When exactly does Phil Spencer begin to be held accountable for these major miscalculations? When will the press actually push on this? When's his next major softball interview scheduled?
Frustrating as hell to watch this unfold so predictably.
In one week we've seen Nintendo do a public victory lap over sending a hacker to prison and nonchalantly announce the legal end of access for hundreds of video games.
I'll just say there's kind of an ocean between buying a Monster at a corner store and downing twelve of them a day but my heart didn't explode so what do I know
The federal government could be paying people to stay home and sending masks & tests to everyone but we're still going to spend the next four months scolding people
An exhausting sense of deja vu: New York City is confronting a spike in virus cases, fueled by the omicron variant. Mask mandates have returned, Broadway has canceled some performances, and the Times Square New Year's celebration could be cut back.
I had honestly steered clear of the replies on this until now and BOY do they make me feel a particular kind of despair about the way folks engage with art
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A lot of people are stuck on the Star Wars thing but remember: the sequel trilogy is one of the most egregious fumbled bags of all time and it's not even close. Also remember that my guy had to basically lie during press junkets about his character being gay in his mind.
I started watching Moon Knight and asked myself—what is going on with Oscar Isaac, one of the most talented actors of a generation who keeps landing the most cursed franchises?
The pearl clutching in the replies is wild. Y’all really think the target audience of this game is going to go through the trouble of setting up PC emulation? The people who are going to pirate a brand new game have already done it.
Mark Kern hasn't done a goddamn thing in the games industry in the past decade other than post harassment and intellectually bankrupt ideas about the space.
If this had been a 40 year old who had to take their kids to school this wouldn't be a story, but because it's a younger person claiming their own personal time, it's a mortal sin. In either case, the employee is justified in declining a meeting time outside of normal hours.
I can help. You literally pitted several game franchises and their developers against each other AND you did it in one of the most indignant Tucker Carlson monologues I've seen outside conservative media. Maybe that's not what you wanted to do but that's what you did.
The idea that I brought up the topic to use it as a "weapon" against devs is gross. Xalavier said that a $200 million dollar risk could take "an entire wave of studios with it." That should make devs and gamers mad. The bosses of companies placing those $200 million bets are
Speculating about yesterday is functionality useless at best but after sleeping on it the idea of just throwing in the towel is both predictably Democrat in nature and one of the silliest things I can imagine doing.
I'd say they have great PR to insulate them from actual pushback but it's really just a bunch of nostalgia-addled millennials unable to separate their happy memories from the corporation that doesn't give a shit about them.
There’s no game journalist cabal conspiring to take you down as much as there’s a group of people who have all witnessed you and people in your orbit being huge assholes who talk to each other about it.
I have now seen a couple journalists say covering the content of the leaks (personal information aside) is unethical and to that I say: grow up just a little bit.
The games journalist debate over whether to cover the contents of the Insomniac hack raises questions about what games journalism is, and when else we should put people ahead of hype
I want to take a moment to thank Very Well Mind for clearing this up as well as for the rest of the community for coming up with "good protagonist appearance."
Y'all are obviously very smart, very plugged in, and very well read. I hope you enjoy a great video game today!
This Bayonetta story has told me one thing for sure: when a cis white British lady makes a four part video claiming to be a victim of a major miscarriage of justice maybe just ask a question or two first.
The way speedrunners talk about “mistakes” devs make that lead to their strats is wild. It’s like buying a tennis ball and being like “kind of an oversight it doesn’t structurally hold up in a pneumatic crusher.”
Genuinely weird to me that the PR people for children of extremely powerful Hollywood people wouldn't just tell their clients to be approachable about how they came into the industry instead of just...lying about it.
As with any major American city, the best donuts are found in small family run shops in strip centers sold by the most tired people you’ve ever met. Support those.
Baldur's Gate 3 is obviously an impressive feat in and of itself, but how Larian has handled the success of the game can't be overlooked. They are confident! They are distancing themselves from the idea that this is their identity now! I love that!
Larian is moving on from Baldur's Gate 3, with no sequel or expansion in development
While clarifying Larian will still update Baldur's Gate 3, Swen Vincke explained why it's best the studio walks away from BG3.
Nintendo has been releasing patches to fix multiple persistent issues since Tears of the Kingdom came out. Elden Ring's ray tracing update nearly broke the game. Baldur's Gate 3 still has pretty major bugs after three years of Early Access. What are you talking about.
I missed this when it was in theaters and then I watched it on a plane asking myself every 15 minutes "how was this not the biggest movie of the past decade?"
I know Jerry Seinfeld is stupider than dirt because he ignores streaming and social data from the past decade that indicate the show *he wrote* is beloved across generations just so he can complain about woke bullshit
Jerry Seinfeld saying you can't write sitcoms anymore because of woke despite the fact his old writing partner just wrapped up a 24-year run of one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time, is arguably the funniest thing he's done in decades - funnier even than Bee Movie, perhaps
12 Minutes getting a nom for best indie ahead of Wildermyth & Chicory tells me some of y'all don't play many games. I get it! It's tough to get to everything. Impossible, even. But damn the marketing machine got you.
You know for a group of weird little men obsessed with making sure their game protagonists are highly sexualized they sure seem genuinely terrified of sex.
There's an episode of The Office where a dude leverages a restructure where he's in charge of a ton of stuff to get a better offer from another company and it's played like he was caught murdering his family or something
The incredulity re: Square Enix embracing blockchain because of Final Fantasy 7 makes for good memes but should in reality continue to highlight that execs are not creators with very few exceptions.
Definitely no defending the use of generative AI but speaking as someone who doesn’t come from intense Pokémon nostalgia or fandom, some of y’all grossly overestimate the variety of “little guys you can collect” on a long enough timeline.
Steam’s newest hit, Palworld, has been accused of plagiarising designs from Pokémon, as social media users negatively highlight its creator’s history with generative AI tools.
Why *does* the Pokémon team get a pass for their games looking bad? Don't give me the "art direction is what matters!!!" thing. These games have looked and performed poorly on their native consoles for years.
This doesn't even need me to put a button on it but like...I would say 90% of this is unironically what was said to us frequently during my campaign to get us to commit to remote work. Even after that "commitment" it was unevenly applied and heavily resented by upper management.
Sarah is a much needed and important voice in the games industry and I want to make sure that’s clear before I say:
This answer stinks. I’d be mortified if I put something like this on the record.
Xbox president Sarah Bond responds to a question from Bloomberg's
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about why Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks was shut down. Full interview here:
When he realized the train station elevator was broken, this dad did what he needed to do. He hoisted his son, who is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, up a long flight of steps 💪
When people do this what are they expecting? That I, the person in charge of hiring, didn’t know what the excellent reporter and writer I hired was like?
We said goodbye to Ziggy this morning. Ann and I are indescribably sad. We just loved this dog so much. He was the sweetest to everyone and would’ve been sweet to you, too.
Mark Kern is currently posting targeted and incredibly creepy harassment and if you have the stomach to momentarily unblock the weirdo you should report it. Not that I have faith in the mechanics of this hell hole, but might be worth the try anyway.
Responses to this indicate y'all have no idea how I or really any journos y'all are mad at actually feel about almost anything. You think us squashing the racist garbage stemming from the Sweet Baby stuff is indicative of 10-15 other stances which are largely untrue????
Guides absolutely can drive traffic for a games website, but a full shift to doing mostly guides or only guides is literally giving up on the work that got Kotaku (and many other outlets) into a position of prominence. Also given recent search trends, this isn't a foolproof plan!
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I agree that he's painting with a broad brush but he doesn't even have to look outside his own franchise to find a recent example of this haha
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It's a foot controller for games but it's a lot more. Would mean the world to me if you'd check it out and share it!
If you know anything about the hard working folks running Game Informer or the outlet's history, you'd understand they were just granted a potential lifeline and path to independence and sustainability on terms more reflective of their own, not GameStop's.
I see a lot of journalist friends posting their new subscriptions to Game Informer. That's cool. But we just went through massive layoffs in the industry. Please don't feel like you have to follow the train if you aren't financially able to do so.
So often, we put our
I can't stress enough the horror and confusion I feel when I go to apply for a job, attach a resume, and then am asked to fill out all of the information from my resume that I attached already.