Dead Island publisher Deep Silver has claimed that it is "much better than the Activision's, EAs, and Ubisofts of the world" because it actually "make(s) money", and attributes Dead Island's success to "some genius marketing... that larger companies wouldn't try".
The details for multiple future Call Of Duty games appear to have leaked, including a follow-up to Advanced Warfare.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
Activision Blizzard ordered to pay $23.4M for patent infringement involving popular games.
I would read the article but the giant pop-ups from the top and bottom of the screen made me close it.
Without reading $23.4 million isn't a deterrent for a company that size.
Boss: Let's fire a few people to recoup on that loss.
Slave: Cortana has decided to get rid of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks.
Boss: Let's get those Firing Letters "Copilot Approved" and send them through the power of the cloud.
Slave: Long Live Phil !!!
ALL in the room: LONG LIVE PHIL !!!!
Well another troll company with a patent trying to extort money out of companies. Seems like they’re going to try and sue everyone.
Well its not that hard to be better than Activision and EA but Ubisoft I dunno. Ubisoft is the lesser of three evils.
Deep Silver Dead Island was decent game that sold well but don't let it go to your head. Riptide is right around the corner, hopefully it won't fall in the same pit-holes that Dead Island did.
Not to mention Saints Row 4 and Metro Last Light. Which I hope turns out well.
Let's not dupe gamers with a heart wrenching trailer that has no thematic relation to the real game. No one will be offended if we send out a half naked, half eaten figurine of a woman to game journalists. No, we are better than other game companies.
That's why they release beta code with source to Steam as a full game?
Deep Silver are not prolific at anything. Say what you like about EA, Ubisoft and Activision, but they all produce far better quality and more interesting games.
I regrettably purchased Dead Island. Sometimes it pays not to get hyped over a game, and read the reviews instead of pre-ordering. Dead Island is a sham of a game. I expected more from the trailer, but instead we get a farcical romp in a Zombie invested generic (Far Cry, Crysis etc) location with so-so graphics.
Deep Silver are lucky they got away with it. Deceptively naming the re-release as 'GOTY' edition. I understand they're a fairly new company. So, when Deep Silver make something universally amazing, then maybe I can take this statement seriously.
*Summary
Deep Silver mislead with that Trailer.
Deep Silver mislead with GOTY lies to get unsuspecting buyers to increase sales.
I DON'T TRUST THIS DIRTY TRICKS PUBLISHER!
Well you are for saying that. Go come up with a good idea and have a crap dev make it. Why compare yourself to someone who probably publish more games in a year then you have made since you started.