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Don’t Believe the Marketing: Famous Brands Don’t Mean Great Games

Need for Speed and Criterion Games, Outriders and People Can Fly -- forget brands and marketing. Teams make video games, and team compositions change.

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escapistmagazine.com
nibblo1530d ago

There are cultures in teams though that live on after people leave though I agree the most important factor is the team lead and how they are running the project.

TheProfessional1530d ago (Edited 1530d ago )

Interesting article with some good points. Unfortunately it is usually just a marketing ploy when the majority of the talent/creative force of a studio are long gone but gamers are led to believe it is the same original crew

P.S. Criterion should have made Black 2 years ago when it was stil the same team

NeoGamer2321525d ago

The article kind of meanders around, but I do think that gamers jump on marketing band wagons way too quickly.

And the band wagon is both ways. Gamers jump on the "Oh, that studio/publisher is bad" band wagon just as fast as they jump on the "That studio only makes great games" band wagon.

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Bloober Team Working On 2 New Games Already

Discover the latest news from Bloober Team: they are working on 2 new games, including a new IP in partnership with Private Division.

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gamersocialclub.ca
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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thegamer.com
thorstein20h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii16h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo15h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9015h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19896h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

qalpha15h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno15h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan15h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno14h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198115h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6696h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19811h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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gamingbolt.com
Inverno1d 11h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno15h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 11h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator1d 5h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac1d 4h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.