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Oh hey look at something I wrote 👀 Ty to a bunch of great colleagues that I'm able to share this with you all 😍

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

it's 2035, AI has revolutionized the world, made everything 10x more expensive, kept wages low, corporations 50x richer but still not profitable because it's growing technology...🤩

Holy fuck this is the most depressing Steam Next Fest I have ever seen.

$1200-1800 for a console is such commercial suicide I can't even muster a "get the fuck outta here" about the news aftermath.site/xbox-helix-nex...

get comfy, cozy, toasty with your current gen console and/or PC

Remembering how pundits call for the end of the console generation every time and be wrong. Well, they might be right this time around and it'll be entirely because of AI.

The pendulum swings back and forth, PS was overzealous and went way too risk-on with their live-service. The overcommitment didn't pay off, now they are in super risk-averse mode even though this is suppose to be the spiritual successor to Metal Gear and not Death Stranding again.

You know Sony is done with any goodwill when they don't even want a Kojima game anymore.

GTA VI looks really fun which is why when it launches, I'll be playing GTA IV (for the first time) instead 😃

now that the us-canada trade war is back on, can we get rid of those data centers pls 🥺

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The PC I bought last november would've cost me 43% more if I bought the same PC today 💀

I think we're past peak internet and that makes me sad

I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam

2026

BREAKING: SPAIN DEFEATS ARGENTINA 1-0 TO WIN THE WORLD CUP

Sony is taking this away from us

I'm glad I got my new PC last year because I'm going to be sticking with this thing for the next 10 years.

Ultimately I think Sony is following the market, and the market is older, less willing to go to a store and buy a disc, and more willing to just buy new. And the younger generations that run counter to that are not filling in the blank spaces. The trends are what suck here.

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

This is shocking. I always thought console games would go the route of movies where streaming is the norm but the niche physical media enthusiasts can still thrive. Instead, they are going the way of music. Sad day indeed.

A lot of chatter about how PlayStation is doing so much with Rockstar for GTA6, stuff that they don't do for their first party titles, etc. GTA5 is literally the 2nd best selling game of all time, and GTA6 will eclipse the sales of any of Sony's PS5 first party titles easily.

Steam Machine is good, and not cheap but certainly isn't an Xbox competitor with those prices. I was so tempted since it's such a cool machine but those prices 😨

I've waited so long for RetroSpace, it's Space Disco Bioshock 🕺🪩 They just released a demo today! I finished the demo and it lived up to what I had hoped for, can't wait for the full release on June 11. Give it a try yourself if this interests you. store.steampowered.com/app/2067820/...

This clip single-handedly made me want to play the game. Never played a fighting game, nor knew about Virtua Fighter before this. And the MUSIC 🤩 #VirtuaFighterCrossroads

I really do like the Personalized Calendar Steam just added, I never used the popular upcoming list to begin with and this calendar just seemed much more useful for me.

There's certainly an interesting convo regarding Xbox's renewed "case by case" console exclusivity and its calculus, but I haven't heard anyone talk about how none of these decisions changed Game Pass day one on these titles. I mean isn't that part of the original math why they released on the PS5?

longer development time/cost, live service trend chase higher cost of entry, expensive console, games are factors as well = less game output the need to innovate, either create a must buy game or lower costs and produce more good games each year is needed here. all of which are hard to accomplish.

hands down my best investment was that I bought a PS5 at launch. 😅

There is a massive disconnect between the indie games community and the technoloy industry at large, Paul - the disconnect being that indies try to make games and a large part of the technology sector makes disposable startups to flip as much VC money as possible at the expense of everything.

Microsoft's next quarterly report: "we've seen an uptick in Copilot installs, stonks up" 📈

Can't believe it took me this long to get onto nature documentaries. Shout out to Planet Earth 😍

Seems like a logical step to make after gathering more than five years worth of data on porting games to PC. I do hope that Sony won't abandon Nixxes since they were acquired for their PC porting abilities. They can do work in other aspects for the PS Studios while between the few PC ports planned.

Scrolling through Next Fest demos, and the amount of AI key art is insane and of course, the store pages make no reference to AI being used cool cool cool

Just downloaded 8 #SteamNextFest demos! Any good recommends? 👀