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Old 11-07-2023, 05:50 PM   #15161
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Ubisoft is trying to be bought and not finding a buyer. Had Embracer not had the saudi deal fall through it might have been them but i dont see anyone being interested. As the industry goes into the consolidation phase as it shrinks over the next decade i fully expect Ubisoft to be the first major studio to implode.
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Old 11-07-2023, 07:50 PM   #15162
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Today I learned that the one who did the motion capture for king in the very first tekken, was none other than minoru suzuki.

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Old 11-07-2023, 11:56 PM   #15163
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According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Rockstar is currently expected to officially announced GTA VI as early as this week.

It was reported that the first official trailer for the game is expected to be released next month to coincide with Rockstar's 25th anniversary.

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Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.

The company plans to then publish a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI next month to celebrate Rockstar’s 25th anniversary, said the people, who asked to not be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. A spokesperson for Rockstar didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent after business hours ...

Last year, hackers released hours of early footage from Grand Theft Auto VI. Rockstar blamed a “network intrusion” and said it “will properly introduce you to this next game when it is ready.” Two UK teens were convicted of the hack in a London criminal trial earlier this year.

The game is set in a fictional version of Miami and features two protagonists, a man and a woman, Bloomberg News has reported.

Take-Two is scheduled to report earnings on Wednesday.
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...dsFo5JjTaKz2PA
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Old 11-08-2023, 07:02 AM   #15164
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Old 11-08-2023, 08:14 PM   #15165
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According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Rockstar is currently expected to officially announced GTA VI as early as this week.

It was reported that the first official trailer for the game is expected to be released next month to coincide with Rockstar's 25th anniversary.


Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...dsFo5JjTaKz2PA
Turns out the expected reveal announcement was just an announcement of the real reveal announcement for GTA VI is coming this December.

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Old 11-10-2023, 07:20 PM   #15166
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Today's extra meaty news:
* In a recent letter to shareholders, Unity's new CEO James Whitehurst warned that the company is likely to do a round of layoffs as part of their current plans to become a "leaner, more agile, and faster growing company." This warning was due to the results from their fiscal third quarter being "mixed" in terms of what the company had been expecting. The letter also admitted that the company's new runtime fee decision had caused a lot of problems for the company but they consider that to be an issue in the past.
Link: https://www.destructoid.com/unity-wa...-fee-decision/ , https://s26.q4cdn.com/977690160/file...tter_FINAL.pdf

* In regards to Unity's disaster of their announcement of changes to their fees system that they later partially backed down from, a recent report from Mobilegamer.biz reported that several insiders within Unity stated that this whole plan was "rushed out" by upper management despite the objections by many within the company over the damage and problems it could end up causing to the company.
Link: https://mobilegamer.biz/fuck-you-wer...me-fee-fiasco/ , https://www.eurogamer.net/unitys-con...ut-says-report

* In a recent earnings call, Sony COO, CFO, & President Hiroki Totoki announced that they company is scaling back their plans to release 12 live service games by 2025 fiscal year. Instead they currently are planning to only release 6 live service games during that time period and the official reason related to both their purchase of Bungie last year and them realizing releasing that many games in a short period likely meant a big sacrifice in quality and less long term big earnings potential for those games.
Link: https://www.destructoid.com/sony-del...service-games/

* Based on a recent investor's call, Take Two announced that GTA 5 has sold around 190 million copies since its release in 2013 with around 20 million copies sold within the past year. The game is currently the second highest ever selling game but for some perspective, the all-time highest selling game is Minecraft at around 300 million copies sold.
Link: https://ir.take2games.com/static-fil...9-80770b07279f , https://www.destructoid.com/gta-5-is...on-units-sold/

* According to a report from VGC, Embrace Group is currently planning to shut down Free Radicals studio, Timesplitters series developer, as part of the on-going serious financial related issues affecting the company.
Link: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/...faces-closure/

* For those interested, Valve recently announced that they will be releasing a new OLED model of their Steam Deck that features improved specs and battery life on November 16th.
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Valve has just announced the Steam Deck OLED, due to release in very short order on November 16. Effectively an upgrade to the baseline Steam Deck model, the OLED variant will even have a substantially upgraded battery, making the device that much more appealing.

What’s particularly interesting here is that as the OLED model of the Steam Deck rolls in, Valve is phasing out the 64 GB and the 512 GB variants of the original device. As of right now, these version of the Deck are only going to stay in stock while supplies last (with an appropriate price drop), and new buyers will be able to purchase the following versions of the device in the future:

256 GB LCD version of the Steam Deck at $399
512 GB OLED version of the Steam Deck at $549
1 TB OLED version of the Steam Deck at $649

... Aside from the obvious boon of a 7.4″ OLED display with HDR support which is “designed from the ground up for gaming,” according to Valve’s press release, the device also features the following upgrades compared to the previously available model:

6nm APU for improved gaming efficiency
Wi-Fi 6E for better download speeds
50Whr battery delivering up to 12 hours worth of gameplay

The top-spec 1 TB version of the Deck comes with its own set of exclusive boons, including the premium anti-glare etched display that was previously reserved for the 512 GB version, a special carrying case with removable liner, an exclusive startup movie, and an exclusive virtual keyboard theme. All in all, quite the bundle of goodies.
Link: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/...eck_2023?tab=1 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTsZMvjJ-A , https://www.destructoid.com/valve-an...eam-deck-oled/
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Old 11-13-2023, 09:00 AM   #15167
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"Leaner, more agile" is a load of horse shit for:

Team collapses after adopting the Agile mindset and working all of IT like it's a god damn pipeline for dev ops.

It doesn't work well. This will show through their product quality down the line.
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Old 11-21-2023, 02:18 PM   #15168
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Based on a recent fiscal report released by Embracer Group, around 900 employees in total have been laid off by the company over their various studios and departments. This was stated to be around 5% of their total workforce.

Embracer also revealed that game sales for the past fiscal quarter was actually up 13% compared to the same quarter last year so its not all doom & gloom going on in the company.

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2023 has been an utterly miserable time to be working in the video game industry. Announcements of layoffs from some of the biggest names around have been dominating news sections lately. While we already knew Embracer Group was one of them, we now know the figures.

In the most recent sales report from the Crystal Dynamics and Gearbox Software owner, the company has said it experienced a 13% increase in net sales between July and September of this year (Q2 of their 2023-2024 fiscal year).

It then goes on to acknowledge that “around 900” people were part of the “reduction in headcount.” This equates to 5% of the whole workforce. That’s quite an astonishing amount of people to let go. Embracer Group said it’s also “reduced the number of projects” being worked on and is focussing on “improving the projected return on investment within PC/Console.”

The report goes on to say that CEO Lars Wingeford would like to “put on record a special thanks to the people who have left Embracer in the quarter.” Unfortunately, it’s unlikely to bring much comfort to those who have lost their jobs.
Link: https://twitter.com/embracergroup/st...36498649583678 , https://www.destructoid.com/the-mono...t-one-quarter/
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Today's News:
* In a "Did You Know Gaming?" type story, former Rockstar Games technical director Obbe Vermeij revealed in a recent blog post that Rockstar's original plans for GTA Vice City was not for it to be an actual game but instead as just a mission pack for GTA 3. Vermeij stated that because Vice City was running on the same engine as GTA 3, it was an easy transition to make it into a full fledged game. Vermeji also revealed that Rockstar also had plans at one point to make a new zombie game that would have been built off of Vice City but was dropped a month into its development in favor of GTA San Andreas instead.
Link: https://insiderockstarnorth.blogspot...city-2002.html , https://insiderockstarnorth.blogspot...s-agent-z.html

* Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake reportedly is still currently in production despite recent rumors hinting otherwise according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier. Schreier reported that two people spoken to at Saber Interactive stated that the game is still being worked on at their studio. Schreier also reported that it is likely that the remake might never be released due to the current serious financial issues affecting Embracer Group.
Link: https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/st...40417047802269 , https://www.destructoid.com/knights-...ing-worked-on/

* For those interested in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, publisher Focus Entertainment recently announced that the game has been delayed from its originally scheduled late 2023 release date to now a new date of second half of 2024. Official reason given was them needing more time for polish and tweaking.
Link: https://cdn.focus-home.com/admin/inv...112023_vuk.pdf , https://www.destructoid.com/warhamme...-half-of-2024/
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Old 12-11-2023, 02:43 PM   #15170
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Studio Fntastic closes up shop. Just days after The Day Before dropped on Steam early access.

From what I'm reading here and there, it really was that bad.
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Old 12-12-2023, 11:51 AM   #15171
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Not surprised since the combo of the COVID pandemic and the massive personal data leak scandal pretty much were the final nails in E3's coffin.
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Eh. even before that it had gone to shit. Companies started launching their own versions. I think the first Nintendo Direct was in 2010 or somewhere around there.

COVID was just the final nail. That, and how they started gatekeeping the fuck out of things.
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Yeah, Nintendo launching their Nintendo Direct was the start of the road of E3 becoming irrelevant in the future since companies started to realize you didn't need to spend all that money and time preparing lavish press conferences when it was easier and likely cheaper to just to do it all in-house.

Forgot where I read it but it was something like if you wanted to do an E3 press conference, then you pretty much had to start to lock in plans and prep work in January or so just to have a live press conference ready in place by June.
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Naughty Dog puts the kibosh on The Last of Us multiplayer. Determined it was going to be too big of a hassle.
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Eidos-Montreal lays off about 100 people. And kills off the Deus Ex game that was 2 years in development.

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