General Gaming News

[Iceman]

Another (Ubisoft) NFT GaaS dying out.



Ars Technica - Ubisoft’s first NFT experiment was a dumpster fire
Publisher still promises "future [NFT] drops coming with other games."

Sounds like a threat. 'Get in on the ground floor of our next limited time pyramid scheme.'

Forbes - Interest In NFTs And The Metaverse Is Falling Fast
If Google is any indicator, public interest appears to be falling fast in the concepts of NFTs and the metaverse.

Keep in mind that 'interest' searches also include people like us dunking on NFTs.

Nice, haha.

 

[Sithborg]

sigh...

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Possibly connected to this:

GameSpot - California's Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Is Being Accused Of Ethics Violations (October 2021)

A federal agency is accusing California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing of ethics violations, throwing the state's Activision Blizzard lawsuit into chaos.

 

[Iceman]

Hopefully it doesn’t end up selling for much and is a sign of what will happen with gaming NFTs.

 

[Iceman]

 

[Iceman]

How An Alleged Rapist And Former Twitch Streamer Helped Build An NFT Startup By Hiding Behind A Pseudonym

 

[metaphysician]

How An Alleged Rapist And Former Twitch Streamer Helped Build An NFT Startup By Hiding Behind A Pseudonym

Sexual assault and crypto-scams, two "great" flavors that go great together.

Also, the way things are going, I feel like Twitch should require a basic criminal background check when you create a new account. . .

 

[Iceman]

Sexual assault and crypto-scams, two "great" flavors that go great together.

Also, the way things are going, I feel like Twitch should require a basic criminal background check when you create a new account. . .

This is one of the problems with anonymity. It’s always going to attract fraudsters and criminals and even convicted criminals can go under the radar and operate freely.

 

[Iceman]

Blizzard president dismisses idea of NFTs - Dot Esports
Steam also banned NFTs I believe so at least some are fighting back against it.

 

[Sithborg]

Not surprising. All companies will fight unionization.

 

[Iceman]

Former Xbox Boss Remembers Microsoft Trying To Buy Blizzard, Westwood Back In The Day

Was such a shame EA got Westwood and sent them to their death. Command and Conquer was an awesome series and I would have loved to still be getting new games in the series.

 

[Iceman]

Not surprising. All companies will fight unionization.

Given the conditions devs seem to work in at most gaming companies they all need union protection.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

This ****in' guy gets around everywhere.



Sandberg continues to be not much better.

 

[Iceman]

Unreal Engine 5 hands-on: the cost of next generation rendering

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

They are a company circling the drain awaiting/needing a buyout like Activision even if they fought off the Vivendi takeover.

 

[Iceman]

So not just gaming companies interested in buying devs/publishers.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Google Play will hide and block downloads for outdated apps starting later this year – TechCrunch

A ton of games were lost when Apple went to 64bit code from 32bit and now it’s about to happen again.

 

[Iceman]

These in-game ads that Microsoft and Sony are cooking up better be non-intrusive.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Mobile phone game ads are very obtrusive. That's what I assume they want to do.

 

[Gee]

*laughs in Pi-hole*

 

[Iceman]

Xbox and Bethesda Showcase Set for June 12 - IGN

 

[Gothamsknight]

Starfield!!!

 

[Iceman]

Mobile phone game ads are very obtrusive. That's what I assume they want to do.

I would hope they aren't quite that dumb. I understand ads could help them make a lot more money without directly charging gamers, but there's no point if it ruins the experience/immersiveness. Maybe keep them for menu screens or on loading up the game. Or even make it so you can choose when to run an ad to get it out the way (ideally before you start playing properly).

 

[Iceman]

Starfield!!!

Yep, no doubt that's going to be a major focus. Looking forward to extended gameplay (would be a riot otherwise lol).

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Yuji Naka was removed as Balan Wonderworld director half a year before release, claims game was “unfinished” - Gematsu
Sonic the Hedgehog creator sounds off on Square Enix.

Square Enix does remove a lot of project heads when they take too long/too much money. They even did it with Final Fantasy XV, where it started out under Nomura and then Tabata who later 'quit' during the development of the DLCs.