Google is the gateway to the internet, it’s how most people find websites, news and interesting coverage. For site owners, it’s a vital source of traffic that can guarantee the life or death of the site – gain the number one slot on Google for an important term and millions of readers will flood in. In the games industry, these important terms include phrases like “PS4 news”, “Xbox 720 news” and “PlayStation news”. - PSLS
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.
Wardens Rising is looking like a promising new take on the ARPG genre, especially when played with friends.
These are sad practices for sites to use....
It's true. Google needs to do a better job at finding the quality content to match to the person searching. And instead it just matches whoever has the most backlinks, causing many sites to use shady backlinking practices.
What a joke. TechRadar can DIAF.
That sucks. The only way to combat this is to try and duplicate their results but with better content.
It's dog eat dawg on them internets :(