Adding one point to the current flow of conversation.Regarding the claim often heard overseas that seems to have some legitimacy:“It’s unfair that something you bought becomes unplayable when the service ends.” As a player myself, I can understand this perspective,and I sometimes feel the same way.But, well…Do physical items outside of digital products last forever?Most of the time, they don’t, …
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Ghost of Yotei Dev Reportedly Fired After Comment About Charlie Kirk Assassination
Sucker Punch has reportedly fired a Ghost of Yotei character artist over comments she made online in the wake of the assassination of right-wing political commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Ghost of Yotei is set to be one of the biggest PlayStation 5 releases of the fall season, but it will apparently be moving forward without the …
Read More »Ghost Of Yotei Dev Fired Over Charlie Kirk Joke After Pressure Campaign
A contingent of right-wing online figures and their followers have been using the recent assassination of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk to punish people they don’t like. That includes a developer at Ghost of Yotei maker Sucker Punch Productions who Sony confirms it has parted ways with after she made a joke on social media about the shooting. “I hope the …
Read More »Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Keep Playing for at Least 15 Minutes After They Tweak Settings to See How Performance Has Changed, as Negative Steam Reviews Pile Up
Borderlands 4 has launched on Steam to big concurrent player numbers, but the release was marred by complaints about PC performance that have resulted in a ‘mixed’ user review rating on Valve’s platform. Borderlands 4 peaked at 207,479 concurrent player numbers on Steam yesterday, September 11, which was significantly higher than any previous Borderlands before it. However, the game launched …
Read More »Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had “Negligently Disposed Of”
Image: Zion Grassl / Time Extension Earlier this year, we reported on a fundraising drive by the non-profit preservation group Video Game Preservation Museum to save a collection of undumped GBA, DS, DSi, and 3DS games that were at risk of falling into the hands of private collectors. This haul of games included prototypes of titles such as Sonic Chronicles: …
Read More »Polygon Dev Accuses Trump-Linked WLFI of Stealing Tokens
A crypto developer has accused World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project with ties to US President Donald Trump, of stealing his funds by refusing to unlock his tokens. In a Saturday post on X, Polygon DevRel Bruno Skvorc shared an email from WLFI’s compliance team, which flagged his wallet address as “high risk” due to blockchain exposure. The team …
Read More »Low-cost airline will drop Boise service – Boise Dev
Low-cost airline will drop Boise service Boise Dev Spirit Airlines cancels service at four California airports Los Angeles Times Spirit Airlines Is Struggling, and Rivals Smell Blood The Wall Street Journal Popular airline eliminating flights in major South Carolina city, report says WBTV Spirit Airlines cancels 11 routes amid bankruptcy woes. See shuttered flights. USA Today Source link
Read More »Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port
A video shows how different storage media can affect Mario Kart World load times. CD Projekt Red VP of Technology Charles Tremblay has alluded to this same challenge when talking about the Switch 2 port of Cyberpunk 2077. In a June interview with IGN, Tremblay said the data transfer speeds enabled by MicroSD Express were “great,” while streaming data from …
Read More »Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2 is a Game-Key Card because of storage speed, not cost, dev says
A Ubisoft developer has explained why the physical Nintendo Switch 2 release of Star Wars Outlaws is a Game-Key Card, instead of having the full game on the cartridge. Game-Key Cards are Nintendo’s new branding for cartridges that still require the game to be downloaded from the Switch 2 online store before the game can be played. The cartridge doesn’t …
Read More »Star Wars Outlaws dev comes out with first actually good reason for using Switch 2’s controversial Game Key Cards
Many of us have a few things to say about the Nintendo Switch 2‘s controversial game key cards, which don’t actually contain game data, and instead trigger a download from the Nintendo eShop when they are popped into the device. However, developer Rob Bantin, who is an audio architect on Ubisoft’s game engine Snowdrop, has revealed why the studio opted …
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