It’s definitely making their job harder on the face of it, but it also differentiates them from other ad companies, so I guess they’re betting on that being a draw for potential clients.
It’s definitely making their job harder on the face of it, but it also differentiates them from other ad companies, so I guess they’re betting on that being a draw for potential clients.
Advertising isn’t going anywhere, so investing in/supporting ways to more ethically serve ads without harvesting private data seems like a good thing?
Start paying attention to the top new & trending Spotify playlists in genres you’re interested in.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I don’t see even a single mention of cloud gaming in the article?
This is about studio closures and a disconnect between MS’s actions and the types of games they say they want.
Mostly agree, except I’ve never liked the dpad on the 360 controller. An XB1 or Series S|X controller is a noticeable step up IMO!
I think BioShock just got grandfathered in through its System Shock lineage.
Except for all the small studios also struggling or going out of business because getting investment right now is really, really hard.
The megacorp closures and redundancies are far from the entire story, they’re just the headline grabbers.
The return on indie games (if there even is a return) is already vanishingly small for 99% of releases - printing and distributing physical copies would just be pouring even more money down the drain.
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And yet that’s exactly how they operate!
Valve: How going boss-free empowered the games-maker
… But you’re right that it is often considered the cause of many of their problems: Valve’s unusual corporate structure causes its problems, report suggests
Wow - Take Two shuttering this studio AND Roll7 (OlliOlli, Rollerdrome) just a month after they announced they’re buying Gearbox for almost half a billion. Absolutely catastrophic mismanagement. What a shitshow.
Can they not just send a DMCA takedown notice to the host of that web server?
Article doesn’t mention this affecting anywhere other than the US. Why is this in world news?
As mentioned in the article, these are all union VAs and their new agreement explicitly protects them from AI being used without their permission.
If it turns out they really did use AI to rework some of the voice lines, there could be a major lawsuit coming…
They should make it so that replying to a comment automatically disables your ability to downvote it.
Would simultaneously prevent people trading downvotes while they argue back and forth, and encourage people to simply ignore trolls and move on without replying.
I once lent a friend at school my copy of Star Wars: Demolition for PS1. Critically panned, looking back, but I loved it! … Got it back a couple of weeks later and the disk was snapped in half. Devastated.
Parents got involved, and he eventually (and reluctantly) had to give me one of his games as compensation. He gave me Mission: Impossible, disk only, no manual. Terrible game. I’m still annoyed.
The pyramids weren’t built with slave labour - common misconception.
Not surprising. He was sadly too divisive to be a widely-popular Labour leader, but afaik he’s well-liked by his actual constituents, and this backs that up.