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TankovayaDiviziya, (edited ) do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Larian Says Its 'Full Attention' Is on Its Next Game, 'Media Blackout' for the Foreseeable

If the next game is as impeccable as BG3, then this media blackout to create hype is the cleverest marketing move I have ever seen.

Zoomboingding,
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Every studio does this though. “Media Blackout” is just everything up to the reveal trailer.

AlexanderTheDead,

looks back at the 7 year old Elder Scrolls 6 trailer

Zoomboingding,
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It barely qualifies as a teaser, but I concede that.

t_berium, do games w Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K
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Assassin’s Greed

MimicJar, do games w Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Quits YouTube With Final Video Teasing Mystery New Game
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I always knew Sakurai worked hard to deliver high quality games, but after watching this video, it’s insane.

Creating a whole YouTube channel with 260 videos just because he had a few free months. Doing the majority (pre editing) in just a few months, scripting and recording nearly ever video in advance.

Absolutely wild.

BroBot9000, do gaming w Sony Live Service Shooter Concord Debuts to a Tragic 697 Concurrent Players on Steam - IGN
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Games as a service is a scam designed to milk players for every cent.

kratoz29,
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Jet user mentioned some titles, certainly one of those must be decent right? :(

(I haven’t played any).

flop_leash_973, do games w Gothic, Risen, and Elex Dev "Piranha Bytes" Reportedly the Latest Embracer Studio to Shut Down

It has gotten to the point where if you work for a game studio that gets bought out or sold, might as well get ahead of the game and start looking for a new job before they have the chance to fire you.

TSG_Asmodeus,

Before I left the industry in 2022 this is exactly what we did. Only it’s more often when a project is finished.

TheTetrapod, do gaming w Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date

Reminder that the SC episode of Down the Rabbit Hole came out 7 years ago.

ZombieMantis,
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TheTetrapod,

8

Kolanaki,
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Dedication. 🤣

ZombieMantis,
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👏 I’ll have to go rewatch it.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

So basically they shut down their games actively being developed or games like NieR Reincarnation (I am legitimately upset they did not patch it to work offline, that was a great game that died yesterday) just so they could claim a loss. This is likely for tax reasons, if I had to guess.

philycheeze,

From the looks of things, Warner Bros was just the beginning of this practice.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Nah, companies have been doing similar practices for ages. Its just they’re being more public about it now.

kbin_space_program,

Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.

Starkstruck,

I still don’t understand how even with a tax write off they make more money than if they actually sold the damn thing.

wahming, do gaming w Hollow Knight: Silksong Got an Xbox Store Page on April Fools Day and Fans Don't Know How to Feel - IGN

The entire ‘article’ consists of screenshots of twitter and reddit posts. Jeez.

Manos, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

Has it not mooned yet? Apes must be in shambles.

muse,
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More importantly, hows AMC and silver doing? Truly those will make us rich

Templa,

MOASS!!! 😵‍💫

Moneo,

That subreddit was simultaneously the funniest and creepiest subreddit I’ve ever visited. It’s hilarious how sure they are that they will all be billionaires but I always got the creeps when thinking about how I was reading the comments from a bunch of people just throwing their life savings down the toilet.

muse,
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If it's any consolation, i feel a heavy dose of those posters weren't buying anything. "Bought another 700 this week on the dip!"

Sure you did, bud. You're totally not trying to make more bagholders.

ramble81,

I bought a few thousand dollars because I could and I’m just sitting on it because I’m very curious what’s going to happen. I really believe the float has been locked up for a while and there’s some serious shenanigans going on. I either will strike it rich or at some point throw in the towel and write off the losses on my taxes. But I look back at when everyone wrote off Bitcoin and look at it now.

snugglesthefalse, do games w World of Warcraft Subscription Numbers Are Higher Now Than at Expansion Launch in a Franchise First

I’m happy, I finished the burning crusade story and got out. No more blizzard from me, probably ever.

Anticorp,

WotLK was pretty great. Cataclysm was okay, the beginning of the end IMO.

Squirrel,
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I know I’m in the minority, but I absolutely loved MoP. It’s probably my favorite expansion.

captain_oni,

Same! The music, the lore, the fact that the factions were starting to realize their conflict is manufactured and doesn’t make any sense anymore.

Also, I really liked some of the qol changes.

MeekerThanBeaker, do games w Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code)

Guess they are trying to get every sale possible as this likely won’t do well. A shame really. Really enjoyed the Arkham series.

I’m guessing it’ll be in the 40s range on Metacritic once all said and done.

Vordus,

It’s Rocksteady, so it’ll be higher than 40s. Heck, it’s almost impossible to get a score lower than 40 on metacritic…

Mid 60s I’m guessing, perhaps as high as 69 if reviewers are feeling generous. The kind of score which would be absolutely fine if it were a cheap and cheerful B-game made by a scrappy team of underfunded devs, but which is an absolute embarrassment when applied to a multi million dollar tentpole. The kind of score that implies ‘meh’.

MeekerThanBeaker,

Could be right… though it went from me wanting to get this around launch day to… let’s hope it’s on GamePass. My backlog of games also helps me to wait on this one.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Getting an Offline Mode After Release, Rocksteady Confirms - IGN

AFTER release…how convenient

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Getting an Offline Mode After Release, Rocksteady Confirms - IGN
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Oh, really? In that case let me pre-order it right away. Of course they will deliver on an empty promise!

deegeese, do games w Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators

People are just the worst.

TubeTalkerX,

Right you are fellow Algorithm!

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w Bungie Devs Say Atmosphere Is ‘Soul-Crushing’ Amid Layoffs, Cuts, and Fear of Total Sony Takeover - IGN

was with this threat looming that Bungie leadership - not Sony, according to Parsons - made the choice to lay off roughly 100 employees last month.

But the cost-cutting at Bungie isn’t limited to just personnel. Multiple current employees confirmed to IGN that the company has implemented numerous other cost-cutting measures recently, including a studio-wide hiring freeze, reduced travel budgets, elimination of holiday bonuses, keeping its annual Bungie Day virtual, delaying its weeklong company “Pentathalon” event to next December, and reducing numerous morale events such as cooking and knitting classes from monthly to quarterly. Bungie is also pausing or fully ending benefits like annual employee compensation adjustments to meet market rates, its new hire lunch program, employee donation matching, its peer recognition program, and gift cards for employees birthdays.

Aremel,

So Bungie is officially dead

BrowseMan,

Whouah, okay so all the good things removed.

Fuck the employees I guess?

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