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Sony Shuts Down Video-Game Studio Bluepoint The PlayStation subsidiary previously made remakes of games like ‘Demon’s Souls’

Roughly 70 employees will be impacted by the Bluepoint closure. Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the market as it currently exists means that providing material products in exchange for money is actually bad for profits, it is better to cannibalize and charge people for things they already have

seems like making games is merely a by-product of what the games industry is supposed to do now

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.

A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

"The result was an often ramshackle sequel featuring a smaller world, fewer companions, and repetitive quests—as well as some of the best characters, dialogue, and storytelling Bioware has ever put to screen."

100%. Sold!

I love Dragon Age II. Looking forward to reading this one.

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It was niche and nearly forgotten, but horror fans begged devs for a Fatal Frame 2 remake and got it: "Responding to those voices was the main reason behind this project" Fatal Frame as a public service

fan service is actually good and artful when it's for girls :--) 🦋🔪

more from my interview with fatal frame 2 remake directors makoto shibata and hidehiko nakajima, who kindly suggested to me that the ribbons on mio's outfit look perfect in photo mode:

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every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.

watching what's happening to Pinterest feels like a glimpse at the immediate future for much of the internet. AI moderation knocking down posts, people unable to talk to human beings, a flood of AI content, and hand drawn posts mislabeled as AI

A title card for Batman: The Animated Series. The text reads "On Leather Wings"

A title card for Batman: The Animated Series. The text reads "Feat of Clay"

A title card for Batman: The Animated Series. The text reads "The Cat and the Claw"

A title card for Batman: The Animated Series. The text reads "Nothing to FEAR"

I am once again wallowing in the title cards for Batman: The Animated Series...for reasons.

i think it’s funny every american on here is looking at yoon’s lifetime prison sentence going what’s it like to live my dream meanwhile a lotta koreans are like im so confused why isn’t he dead

PUT THE GIANT BOMB CREW IN THE NEXT SONIC MOVIE AS CHAO!

These 3-yr drops are stunning. Absolutely stunning.

New Orleans: -55%
Baltimore: -60%
Philly: -60%
Chicago: -40%
Buffalo: -55%
Pittsburgh: -50%
Albuquerque: -40%
Newark: -40%
San Antonio: -55%
Portland: -45%

The media coverage of these staggering drops, tho, is staggering in its relative silence.

Stolen from twt

pook fucking called it

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" is one of the most cursed sentences I'll read this week.

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there we go: Ghey's mother deadnames her daughter in her memoir and treats her transition as a death akin to her actual murder. the reason for the social media ban the mother has put her name behind is explicitly to prevent young people from finding queer communities, solidarity, and support online.

it's impossible for me to read any of this without it sounding like Ghey's mother blames social media for her daughter's transition rather than blaming her (offline) killers or the rampant UK transphobia that surrounded her murder

Inside ‘The Simpsons’ last-minute addition of late writer Dan McQuade’s likeness to its Philadelphia episode Just 18 days after the beloved writer's death, the venerable show found a way to pay animated tribute to McQuade.

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we have reached full im the birthday boy defense

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

To be fair Brazil and South Korea cracked down on Yoon and Bolsonaro *precisely because* they have been dictatorships in living memory, and the UK monarchy let itself be investigated like this *because* other monarchies collapsed. Assuming your institutions are unimpregnable per se... not so smart

scarlet hollow tomorrow

The scope of the American imagination is so fucking hilarious sometimes.

Yes, I would think "there actually is a cabal of billionaire pedophile industrialists and heads of state manipulating global politics to their own ends" is marginally more significant.

Rather than ascribing agency to machines that are built by other humans getting rich off of doing that, we should ascribe the agency to those humans and talk about what they're doing via their companies: stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor, and deceiving the public.

Someone should let me review Zero Parades: For Dead because I am not beholden to some unhinged foundational beliefs about Za/um & the violated sanctity of Disco Elysium.

Fishbowl feels like an act of radical sincerity and optimism The slice-of-life story about grief, love, and a magic fish toy is made by a two-person team

The slice-of-life story about grief, love, and a magic fish toy is made by a two-person team