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Paradachshund, do games w Embracer sells Borderlands maker Gearbox to Take-Two Interactive for $460 million

It’s not gonna stop. They’re literally just a holdings company that has publicly said they will always act to maximize shareholder value. That’s it’s. That’s all they do. they’re not a game company.

rustyfish, do games w Report: Bungie CEO blames layoffs on waning interest in Destiny 2
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

A lot of us left because we weren’t satisfied with the dropping quality. Let’s see how you firing the QA will work out for you, chief.

LUHG_HANI,
@LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

So you don’t like running solo Master Dungeons and then being kicked to orbit right at the end?

So you don’t like running master dungeons and then being wiped from being crushed by an invisible wall?

Sounds like you don’t have Stockholm syndrome.

Kelly, do games w Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails

“That being said, I want to call out the way Unity chose to communicate these layoffs. Receiving a 5am email from ‘noreply@unity’ informing me that my role was being ‘eliminated’ and that I’d lose system access by the end of the day felt completely abrupt and impersonal. Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times like this.”

Ouch

coriza,

Oh the irony, they are almost there. Trying to appeal to empathy and humanity of a corporation in the same breath that they acknowledge the lack of it.

There is no humane nature intrinsic in corporations. People need to stop humanizing it. Treat it like It is, know that you are being taken advantage of, you are being squeased, extracted of every value you can give and then discarted.

TriflingToad, do games w U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation

gee thanks, glad I get fair representation on the laws in the ‘land of the free’

RangerJosie,
@RangerJosie@lemmy.world avatar
werefreeatlast,

Only if you match whoever the actual electors pick as president. Then yes.

Underwaterbob, do games w Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity

Godot is awesome. I hope all the attention that has been spewed upon them thanks to Unity’s fuck up doesn’t spoil it.

mechoman444, do gaming w Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States'

My heart goes out to the parents of this horrible tragedy and they deserve compensation for their torment.

But this just feels like a sleazy law firm looking for a quick settlement by exploiting the emotional turmoil this horrible event has caused.

ICastFist, do gaming w Roblox awards canceled, dev arrested after "security concern"
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

The arrested Roblox developer was later identified as Mikhail Jacob Olson, also known as Simbuilder. Per the Chronicle, Olson was taken in (and later charged) for having a concealed firearm in his vehicle, along with “possession of armor-piercing munition and a large capacity magazine activity.”

Fuck, the dude was ready to commit mass murder. Anyone got more details on him and/or why he might have wanted to kill people there?

Zevlen, (edited )

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  • ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    Are you familiar with roblox

    Yes

    and the controversy around it?

    Do you know how little that narrows it down? There was also the controversy around them essentially exploiting free child labor - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

    Zevlen, (edited )

    vlipsy.com/vlip/joker-laughing-31f4PskT

    Stay sassy; I love it! 😉

    ShaunaTheDead,
    @ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social avatar

    God that video (and the follow up to it) are infuriating and disgusting that such a company can continue to exist.

    Catastrophic235, (edited )
    @Catastrophic235@midwest.social avatar

    That really doesn’t do anything at all to explain why one of the devs would get arrested for brandishing(?) A handgun. Literally conveys no other information other than “Roblox devs bad”, same thing is true of the rest of this thread now that I think of it.

    Like just going off the title, that could be describing a would-be mass murderer who got foiled as easily as it could be describing some guy who just forgot to take off his conceal carry and the wrong person realized before he did.

    brie,

    No idea why he had the gun, but for context, California defines large capacity as anything more than 11 rounds, which makes many standard handgun magazines large capacity.

    snowbell,
    @snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

    I have to wonder what kind of ammo that is really, I’m a firearms enthusiast and have never seen armor piercing ammo for sale anywhere. Pretty sure it is illegal everywhere.

    TexMexBazooka,

    I’m curious what kind of firearm it was

    Pregnenolone, do games w Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI

    Common Tim Sweeney L

    regbin_,

    This is actually ultra rare Tim Sweeney W.

    No need to act like it’s breaking copyright laws when in it’s current state it’s not even defined.

    theangriestbird, do gaming w Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld

    The three patents—all filed in Japan between May and July 2024—draw similarities between Palworld and 2022’s 2022’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus specifically. Their descriptions concern game mechanics like “riding an object” or throwing a ball to capture and possess a character in virtual spaces.

    Wait…so the patents didn’t even exist when Palworld was released into EA? or am I missing something?

    Telorand,

    You’re not, but there’s a preexisting patent, and these three are basically extensions of that patent.

    Essentially, Palworld needed to know what supplementary patents Nintendo was going to file in the future in Japan so they didn’t run afoul of the patent from the past. You know, textbook legal psychic stuff, really. /s

    I hope Nintendo hurts itself in its confusion as its lawyers flail before the Japanese courts.

    NakariLexfortaine,

    Has Phoenix Wright been a documentary about the Japanese legal system this entire time, and we just wrote it off?

    Telorand,

    Tbh, if this is how Japan does patent law, it’s a wonder they have as much technological progress as they do.

    TanyaJLaird,

    Japan is a country that has been living in the year 2005 since 1985.

    authorinthedark,

    that’s what I was told

    captain_oni,

    "Oh, haven’t they told you, palworld? That patent report is O U T D A T E D

    ampersandrew, do games w 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    There was an article from years back, I want to say around 2019 or so on then-Gamasutra, about how it was already too late to stop the bubble from bursting because all of these games are trying to get everyone’s attention (I’m having trouble finding it now). Now the bubble is bursting, and big games these days have dev cycles of about 5 years, putting us right here in 2024. Get dev cycles to 3 years or less so that you can actually react to changing market conditions, and charge a fair price for a good product. Maybe sequel it or otherwise make regular old expansion DLC. That was sustainable. No one even makes a multiplayer game anymore unless it’s intended to be rigorously competitively balanced or suck up all of your time and money through grinding.

    ryathal,

    Everyone wants WoW levels of income without WoW levels of effort.

    I also don’t think companies realized how competitive live services are, very few people will buy in to more than one live service at a time.

    VaultBoyNewVegas,

    It took WoW near a decade to make as much as it does though. MMO’s aren’t exactly profitable in the early years.

    NaibofTabr,

    Get dev cycles to 3 years or less so that you can actually react to changing market conditions, and charge a fair price for a good product.

    This industry’s already killing people with overwork and stress. Increasing the time pressure isn’t going to improve the quality or bring the price down.

    We don’t need faster game development, there are already more games out there than anyone could play. We (the market) need to encourage quality over quantity.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    The industry kept making games bigger that would have been better off if they’d stayed smaller. I’m not saying to make the games they make now in less time. I’m saying stop making games that take 5 years to make and instead make games that take 3 years to make.

    billiam0202,

    We (the market) need to encourage quality over quantity.

    But how will I get the dopamine hit and instant gratification the first time I start a new game?

    ours,

    You’ve described the AA/indie scene which took the chunk of the market big publishers abandoned including whole genres of games.

    The problem is investors saw the line go way up, passing even Hollywood so to keep it riding forever they apply Hollywood-sized solutions.

    Except you can’t just shuffle live services a few weeks around another so you can milk the box office. They want us to spend all our time in their game services so people will pick one game for a time so they are cannibalizing each other and eroding trust as games fail and abandon the players that did buy into them.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    And what you’re describing is the economic realities of a bubble bursting, which means they have to pivot to making something sustainable that the market actually wants. That doesn’t mean AA or indie exclusively. It does mean smaller scope. Halo and Gears of War could be created much faster when they were linear games, and now they’re both open world and arguably worse off for it.

    danc4498, do games w Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity

    I had to delete this game from my phone cause I couldn’t stop playing it…

    ABCDE,

    Don’t get Balatro.

    danc4498,

    Not in iPhone yet luckily!

    sag,

    Help. I am addicted to Gambling

    newthrowaway20, do games w Report: Embracer cancels Eidos' unannounced Deus Ex project, lays off staff

    Oh that’s a real shame, the Deus Ex games were a lot of fun.

    TheEntity,
    halendos,

    Jesus Christ, Denton!

    altima_neo,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    What a shame.

    He was a good game.

    LucasWaffyWaf,

    lip smack

    What a rotten way to die.

    alyaza, do gaming w Embark Studios' The Finals uses text-to-speech AI for in-game voices
    @alyaza@beehaw.org avatar

    unsurprisingly, these lines sound like total shit.

    Pistcow,

    ow, my robit balls

    VulcanDeathGrip,

    Really? I find them totally fine. Pretty impressive really when you take scope and responsiveness into account.

    JoMiran, do games w Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games
    @JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

    I suspect that Unreal 5 is going to make Epic so much money in the coming years. Taking 5% after the first million dollars doesn’t seem like a lot until you remember that the next Witcher and Cyberpunk are both Unreal 5 developments.

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    Cyberpunk made a million dollars?

    hansl,

    That’s sarcasm, right?

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    I love that you get me.

    AngryCommieKender,
    SaltySalamander,
    @SaltySalamander@kbin.social avatar

    Many, many millions of dollars.

    MrMcGasion,

    The next mainline Tomb Raider game is also going to be Unreal 5. That is if Embracer hasn’t bankrupted themselves or sold Edios/Crystal Dynamics before then (although I’d be thrilled if that happened).

    Rin, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

    Sussy, but i’m glad

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