The disturbing images of Ashraf Haziq being mugged shocked the population and have become iconic of the thuggery seen over the past few days. SCEE Marketing Director Alan Duncan wishes to help Haziq by replacing his stolen PSP
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.
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" -
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"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
yea, i saw this yesterday and i was completely in disgust of what i seen.. so messed up.
Its absolutely shocking. Poor lad was obviously dazed with his injuries and these hooligans just have no remorse stealing his stuff. Unbelievable.
This person should be the first person to get a vita. It disgraceful that this had to happen to him and lets hope these people are caught.
Yeah, but who's going to break the knee caps of the bastards who took it in the first place? At the very least were they caught?
That video really pissed me off. Those thugs are the true scum of the earth.
Glad SCEE is doing this.