I'll explain the difference. Gambling is you pay money and have a chance to lose it all. It's a game of chance.
Gaming loot boxes you pay money but always are given something in return. It's also a game of chance.
Now, if we're saying that Loot Boxes are gambling, then we should not be selling Pokemon card packs to children either right? Or baseball cards, or football cards, or hockey cards. So this is why gaming companies will never be f...
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Yes, he's a hack.
Stats on how wrong he's been in the past:
1. Grand Theft Auto V would release 2010 (released Sept 2013)
2. Predicted the price of Kinect would be $50.00 (was over $150)
3. Said Microsoft would double the price of Xbox Live
4. Said Wii was in no...
Read "Press Reset" by Jason Schreier. Levine definitely isn't a team player. I don't know how much of that is ego. You cannot deny he's a genius creator so people put up with it. Steve Jobs was kind of jerk but people put up with it because he was a visionary, I believe it's really the same thing here. The question is can a great game be made without having a personality like Levine leading it? I'd assume Ted Price over at Insomniac games or Even Wells at Naught...
This is definitely the path in that direction. If WB sanctions this, it opens up the door for characters from MKX and MK11 to be added in this same 2D style.
These are mockups using character models made over a decade ago. The characters in these screen shots don't yet have proper self shadowing. Liu Kang was produced by an artist who is no longer with the group, admittedly his face needs work and trust me it will be upgraded. Honestly we're 10 times harder on ourselves than any typical fan will be because we're fans. Trust me, if WB gives us the green light everything you mentioned will be improved.
My game studio, Eyeballistic is pitching to do the art if there is a remaster.
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That's a 3D-cell shaded approach. Check it out. Even if it just ends up getting redrawn, (by my team or anyone else) I...
Nothing PSVR2 will be there unfortunately. At least according to the very bottom of the blog post. All the other stuff you mentioned is definitely possible though.
Sorry I am not going to break my NDA to satisfy your request for facts. Take my statement for what it is worth (maybe nothing). Its not a lot of money compared to development costs especially when you factor in paying your artists, programmers and sound designer. Not to mention character rigging costs, environment art, gameplay designer etc etc. Most indies would be happy just to make a little money as a sure thing and GP offers that.
Xbox consoles game developer here: Microsoft doesn't offer you tons of money for you to put your game on Gamepass. Just so you know. I'd say it's definitely better than nothing, and I can't get into details since everyone's situation is different. I will say, it's way way way less than you probably think it is.
Sorry, but you just said, "they don't charge devs for cross-play" while describing how they charge devs for cross-play. You've done a great job explaining it, so I'm curious how you don't see this as "Charging for cross-play" perhaps it's the wording. Maybe it should be said, "Sony invokes a tax on cross-play games which is evaluated on a month to month basis and if Sony determines they aren't receiving more than 80% of a cross-play game's ...
Damning evidence indeed. That said, I think this will test the concept of photomanipulation and to what degree a photograph of something existing (that potentially anyone can photograph) is protected under copyright law. For instance if I photograph a painting of another artist's painted canvas, and display that in a museum, would that be copyright infringement? Also if these photos were offered in digital format on the internet, are they now considered publicly released? I am absolutely...
I'm not proud of it, but I bought a PS1 mod chip and legit would rent games and not even play them, just burn them to disc so my modded PS1 could play them. Worked perfectly. Parasite Eve was the first game I ever successfully burned. Back then we only had like a 2X CD-ROM speed so it was really slow burning a 650MB-700MB game. I remember being confident with chipping my own systems after that experience so I tried and accidentally killed my Xbox (original) about 2 years into owning it.
I signed in just to agree with you. Some of my best memories were crowded around Mortal Kombat, MK2, SF2 and Killer Instinct in a dark arcade. It was so awesome.
Because they are 100% correct.
FlakyGoose is 100% correct. Anyone making fun of your comment is completely clueless. Sony doesn't block Crossplay support, they charge for it. This was all revealed in the Epic Games Lawsuit. But I'll confirm (without breaking my NDA) as a PS5/X Series X game developer that I 100% can tell you Sony does not, and will not block crossplay, they make you pay for it. That's all I'm going to say on the subject.
Not trying to put you on the spot, but I'd be interested to know what you think fans of the series want. I'm a huge fan of Aliens and I'll tell you what I want.
1. Dark Atmospheric Gameplay
2. Co-op play with my buddies similar to something you'd get from Gears of War Co-op.
3. Respect for the Alien(s) lore and engrossing storyline
4. Tense firefights and heart pounding motion sensing mechanic.
5. Breaks in the action lets...
I agree it's one profit seeking company suing another profit seeking company. However, as a game developer, I'm hoping Epic wins this battle. We see 30% of our profits taken from Microsoft, Sony, Apple, Nintendo etc etc. Epic Game Store takes significantly less at 12%. That's a MASSIVE difference. It means more money goes to the creator's of these fine games we gamers like to play. Unless you don't particularly care how much profit an indie game developer makes (that'...
Soooo excited for this! I hope the next generation of VR controllers is a glove that includes the force feedback and resistance triggers from the PS5 controllers. That'd be so awesome.
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I agree, it's sad people can't approach this topic with nuance. That said, American Police kill more white people than black people in America. Nearly twice as much.
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As for the inordinate amount of black people incarcerated for violent crimes this too is easily prove...
Ok, if you believe loot boxes are gambling and should not be sold to minors then I'll ask you about what Pokemon and Magic the Gathering booster packs are? If you say those too are gambling then we don't have very much left to discuss. I'll say I disagree and apparently so does most of the rest of the world.
If you think I'm making a strawman argument, then please tell me the difference between any booster pack based game with a chance to earn commons, rare...