" optimize staffing levels to be more comparable with industry leaders”

I will never understand why investor types like to play follow the leader rather than giving strategic or financial reasons for business decisions. Who gives a shit if every other studio is laying people off? If the staffing is right for your company then following other industry leaders will only make things worse and cement you in a place behind those leaders.

Good. I’m sick of seeing the “pet this cat” reviews at the top of the list. Hopefully this changes some of that stuff.

“If we expect all games to attract players indefinitely, Buckley says, ‘we’re just going to get more of these really soulless live service games that come out and get shut down nine months later, 12 months later, because they’re not making enough money.’”

We need more developers talking like this.

Gaming historian did a really interesting documentary on Oregon Trail. Definitely recommend checking it out

Here’s the link https://youtu.be/8QbjlHeoLdc?si=BmxLQj_yIDn_Kzhl

What I don’t get is that most of these acquisitions are reviewed by a govt body somewhere. And every single company trying to buy or sell another always says it will support growth of the business, but that is literally never true. There are always layoffs; sometimes right away and sometimes 6 or 12 months later, but they always happen. How companies get away with claiming the sale will create jobs and people are surprised when they turn around and do layoffs is totally beyond me.

The nice thing about products that improve accessibility is that they often make experiences better for everyone just by having more thought put into the design and use.

I don’t have any condition that would require me to need this controller but I’d love to try it out.

St Louis has “keytar guy”. He sets up at random intersections in the city and jams out on his keyboard. He’s usually sporting a mullet and is shirtless with cutoff jean shorts. He’s pretty good and is entertaining as hell.

Well, I guess it makes navigation easier, but leading patients and family through the space with what looks like a blood trail just seems in poor taste.

And you know what games were released via shareware? Doom. Quake. Great games that made you want to save up to get the full version. But even if you couldn’t do that you still got a solid playing experience with the free version.

I feel like those of us who grew up in the 90s got to see a young utopia internet. I kind of wish we could hit the reset button and go back to those days.

If studios want to commit to this games as a service model they need to really tighten up their language Don’t “sell” games, since they can’t be owned by customers. Don’t promote replayability if you have no plans to make the game available indefinitely. Sell it like an experience, like going to a theme park or getting a massage, and be crystal clear about how much usage the license purchased will get players, support window, updates and patches included etc.

Studios keep wanting things both ways by saying they want to sell games but then don’t let customers use them how they want after purchase, and pull the rug out as if customer should have expected it.

This is a good April fools joke. Definitely seemed believable, right up to the woman in the driver’s seat wearing it.

Sort of. They were epic exclusives for about 3 years and only got released on steam as they were starting to publicize AW2.

If they want ongoing engagement they should move on from Epic exclusives. I really enjoyed Control but I never think to go back to it because I rarely open up EGS.

Warning: a fair amount of spoilers in this video. He provides solutions to puzzles and shares video of results from decision points. Looks like a neat game though.

It seems a little like Goat simulator. Fun idea but not sure it would keep me entertained for more than one playthrough.

Would live some thought from folks who’ve played this on PC. I’ve been waiting to buy this until it comes out on Steam so I have no idea whether these requirements are reasonable or not. I mean, is it the kind of game where playing on ultra with high raytracing even makes a difference?

I’m very happy with my 3070 and it seems hard to imagine the graphics being so fancy that my pc will top out at 1440p.

When I saw the name I thought it would be a video rental store simulator, which had me way more excited than it should have. The actual game sounds pretty cool and worth checking out but I am a little disappointed. I would still kind of like to see an 80s video rental sim even though I can’t see it having mass appeal.

My husband and I watched a bunch of it this year and there was some great stuff on it. Was really impressed by the doom run and the BL2 coop run was easily our favorite with a ton of crazy tricks that made us want to do a new playthrough. The TAS run of super metroid was really cool too. My husband really liked the ocotpath travelr 2 run and I liked the super Mario 2 run.

Relevant video from Razbuten about difficulty settings on games.

I’m excited about this. They have done such a good job at developing the game with substantial new content that makes me want to keep coming back to it. Will definitely playing this once it’s out.