The holidays are upon everyone and that means brand new NPD numbers to discuss as well as the latest the industry has to offer including Rock Band, Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed, and Blacksite Area 51.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
Love the podcasts. Keep up the great work guys.
Damn the Marvel MMO is the rumored cancel first party for 360.... I was kinda hoping they would do this. I also liked COH/COV. I had a bad ass stalker.
NCSoft going with PS3 however is cool. I am really excited to see how an MMO will do on consoles.
A few other good bits of news in here. I skipped the rock band stuff. not into this or guitar hero...
Good listen but why no comments on Uncharted? Probably next week I know these guys are busy.
Also I hope the live arcade stuff works out. I personally dont like much on arcade and hopefully we get some good stuff.
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As of this episodes recording, our resident PS3 gamers hadn't gotten their copies of U:DF yet. We should have some updated impressions on the next episode. We did discuss the demo last week though, and we were all very impressed to say the least.
i am not going to listen this crap
Hey guys...I love your show...and Wombat TWO WORLDS IS A GREAT GAME!!!!