General Gaming News

[Teelie]

This was also their website, though I was surprised they still printed.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

IGN was buying up all these game websites lately. Did GameStop not even try to sell Game Informer rather than nuke it?

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[Lily Adler]

Sorry guys but good ****ing riddance. I know many former Game Stop employees who are happy not having to deal with pushing Game Informer subscriptions all the time.

 

[Teelie]

There are still Game Stop employees left?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Their YouTube Channel is still up with thousands of hours of content and play throughs (like the somewhat comedic replay series I used to watch a long time ago) but for how long is a question. Someone should archive it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Petition urges lawmakers to save Europe’s video games from deletion

A petition is calling for the EU’s video game license publishers to preserve video games when support ends.

www.euronews.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Elayis]

I know The Order: 1886 wasn't well received, but it's tech was bleeding edge at the time and visually the game still holds up almost 10 years later. Apparently their Lone Echo games were very good, though I don't have a Meta Quest so I never tried them.

I don't see how the industry can continue to function with all of these studio closures. Does anyone know what happens to the employees? Are they finding new jobs at other companies or are they leaving game development for good?

 

[Mani-Man]

WB Discovery Wants to License Franchises, Which Include Batman to Harry Potter and More, to Other Studios - IGN

If you're thinking WB Discovery's been a little slow to leverage its massive IP library for video games, it sounds like the company's leadership agrees. It's looking not just to make more of its own games, but to license out some of its biggest franchises to other game studios in the future.

www.ign.com

Many of us been saying this for years.
Its insane how tonedeaf WB has been in the gaming sector.

Ignores cries for a arkham origins remaster, more wbm batman games, superman games, ignore calls for letting other studios than those who are owned by WB tackle their IPs etc.
They easily could have had the billion dollars they imagined Suicide Squad would have gotten, if they would just listen to the people.

This would be better late than never, but still that it would take them this long to do this, is dumb.

 

[blueharvest]

WB Discovery Wants to License Franchises, Which Include Batman to Harry Potter and More, to Other Studios - IGN

If you're thinking WB Discovery's been a little slow to leverage its massive IP library for video games, it sounds like the company's leadership agrees. It's looking not just to make more of its own games, but to license out some of its biggest franchises to other game studios in the future.

www.ign.com

Many of us been saying this for years.
Its insane how tonedeaf WB has been in the gaming sector.

Ignores cries for a arkham origins remaster, more wbm batman games, superman games, ignore calls for letting other studios than those who are owned by WB tackle their IPs etc.
They easily could have had the billion dollars they imagined Suicide Squad would have gotten, if they would just listen to the people.

This would be better late than never, but still that it would take them this long to do this, is dumb.

WB only have themselves to blame. They could have made a Batman Beyond game or a good Superman game or whatever else.

But instead they tried to make their own version of Fortnite or whatever Suicide Squad was supposed to be and lost $200 million in the process.

Maybe if other studios have the chance to make a game, it'll hopefully be a lot better than Suicide Squad was.

 

[Mani-Man]

WB only have themselves to blame. They could have made a Batman Beyond game or a good Superman game or whatever else.

But instead they tried to make their own version of Fortnite or whatever Suicide Squad was supposed to be and lost $200 million in the process.

Maybe if other studios have the chance to make a game, it'll hopefully be a lot better than Suicide Squad was.

Yup, the last 20 or what years of Failure from WB is fully on the Leadership and nobody else.
And even worse is that they literally had the keys and dropped them.
We gone from stuff like Lego, the Batman games...to Multiverse, suicide squad, gotham knights.
Or look at how they fumble Mortal Kombat currently.
They have some of the most profitable IPs and failed them so hard.

 

[Teelie]

WB only have themselves to blame. They could have made a Batman Beyond game or a good Superman game or whatever else.

But instead they tried to make their own version of Fortnite or whatever Suicide Squad was supposed to be and lost $200 million in the process.

Maybe if other studios have the chance to make a game, it'll hopefully be a lot better than Suicide Squad was.

Chasing trends instead of setting them.

 

[blueharvest]

The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter

Popular tech site The Verge has published a large amount of information about Valve’s secret shooter, Deadlock,

www.forbes.com

 

[Teelie]

There is a sort of arrogance in the Verge publishing this even though it's very explicitly stated to be early in development and they were asked not to discuss it. The idea that you are a journalist or reporter and you have this absolute right to publish about something that is nowhere ready for release (and were asked, even if not formally to refrain from publishing) is the kind of attitude that encourages hatred and distrust of the media.

But hey, the Verge got to publish some really early, almost certainly not final details on a game that might not ever be released and all it cost them is black-listing and condemnation from many (former) readers.



Thing is, I really don't care about Steam or this game or the Verge for that matter. I have never gone to their site for anything. But it does feed into the larger problem of some media hacks thinking that they can just publish anything without reprisal and expect to be covered by their (lacking) journalistic integrity to print whatever they discover.

 

[Lily Adler]

Someone made a Five Nights at Freddy's Kart Racer

 

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[Iceman]

I know The Order: 1886 wasn't well received, but it's tech was bleeding edge at the time and visually the game still holds up almost 10 years later. Apparently their Lone Echo games were very good, though I don't have a Meta Quest so I never tried them.

I don't see how the industry can continue to function with all of these studio closures. Does anyone know what happens to the employees? Are they finding new jobs at other companies or are they leaving game development for good?

Some will be forced to leave the industry (temporarily at first - longer term/permanently if there isn't a quick rebound). Closures and redundancies are happening everywhere so there will be more people looking for jobs than jobs that exist unfortunately. I hope things can improve asap for all these people working to give us entertainment.

Yeah, The Order was a great technical achievement. Shame it wasn't stronger in other areas as it would have got a much better appreciation.

 

[Iceman]

WB only have themselves to blame. They could have made a Batman Beyond game or a good Superman game or whatever else.

But instead they tried to make their own version of Fortnite or whatever Suicide Squad was supposed to be and lost $200 million in the process.

Maybe if other studios have the chance to make a game, it'll hopefully be a lot better than Suicide Squad was.

It was like a super-slow car crash in motion which every gamer could see coming a mile off. What a waste of what was once one of the leading studios.

 

[Iceman]

Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes

They say the scenes, which they often don't know about in advance, leave them "shaken" and "upset."

www.bbc.co.uk

This needs to stop.

 

[Mani-Man]

It was like a super-slow car crash in motion which every gamer could see coming a mile off. What a waste of what was once one of the leading studios.

And you know, the baffling thing is that Rocksteady didnt see it coming seemingly either.
Which i dont get.
Like, i get CEOs not having any clue what fans want...but developers are closer to the ground.
You would think that they would have had a understanding that the game wont work how it was.
Yet they did little to change that.

They did delay the game, but the changes made despite so many months...barely did anything to help.

Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes

They say the scenes, which they often don't know about in advance, leave them "shaken" and "upset."

www.bbc.co.uk

This needs to stop.

Rape scenes are absolutely not needed.
Not in movies, TV or games.

If you must do them for whatever reason, then you should make 100% sure the actors are comfortable as it gets etc.
This sounds like they did a bad job at preparing these actors for such a scene and made it worse.
If you can not act mature about it preparing for it, then you are not mature enough to use it in any medium.
Disgusting and this should make bigger waves.

 

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[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Amazon: AI is real voice acting, and human voice actors are the fake ones.