Das Statement, AI könne bis zu 90% eines Spiels generieren, ist natürlich überzogen. In einer Präsentation unterstreicht Level 5 dann, dass sie AI tatsächlich üppig nutzen, auch für Questdesign. Bereitet euch auf das seelenloseste Professor Layton vor. decasimcentral.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/l...

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

If there's one thing you can say about Larian, it's that they listen to their audience. I really hope the backlash today demonstrates to them a love for what they do and how they have done it – and that it makes them reconsider this road they're going down with generative AI.

"[...] the CEO says the technology hasn’t led to big gains in efficiency" - it's always the same and if you "just" use AI for placeholder text and art in time this makes your product worse. Even creative people *will* get sloppy when they start using these tools. Everything's going down the drain.

Square Enix has definitely been mismanaged for years - constantly overestimating profits, closing and selling studios, firing good people and now relying mostly on AI for QA - but no one should listen to shareholders demanding exponential growth. They don't need even more business perspectives.

The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical. They're AI-generating the music here. Fuck that.

I knew my favorite Final Fantasy wouldn't make the feminist cut - only one out of two women passes the bechdel test and the one who does is missing from the party for half the game - but seeing it at the very bottom is pretty disenchanting.

Rewatched the Chainsaw Man-Movie after seeing it at the premiere in Tokyo last month and it cemented itself as one of my favorite animated films ever. Haven’t stopped thinking about it, just like the last Fujimoto adaption. Now praying for a surprise „Goodbye, Eri“ release. Never stop creating.

They actually never did a big trailer drop, incredible move.

Even before reading the cautious previews, this decision is mind numbing for a game that has such a steep climb to prove itself. Vampire 2 might be already over before it even launched. www.eurogamer.net/this-sucks-y...

Nintendo Switch Announcer (gravely): What is the true origin of man's inhumanity to man? What fate awaits our souls in the next life? Death and oblivion await all of us, this September. <fade to black, slight pause> Nintendo Switch Announcer: Who's up for ice cream? That's right - Hello Kitty!

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

I think Tim Rogers' breakdown of what he called the trinket conundrum in FF7 Remake really stuck with me. Big dramatic moments in games are consistently ruined pacing wise because the instant I get control I find myself spinning the camera and hitting corners to find items and doodads I don't need

After 120 hours I've finally seen all 100 endings of 'The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-'. Without a doubt a narrative unicorn the likes of which we probably won't ever see again. A carefully crafted marvel and absolutely my GotY. Visual novels are alive and well.

other people have said—correctly—that there is no reason VISA and Mastercard should be arbiters of morality, and this is true they also should not even exist—online payment and money transfer should be a free and universal service, not subject to censorship

Abartig, dass Microsoft nun sogar mehrere Rekord-Entlassungswellen pro Jahr loslöst. Erklärt natürlich auch, warum auf der letzten Showcase die zukünftigen AAA-Spiele fehlten. Sie haben Mit Perfect Dark, Everwild, dem nächsten Zenimax-MMORPG und mehr einen Großteil davon schlicht ausradiert.

As one illustration of just how sloppy and chaotic today's mass Xbox layoff has been, some employees at Zenimax Online Studios are now watching their Slack accounts abruptly get locked out. No message from HR, no word on whether they still have a job, just an ominous Slack deactivation

Interesting article here including a test of the average response time of the Switch 2 screen. The results are awful. It's about as slow an LCD as one could imagine in the modern era. chimolog.co/switch-2-pan...

happy june

Absolutely incredible that Evanescence had multiple placements in major media in the year of our lord 2025.

i don’t say this lightly but i think nathan fielder with the rehearsal season 2 made one of the greatest seasons of any show ever

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

the jrpg genre discourse is such a mess cause its a big web of orientalism in multiple forms; both dismissive and fetishising, and is ultimately one that we're not gonna solve anytime soon. it is what it is

I'm sure in every meeting at every publisher who moved release dates to avoid GTA6 there was one person who said "they are absolutely not going to ship on that date, it's Rockstar" and that person is now frothing at the mouth.

Extremely funny imagining countless publishers scrambling and calling emergency meetings to plan out their release dates in late 2025. Still sucks that we had the Oblivion Remaster, Expedition 33 and The Hundred Line in the span of one week and one of these great titles clearly suffering.

Just woke up to this news, need to be a little more awake to fully process it, but the people I worked with at Polygon are some of the most kind, insightful, and passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Support them wherever they end up. Also, fuck whoever made this decision.

Nichtmal das Bloodborne-Sequel erkauft sich diese überzogenen Preise für 60 FPS-Upgrades, Konsole und NEUNZIG Euro-Mario Kart.

the Hoenn region, one of the most hostile regions, has just put a nasty 50% tariff on all pokemon. if this tariff is not removed immediately, Kanto will put a 200% tariff on all BLAZIKENS, GARDEVOIRS, AND ABSOLS COMING OUT OF HOENN. this will be great for the zubat and pidgey businesses in Kanto

"indie games are THRIVING right now!"

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You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

Willem Dafoe speaking truth in this interview with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/will...

"Sorry we're closed" is an incredibly stylish survival horror game with a social part that's a little bit about demon's and mostly about.. true love? Definitely one of the best games of the year, no corporate hivemind could've come up with this.

Masterful. Good news for once.

The first few hours of Dragon Age Veilguard have been rough so far. I didn't expect much after Inquisition disappointed me, but the writing has been inferior to every game in the series before it. The modern Whedon-esque Blockbuster dialogue just doesn't work at all.

Metaphor war für mich lange ein aufpolierter Trails-Titel (im positivsten Sinne!), konnte sich aber mit dem energischen Fokus auf Politik und Gesellschaft als etwas Eigenes etablieren. Ein eindeutiger Beweis, dass die Persona-Formel sich besser durch "Experimente" weiterentwickeln kann.

Jahres-Bestenlisten zusammenstellen macht Spaß, also habe ich gleich zwei davon - in Release-Reihenfolge - gefertigt. Werde ich mit dem Remake im kommenden Februar einfach zwei Jahre hintereinander Persona 3 aufnehmen? Darauf könnt ihr Gift nehmen.

Da wir uns hier alle nicht kennen, noch nie gesehen haben und die Verbindung zu anderen Seiten nichtmal unter Folter zugeben würden - ein "brandneuer" erster Post. Wow.