs this year, with 1,600 layoffs today. Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will become independent studios. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be under new management, and Arkane is entering consultation. https://bit.ly/4eOBEGk
Studio develops game that sells incredibly well? Believe it or not, also layoffs.
Knoebel 🛬 Gamescom@knoebel.bsky.social · last mo.According to The Game Business, Obsidian is also on the risk of shutting down, currently they're negotiation with Xbox to avoid closure. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-divid...
Reminder that modded PSPs and Vitas are pretty affordable and really, really fun. Also learn to get, well let's say security copies for legal reasons. Has never been easier than now.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo."We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...
Der logische Endpunkt von rechtem Gedankengut? Uwe Boll abfeiern, weil die Botschaft passt. Wir brauchen wirklich nicht die hundertste Reportage, warum Extremes ankommt - es ist am Ende doch einfach der plumpe Rassismus.
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · last mo.Musk promoted a brief upload of Boll's anti-migrant thriller Citizen Vigilante to his 200 million followers this weekend.
Kadokawa being in western news again as 'From Software's parent company' is still extremely funny. Like, that's one of the biggest entertainment corps in Japan - they own pretty much half of the anime and manga market!
So, Rockstar will not only ruin the discourse about realism in games for a decade *again* but they just killed physical editions for good. If they can sell 80$ games without a disc - which they absolutely can - this will become industry standard. Things are so dire, man. It's hard to stay positive.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last mo.Physical editions of GTA 6 will apparently be available from 12th November, several days ahead of the game's 19th November release, but as a download code rather than a disc. https://bit.ly/4b7m5Hb
Haven't seen people talk about 'Spider-Noir' - probably because it was dropped all at once - and can't recommend it enough. Nicolas Cage and Brendan Gleeson are acting their heart out and have visible fun with a comic adapation. Production should've fully committed to b&w though.
In deutschen Medien wird das wohl kaum thematisiert werden, aber in der geleakten Mitgliederliste von Peter Thiels ultrarechten Geheimgesellschaft taucht als prominentester Deutscher *Jens Spahn* auf. Natürlich.
maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo agoSCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
Damn, after the layoffs in the past few years I've always feared for Double Fine and Ninja Theory. Negotiating for your life with the ever-hungry behemoth that threw billions around to feed on studios just a few years ago is such a grim, endstage capitalism nightmare scenario.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
There is no argument for machine translation that can't also be used to justify AI art / writing / whatever else you like. Stop being a fucking hypocrite just because machine translation is useful to you and you don't understand / don't value the work of translators.
Outside of gaming it's nothing new that PR tries to embargo pretty much everything. In this case however if you decide to sit on this while being aware that the affected employees don't know they're being fired? Might as well change your job description to Ubisoft marketing.
Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com@mikestrawmedia.com · 2mo agoUbisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.
After having played the 1666: Amsterdam-prologue i’m really deflated. Obvious AI use for changing paintings and the *COVER ART* aside, every aspect is undercooked. From the technical level to movement, clumsy writing and – worst of all – the inclusion of a mascot that sounds like Rocket Raccoon.
The actual most important line of the Capcom *Investor Q&A* is "it will take some time before we can quantitatively demonstrate the results of this improved development efficiency". Thinly veiled lies to pump their shareholder value up, they have absolutely nothing right now.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2mo ago"We are seeing a certain degree of effectiveness from the use of generative AI" - Capcom clarifies its stance on using the controversial tech www.eurogamer.net/capcom-gener...
don’t worry guys next year’s star wars movie is from the director of free guy and deadpool and wolverine
The first time in 27 years that I won't be watching a Star Wars movie at the cinema. Incredible stuff.
Well, we had a good run. Of course 'good' might be a slight exaggeration considering the three year delays were just a horrible idea. Either way, these days exclusives are few and far between - it won't make much of a difference for people who own a PC but no PS5.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3mo agoSCOOP: PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive, confirming Bloomberg's reporting from earlier this year. Original story from March: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Alright, so now just *any* review from IGN that is not exactly an 8/10 gets outrage from Gamergate 2.0? In many cases not even those are safe from vitriol. Hours ago those same people made fun of Subnautica 2! Gamers really do deserve a collapsing industry, sucks to be caught in the crossfire.
So Amazon mandated their game developers to use AI, this team completely revamped their game for Gen-AI and then everyone got laid off anyways. Yeah, they should be allowed to beat their ex-managers with hammers. www.eurogamer.net/amazon-ai-ga...
The Mixtape discourse makes me feel like we have arrived at a place where criticism is almost untenable because it will be flanderized and stripped down to whatever parts become useful for social media cohorts driven by algorithms towards reactionary or extreme ends rather than engagement w/ media.
