1Up.com has cancelled their longest-running podcast, The Sports Anomaly. This is the final episode.
Per 1Up's site: "The most final and absolutely most epic Spors Anomaly ever podcasted features The Sports Game Guy (Todd Zuniga), Greg Ford, Andrew Fitch and Mike Suszek, as the longest-running sports video podcast in world history bids farewell with a sap-free send-off only the Sports Anomaly would dare to create. Featuring interviews with Madden 11's Mike Young & Ian Cummings, NCAA Football 11's Ben Haumiller and Russ Kiniry, NHL 11's David Littman, a Star Wars draft featuring Chris Baker, Bryan "The Fragile Eagle" Intihar, David Ellis, The Jack Kentala Sensation, DFW's rendition of the SA theme song in full, and so much sports video game information (Michael Jordan's cyber-return! BackBreaker's demo reactions! how sports gaming's changed in the last three years!) your skull will slightly melt."
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
The way the SA crew closed this podcast will be talked about for years!
We can't wait to see what these guys are going to do going forward!
The best podcast ever will be missed. 1up doesn't know what they are letting go!
It was a weird one.. I always felt like they had so little to talk about! I mean there aren't that many sports games and a lot of them are all just slight improvements on the year before. I preferred other 1up podcasts. This is no way near as good as 1up yours was before everything went to pieces.