EA announced that they have acquired Respawn Entertainment for over 400 million dollars. This news comes weeks after EA announcing the closure of Visceral Studios, and the cancelation of their Star Wars game. With EA's reputation of closing down some of gamers favorite studios. One has to ask themselves, did Respawn just make a big mistake? What do both companies have to gain by this buy out?
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."
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
That's extremely disappointing.
Yes. Time to write the eulogy for Respawn
I don't see how any studio could come to the conclusion of... "We should sign with EA. That's a good idea!" EA is cancer.
Yes, it was a mistake.
I hope the founders are smart enough to F over EA. Take the money, take the talent, and RUN. Your company and your IP are going to be GUTTED and destroyed.