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[Gee]

Don't hold your favorite video game companies in too high regard.

Ditto. Reading some of ex-Larian devs on the studio yesterday was disheartening.

 

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Gaming to make record-breaking $197 billion in 2025, PC revenue almost ties console

The global video games industry is expected to make $197 billion for the first time ever, led principally by mobile with PC and console nearly tying.

www.tweaktown.com

 

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[MessiahDecoy123]

Boo! I want to see where sports games ranked.

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty' franchise, killed in crash​

Vince Zampella is the former CEO of video game developers Infinity Ward, the studio behind the wildly successful "Call of Duty" franchise.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/

Zampella also led an EA studio team based in Playa Vista behind the Battlefield video game franchise.

 

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https://www.pcgamer.com/games/hideo-kojima-says-mgs2-was-never-about-ai-but-rather-a-future-i-didnt-desire-of-data-gaining-a-will-of-its-own-and-unfortunately-were-heading-there/

 

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Good news to close the year for those playing video games: Well, at least if you are from Mexico...

After flirting with an extra 8% tax on "violent" video games, the government backs down, citing the impossibility of defining what counts as violence.

www.gamereactor.eu

 

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[Mani-Man]

Im so detached from a lot in gaming because i dont get it.
Arc Raider looks like your generic multiplayer game.
I dont get what it does so well to many...but then, im not into these type of games so maybe there are details im missing.

To me it just looks boring.

 

[Elayis]

Im so detached from a lot in gaming because i dont get it.
Arc Raider looks like your generic multiplayer game.
I dont get what it does so well to many...but then, im not into these type of games so maybe there are details im missing.

To me it just looks boring.

I haven't played it myself (I don't do MMOs), but noclip did a three part documentary series about the making of the game. There's some pretty extensive engineering that went into designing the machine combat, which seems fairly similar to Shadow of the Colossus. It's the sort of gameplay that I'd be interested in if it was single player.

 

[Gee]

Im so detached from a lot in gaming because i dont get it.
Arc Raider looks like your generic multiplayer game.
I dont get what it does so well to many...but then, im not into these type of games so maybe there are details im missing.

To me it just looks boring.

It's a PvPvE extraction shooter with immersive elements such as physics interaction (shooting a mechanical enemy's leg makes it "walk" wobbly). It also has great audio design that many consider some of the best in video games. The solo playerbase mostly focuses on the PvE aspect so that attracts a lot of players who want to play an extraction shooter but don't necessarily want the "hardcore" experience from other extraction shooters like Tarkov.

If you read some of the positive reviews from players, you may understand why the game is quite popular. While the PvP aspect is always there, the game can create many memorable PvE moments where players just join together to take down a boss, loot rare things, and extract with their gains at the end with no one dying.

 

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