And then he dies from the awfulness of Borderlands 4 instead of cancer, I’m not sure what’s better.

Wasn’t that Ghosts?

Yeah, the digital price only goes down for sales, otherwise even years after release you’re paying full price. With discs you can buy from whatever store you want and usually prices go down a lot within a year (which you should wait anyway because games are too buggy at release).

Their publisher was bought by Embracer shortly after the release of Kingdom Come Deliverance, maybe they’re to blame here.

How is gamer defined here? I don’t have access to the full report but apparently it mentions Candy Crush, so I wonder how the statistics would look like if you removed games like that.

If it’s bland and unexciting then it fits very well into Disney Star Wars and Disney should be very happy about it being so on brand.

As far as I know PS4/PS5 don’t support OpenGL or Vulkan, they have their own APIs.

That’s just lame, if I put my computer in my fridge I wouldn’t say that my fridge is then able to run Crysis.

I’d say the sex toys are going to far if they can run Doom.

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I’m pretty sure there were reports about this shortly after GTA Online’s relaunch, that they had moved everyone from DLCs to fix Online.

The successor to Deus Ex is Deus Ex. Mankind Divided was released in 2016, so it’s roughly as old as the other games you listed as successors to the other IPs.

Good to hear, never dug to much into it. Then there’s even less reason to keep it in Night City/America, maybe something in Japan.

It doesn’t have to, but it’s based on the Cyberpunk tabletop rpg which is mostly centered around Night City. So most of the existing lore is focused on America. Personally I’d prefer more games/movies/… outside the US in general, I’ve seen enough fictional versions of NYC and LA.

It’s a good example for how inflation isn’t something constant that affects everything equally. Game development costs are mostly wages, if wages stay below inflation then development costs stay below inflation unless teams get larger, and especially game development is known for paying rather low wages.

At this point I’m expecting it to be a movie.

Already kind of exists in Driver San Francisco.

In NFS the ads/product placements never changed, I suppose they want non-static ads.

I think you can say that about almost any developer these days.

What? Do you mean that the shows would require prior knowledge of the source if the showrunners didn’t ignore it? Doubt it. I mean a book is a book and a game is a game and not a film or tv show, some changes are expected in the adaptation because it wouldn’t work otherwise. But there’s a difference to just ignoring stuff, can still make it low barrier for people who don’t know the source.