Wizardman

Wizardman

@wizardman4.bsky.social

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lol fuck off. Cloud gaming is deader than dead if you think I’m going to pay you 12 bucks to play a game for 50 hours

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Xbox Cloud Gaming introductory launch pricing revealed: -10hrs for $3.99 -25hrs for $7.99 -50hrs for $11.99 news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...

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There are 24 mainline CoD titles since it started in 2003. Who would be interested in a deep-dive of how it’s made? Not the people that play it. They’re not reading. They’re on TikTok watching some howling idiot’s game highlights. These games are chicken nuggets. People don’t wanna think about it—

Andy Robinson@andyrobinson.bsky.social

Activision believes there’s a “Call of Duty tax” on the way the series is covered by games media these days, according to an executive. vgc.news/news/the-cal...

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Xbox - "Continuing Our Reset" - 'First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer.' More: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Genuinely not sure but I guess it would be Pokemon sapphire. It wasn’t the first or anything but it’s just kind of what comes to mind that it Metroid zero mission as it was the first game I ever actually beat

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They deleted the content so no

IGN@ign.com

Destiny 2 may be over as a live-service game, but now there's a massive Bungie FPS with a defined endpoint to play through without ever worrying about content updates ruining your build. https://t.co/9qyAdZdtuR

Ok but it’s not a start up it’s a established business. There is no fast recovery for Xbox you need smart and careful decisions not fast ones because audiences and studios pay attention and react accordingly

Knoebel@knoebel.bsky.social

Asha Sharma has brought in a start up mentality into Xbox. Speed is a priority. The Xbox price increase was hastily thrown together after Apple announced its price increases. Decision which normally take weeks are now decided in days or hours. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-divid...

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Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Colton@sniperking323.bsky.social

Saw this on FB. If you’ve ever enjoyed Aqua Teen, please help if you can. Someone who’s such an integral part of one of Adult Swim’s most beloved shows deserves much better than this.

The biggest thing thing that annoys me about Rockstar fans is that they can’t even really explain what I’m supposed excited for with gta6 for how much they talk it up despite no info. Like it telling me I’m supposed to be impressed by a celebrity because of them being a celebrity.

Genuinely not sure how long it would take for Sony to fix Jim Ryan’s influence

This Week in Videogames - TWIV@thisweekinvideogames.com

Shuhei Yoshida, former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, has remarked that he was "fired" by then-CEO Jim Ryan "because I didn’t listen to him." Yoshida suggested Ryan "asked to do some ridiculous things, and I said 'No,'" before saying he highly enjoyed his subsequent PlayStation Indies role.

It’s a shame Ubisoft sucks at making RPGs a proper historical RPGs are would be great to have more especially since warhorse is clearly going to AI slop and even then seemed unlikely to venture far outside of their region.

They say this then you seen 2000 ai assets that left in “accidentally”

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Sci-fi RPG dev admits it's using generative AI but suggests it's not for the parts of game development players care about https://kotaku.com/expanse-osiris-genai-sci-fi-rpg-mass-effect-owlcat-2000682315

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Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com

"We as developers and players need to push back against this bullsh*t just like we did with NFTs and crypto games and try in vain to do with predatory micro transactions, loot boxes and battle passes."

This is likely why something like arc raiders/ helldivers 2/ marvel rivals all managed to be successful even if your a solo player the loss is small beyond time and you can still have fun, if you have friends you have a place to hang out and something to do for a couple of hours.

Leah Miller@leahmiller.bsky.social

The other problem is that they thought "fortnites" were match-based multiplayer shooters with microtransactions when really "fortnites" are games that are fun when you aren't good at them and can be played with your friends as a non-goal-driven hangout space.

Every time I ask myself where exactly is all of this money where is all of this money going? I struggle to think of any games where all of this is happening that justifies the price.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think helps explain the current state of the industry

So if working on fucking fortnite isn’t even enough to save you from getting let go genuinely what fucking option is their that wouldn’t require a crash to reset everything

Also he is just repeating his talking points and doesn’t see to understand that people hate generative AI in particular because he keeps saying it like that’s some how exonerated

“This kinda worked for E33 so maybe it will work for us?” Also why would you need the assets in game to explore tone? Like would concept art not solve that issue?

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Crimson Desert - statement on usage of AI

You can tell guys like him are not used to anyone who isn’t also a worthless sycophant or a soulless husk

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

‘They’re completely wrong’: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has responded to widespread criticism of DLSS 5. vgc.news/news/theyre-...

The inevitable pokopia sequel needs to have their big finale for each area more like what I’m assuming is the final story area. Where you build something big with all the Pokemon instead of the kinda lack luster project you do.

Xbox refuses to have a shred of dignity in its death

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social

Gaming Copilot coming to Xbox consoles later this year: "[...]we will bring Gaming Copilot to the current-generation consoles, and we will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing", said Manager for Gaming AI at Xbox Sonali Yadav ➡️ www.gamesradar.com/games/xbox-j...

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

'EA has laid off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios' - part of a "realignment" across the Battlefield studios www.ign.com/articles/ea-...

Ah yes Google knows how to appeal to “players” as shown by their huge success in the gaming space

Chris Kohler@kohler.bsky.social

Watching a demo of how you can turn every NPC in your RPG town into somebody who says "That's right — you *are* the four LIGHT WARRIORS. You make a great point! The bridge to the main continent *does* need to be repaired, and you're just the person to do it."

The not reason I have not swapped over to a Mac or whatever is familiarity but if this true I genuinely have zero reason to keep windows for any reason

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So functionally they were way too married to apex legends as the model. Only seemed to work in essentially “lab” settings and had assumed they could make lighting strike twice. They had enough awareness to avoid a battle royale but not enough to know they still were in its orbit

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

NEW: Inside the failure of Highguard, which flopped so badly that developer Wildlight laid off most of its staff just two weeks after release. Here's the story behind why people loved working at Wildlight, why Tencent pulled funding, and how it all fell apart: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Has Amazon had one single success?

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

King of Meat's servers will close on April 9, 2026 and will no longer be playable after the date. All players who purchased King of Meat will receive a full refund in the coming weeks from their platform provider. FAQ: www.kingofmeat.com/en-us

Anyone who believes this is a fool.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

Evo insists its "traditions, values, and identity will remain unchanged" as Saudi acquisition completes www.eurogamer.net/evo-insists-...

I really hope clockwork revolution is almost done so it doesn’t get saddled with a bunch of Ai slop. After it and fable are out all I need is a rare replay port to literally anything else and Xbox can go away into that good night

I’m stuck in that spot where a game I really want to play is far enough out I need something to fill time but not far enough out for me to start up anything big I know I will drop