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ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks

Is that not just a reflection of how popular it is and the incentives that players have to not lose and not just the desire to win? As opposed to a deathmatch or ranked game, you actually lose stuff when you lose in this game, right? Is there anything you could reasonably ask of this developer that isn’t just inevitable for this game design?

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks

Is there a modern popular shooter that doesn’t have a cheating problem? And if so, what are they doing differently?

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w I Hope that Fantasy Gives us Strength – Metaphor ReFantazio Review & Analysis

It’s kind of weird that this analysis of Metaphor gave no analysis of the metaphor itself.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare

Making the rest of the video game.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Here’s a pretty good summary from a few years ago.. While her byline is full of articles reporting what everyone else is in games, she’s also one of the few who will break stories as well.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Rebekah Valentine is a top tier games journalist doing reporting for IGN.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

It’s the part where the Switch 1 hasn’t gone down in price that the article is talking about.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

You didn’t even mention Epic’s giveaways or the games that come with a month of Amazon Prime. If you needed a gaming library in a hurry, there are great games given away for free or cheap on PC all the time.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

There’s a very good couple of paragraphs in this article showing where the likely culprits are in the pricing of these consoles. There’s about as much competition now as there has been for the past four decades, but Moore’s Law has broken down.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?

Ctrl+F for “Descenders” came up empty. I think that’s the author’s issue.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II did this really well just this year. Largely a story about contrasting a desire for adventure with the horrors and realities of war, it also has quests that are full of comedy. You can try to attract a pack of wolves using what the shepherd refers to as his absolute dumbest sheep; you can get blackout drunk with a band of mercenaries who may or may not have killed your childhood friends; you can clean up and decorate a crypt full of loose bones for a man who speaks only in rhymes, poorly, and might be a ghost.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Well, the difference is that now you’re paying for it by viewing ads and, down to personal preference, a worse product. With commercial interruptions, you’re saying how much your time is worth, if nothing else. In any case, yes, that’s worth it to a lot of people, and it gives niche creators power over their current or former bosses.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

“Whaling for media figures” is just paying for the quality product you want.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

See, that’s just it. This entire business doesn’t survive on ad revenue anymore. Everything that isn’t Gamespot and IGN have folded, because the money that used to be there in ads isn’t there anymore. Subscriptions are what keep companies like this sustainable and afloat. Kinda Funny came from former IGN employees, and they knew the power they had to bring their audience to them rather than surrendering to the whims of IGN. Digital Foundry, Giant Bomb, Video Games Chronicle, MinnMax, GamesBeat, Aftermath…they all transitioned to doing this.

ampersandrew, 2 miesiące temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

If people were powerless to the whims of a corporation, Kinda Funny wouldn’t exist, but if you believe you’re powerless, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.