Dealspwn writes: Ubisoft Toronto head, Jade Raymond, has pointed towards the indie scene as a hotbed of new concepts as the games industry prepares to make the jump to a new generation of consoles, suggesting that increased power does not necessarily equal innovation.
Insider Gaming - "Ubisoft has cancelled yet another game, this time ending development on the Animal Crossing-inspired title Alterra."
HALIFAX (April 14, 2026) – Laid-off Ubisoft workers in Halifax have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a settlement with the video-game giant. The terms of the settlement, including the compensation employees will receive, is confidential.
I can't sit here and act like I know these workers financial situations. And I'm sure nobody wakes up WANTING to go to court. But for the sake of the industry, I wish some of these types of cases made it to trial.
Settlements allow companies to continue to do whatever abusive practices they do. While the trials (should the company lose) would actually force real changes for the better.
But again, I'm not in these workers shoes and I can understand them not wanting to risk it.
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Wow! Jade you're fine as hell and you make perfect sense.
What? A woman is the head of a division of Ubisoft? No way. Everyone knows there are no women in gaming. Obviously she's an effeminette man trying to keep women down.
On Topic: Only fools think that graphical fidelity is important. There will come a point where graphics won't be able to go any further, then what? Story and gameplay are vastly more important than visuals.
Hear that pc gamers. Keep all the high specs to yourself because in the end they don't matter.
I'm so upset that Olivia Munn was being promoted as some FAKE gamer girl meanwhile a REAL smart and sexy Jade Raymond got no publicity.
Well I'm happy to know about her now!
Her point of view is correct as many PC Indie titles have shown Great innovation while using like NO POWER like the current Hits FTL, Darkwood, or Valley without Wind 2.
But hopefully those great innovations in gameplay will be given a BOOST to appeal the graphics whores like myself.
(Hoping Star Citizen and X-Rebirth break my PC)
eventually the physical limitations of hardware will catch up. You can only draw instructions/logical circuits so small 'physically'. we got 22nm manufactory tech for the current ivybridge processors for example. there is only so much smaller we can go physically. So unless we find a new means of manufactoring and drawing instructions onto a dye, the processing poweress and graphic fidelty that people want will come to a hault. pretty much every process will. Not quite reached that barrier yet, but it'll come :P