Wolfy had some words to say about the difficult news coming out of Microsoft recently. Thousands of layoffs, studios being closed, games cancelled: it is tragic. My familiarity with the specifics of the Microsoft situation is limited, but I do have some more general thoughts on where the industry is and where it might be going.
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I was over on Wilhelm’s TAGN site today enjoying a good read about the disaster that is Xbox Games. I generally agree with everything he is saying: Microsoft has done a terrible job running their game business and it is showing. But I also have a somewhat different experience as a user of the Xbox console that I feel bears mentioning.
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Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob posted about the sad state of affairs at the modern incarnation of Electronic Arts. What EA has become over the past thirty years is both sad and despicable: they are often times more damaging to gaming and the industry than they are beneficial. And now the stage is set, as Wilhelm describes, for things to become much worse.
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Avowed is an expansive RPG by Obsidian, the folks who developed Fallout New Vegas and the Pillars of Eternity series. Set in the same world as PoE, Avowed places you in the boots of a Godlike who has been chosen by the Emperor of the Aedyr Empire to figure out what is going on with the Dream Scourge, a plague affecting the Living Lands.
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