⚜️ Numanumbra ⚜️

@numanumbra.bsky.social

She/they ⚜️ 30 ⚜️ Artist, writer, fandom-hopper ⚜️ inconsistent art style ahoy! ⚜️ I 💖 🧬

i dreamed you couldn’t post memes unless they had a wizard in them so i took a short break from work to doodle the one i kept posting on here in the dream

a rough sketch of a wizard holding his hat and staff, with impact text reading I HAVE NO QUALMS WITH YOU, FRIEND / BUT THIS TALK IS TEDIOUS AND I WISH IT CEASE

Looks like the Sony PR team has begun its consent manufacturing operation among the media in the past 24 hours. I wonder how many other gaming outlets and influencers this week will also happen to put up posts/articles/videos declaring that eliminating physical media from consoles is good, actually?

Tweet from the official Gizmodo account posted 16 hours ago linking to an article with the headline “Game Discs Deserve to Die.” The accompanying photo is that of a hand with painted fingernails placing a silver-bottomed disc into a PlayStation 5.Tweet from the official Polygon account posted 23 hours ago stating “I won’t mourn Playstation discs” with a link to a self-styled “spicy takes” op-ed column. The accompanying photo is of a PlayStation 4 ejecting a copy of 2013’s Killzone Shadow Fall, the first PS4 title to sell over one million copies whose servers were nevertheless shut down in 2022 such that all you can do with a copy these days is play its lackluster single player campaign.

Big cuts, but Xbox has managed to avoid closing any studios today. Double Fine and Compulsion go indie. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will have new owners. Arkane Lyon process starts today. CEO Asha Sharma wants Xbox to reach 1bn players a day (it currently hits 1bn a year).

The Game Business@thegamebusiness.com · 2mo ago

Xbox announces plans to cut 3,000 jobs as part of a major restructure. It has also split from four studios - Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs. It’s seeking a new home for Arkane Lyon, too. Full FAQ through here. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-plans...