EX: "while most were too busy solving murders in Heavy Rain or saving Little Sisters in Bioshock 2, a slew of other quality titles passed largely unnoticed. While missing out on some of these low key (but phenomenally designed) games may seem almost criminal, no one is really to blame. The Winter season was so jam packed with must-buy video games that choosing which ones to get was a lot like taking a single shopping cart to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, only without the eerie, pedophiliac undertones. It was next to impossible to buy and play them all, and because of that, it's understandable that some titles were sacrificed in favor of others.
April offers a unique opportunity for gamers to catch up on the stuff they overlooked. With only a handful of noteworthy entries this month, it's an ideal time to take a step back and pick up these ten awesome and fairly recent games you probably missed the first time around."
Xbox's handling of the marketing for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is casting a huge doubt over the future of its developer, Ninja Theory.
They should be worried. They we told they were free to be creative to dev. a walking sim, and now Phil and the Lady are walking that back.
The lack of worldwide availability of Arrowhead Studios' Helldivers 2 on Steam is due to restrictions from PlayStation, not Valve.
To be clear though, Steam does not restrict use of their platform in any country. So, to say that Sony delisted games in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and other similar regions is disingenuous. The taliban doesn't allow video games in Afghanistan.
There are many restrictions in many countries. Painting this as a false dichotomy of Sony or Valve ignores all other layers of what is going on.
Just be honest in your journalism about what countries are left out. Those countries should a) have internet access b) allow the game.
There's literally almost 170 countries and mentioned 3, and Taliban banned PUBG only, do you seriously think that these countries that had games all this time, suddenly decided to ban games when Sony wanted to put PSN as a restriction
Sony would be stupid to let valve run the show. They would be bad at business if they did that.
Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
This is exactly what many people said would happen including the CMA and FTC. Lies lies and more lies and they allowed a $69 billion buy out to happen.
gold,
You can't be serious, right?
Do you think that MS thought they would make 80bill in a year & Half? They haven't even released titles under MS yet, lol.
But in fact, that A/B revenue is already paying off, look at the last earnings call. That $80 billion is long-term money, my guy, no sane person/company would think they would make that back in any short-term situation, it's a long-term investment.
Let's play silly then. If MS's reason for laying off staff and closing studios was due(which it really was not) to the A/B deal, tell me what Sony's reason was for past studio closures, the recent 900-person layoffs, closing Sony London, shutting down Dreams, and closing Japan Studio? Zipper? Psygnosis? cuts at all their internal studios.
Keep in mind, you are claiming MS's reason is because of the A/B deal; please explain Sony's reason.
this is not a sony vs MS debate. dont make it something it isnt.
and of course not, but im pretty sure they thought they'd make more money after the deal. they didnt, and closed off some studios.
its pretty insane to think there is any other reason for the closure of studios in this case.
(It really was) due to the Activision Blizzard deal and the loss of physical sales due to gamepass. You keep bringing up Sony in all your posts about this, stop deflecting and trying to change the topic, this is about MS and what they are doing.
They are going to use AI for a large portion of the game development process. Upper management need bonuses and the shareholders need more money. So, people will lose their jobs.
Maybe they were already using AI to make business decisions, which would explain why they closed Hi-Fi Rush's studio, then said they need more games like Hi-Fi Rush not long after that announcement.
I didn't pick up Yakuza, Fragile Dreams or Supreme Commander 2. Still got a bunch of other games to play through first though. =/
Can safely say that Ogre Battle 64 and PB Winterbottom are well worth picking up. Awesome games.
Yep I overlooked all of em. Is that a bad thing though?
The games just get lost in the shuffle as bigger and better recieved titles come and go.
I finally got Fragile Dreams on Friday(had to order off Amazon), I have 1200 points left on my Wii but have to chosee between Art of Balance, Zombie Panic in Wonderland and Ogre Battle 64 and I still plan on picking up Shattered Memories and Sky Crawlers at some point.