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Asmongold breaks down exactly why western game developers can't make good games anymore "There is an unholy trinity of failed theater kids, woke retardation, and infinity middle management. This has created the unholy trinity of bad western video games." "These people want to make this video game their vision, their ideology. They're a visionary, a misunderstood artist." "All of this self-aggrandizement mental masturbation garbage. And then you also have three or four levels of management and HR just wasting everybody's time and money creating artificial problems and then solving them so they don't get fired."

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There are two contrasting stories here. In 1978, when Donald Sutherland was tapped to appear in ANIMAL HOUSE, he was offered a percentage of the film's gross profits as payment. He declined in favor of a flat rate of $25,000/day for two days' work. Sutherland believed ANIMAL HOUSE would be forgotten quickly, so he went for the sure money. ANIMAL HOUSE was a massive hit and this decision cost him millions of dollars. In 1977, when George Lucas approached Alec Guinness to appear in STAR WARS, Lucas offered 2 percent of the movie's royalties as payment. Guinness correctly predicted that STAR WARS would do well, so he took the offer, which made him so wealthy that he could afford to retire and only take roles that he truly wanted. A few years back, CD Projekt Red had to settle with the author of THE WITCHER novels, who was upset that he sold the rights for a flat sum because he assumed the video games would make no money. CD Projekt Red did nothing wrong; they offered him royalties, which would have made him millions, and he went for the sure money. The games are also the only reason anyone outside of Poland even knows about THE WITCHER books. They ended up settling as a public relations move. Take risk, get rewarded. This is the basic calculus of life.

The top three modern western RPG developers are all from northern Europe. - CD Projekt RED - Larian Studios - Warhorse Studios I don't know what they're being fed over there, but it's working. Everyone else is playing catch up.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hints they are planning on moving away from having customers buying consoles and instead going to a monthly rental or subscription program She says it's hard to imagine people continuing to spend thousands of dollars on future console generations This is code for you will own nothing and we will charge you monthly for a product forever

A new look at NO LAW, the first-person, story rich, cyber-noire shooter, was revealed during the State of Unreal 🔹More objects in any given frame than in the entirety of their last game, The Ascent 🔹Their goal is to balance extreme detail with stability and performance 🔹Prioritized density over scale 🔹No invisible walls and no loading 🔹Fully dynamic day and night weather system 🔹Players can shoot out a street lamps...NPCs react to darkness 🔹NPC density and types change based on the time of day, weather, location 🔹Over 3,000 Characters simulated at any given time 🔹Uses Metahuman to generate and bring to life thousands of variations of characters to all be unique 🔹Particles move based on player actions (i.e. shooting something or throwing a grenade, and the environment reacts) 🔹Smoke lingers, embers drift, broken glass stays where it falls

Hollywood agencies are scouring Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via @THR)

As I reported yesterday, the layoff at Zenimax Bethesda have begun. Here is industry legend George Broussard confirming it. “Is that public now?” Anybody not working on fallout or elder scrolls is at risk.

Unreal Engine 5.8 has AI integration with Claude and Codex. Runs in terminal beside the engine, connected via MCP to fully control the Editor. Place props, generate cities procedurally, and even art direct the lighting. Unreal Engine 5.8 available today. Pretty much any Unreal game from now on is gonna need an AI label.

Bungie and Sony made only $14 Million on console with Marathon. I have new information from inside source telling me that the console figures for Marathon were grim indeed. The rumors about Bungie getting a 50% staff reduction are looking very likely. Most of Marathon's sales were from PC, but Sony cannot be happy with these console numbers. *This source was 100% accurate with Yotei numbers in the past.

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Base building returns to Dawn of War IV. Fortify your position with structures like the mighty Hammerfall Bunker and turn the tide of battle.

Jeff Bezos says Prometheus is not building AI to write better answers. It is building AI to help engineers design real machines faster. A jet engine can take 10 years to go from idea to production. Bezos wants that loop cut to five, then three, then one. "The next AI race is not chat. It is invention speed."

A stronger than usual El Niño this year is not cause for undue concern - as the Bureau of Meteorology itself notes. This is nature shaking off the winter blues. According to the BoM's latest June data, the ocean and atmosphere have officially coupled into an El Niño Southern Oscillation state. While there could be later influences from local factors like the Indian Ocean Dipole - which is currently neutral but hinting at a positive turn - these atmospheric players can act as regional spoilers. Roughly half of international climate models suggest this El Niño could intensify significantly during the Southern Hemisphere's winter and spring, potentially ranking among the strongest events since 1950. So there may be consequences depending on how it plays out. But for El Niño itself this is nothing new; it's an ancient, natural, expected and predictable mood swing. Nor is it a structural breakdown. The ocean is simply unpacking its thermal suitcase to shed bothersome extra warmth out into the atmosphere, where the winds can carry it away. This is the perennial, time-honored sequence of oceanic interaction with the broader biosphere. Some might point to the sudden spike in global atmospheric temperatures during an El Niño as 'runaway warming'. But it's not that either. It’s thermal energy responding to pure physics. We should think of it as a timely atmospheric and oceanic heat-redistribution spring clean. During normal or La Niña years, the Pacific trade winds blow strongly from east to west, piling up warm waters around Australia and Indonesia into what is known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool. But these are still only forecasts based on possibilities—not a script for climate change. This story rarely changes much. IMAGE: Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies during an El Niño event: Peter Blottoman Photography / Getty Images

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is now in an El Niño phase. El Niño events are part of a natural cycle in the Pacific Ocean that can affect global weather. For more information on what El Niño means for Australia's climate, visit our website: bom.gov.au/news-and-media…

These are rookie numbers. We need a complete reset of AAA. It all needs to go.

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