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EA cutting 5% of workforce
Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of …
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EA cutting 5% of workforce
Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of …
Jesus christ this week has been brutal
The beatings will continue until the morale improves
Awful. Its like a fucking stampede for all these publishers to get rid of employees. Hopefully it stops after Q1 ends.EA cutting 5% of workforce
Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of …
Really sometimes I forget EA even exists anymore. Don't care much for Respawn, FIFA or Battlefield.
There is nothing I am looking forward to from them except Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
And it seems like those 2 games have been in development forever now.
I swear I must have played like dozen great new RPGs since EA first teased Dreadwolf wtf.
Atlas and Gust used to always make lists like this to be fair
Man, so many people working for our hobby are getting cut. My heart goes out to all of them.
Seeing these layoffs only reminds me of my predicament right now. I was laid off from the consultancy that I was working at back in December. I am blessed to still be able to live with my parents, there are many of these folks who are in much more precarious circumstances. I hope they can find something soon.
Played Dark Forces a bit. the new 2D scenes are weird, I prefer the old more static pixel art on that (but neither is great). The 3D rendered stuff are quite nice though. The higher res sprites and textures are nicer but not a must, still nice pixel art though rather than something like the Tomb Raider remasters' all new high res textures on top of blocky geometry. Bloom looks nice. It does have some minor extra content goodies TFE I believe doesn't.
Shame you can't quickly toggle or specify each specific thing you want in more detail unless I missed that.
The Force Engine sourceport had quick saves, this release doesn't so you have to finish missions in one go (but it's pretty short and might be made too easy with them, there's an unfitting lives system normally actually, I think upon dying you respawn with the level itself having kept the progression/switches/whatever and you can find extra lives and stuff, I dunno, it's not really a very hard game for all this to matter).
I'd say cheap classic release + TFE is equal value to this so if the price's too high for you no big reason to go for it tbh, other than to support Nightdive and more such classic releases since not every game is lucky to have sourceports like TFE. Bloom has been added since I played that 2 years ago, I confirmed it.
When they announced it I thought they'd deal with TFE guy and use it + add the new stuff but I guess not, still the end result is super similar.
Shame you can't quickly toggle or specify each specific thing you want in more detail unless I missed that.
The Force Engine sourceport had quick saves, this release doesn't so you have to finish missions in one go (but it's pretty short and might be made too easy with them, there's an unfitting lives system normally actually, I think upon dying you respawn with the level itself having kept the progression/switches/whatever and you can find extra lives and stuff, I dunno, it's not really a very hard game for all this to matter).
I'd say cheap classic release + TFE is equal value to this so if the price's too high for you no big reason to go for it tbh, other than to support Nightdive and more such classic releases since not every game is lucky to have sourceports like TFE. Bloom has been added since I played that 2 years ago, I confirmed it.
When they announced it I thought they'd deal with TFE guy and use it + add the new stuff but I guess not, still the end result is super similar.
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I think the most interesting news from the recent spread of layoffs was EA flat out admitting licensed games are untenable going forward. The common theme from gaming in the last few years was that games are too expensive so we have to rely on licensed IP they're the only safe bets. Now they're realizing "oh...we forgot we have to pay these things called license fees and those get higher too". Disney in particular seems like a real ball buster to deal with between the EA news and the insane sm2 budget leaks (think disney's cut was around $100m alone).
I really don't think these so called smart businessmen that run these companies look further than the year in front of them. The smart thing to do now would be to reinvest into a bunch of new IP at AA scale (divvy up your teams as needed since you don't need 1 400+ person team for these games) and then if any take off you can ramp up as needed. But we'll probably get like 1 big new AAA at most.
I really don't think these so called smart businessmen that run these companies look further than the year in front of them. The smart thing to do now would be to reinvest into a bunch of new IP at AA scale (divvy up your teams as needed since you don't need 1 400+ person team for these games) and then if any take off you can ramp up as needed. But we'll probably get like 1 big new AAA at most.
It will be interesting to see how will companies like Disney respond. They want to get into the gaming but they didn't want to maintain studios. Now that big 3rd party publishers don't want to deal with licensing due to high cost they will need to do something.
Isn't this why they partnered with Epic? They made a HUUGE announcement a few weeks ago about it.
Also it might be why we will never see Kingdom Hearts on Steam.
They partnered for "metaverse" sh*t. Epic is not developing games outside Fortnite and that Fortnite creative mode ever again.
While I’m pretty happy with Yakuza 0, it’s the only game I’m playing right now and I feel good about it, I must say that I really don’t remember Yakuza 1 vanilla having a combat system this bad. Most of the moves I unlocked yet are fucking nothinburgers, combats are button mashing fest and the camera is doing its best to fuck the player over.
Really rough.
Really rough.
I'd imagine that there is still some licensing stuff that is making Disney money or something. Unless by some weird miracle, Epic is convincing Disney to pay them to make all of that Disney Meta verse stuff.
Any thoughts on the games in this bundle?
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I’ve noticed on a few other sites/social media I’ve been skimming that a lot of the discourse around PlayStation games on PC - and the strangely passionate denial around what’s going to happen in the next few years - is from hardcore Nintendo fans who deep down know what’s coming in the next decade.
My god Metaphor looks so fucking good.
I wrote Metaphor being my most anticipated game in 2024, but now that SMTVV is happening, I am not going to get Metaphor soon because Atlus is totally going to release a new version within a few years.
Nothing is set in stone. Nintendo is always a management change away from putting games on PC.
SMTVV was exclusive to a single platform, so they're making a new edition for all platforms (though no dlc/upgrade option for switch is dumb), but seems like for P3R at least they may be taking a DLC approach instead of having a separate new edition? If this is true, hopefully this is the approach they start taking in the future.
From a SEGA/Atlus leaker:
Epic Mickey is coming to Steam day one. I don't think KH still being EGS exclusive is because Disney bought some Epic shares
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Riviera: The Promised Land remaster coming to PC, iOS, and Android
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sometimes I wonder if it's been long enough that Square Enix just forgot about Kingdom Hearts sitting there on the Epic store like we often do
have people tried emailing them to remind them it exists?
I hope it is true but not too confident because Persona 5 was also a complete new release.
Nintendo is one failed system away from putting games on PC.
Don’t have handheld to fall back on when their console fails anymore.
More Tomb Raider differences. Looks like Epic's build has the undulating wavy quicksand/swamp/whatever stuff folks had noticed as missing in the remasters.
Also the water current direction showing. Gonna wait for the patch, some of this makes a difference. Lack of communication is weird, how hard is it to acknowledge this and just say sorry folks, we fucked up, we're working so the builds will be synchronised by x week. Not to mention folks reporting all the problems probably makes it harder for them to identify issues if so many things are already fixed, like the out of place painting textures I mentioned the first day.
Also the water current direction showing. Gonna wait for the patch, some of this makes a difference. Lack of communication is weird, how hard is it to acknowledge this and just say sorry folks, we fucked up, we're working so the builds will be synchronised by x week. Not to mention folks reporting all the problems probably makes it harder for them to identify issues if so many things are already fixed, like the out of place painting textures I mentioned the first day.
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Some people suggested they are some dev tools, like a console available on the Epic build. Can you confirm? That would suggest that someone accidentally released a beta version in the EGS version. That seems like the most reasonable explanation to me, but then it's strange how Aspyr isn't correct their mistake. I suppose it just takes a long time to update EGS builds, if it's not fully automated
No. Aspyr is incompetent and pushed the latest build on EGS while every other platform is running behind. The Steam test builds are getting constant updates so I don't know what the holdup is.
Console certification most likely. I remember during the release of the first DLC for SRW30 there was a nasty bug that removed a specific unit from your rooster. From steamdb you could see the pc patch was ready to go after a few days but they still released it at the same time as the PS4 and Switch patch
That's a big if though. Wii ran out of steam (heh) by 2009. Switch hasn't slowed one bit.
They'll probably be fine even if their next system is a GBA or 3DS level success rather than the killing Switch made. And if they're still portable then they aren't gonna fall harder than that. And if they aren't still portable then they can fall back on making a portable again next. I wouldn't hold my breath for PC ports. Hell, their big games sold fine on WiiU. They could cruise by with just that sort of thing even if they lost all 3d party support for lack of success and try again next gen.
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Nintendo is now the richest company in Japan - Sony don’t make top 300
A complete lack of debt and huge cash reserves has put Nintendo ahead of giant Japanese companies like Subaru and Suzuki.
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I also see Nintendo releasing 'Nintendo Classics' on mobile first rather than PC tbh
Unironically this. The music especially is so nice in the 360 version. The actual sequel to Tetris, an amazing game, still tied into a single platform is a sin.
I don’t think we can look at historical Nintendo failures and how they bounced back from them as the basis for how they may bounce back from a future failure.
I agree it’s not likely that their next system will be a failure, even if it doesn’t live up to the Switch’s success, but I still think their position is more precarious than people think.
I don’t think a GameCube or Wii U level failure for a future system would be tolerable, given the success they’ve had with the Switch and the fact that they currently don’t have anything to fall back on other than their films, which quickly lose relevance if kids aren’t picking up the latest Nintendo console.
I agree it’s not likely that their next system will be a failure, even if it doesn’t live up to the Switch’s success, but I still think their position is more precarious than people think.
I don’t think a GameCube or Wii U level failure for a future system would be tolerable, given the success they’ve had with the Switch and the fact that they currently don’t have anything to fall back on other than their films, which quickly lose relevance if kids aren’t picking up the latest Nintendo console.
As expected, having that stuff in the Epic build was a flub. But it's also part of an update they are working on, so it's not like those improvements won't arrive on Steam once it's been tested
Big fan of these Flash game collections that have been popping up lately.
Bloomberg: Saber Interactive to split from Embracer Group in $500 million deal
Embracer Group will sell Saber Interactive to a group of private investors in a deal worth up to $500 million, according to a Bloomberg report citing a person familiar with the transaction.
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Hope more studios get the chance to escape the embrace of death.Bloomberg: Saber Interactive to split from Embracer Group in $500 million deal
Embracer Group will sell Saber Interactive to a group of private investors in a deal worth up to $500 million, according to a Bloomberg report citing a person familiar with the transaction.
Maybe Eidos can swim through all the shit and escape the prison as well.
Deus Ex
What is dead may never die
Deus Ex
What is dead may never die
I should have complained earlier
is finally out on steam after being released some weeks ago on switch.
the best survivor alike game : P.
the best survivor alike game : P.
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