Video Game Industry BS (AKA, GamerGate Thread 2.0)

@ANoobis
Yup, this is truly another idiotic throwing of a fit and tantrum episode. Its fishing for so much empathy and emotional validation, along with going along with projecting hatred and contempt for those who say things they hate to see and hear. Indeed, most contemporary game journalists, especially at Kotaku, Gamerant, IGN, and similarly, Polygon, are either ignorant goons who write what they have been told to write in accordance with their handlers, are deliberate and disingenuous liars, or are mentally ill with varying kinds of trauma, abuse and genetic errors within.

Because it’s loosely associated with J.K. Rowling. That’s why.
Also, she probably collects royalties from it, and it’s known that she donates to ‘TERF’ causes.

Massive Entertainment, lately known for The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws, is going to be seeing a round of layoffs.

Halo is coming to Playstation in 2026. Another remake of Halo: CE is in the works, and this one is cross-platform. At this point, I don’t see any reason why Microsoft wouldn’t exit the hardware market after this generation.

TheGamer just let go of several editors and a whole team of writers.

@ANoobis
I am of two minds about this: on the one hand console exclusivity and the console wars were always retarded and benefited no-one except the corpos so, more people being able to play one of my favourite video games of all time is a plus

On the other hand, Halo used to be so great it could sell Xbox consoles purely by itself…it’s a sign of how much irreparable damage 343/Halo Studios and Microsoft mismanagement has done to the series.

I hope the Halo remake feels like the original. It’s a brown UE5 game now, but if it plays right, I can deal. And as long as none of the changes are lore related. It would suck to have terminals with entries from the Banished and alien Forerunners shoehorned in.

@ANoobis
Problem is:

A) There’s no point in making this except to shoehorn in retcons, so there’s no point in hoping for that not to be the case.

B) They already fucked up a Halo CE: remaster once, what has this company (and it IS the same company, I’m not being fooled by the “Halo Studios” rebrand) done in all that time to make you think it’s going to be good this time around?

Frankly, this is a game that doesn’t need to exist and frankly, no-one is asking for. No-one except Microsoft execs that remember the time Halo was a money-printer that could sell an entire console off it’s mere existence and what that money farm again…

But they do not - or will not - understand that it was the passion and artistry behind Halo, the mythological and biblical metanarrative, the tightly-paced 30 seconds of fun gameplay, a company that was well connected with their community and a community that was given all the features needed to take the game, run with it and make it their own…Halo was all of these things, and more.

The company making it now has trouble putting a Team Deathmatch playlist in ready for launch. And good luck hoping Forge or Theatre will be launch features either, if you’re lucky they might add them in 3 years later…

By brother in Christ: Halo’s dead. I was there when it died: November 6, 2012.

There was a funeral for it.

I went through Denial during Halo 4’s lifecycle, Anger and Bartering after Halo 5: Guardians was released…

…Loss after that debacle.

By the time Infinite was announced, I’d already entered Acceptance. I’ve accepted Halo is dead, i’m just waiting for everyone else to catch up with me so I can stop being “that asshole laughing on the side and eating all the popcorn” and become “the guy who brought popcorn for us all to share while we watch this never-ending trainwreck”.

Square Enix just laid off over 100 employees across their U.S. and U.K. divisions. They cited AI, but the Japanese side hasn’t been touched. Maybe the writing in the upcoming titles will have a more classic flavor.

Sony has lost $204 million in book value on Bungie due to Destiny 2’s underperformance. Marathon is unlikely to help matters.

Ubisoft was hacked. It looks like the initial fun and games involving Rainbow 6 currency may have been a smokescreen for the real hack.

Anthem is about to shut down. I didn’t even know it was still running.

Over 1,000 Epic employees just got laid off. The company cites a downturn in Fortnite revenue for the fiscal shortfall.