Whatever your personal opinions on feminism or sexism in videogames are, the fact that it has become a conversation in the industry is a good thing. There has been a lot of uproar over the feminist frequency video series, the point of view they discuss in regards to videogames, and the media’s subsequent reporting of these stories. If you fall in the camp that was upset with all or any of these, I won’t argue with you, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Today, Electronic Arts announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, alongside the full year.
Split Fiction has sold nearly 4 million copies, and the next battlefield is confirmed for a release by March 2026 with a reveal this Summer.
In addition to the roughly 100 job cuts IGN reported earlier today at Respawn Entertainment, EA has made wider cuts across its organization today, impacting around 300 individuals total including those already reported at Respawn.
Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....
This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.
Why would anyone willingly work in the VG industry or specifically for one of these globocorp organizations that put you in constant fear of losing your livelihood based on terrible choices made by idiotic management, not the people with talent making the actual games?
Immature people are easily influenced by anything, games movies music tv etc. That's the issue
Yes. Games allow me to release stress, making me a less stressful person.
Video games having a positive influence on skills that improve through use, such as hand eye co-ordination or problem solving, is VASTLY different than video games influencing negative BEHAVIOUR patterns.
An improvement in multi-tasking, or hand eye co-ordination requires nothing but physical activity, absent of a positive or negative context. Influencing behaviour is vastly more complex. It's been widely refuted that gaming influences violent behaviour, which we know thanks to Jack Thompson's rampage against GTA. 9 federal courts threw out his claims, calling them baseless and lacking in legitimate scientific proof.
That is the biggest issue I have with feminists like Anita Sarkeesian and people that parrot their ideas. If gaming causing or influencing violent behaviour has been widely refuted, it should stand to reason that real world sexism and (i really hate this word) misogyny are also not at all linked to gaming.
People who already have behavioural disorders can be influenced by anything, it's simply due to the malfunction in their brain.
Sure they can, there are countless influences around us who can affect our behaviour (positively or negatively), but why do we have a brain to think before we start something stupid? You can avoid many things with some rationality ... don't let influence yourself that easily, use your brain. We're talking about videogames (the word itself contains the word "game") and if you let yourself influence by a "game" you must be mentally instable or stupid.