Gametopius: "For those of you gamers out there who have a good eye for detail, you'll notice something a little different about your Xbox Live gaming experience through October – Political Advertisements.
Is the gaming world supposed to feel enlightened or outraged by these new ads? On one hand it's always a good thing to keep an open mind and not shelter yourself, especially when it comes to one of the most important decisions for our country's future. On the other hand, how far is the long and bothersome reach of advertising in general going to go? To the players, video games are a safe haven, a way of shutting off all the distractions around us and taking a break in some of our favorite worlds."
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
I got a chuckle.