I was disheartened to read on Wilhelm’s site that BioWare is being shut down by Electronic Arts. To me this was unexpected, but I suppose it shouldn’t have been. EA has been talking about focusing on sports and shooty-bang-bang games going forward, and BioWare doesn’t fit that mould.
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I saw an article from Engadget today describing an effort to get PS5 games running on an XBox Series X. The truth of the story can be boiled down to a few words: no, it doesn’t really work in a practical sense.
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If I had made the headline a question then you could invoke Betteridge’s Law of Headlines and just answer “No”. But I made it a statement because I think the proof is fairly robust: the game industry is sick, and not in a good way. Note that I’m not implying that there are no good games or that the industry is collapsing, but rather that the industry is not consistently rewarding the right kinds of behaviour and products. We are seeing good game developers and designers suffer and be driven out of an industry they used to love by poor Executive decision making and excess focus of profit.
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Microsoft has announced new limits on cloud gaming will be introduced in November of this year (Arstechnica). Depending on the Game Pass level you are subscribed to, your monthly hours will drop from “infinite” to as little as 5 hours:
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An off-hand comment in a post on The Ancient Gaming Noob today about EverQuest Legends reminded me of the passing of Brad McQuaid over six years ago. The reminder sent me on a bit of a journey that took me to a video that inspired some feelings.
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Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game (Video Games Chronicle), not owning it. And there is truth mixed in with a bold-faced lie in that statement.
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If you have a PC, PS5, or XBox X/S with a copy of Witcher 3- rejoice! CD Project RED is giving us some free stuff in the coming weeks. Available immediately are the two expansions for the game. At the end of September we get a remastered version of the game with improved gaphics and gameplay tweaks.
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I came across this post over on Engadget about Warren Spector retiring from the games industry. It caught me a bit in my emotions, and stirred up a few thoughts.
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There was a time for me when blogging about games was easy. I was gaming almost daily and my time spent in front of a console or PC games machine probably averaged two or three hours per day, seven days per week.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun had an interesting article on the activities of the consumer protection group Stop Killing Games (SKG). The article inspired some thoughts on my part about what SKG and similar groups are trying to do on the behalf of gamers.
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