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Eh, it depends. Note that Embracer didn't buy Onoma specifically, they bought it as part of a package from Square-Enix. Its perfectly believable that they can be "studio friendly" and still find that one part of a package purchase wasn't actually worth saving. Rebranding is easy and can begin planning before you even own a company, and before you've gotten the chance to do a deep dive organizational survey to see what the company's structure and assets and problems are. Its just embarrassing if you do the rebrand only to have another division of your conglomerate finish their audit and go "Nothing this studio can do is even close to worth keeping them around. Disband them and reassign employees and IP elsewhere."
 
Eh, it depends. Note that Embracer didn't buy Onoma specifically, they bought it as part of a package from Square-Enix. Its perfectly believable that they can be "studio friendly" and still find that one part of a package purchase wasn't actually worth saving. Rebranding is easy and can begin planning before you even own a company, and before you've gotten the chance to do a deep dive organizational survey to see what the company's structure and assets and problems are. Its just embarrassing if you do the rebrand only to have another division of your conglomerate finish their audit and go "Nothing this studio can do is even close to worth keeping them around. Disband them and reassign employees and IP elsewhere."
Yeah, the timing was very unfortunate! Good to hear that some of the staff were moved to other divisions but hope anyone who wasn’t is ok.
 
Couldn’t find a thread for this but probably not worth making one just for this. The first one was a fun game in coop, especially whenever we had 4 people.

Dead Island 2 delayed yet again
 
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.



Yuji Naka arrested in Dragon Quest Tact insider trading scandal - Gematsu
Naka said to have purchased 2.8 million yen in Aiming shares ahead of game's announcement.
 
Mega Todd Howard interview



Subjects covered and time stamps below in case anyone wants to only listen to one or 2
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0:55 - Simulation 2:51 - NPCs 11:42 - Daggerfall and Arena 19:55 - Bethesda 28:19 - Video game graphics 34:38 - The essence of a video game 39:27 - Redguard 44:27 - Creating open worlds 52:06 - Superintelligent NPCs 57:00 - Starfield 1:16:42 - The Elder Scrolls 6 1:36:03 - Fallout 1:43:11 - Character creation 1:48:13 - Quests & items 2:01:58 - Xbox 2:07:24 - Greatest game of all time 2:17:40 - Day in the life 2:25:34 - Advice for young people 2:29:02 - Fallout TV show 2:33:34 - Indiana Jones game 2:39:46 - Meaning of life
 
There ain't no drama like Smash Bros drama.

sigh

If the community hasn't been shown to be so terrible, I would almost feel sympathetic.
 
There ain't no drama like Smash Bros drama.

sigh

If the community hasn't been shown to be so terrible, I would almost feel sympathetic.
What happened?
 
Looks like one e-sports organization is abusing Nintendo's proclivities in regards to competitive Smash to shut down the competition.
Oh yeah just read up a bit about it. Nintendo are next level when it comes to exerting ownership even at the expense of fans. I didn't realise the community was terrible though. Certainly seems like high drama lol.
 

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