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ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end

Here’s hoping! Not only has it ruined a lot of once-smaller games, but it’s also largely responsible for ballooning development budgets, so let’s get that down to something sustainable.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end

Not so much the size it takes up on your drive, he’s referring to the breadth and scope of the game itself.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

The opening moments of the story are about intense racism over the most minute differences.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w The price of the PS5 Pro “has not had a negative impact” on console sales, says Sony president - GAMESCENSOR

More than the actual demand for them, as they’re reselling at a loss.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

Indicators are showing that Dragon Age is selling just fine. And it’s not like they get to their planning meeting and ask, “Can we spend some more time on the game design? It’s got real problems,” only to be met with, “No, we’ve got to really focus on diversity this quarter.” They’re not related. While I hardly trust Ubisoft to wow audiences with a cool story, it’s not hard to imagine the related struggles that a foreigner and a woman might have to bond over in that setting.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Games to play with my late 40s brothers?

The Quake games (1 and 2) got updated with co-op support and cross play.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

The lead developer of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows is in Quebec. And does it not matter that it’s based on a historical figure? Consider also that in California, you’re just more likely to encounter a diverse group of people, so wouldn’t that just be representing the world around them?

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

Your precise Google Trends inputs are precisely what I took issue with, because they’re a bad sample set for reasons that I pointed out.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

If you want to talk about an honest discussion, consider the sample set you plugged into your search. You didn’t go through two years of articles on VGC or GameSpot. You plugged indiscriminate search criteria into an AI. We just had a discussion a few days ago about how mainstream media is not covering major gaming news, but if you’re reading gaming news outlets, it’s been layoffs for the past two years dominating the news. Gaming news outlets would have very little reason to ever use the word “hunger”, for instance, and “transgender” would apply to far more articles than those about fictional characters.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

There were more articles covering game character sexuality than the mass lay offs of the last two years that left entire families without sustenance.

No, there absolutely weren’t.

Schreier’s politics come out in his writing as well as social media. The drum he’s been beating for a long time has been about labor and unionizing.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you

Not just in games, but often times the point of the story’s fake politics is to be a parable for real politics. But that’s also the fun of it, even if you disagree with the story’s intended message.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them

It’s extremely rare for a delisted game to be removed from your library, and they only do it in cases where, for instance, the game would literally be unplayable because the server isn’t there anymore. Often times they won’t remove the game from your library in that situation either. Having the game in your library is, in fact, enough.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

Anyone who wants to know more about what people are responding to in the industry.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

But they don’t have any false expectations of making hundreds of millions of dollars, betting everything they have that it will.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

They voted for a handful of them, and then violently voted against the next thousand.