Kotaku: "No, not Vladamir Putin, but Elena Vladimirovna Putin - think Putin if he was a girl with white hair, red eyes and a shapely figure.
Her name is also a reference to a Grand Duchess of Russia.
Putin is appearing in upcoming ero title My Girlfriend Is The President. There's also the President of Nippon - a character named 'Obama'. (There is also an 'Obama' surname in Japanese.) This open has orange hair, green eyes and big ribbons.."
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" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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So what the heck does Angel of KOF have to do with anything?
good job comrades
now get ready for the next round
Putin is the Prime minister these days. Dmitry Medvedev is their sitting president. Well at least on paper.
I would never make fun of Vladamir "Ex KGB agent I kill you with my bare hands mofo" Putin.