Why don’t they just hire more people with the $700 million they’ve raised?

Estimates have put the game’s budget at upwards of $250 million, so they’d need to sell at least 5 times as many copies to even break even. Games (from traditional studios, anyway) are crazy expensive now.

Curious how they quantify ‘attractiveness’. Is it self-reported, or are they attempting to use some kind of qualitative metric to rate the attractiveness of participants?

If the former, you could just as easily draw the conclusion that more confident people spend less time gaming.

Person says thing will happen “at some time”.

If Elmo doesn’t terrify you at least a little bit, then I seriously question your humanity.

Fromsoft PC ports have always been notoriously bad, but it blows my mind that after 15 years, they still don’t support something as important as custom keybinds.

Big “Deranged Nazi doctor in an old Indiana Jones movie” vibes.

Apparently they announced the game at the same time as the layoffs so they’d be able to release a demo and some promotional material. That way the people they laid off would still be able to show off their work to prospective employers as they job hunt.

I’m sure it’s also a final hail Mary effort to attract the attention of investors so they might fund the rest of the game, but still, seems like a pretty practical way to shelve a project — definitely not as crazy as the headline makes it sound.

Todd Howard looks exactly like a grown-up Todd Flanders and not enough people are talking about it.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

Hopefully this means more games like Soma, which had much more of an emotional core than the rest of their catalog. (I know, I know, Soma was also a horror game, but the horror elements were arguably the least interesting part.)

I blame RimWorld.

Mental Break: Riot

The last straw was: institutional corruption

I have a feeling this article only exists to harvest outrage clicks. I doubt there’s anyone left who sees Molyneux as anything more than the washed-up snake oil salesman that he is.