Today's News:
* SEGA reportedly has dropped all of their plans related to blockchain and NFT gaming for the foreseeable future, according to Bloomberg. It was reported that SEGA will no longer be offering their biggest franchises to third party blockchain developers in order to not "devalue" their IPs. It was also reported that they are also currently reassessing its approach to their big-budget online multiplayer-focused "super games" involving Web3 tech that is currently planned to start arriving in 2026.
Link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...inter-persists ,
https://www.destructoid.com/sega-hit...ckchain-plans/
* IO Interactive recently announced that they will be opening a new studio in Brighton, England as a support-level studio for their upcoming Project 007 and Project Fantasy games and help with the development of their Hitman series.
Link:
https://ioi.dk/careers/ioi-brighton
* In some somber news, the creative director of Beyond Good & Evil 2, Emile Morel, recently passed away at the age of 40. Prior to his passing, Morel had spent the past 14 years working at Ubisoft and among the notable games he worked on included being the senior designer of Rayman Legends. Morel also had taken over as the creative director of Beyond Good & Evil 2 earlier this year following the departure of several high level directors for the project.
Link:
https://www.ign.com/articles/emile-m...suddenly-at-40 ,
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ubiso...01294336-I853/
* Nintendo recently sent an official warning telling people to stop blowing their Nintendo Switches and instead just "suck it out" in regards to issues with dust getting into the cartridge slot of the console. The company also warned to not use a cotton swab either due to how sensitive the terminal reader is for Switch carts and jamming anything in there could seriously damage it. Their solution is to use a vacuum cleaner if you needed to clean out any dirt or dust.
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Originally Posted by Destructoid
This is a story that hearkens back to the ye olden times of gaming. The official Nintendo customer service Twitter account is now warning people not to blow into their Switch console in any attempt to fix any issues. More specifically, it doesn’t want you to utilize your own spittle in order to clear out any dust that may be lurking in the cartridge slot.
A tweet from the company says the area in which you insert your Switch game “has a terminal” which is used to read the said game. It then goes on to say that one should not clean this area out with a cotton swab, nor should a cartridge that’s damaged be inserted, lest it corrupts the terminal inside the machine. This is accompanied by a simple diagram illustrating this faux pas.
Nintendo then strongly urges people to not blow into the cartridge slot, for similar reasons mentioned above (only with more saliva). Instead, Nintendo advises Switch users to use a vacuum cleaner if there is dust in the slot in order to “suck it out” instead.
Back in the day
For many of us, this practice of blowing into game consoles or their proprietary game cartridges is a tried and true method. It could be detrimental to the terminals, but millions of us were guilty of doing so (and getting away with it).
This pretty much goes back to the NES (and eventually the SNES) days, and is something that has struck plenty of older gamers for decades. Some of us are now adults with jobs and responsibilities, but plenty of us remember taking our game out of the console because it wasn’t working, blowing into the cartridge like some form of gaming mouth-to-mouth, and putting it back into the system. More often than not, it worked. But it really shouldn’t have.
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Link:
https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo...e-its-the-90s/ ,
https://twitter.com/nintendo_cs/stat...52599451869184