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Jade Raymond interview – ‘I want a game where walking to the bus stop is a challenge’

GameCentral speaks to the only prominent female exec in the games business, about heading up Ubisoft Toronto, making video game movies, and the trouble with sequels.

NegativeCreep4274337d ago (Edited 4337d ago )

You're a sexist pig

You should respect her for her mind! Even though she clearly dolls herself up for these publicized photos by having professional makeup work done and poses for the camera like shes creating a modeling portfolio, you should still respect her mind!

Hot women that flaunt their looks for exposure get no respect...its so sad this sexist world we live in...*sobs*

pompombrum4337d ago

Jebus Christ, you having a bad day or something? All he said was it's a good picture of her, no need to go on some feminist rant.

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cleft54337d ago (Edited 4337d ago )

He is being sarcastic and behaving like everyone else that gets upset when a good looking picture of women or female game characters are shown. Of course sarcasm doesn't go all that well with the internet.

NegativeCreep4274337d ago (Edited 4337d ago )

Good God u guys are as thick as a brick. (Except cleft5)

U guys only read the first line? Its called "sarcasm" kids. If you're new to the internet or the english language u better learn to recognize it now.

NewMonday4337d ago

@NegativeCreep427

you need to use "/S" because some people have trouble perceiving it.

;p

Rob_From_GopRant4337d ago (Edited 4337d ago )

What makes you think i dont respect her mind. All i said that is a good picture of her. I've been following her work for years and respect her accomplishments. My boss is a female from a fortune 500 company and I recently told her -"that is a good picture of her" - when she sent me an email with her child. Am i sexist then.

When a woman sees a picture of a male CEO and says thats a good picture of him. Is that sexist. They are just acknowledging thats a good picture.

You need to relax.

@negativecreep427 - My bad i just got the sarcasm part. LOL.

My job makes me read every word as important. Legal stuff. So i guess i dont know sarcasm online. LOL

starchild4337d ago (Edited 4337d ago )

Well, you SHOULD respect her for her mind. But that doesn't mean that you can't also appreciate how attractive she is.

Dagobert4337d ago

Why are there so many disagrees? The first sentence itself is filled with sarcasm.

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ziggurcat4337d ago

off topic: is there ever a bad picture of her?

on topic: as someone below said - QWOP

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Gster4337d ago

@aiBreeze Maybe his name has something to do with his nature !

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Fireseed4337d ago

Set it to Woodkid's "Run Boy Run" and make it about the perils of bullying and I'd be interested.

Drithe4337d ago

I admit the only reason I looked at this is because Jade is hawt!

creatchee4337d ago

QWOP makes walking difficult.

JsonHenry4337d ago

So a sim of living in Chicago?

NewMonday4337d ago

in Rio or Capetown you need a tank escort to get around.

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Report: Inside Ubisoft's Project Renaissance, a Cancelled Minecraft-Like Voxel Game

In recent years, Ubisoft has canceled several games, one of them being a project code-named Renaissance.

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Jade Raymond Has Left Haven Studios, The PlayStation-owned Studio She Founded

Veteran producer Jade Raymond has left Haven Studios, the company she founded in 2021.

According to a new report by Bloomberg, Raymond – who rose to prominence after producing Assassin’s Creed and executive producing Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines and Watch Dogs – has left her studio, which is still in the process of developing online shooter Fairgames.

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Obscure_Observer45d ago

Jesus Christ man...Unbelievable!

I can´t believe that Playstation Studios can´t manage to develop and deliver ONE single successful high quality first party LS game throughout the whole current generation!

Hermen Hulst needs to be fired ASAP! He´s Jimbo 2.0!

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S2Killinit45d ago

Sure buddy. Don’t forget, we have everything you have, but more. 😝

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Lightning7745d ago

Can you stop the fanboying for 2 seconds? Seriously this deflecting and ignoring everything that's going on with Sony's first party the past few years is frustrating and ignorant. You know there's others who have a PS also and want Sony's best like we use to get right? Stop trying to ruin it for everyone else with side steps. Not this BS deflecting that you ppl constantly do.

Besides HD what other LS game thrived so far? Has Herman made good buissness choices and decisions when it comes to LS yes or no?

Start questioning PS Studios.

S2Killinit45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

@Lightning
Fanboy? You talking about me, or yourself? We got alt guy over here with his brand new account burning up from rage, and you are asking me stop “fan boying”?

Sony have at least 3 first party heavy hitters coming up, that we know of, and its not like we are lacking in exclusives department.

As to LS, they had Helldivers, and GT7, both were resounding success. They had a complete flop in concord. Not sure why you think we need to be concerned. They are destroying the competition and that market share translates to games.

Lightning7745d ago

"Fanboy? You talking about me, or yourself?"

What's are you talking about how am I a fanboy? Those alt counts will be gone nobody will see them anyway.

I wouldn't call Marathon a heavy hitter and Yotei yes definitely. However they do have DS2 I just feel like there should be more. We all know why there isn't more.

They only have two LS HD as I mentioned and I totally forgot about Grand Turismo. Only 2 While canceling Twisted Metal and Spiderman LS. Who knows the quality at least those games sound compelling.

Btw MLB isn't a live service its a Yearly released sports game.

DodoDojo45d ago

Only one LS flop? Were just going to ignore all the canceled LS games that were in development for years? Ok then.

Reaper22_45d ago

More? Oh, you must mean Concord.🤭

darthv7245d ago (Edited 45d ago )

@S2... does that mean you are thankful for XB games? Who'd of thought MS helping to keep PS [only] fans fed during these trying times.

S2Killinit45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

@Lightning
you womt call it a heavyhitter? Really, interesting. There is also intergalactic. Sonyes there will be more.

@darth
Why would I complain about xbox exclusives being playable on PlayStation? I mean xbox really didnt have a lot throughout the years but that doesnt mean they didn’t have anything at all. I normally dont like bro-dude games with bulky dudes, but I may actually play gears of war if just to try it. (Assuming the games arent too outdated at this point)

Redgrave45d ago

Listen,

I am as Sony bred as they come, never owned an Xbox of any kind, Playstation first and foremost even over Nintendo, and a PS+ Premium member. I have put 90% of my gaming time into the past 4 generations of Playstation since the PS2.

Sitting here presently, I find myself asking why I bought a PS5 instead of going PC. I can't think of one single game put out exclusively for PS5 by Sony that has made me glad to have the console.

There have been third party games, like FF7 Rebirth and Expedition 33 that have given me the "hell yeah" feeling about the purchase, but nothing Sony has done. It's been either remasters, the Last of Us again, or attempted Live Service slop that nobody asked for and either couldn't even make it to the table or died out as soon as it did.

There's no true "it" game. Returnal, GoW Ragnorok, and Horizon are all good games, terrific even. But are they truly system seller worthy?

If this direction continues onwards as blaring as it has been, I can't see myself getting a PS6. Ps+ is extremely expensive for no real reason, at $230 + tax for tier that pumps out classics that are more hit than miss. Remasters outnumber exclusives 10 to 1, and we have another Concord game that will likely fair exactly the same and just have been several years of improperly guided directions away from what put Sony on the map in the first place. Buying Bluepoint and sticking them on a live service God of War game? How can you defend that kind of decision making?

We don't have "anything you have" and more. It sucks just as much on PS as Xbox because WTF are we paying all this money for? I haven't seen the monthly offerings surge in quality since the last two psn price hikes and I already brought up Premiums current state. To get games nobody asked for or wants? To be PC port playtesters?

None of us are eating good except PC users, and for them it actually pays to be patient.

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VenomUK45d ago

Sony helped finance Jade Raymond to set up her own studio, then bought it. So even though Haven has yet to release a single game, whatever happened she's made millions. Not bad!

crazyCoconuts45d ago

I don't really care about LS, but the overall output for the last 1.5 years has dropped dramatically, along with the transparency on what teams have teed up. Sounds like a mess over there.

Sonic188145d ago

Blame Jim Ryan for Fair Games

kayoss45d ago

That's rich coming from you. An xbox lover but yet support a console that havent develop and deliver ONE single successful High quality first party game throughout its entire two generations of consoles.

Aloymetal45d ago

Bingo!
The nerve on these green fanatics. They have a weird sense of reality.

Obscure_Observer45d ago

"An xbox lover but yet support a console that havent develop and deliver ONE single successful High quality first party game throughout its entire two generations of consoles."

Hmm... Not from what I been seeing and hearing from actual Playstation players and Playstation Store sales stats.

MIDGETonSTILTS1745d ago

Helldivers 2 is a massive success, and you’re ignoring it.

And, when the competition doesn’t bring anything to the table themselves, a handful of games like Helldivers 2 and Returnal are enough to win the competition.

You can’t win a console war if you don’t compete with games. Xbox lowered the bar for Sony, and I blame Xbox for that.

SCW198245d ago

She leaves every studio she goes to before a single game is released. Do some research

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Lightning7745d ago

Yeah hate to break it to you Sony but I think they need to shelve their LS efforts almost all together. They formed LFG ex Bungie guys and making another LS but I don't have much hope for it anymore. Marathon is quickly getting overshadowed by Arch Raiders, We all know what happened to Concord.

Only solution I can think of is have 3rd party like a Arrowhead make them a LS game. Speaking of AH their next project is completely funded by them so it won't be from them. I just think it's a good idea that they seek a 3rd party for LS. They'll save time, money and won't take time away their SP efforts. Which is suffering immensely this gen due to all this LS.

S2Killinit45d ago

Wait we are writing off games that arent even out yet?

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Lightning7745d ago (Edited 45d ago )

It might come out it might not. Sony said they're still pushing the project. That's a good thing. Even if it does come out will it be any good? There's too many questions and hurdles surrounding the LS.

Bigger question when are we gonna see it? Will they have a PS showcase or State Of Play? Grubb said Sony was debating whether to have a showcase, SOP or anything.

I sure hope they have a showcase or something in the coming weeks. I want Sony first party and their teams not just Xbox events and shows basically saving the damn day at this point.

Of all the companies it's freakin Xbox that's doing it. Who'd a thought.

S2Killinit45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

Look at alt guy with 3 comments history over here.

Desperate.

Johnh522345d ago

Playstation its ok you have more xbox games to play :)

Loktai45d ago

All those games were already on PC anyway. They're only so easy to port because PlayStation has literally copied Sonys architecture for multiple generations, just worse / corners cut (XBSX still doesnt have the fill rate of a base PS5 due to clocks, and it shows)

Sonyslave345d ago

Live services games are hard to make & and even harder to make if you trying to create an original game.

Just copy and past succesful gaas or gacha games with their anime license they can easy make a overwatch or geshin impact clone.

DarXyde45d ago

This is actually good advice.

Not that I condone live service games, but if they're trying to succeed, this is sound.

Miraak82 45d ago

I think they should use some of their Ips to test the waters instead of creating something from the ground up , I think something LittBigPlanet would be I good contender but instead of DLC they just put out new Pass ever few months with new costumes,building materials and developer created content . Warhawk could be a good contender for a battle royal . The reason HD2 2 succeeded was because it wasn't directly competing with anything else.

goken45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

Not necessarily… MiHoYo have quite consistently successfully hit it out of the park.
Fate Grand order is a LS game is even owned by Sony.

Sony needs to stop with the arena shooters and get creative

Inverno45d ago

Its funny how the excuse is always "games are hard to make". Sure on a technical level they take weeks/months/years, but ideas aren't all that hard to come up with, nor hard to figure out that they might not work well as a games concept. That's why they prototype these ideas. What's weird to me is how so many service games go into development for years and no one seems to come to the conclusion that it's turning out bad. That and how slow devs are these days. You watch docs on game development on older games and devs talk about figurine out mechanics in just a few days. Now it takes a dev a year to texture something.

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16 Ubisoft Titles Can Now Be Purchased on The Xbox PC Store

In a very intriguing and interesting move, 16 Ubisoft titles can now be purchased on the Xbox PC Store. Of course, this is a first as Ubisoft PC titles have never been purchasable on the Xbox PC Store previously.

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jznrpg46d ago

Servers are going to be bogged down by that 1 guy who will use this.

SimpleDad45d ago

Ahhh, the good old... Xbox PC store?
Who tf uses that?

Tacoboto45d ago

Kind of weird without them being updated to Xbox Play Anywhere purchases

MrDead45d ago

I uninstalled it as I was sick of the ads popping up on my login screen.