From GameIndustry.biz: "United States congressman Lou Correa has criticised Blizzard Entertainment for allowing racist groups into World of Warcraft.
Correa, representative for a district that includes Anaheim, where BlizzCon takes place each year, spoke out on Twitter about a notorious player-run guild called The Enclave."
Krafton revealed its plans to use Nvidia's generative AI tech in its games including the PUBG franchise and the life simulator inZOI.
This is all good but please upgrade the engine. PUBG is great but it's aging rapidly. There's also no reason why it's runs the way it does on current gen consoles.
Mounts are perhaps WoW's most coveted collectibles, displaying feats of strength or perseverance for all to see.
Sony has officially become the biggest shareholder of FromSoftware's parent company, Kadokawa, by owning 10.11% of the shares.
Congratulations I guess?
Nothing changes as far anime fans and gamers are concerned.
No need to guess. Congrats are in order for Kadokawa. Remember their whole point is to protect against a hostile takeover and they have done that. How this will manifest in partnerships will reveal itself in time but seeing as Sony was able to help them out, I think that is awesome. And they did that without buying up a whole publisher. Even as an Xbox fanboy I'm sure you can see how this is the best possible outcome for all parties.
He knows Kadokawa asked for Sony’s help in fending off a hostile takeover and was the better choice of the two
He just doesn’t care as it means he gets to b**ch about Sony more
Being the biggest shareholder means they will have a large sway on the decisions of Kadokawa. At the same time Kadokawa will get to retain its independence. I think this was a wise investment on the part of both companies.
Or Playstation at this rate 😅 We can't even get the damn remaster. It would be the ultimate troll if they remastered it but locked to 30FPS 💀
They could acquire more moving forward. Let's not forget Sony also bought square Enix stocks when the publisher asked and sold them back once things stabilized
@Obscure
The official statement says otherwise:
“Sony and Kadokawa… intend to further strengthen our collaboration to maximize both companies' IP value globally and facilitate wider and deeper collaboration, such as potential joint investments in the content field, joint discovery of new creators, and joint promotion of further media mixes of both companies' IP. In the future, the two companies plan to discuss specific initiatives for collaboration, such as initiatives to adapt KADOKAWA's IP into live-action films and TV dramas globally, co-produce anime works, expand global distribution of KADOKAWA's anime works through the Sony Group, further expand publishing of KADOKAWA's games...”
But you know better I guess?
Congratulations indeed.
Doesn´t matter how hard you try, dude.
!0% shares ownership means sh!t. It´s 1 vs 9 when comes to business interests.
It´s simple math really. Still, good luck while you wait for Bloodborne 2, though.
Not trying anything, simply pointing out what the joint official statement by Sony and Kadokawa says which explicitly contradicts your opinion. You clearly have no idea how a corporation works btw. But, I’m enjoying your meltdown.
Look who is talking Sony ownes now 10.11%shares, no his time take overs needed. Sony helped with making the game for Kadokawa. But not a word about MS who bought for more then 80bil. complete publishers.But he studios of Sony almost are making all console exclusive games.....and MS is going third party.
I guess Sony has a lot more pull when it comes to Kadokawa products.
Good for Sony for helping a fellow countryman out
Kadokawa makes big money on CrunchyRoll and Sony owns CrunchyRoll. They need each other and others coming in and messing with that recipe would be bad for both.
Not entirely but this is a good thing. This means we 100% get a Bloodborne sequel and it means there is no risk of titles like Elden Ring going exclusive.
Then you don’t know how corporations make decisions.
If they published Bloodborn exclusively for PlayStation when Sony only had less than 1% shares, now they clearly will have more sway when Sony is majority share holder. Not to mention what other details may be in the purchase agreement. In fact, the joint statement says they want to expand joint ventures like Bloodborn not just for games but for anime and manga.
Sony and Kadokawa formed a strategic alliance which will see Sony have much greater control over the publishing of their games, anime, and manga.
Sony got what they wanted without fully buying the company in exchange for maintaining status as their largest shareholder.
This is the public statement from Sony and Kadokawa.
https://www.sony.com/en/Son...
No, but they will be publishing more games for them. Sony published games will no doubt be PS/PC exclusive.
Why don’t you just shut the power off and protect Californians?
Blizzard sides with murderous communist regime - I sleep
Troll guilds exist in blizzard games - Stop the presses!
As long as that group isn't attacking china then it's all fine with blizzard.
Glad to see politicians have their priorities in order.