By Eric Monacelli: "As we did in 2012, we’ll have a large pack of Dogs giving talks at GDC 2014. We just wrapped up The Last of Us: Left Behind to universal critical acclaim. It currently has a score of 89 on Metacritic, making it the highest rated PS3 downloadable content ever. We also recently received five BAFTA awards, including the coveted Best Game in 2014, for our work on The Last of Us"
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.
Welldone ND. Best Devs last Gen in my book. Keep your 'A-Game' going forward with the PS4. Not least because Ready At Dawn are gunning for your Crown :)
They indeed are the best developers of the PS3/Xbox360 generation! Can't wait to see what they do with Uncharted!
I love naughty dog I hope they start working on The Last of Us 2 after uncharted 4. There is so many stories to tell in The Last of Us universe.
Just finished Left Behind today and just like TLOU is told a touching story, it was nice to relive the experience since I haven't played the TLOU since summer 2013, discovering the relationship that Ellie and Riley had was amazing. And like TLOU, left behinds ending left me wanting more! I just wonder what happened to Riley?...
Unveil Uncharted at GDC Please!!!