General Gaming News

[Lily Adler]

FNAF: Security Breach is out. Cue the jumpscares.

 

[Iceman]

Tencent bought Turtle Rock Studios (Back 4 Blood)

 

[Iceman]

Tesla investigated by US regulators for letting drivers play games

 

[Snow Queen]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

A lot of these companies are manipulating investors with the ‘buzzword and buzzword for infinite money’ word salad routine.

 

[Iceman]

Square want to transition into Shinra.

 

[Gee]

The Next Video Game From BioShock’s Auteur Is in Development Hell - BNN Bloomberg

It has been nearly eight years since development began on Ken Levine’s next video game. Levine, the creator of the hugely influential BioShock series, is an auteur of the medium. He embodies everything that comes with the title, according to people who have worked for him: a singular brilliance, stubborn perfectionism and a delicate ego.

Eight years is a long time to develop a game. Levine’s breakout 1999 release, System Shock 2, was finished in a year and a half. BioShock—a seminal shooting game released in 2007 that, according to New York magazine, “proved games could be art”—took about five years, as did a follow-up, which came out in 2013. His current project, which began in 2014, still doesn’t have a name or a release date. Development has suffered from numerous reboots and changes in direction, say 15 current and former employees of Levine’s Westwood, Massachusetts-based studio, Ghost Story Games.

Very interesting story, although not too surprising.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

AKA Square Enix President Matsuda, formerly the company's bean counter CFO

Square Enix President interview – ‘it's better to be a leader than a follower' (2018) LMAO

How NFTs became a $40bn market in 2021 | Financial Times

Don't forget money laundering





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[metaphysician]

NFTs are only useful to serve as a bubble, and only valuable if you can find a greater fool to sell them to. Eventually a *lot* of people will lose a *lot* of money on them.

 

[Iceman]

The Next Video Game From BioShock’s Auteur Is in Development Hell - BNN Bloomberg

Very interesting story, although not too surprising.

Very talented guy but also can be very hard to work with I hear. Peak eccentric and I 'd imagine a bunch of non-standard work processes to achieve the results he gets, which will suit certain workers and be a nightmare for others. Anyone who is thinking of working for him needs to go in with their eyes open ahead of time and otherwise just not do it.

 

[Iceman]

NFTs are only useful to serve as a bubble, and only valuable if you can find a greater fool to sell them to. Eventually a *lot* of people will lose a *lot* of money on them.

Unless they can somehow serve to add to the experience for gamers or devs, hopefully they will fail and be forgotten. Too much to hope for I know.

 

[Sithborg]

Yes, because of the pandemic...

 

[Iceman]

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2 announcement coming before June – report

 

[metaphysician]

Unless they can somehow serve to add to the experience for gamers or devs, hopefully they will fail and be forgotten. Too much to hope for I know.

I am comfortable saying there is nothing NFTs can do for the customer that can't be done other ways cheaper and easier. As for the developers, their only potential benefit is "extracting money from gullible crypto-bros", and I'm rather doubtful even that would be worth the trouble compared to other revenue-increasing-features. Why spend the exorbitant amount of effort mining a relatively limited number of NFTs when you could probably sell a thousand times more in conventional MTX?

 

[BrollySupersj]

If anyone here is a fan of the Armored Core series, there just might possibly be some good news. Time will tell.

First details on FromSoftware’s rumored new Armored Core leak

 

[Iceman]

Take-Two to buy 'FarmVille' maker Zynga for $11 bln in largest gaming deal

That’s a big one!

 

[Iceman]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 delayed to later this year

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 delayed to later this year

That sucks.

This sucks a lot more. I saw this last night and it was all kinds of shady. That it is somehow more shady, I just can't really explain it.

 

[Iceman]

So far I’ve not heard anyone positive about NFTs unless they’re expecting to be making money out of it. I hope the above also doesn’t do your mid-level voice actors out of a job.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

So far I’ve not heard anyone positive about NFTs unless they’re expecting to be making money out of it. I hope the above also doesn’t do your mid-level voice actors out of a job.

It's a straight up hustle. It's the folks so already invested in it who want to unload a receipt for money (you don't actually own anything - not the copyright - just a digital database entry) to the next group of marks/dupes/suckers who then have to unload it to the next group and so on.





Troy Baker Tweets Petition To Remove The One Bad Review For 'Uncharted 4' From Metacritic (May 2016)

 

[Snow Queen]

Spoiler: Last of Us Part II

Maybe the golf club had a point.

 

[Iceman]

Troy Baker-backed NFT firm admits using voice lines taken from another service without permission • Eurogamer.net

Gets worse.

 

[Sithborg]

Of course it is. It is the same type of tech bros who think buying a copy of Jodorski's Dune pitch means they have the copyright to Jodorski's Dune.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Trying to get that guy to go is like telling one of those 30-year dictators of countries to leave. That's how long he's been there in that role.

'Buy the dictator's entire country out' was the solution evidentally.