Welcome to This Week in WTF?! Remember those insane Japanese Arnold Schwarzenegger commercials for some sort of crazy energy drink? Imagine that madness distilled into videogame news form, and you'll have some idea of what we(1up.com) have to deal with every week.
This week: Nickelodeon justifies why you can't throw a rock in a GameStop without hitting a s**tty licensed game; Rockstar steals from a hooker and gives to higher education; Uwe Boll manages to piss off even chewing gum; and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe reminds us why Superman is a horrible, horrible superhero. Meanwhile, no one notices any of it since everybody and their late night comedian is still obsessed with Grand Theft Auto IV.
(Oh, and uh, ahem -- happy Mother's Day, mom!)
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.
This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.