A corporation founded during the Showa era will always be anal retentive about intellectual property.
(Nintendo was and still a company making playing cards for decades before it found its bread and butter on handhelds then consoles; Disney was already in the marketing and merchandising game by the 1930s.)
They see modding their games as a shameful behavior
Seems some of them are avowed purists.
They also think modding is a form of cheating, as in supposedly breaking the game mechanics, forgetting that some games are good visually but have awful difficulty or needing more immersion.
Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company’s shares and...
Turnover is so fucking high in that industry, anyone working in there now should have their CVs constantly ready in case they’re marked for retrenchment or layoff. Given the suits constant desire for pure profit, anyone wishing to apply for the big leagues should be thinking twice about this.
“For quality games media, I continue to believe that the best form of stability is dedicated reader bases to remove reliance on funds, and a hybrid of direct reader funding and advertisements. If people want to keep reading quality content from full time professionals, they need to support it or lose it. That’s never been...
It’s so bad now that nearly all the articles are mainly clickbait or written to favor a particular game (no matter how mediocre), and someone had to create what’s called Saved You A Click.
Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos (thegamepost.com)
Sony is begging you: please forget about concord
Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading (www.pcgamer.com)
Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company’s shares and...
Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting (bsky.app)
More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
“For quality games media, I continue to believe that the best form of stability is dedicated reader bases to remove reliance on funds, and a hybrid of direct reader funding and advertisements. If people want to keep reading quality content from full time professionals, they need to support it or lose it. That’s never been...
Why would I buy this?
So I see this game. Let me sum up what I actually see:...
Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement (www.notebookcheck.net)
Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital (www.pcgamer.com)
Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy (www.eurogamer.net)