With the survival-horror genre suffering from a severe lack of fear-factor, this article asks whether the mainstream horror game should be declared officially dead.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
I don't think so just not many devs cater 2 the genre
Definitely not dead, just not done correct
There needs to be an "Insidious" type of scary game. A game that makes you jump right out your seat.
well amnesia was a start,
I love the horror games he mentions, Eternal darkness and system shock 2 were amazing and not very well known to the maintream
also The Cradle Level in Thief is the most scared I have ever been in a video game before (yes even more than Amnesia)
but as an out and out horror game? I reckon Silent Hill 2 is the best of the lot, because it wasnt about shock scares at all, it also evoked this endless sense of dread and it was also a very polished game with a gripping, emotionally driven story
Anyone see the remake of Dawn of the Dead? The day starts off like any other day, then the the couple wakes up to hell on Earth. I wish a game would come out and start off like that. Where you are just going through the motions (initial training and how to's) then BAM! all hell breaks loose and you have to think on your feet. Most games nowadays just don't get the horror piece right.