Not a surprise. Anything this company touches is sinking. These giant gaming conglomerates don’t make an iota of business sense. The whole point of a conglomerate buying a whole bunch of similar businesses, aka horizontal integration, is so these businesses can share the same knowledge, infrastructure and supply lines and benefit from economies of scale to lower costs. Like an oil conglomerate using their own tankers to transport oil for all their subsidiaries. But in the gaming industry there is barely any overlap between two studios where synergy can happen. Except for the business admin, promotion and advertising side. But that is a tiny fraction of the costs of big budget production. The biggest cost is on the production side and every studio needs their own set of directors, producers, designers, artists, programmers etc. Another goal of horizontal integration is capturing market share, but with games you run the risk of cannibalizing your own sales especially how Embracer is doing it since most studios in their portfolio are from the same region in the world making games for similar markets.

EA and Ubisoft tried this before and failed miserably and they sold or shuttered almost every studio they bought. The only one who does a good job at it is Sony, but even they don’t have as many studios as Embracer and they rely on Chinese digital asset sweatshops.

I don’t know if there is a Disco song that calls for murdering gay people.

Yeah but it was the other side of the spectrum. It weren’t right wing racist who were mad but SJWs who didn’t see the movie and don’t understand that the word Samurai in the title is plural not singular.

Damn already 1800 reviews.

Makes sense since the Iron Age symbol for Thor was a swastika /s

Haha my first thought as well

The Reggea Realm would be full of homophobia.

Wasn’t that sorta a sub plot in Y: the Last Man tv series?

8K TVs are all LCD and $3200 is on the low end of 8K TVs. So yeah of course you’d get a trash image.

Remember that day when GDPR dropped and website suddenly started loading much faster.

And R.E.P.O.

Just save your prompts and vibes in a Google doc dude

No he’s just from Iran who likes the third unification of Iran he’s just off by twenty years.

it’s just not the US. I live in the Netherland and many people here think OT and bonuses are taxed differently, because they see a higher tax rate applied to it on their slip. They forget that their base salary covers multiple brackets and a tax credit. Thus has a lower average tax rate than their OT and bonuses which falls in their top bracket or even a bracket above.

These kind of games run on a shit ton of licensing deals, from player likeness, club branding and music. Bet it is much more advantageous for the studios in these licensing deals to just create single releases. With a subscription service the IP holders will demand a deal based on playtime.

And too much innovation will alienate people anyway. People want something new but at the same time want something familiar. If it’s too out there people can’t relate with it, especially before the purchase, and feel it’s too risky to spend time and money on. And for the people who do try it you still need to convince them to push through the beginning stages of the game. Since very innovative gameplay comes with a steep learning curve and not just skill wise since it breaks conventions there is also a cultural (in the gaming sense) learning curve.

Yeah especially when you stimulate your Euro zone at the same time.

This is what ChatGPT says:

This is “Raccoo,” the main character from the indie 3D platformer Raccoo Venture (developed by Diego Ras). In the game, you can unlock different outfits for Raccoo—one of which is the blue, Eastern-inspired costume shown here, complete with the little floating lantern companion.

At least it’s a real game

The alphabet when i’m about to program some math algorithm using long ass descriptive variable names:

Always use a UPS when you connect a PC to a generator. The UPS will protect it against surges and also smooth out the power