The Witcher series collectively are some of the greatest RPGs of the last few years – perhaps even of all time. The Witcher 3 especially has racked up tons of sales and tons of awards. Unfortunately, the author of the book series the games are based on is not really making any money.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Ha, what a dingleberry.
Is he still alive. Would have jumped already :) All those millions
"short-sighted". easy to speak, now, after the success of the franchise, but who the hell could have predicted said popularity, all the way back in... 2003? 2004? don't remember the exact year, but it's around that time. i'd say to stop with these sensationalist titles, but who am i kidding...
Right. I'm sure life is real rough for him.
I'm sure game sales have translated into book sales. Obviously it's not a huge percentage but I mean I bought 2 books after playing the third game. I can't be the only one who did that