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@IGN When a bigger company owns you; they dictate WHEN and HOW you release the game. If they want you to FAIL purposely, they will threaten to cut the financing (resulting in studio closure) unless you deliver something bad (and FAIL ultimately). That's what pretty much happened here.

The CEO of Mindseye developer Build a Rocket Boy says that they are going to add a new mission to the game that will include evidence of alleged corporate sabotage. bit.ly/4m39FnZ

@IGN I like his older movies. But now he's just a washed up Tom Holland. He wants to be in all popular IPs because "HE NEEDS TO". Plenty of talented people out there that come with a fresh personality, not the same personality in all movies they ever played in the past decades.

Jack Black has a clear idea who he would like to play in Red Dead Redemption 3, should Rockstar make the game: Jack Black. bit.ly/41zrL81

@eurogamer I initially thought is the AI team responsible for the AI characters in the game. It's just the slop AI tools team that makes Managers do less clicks for emails and also summarizes them. Fck AI slop

Take-Two lays off AI team eurogamer.net/take-two-lays-…

3D software be like

@eurogamer I like KCD2, but I sure hope the combat and controls are more action-rpg like. Either way, it's LOTR, so anything is very welcome from my side <3

Rumours point to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios working on a big Lord of the Rings game eurogamer.net/kingdom-come-d…

@GamesRadar So the same guy is gonna direct Baldur's Gate. Prepare for Pedro Pascal starring as Gale

Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says to trust in Craig Mazin's HBO sequel: "I really hope people give them space to make the show that they want to make" gamesradar.com/entertainment/…

I've seen a lot of negativity around Crimson Desert, but I genuinely think it's a great title. I got myself dozens of hours in and still kicking. Hundreds of hours in BG3. I think the "old kid" around the block should not bully the newcomer with such feeble arguments.

Dark Souls 1. 13 years old me couldnt appreciate this true masterpiece. Luckly 16 years old me gave it another chance. Now I'm hooked for life (and worklife based on games I've been working on)

@Ashkiiaxix @Kotaku it's not just the game devs lol. This is what gets in your feed based on your algorithm and what's trending. It's also because people have louder voices here, and gamers are NOT as ignorant as any other media/product consumer.

@Kotaku why do game developers deserver special tears. People are sick and are in bad economic situations in other industries, but it's always the gamers and the hanger-on industries that play this violin.

One of the 1,000 employees Epic Games laid off last week has terminal brain cancer. Now he can't get life insurance. His wife said everyone he worked with knew about the condition. kotaku.com/epic-games-lay…

@DiscussingFilm I like him, but I feel like he's a "pick me" person at this point, trying to get himself in any geeky/videogame adaptation. He probably played like 3 hours of first yakuza, now suddenly he wants in. There's plenty of talent out there. It's just like seeing Tom Holand everywhere.

Jack Black says he wants to star in a live-action ‘YAKUZA’ movie. “I'm going to throw my hat in that ring. I don't know if there [are] any parts for me, like a portly American, but talk to me. Sega, give me a jingle.” (Source: screenrant.com/jack-black-yak…)

@GamesRadar Expedition 33 didn't get lucky. The founder had mommy's and daddy's money for a couple millions euros in funding, along with ~400 contractors (check the credits). That's literally AAA material, hence the quality. It's a good game, although not for me.

"You can't build clever little games anymore," says RPG legend, unless you get lucky like Clair Obscur Expedition 33: "That doesn't please the stock market" gamesradar.com/games/rpg/you-…

@Ubisoft Screen Juice devs did a pretty nice job, when are you gonna do that Ubisoft?

A warrior’s final act… becomes your power. Seamlessly shift between combat styles to outplay everything in your path. Whose power is next? #MorbidMetal

NY Attorney General Letitia James, who is suing Valve, is being referred for criminal prosecution over alleged homeowners' insurance fraud

Out now! 📕Play #TheThaumaturge: re.11bits.com/lsr Traverse the complex tapestry of 1905 Warsaw where harsh reality intertwines with mysterious powers and dark entities. Use your mystical abilities to tame powerful salutors and investigate the city's deepest secrets.

As #Fortnite's players, creators, and developers are looking for accountability, we've found that almost none of Epic Games' executives have publicly commented or apologized for yesterday's layoffs 🚫 - Tim Sweeney, Epic's chief and CEO, issued an apology to employees and made a post stating that "anyone [from Epic] is in the top few percent of their discipline," which has since drawn heavy criticism from angry players, influencers, and industry members and journalists - Adam Sussman, Epic's president, has not issued a public statement - Mark Rein, Epic's VP and co-founder, has not issued a public statement - Daniel Vogel, Epic's Chief Operating Officer, has not issued a public statement. Vogel drew criticism in 2021 after he ended Epic's policy of granting every other Friday off to their employees - Kim Libreri, Epic's Chief Technology Officer, has not issued a public statement - Randy Gelber, Epic's Chief Financial Officer, has not issued a public statement - Monika Fahlbusch, who joined Epic as their Chief People Officer leading their HR team after a tenure at the vaping company JUUL, has not issued a public statement - Charlie Wen, Epic's Chief Creative Officer, has not issued a public statement, amod speculation he silently left the company last year - Tera Randall, Epic's executive VP of Global Affairs, has not issued a public statement - Steve Allison, the VP and GM of the Epic Games Store, has not issued a public statement - Nate Nanzer, the senior VP of Commerce & Partnerships, has not issued a public statement. Nanzer joined Epic in 2019 after a tenure heading the now-defunct Overwatch League. Jeff Kaplan, the former game director of Overwatch, said in an interview that the league was wildly oversold to investors - Saxs Persson, the executive VP behind UEFN, left the company late last year As many of Epic's most dedicated employees - both current and now former - struggle to pick up the pieces, the silence from their executive leadership is deafening.

@Kotaku I like how AI-slop gooners are defending this bs so hard. Bro, just go watch porn, developers don't want any of that. Executives/managers encouraging this are just job hoppers that follow trends and don't actually give a crap about video games as an art.

Kingdom Come Deliverance Lead Stans For DLSS 5's Slop Filter kotaku.com/dlss5-daniel-v…

@kiwitalkz Yeah don't let them know about the executive likes of Bobby Kotick. The budgets are insane, but someone's gotta get those annual bonuses. I know game directors who get annual bonuses and/or raises while the rest of the people that actually do the development get scrap or nothing

Yip, Jason is bang on and I have been saying this for a while, that budgets for AAA games are insane now in the U.S. This is why Rockstar has 1600 devs alone in India doing QA and art on GTA 6, its way cheaper. Why pay an american dev $140K a year when that can pay for 4 or 5 indian devs. It's not difficult to work out the rough average of development costs for a game, take the average salary multiply it by the amount of devs at that studio and then by the amount of years the game was in development, add in a 75% cost for marketing costs and 10% cost for other costs such as commercial leases and other bills (e.g water, power etc.) and that will give you a rough idea of how much a game costs to make.

@kiwitalkz Yeah, don't let them know about the executive likes of Bobby Kotick. The budgets are insane, but someone's gotta get those annual bonuses. I know game directors who get annual bonuses and/or raises while the rest of the people that actually do the development get scrap or nothing

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@kiwitalkz Yeah, don't let them know about the executive likes of Bobby Kotick. The budgets are insane, but someone's gotta get those annual bonuses. I know game directors who get annual bonuses and/or raises why the rest of the people that actually do the development get scrap or nothing.