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Levi Winslow
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staff writer, kotaku. they/them. beats: esports, creator culture + internet discourse, preservation + sustainability, news. send me tea and tips 🖤

Pretty wild especially when you look at that article which showed every single year for 14 years Call of Duty was the highest selling game. And here we are showing that even if you, as a worker, are capable of achieving such a feat, the blood-sucking parasite C-suite class will reward your achievement with a pink slip. Read more

What a great way to remind all the people who stanned for the Microsoft/Activision merger (I was one of them, honestly) that Microsoft is just another soulless entity that will slowly whittle down the company it acquired, just like every other corporate acquisition. Read more

Honest question, what’s your solution to this?  Read more

Spencer noted that this was a “painful decision” for Microsoft as a whole, clarifying that the company will “provide our full support to those who are impacted during the transition, including severance benefits informed by local employment laws.” Read more

Itsuno isn’t throwing shade at any one game, though the first one that comes to mind is Starfield. With its thousands of largely empty and static planets, the 2022 RPG practically necessitates the use of fast travel because of the vast amount of nothingness between the floating space rocks. Read more

The ferrystones in Dark Arisen weren’t rare. They can be regularly found at the black market vendor for like 3k gold. Maybe they’ve changed it in DD2, but in Dark Arisen you could also travel to the main cities with a ferrystone. So it’s not really as restrictive as the article says. Read more

like positive and negative charges repelling each other Read more

> like positive and negative charges repelling each other. Read more

What’s interesting is that some of the descriptions are just flat-out copies of their pokemon equivalent. The Eevee analogue (for example) has an encyclopedia entry that talks about it being a ‘neutral type pokemon’ and lists some of its behaviors. All of which feel like they come straight from pokemon.
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a Covenant-sympathizing human named Makee (CHARLIE MURPHY!!!!)

Yeah, as soon as I saw that I unsubbed from the Ubisoft + that I JUST signed up for. I used it to finish Valhala and start Mirage and PoP. Such a shame too, as I’ve been defending them pretty hard lately.  Read more

Not supporting this game or anything Ubisoft after what their CEO said.  Read more

Looks cool. Since I’m getting used to the idea of owning nothing, I’ll head down to my local torrent site to check it out when my backlog is a bit lighter.
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I would venture a guess that he is absolutely right. It would cost a lot of money to bring in the likenesses and songs of people, old and new. And I don’t think a new Def Jam would be popular enough to warrant that sort of cost. Read more

For the past 3-4 years, every time Summer Games Fest or the VGAs come around, I make the prediction that EA is bringing back the EA Sports BIG line. They had some really quality games and I think the nostalgia is there right now for not only Def Jam, but SSX and NBA/NFL/FC Street as well. Read more

As a researcher that specializes in game design methodology myself, this is just really sad news. For me, I would love to have the resources one day to make exhaustive studies in, say, how particular genres developed in terms of gameplay.
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