An indie studio in San Jose, CA, LearnDistrict, is teaching girls how to create video games. This is a great step forward in evening the statistics in the gaming industry!
8K UUHD with path tracing at 5000 FPS is great, but what if you only have $300?
So the BG3 guys found an optimization for all other platforms by way of the little engine that could... interesting.
The typical "it's holding us back" argument aside, from a sales perspective, the S is selling way more than the X (wasn't it like 75% of total?), so you could make the case that if it wasn't for the S, Xbox would have like 25% of the sales they have now...
This is what happens when you have people jumping the gun for some quick doom and gloom headlines. Not to mention getting opinions from devs that were possibly frustrated that they would have to do some extra tinkering for the S. And to an extent, rightly so. But the optimization and trades are there to make a game play on the S. It's a budget console and it should be treated as such.
But I have to laugh at the rest of the crowd who actually told people that the S was holding back this gen and pretended to be shocked that the S wouldn't have the bells and whistles that the X or PS5 would.
It's almost as if they were reaching, hard.
The S means there will never be a current gen. game built specifically for the SX. Most devs and publishers don't have the talent to optimize like BG3.
BTW, I only game at 30,000 fps...This article is a stupid take. The only thing good about the S is that it kept MSXbox way below 2nd place.
We already know 2023 has been a banger year for video games, but we now have the stats to back it up.
author could have mentioned final fantasy 16 but instead mentions hi fi rush as a below 90 game that's decent. although i agree with the main sentiment that the industry is volatile and there are a lot of layoffs. The author of this article only talks about recent events when it suits him or her.
Completely disagree. Tbh the best game of the year comes out tomorrow. Star ocean 2 remake, to this day one of the best jrpg, and the best space rpg
Nah, 2007-2008 was legendary, but it's been a pretty good year. I'm hoping for good announcements too at the VGAs
I promise I'm not TRYING to.be contrarion with this comment bit I bought FF16 and couldn't finish it. To me the story seemed boring compared to classic FFs and seemed as though it was more interested in being a game of thrones clone than a true final fantasy. Just my opinion.
Chile regulator Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE) approved Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard on Thursday. In the press release, the regulator explained that with other big third-party companies such as Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Ubisoft, and others, there was still plentiful competition.
"As other responsible regulators review the facts, we expect more approvals like this one," said Lulu Cheng Meservey, EVP of corporate affairs at Activision Blizzard.
So what, they gotta get approved from every country just to aquire them. US, EU what matters right
May take a little longer than originally thought, but as has been said in the past, the deal will go through. So tired of waking up every day to a Xbox+ABK article. ABK & their employees wants this, MS wants this, it will not hinder competition, let it go. Interested to see what the FTC argues in court on this, if their best examples are from 20 years ago case seems weak.
Jez goes to great lengths to keep the name of the country out of the headline.
"Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard approved in Chile"
Doesn't quite have the same impact does it?
"This is a great step forward in evening the statistics in the gaming industry!"
Complete rubbish.
If people want to get involved in the industry, they, male or female, should make the effort to do so.
All of this "lets even the playing field" and quota bullshit is, at its core, sexist and wrong.
Why just girls? It's just asking to be hated on to be honest.
I think its a great idea. A lot of the time girls are raised to think video games for our gender is uncool, that its only for boys - so they don't get involved.
With lessons like this, stereotypes and gender based hobbies are warded off. I know I'd have loved this back when I was in school.
The idea is great. The article is trash.
It's not strange at all that there is a 12% female rate. Seriously it's not like it will change overnight.
How long has there been a 47% female gamer base? How many of those are purely casual? Which infers that the female player base doesn't even take the industry as a serious motivation but rather a casual time killer.
And since when does any industry have a realistic equilibrium based on user base without some sort of discrimination.
Anyways private businesses have the freedom to support what they choose and if that's to help females program games more power to them. This better not be tax funded though.