The Honest Gamer
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The Honest Gamer
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EA confirms Need for Speed and Burnout are dead, Criterion Games to focus on the Battlefield franchise "An executive clarifies that no new Need for Speed title is in the works, even as the studio celebrates its 30th anniversary. The NFS and Burnout franchises are essentially on an indefinite hiatus." “We are not here to talk about the past. We are solely focused on Battlefield,” says VP & GM of Battlefield Studios Europe, Rebecka Coutaz. Need for Speed declined greatly over the last decade, prompting EA to place the IP on an indefinite hold. via: IGN ign.com/articles/crite…

Ryse: Son of Rome had plans to be Xbox’s Assassin’s Creed Microsoft was highly enthusiastic about the IP pitch. “They told us it was ‘the most cohesive and well-thought IP pitch they had ever seen.’ It all seemed to go very well.” However, the original game underperformed commercially and critically. Crytek refused to sell the IP rights to Microsoft, leading to an impasse. via: IGN ign.com/articles/ryse-…


Xbox Layoffs, Studio Closures, And Spin-Offs: Everything Announced Today dlvr.it/TTNNh6




Craziest stat from Xbox's layoffs. Microsoft spent $83.5bn+ on acquisitions getting Xbox to 22k employees, not too far off being DOUBLE PlayStation's headcount. Only to utterly GUT Xbox to having almost the SAME number of employees as PlayStation just 2-3 years later, and that's despite all of Playstation's own layoffs and closures. If these layoffs take Xbox down to around 12.8k employees as Bloomberg is reporting, Xbox will have axed a shocking 9.2k jobs or 42% of their workforce in just a few short years. That is an UNPRECEDENTED level of gaming layoffs, mismanagement and failure, completely eclipsing layoffs from other major publishers or what's typical of the industry. They essentially bought thousands upon thousands of employees, only to axe them. Remember all the dishonest cheerleaders, influencers, fanboys and propaganda merchants that said these acquisitions would be GOOD for the employees? Woe to them and anyone who still follows what they have to say. 2024 Xbox ~22,000 PlayStation 12,700 2026 Xbox ~12,800 PlayStation ~12,008 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…















