SwitchedOn Gamer writes: Sony has acquired Insomniac Games, one of the most successful independent studios. This announcement makes any other studio purchase seem possible.
Epic Games is facing a $1.2 million fine by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets over "unfair practices" in the Fortnite shop.
It might be cheaper to simply pay the fine. Fighting said fine could cost millions due to court and lawyer fees. Fortnite generates well over a 100 million in each month, so Epic has plenty of cash.
The OS works, but it barely crawls along on the Nintendo Switch's older ARM chipset.
Yeaaa... no. It's cool to say that you got it running as a bragging right, but this is completely unusable. I like how he hits the screen while trying to type! X'D
Nexon has released its financial statement for 2024's first quarter, and it looks like FPS The Finals isn't proving the hit the studio was hoping for.
The market for games like this is too over saturated to make a dent in other established games' player counts. Trying to start all over with a whole new multiplayer meta and grinding to get better is not feasible when there's already a ton of similar games that have come out before it.
I have a feeling Sony will buy Remedy next. Then hopefully we can get Alan Wake 2 on PS5.
Sony buys Insomniac and literally the next day Disney and Sony split on their partnership with Spider-man.
Did Sony do this to spite Disney?
If you don't want Spider-man in the MCU then you don't get the studio that makes good spider-man games.
Anything is possible. Bluepoint would be a good choice since they've worked with Sony in the past, and that stuff about visits to/meetings with Remedy seem suspicious.
It would also be a kick in the proverbial nuts if that stuff about Sony, and R* was more than just a whispered rumour.
I'm going to have a wild guess here as say that Sony bought Insomniac because MS was probably eyeing them out for a purchase. Sony bought Insomniac to secure the Dev to make Spiderman in the future.
Well I say future purchases are more than welcome. More creative freedom more times than not means greater user experience.