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New Cloud Technology Warns You When Not To Play Kingdom Hearts
14.5.2022
Once, long ago, buying and playing a video game was pretty easy. You bought the disc or cart, stuck it in the console, and hit play. Not so much anymore. Case in point: The not-so-great cloud-streaming-only versions of Kingdom Hearts released on Switch earlier this year recently got an update,...
PS5, Xbox Delays Are Setting Switch Up To Dominate The Rest Of 2022
13.5.2022
Following yesterday’s delay of Redfall and Starfield, Microsoft’s two big blockbusters for the year, the release slate for the back half of 2022 might seem especially barren. Pop quiz: Have you been paying attention to the Switch?Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Players Sent To In-Game Jail As Devs Mull Mod Controversy
12.5.2022
At least two Final Fantasy XIV players pulled into an in-game jail by moderators while streaming the massively multiplayer online game this week. Many believe this was done to reprimand them for using third-party modifications to optimize HUD details for high-level raiding, a frequent pain point...
KOMENTÁŘ: Square Enix rezignují na hry, chtějí už jen dělat byznys
11.5.2022
Jedno z největších světových vydavatelství Square Enix nečekaně prodalo své nejoblíbenější značky jako Tomb Raider nebo Deus Ex, a to včetně jejich zkušených vývojářských týmů. Namísto nich se prý rozhodlo dát přednost moderním trendům, jako jsou digitální tokeny NFT nebo online předplatné. První...
Final Fantasy XIV Mod Drama May Prompt Official HUD Upgrades, Director Says
9.5.2022
As part of a larger blog reiterating the Final Fantasy XIV team’s disapproval of mods following their prevalence in a high-profile raid event, producer and director Naoki Yoshida promised to improve the massively popular game’s HUD to match the functionality of these unofficial tools.Read more
Meet The Only Person Keeping Action RPG Babylon’s Fall Alive
9.5.2022
Babylon’s Fall, the troubled live-service action-RPG from action game luminaries Platinum Games, has seemingly hit life support. After two months on the market and a lukewarm reception at launch, Square Enix’s latest effort was reduced to just one player on PC last week. They revealed themselves...
Square Enix Closes $300 Million Sale of Western Studios to Bankroll Blockchain Pivot
7.5.2022
Square Enix, the influential Japanese gaming and publishing company, has sold its Western studios and some of its Western intellectual properties (IPs) to Embracer Group. The deal, which values these properties at $300 million, will allow the company to focus on the development of new businesses...
Outriders, Square Enix's Answer To Destiny, Didn't Turn A Profit In Its First Year
6.5.2022
According to a recent operations report from the development studio People Can Fly, the online loot shooter Outriders didn’t make any profit by the end of 2021. Read more
Uncanny: YouTubers Recreate GTA 3 Animations IRL All Over Tokyo
5.5.2022
Life imitates art, and nowhere is this more apparent than through these YouTube videos of a guy running through the streets of Tokyo, Japan as if he were a character from Grand Theft Auto 3. While the movement is strange for a human, it will look familiar to anyone who has tried moving around in...
NFT Market Collapses Just As Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider To Bet Big On Blockchain
4.5.2022
You know what no one could ever have predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable jpeg images might not be end-game, long-term sustainable. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flatlining,” down 92 percent from last September. Which makes it just...
Square Enix Will Hold On To A Few Western-Made Franchises
3.5.2022
Yesterday, Square Enix announced that it was selling its Western studios, like Crystal Dynamics—and much of the intellectual property (IP) connected to those studios, like the Tomb Raider franchise—to Swedish holding company Embracer Group for $300 million. But while this move seems to signal...
Square Enix to sell Tomb Raider franchise and invest in new initiatives such as blockchain
3.5.2022
The Japanese video game publisher has already made grounds in the adoption of nonfungible tokens and expects metaverse technology to grow significantly
Even Game Pass Knows It’s Backlog Season
3.5.2022
It’s that time of year again, when the release cadence cools down a bit, giving you time to make your way through your backlog from the spring (or the fall). Game Pass, for the moment, isn’t adding too much to the top, and is in fact removing quite a bit from the bottom. Here’s everything coming...
Former Nintendo President Believes Gaming Experiences Could Benefit From Blockchain And ‘Play to Earn’ Models
3.5.2022
Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former president of Nintendo of America, has offered his take on blockchain and play to earn models when applied to the gaming industry. The executive declared that he was a big believer in blockchain technology, and that players investing their time in games should...
Tomb Raider's New Owners Have Been Snatching Up Old Series For Years Now
2.5.2022
The video game industry is undergoing a tidal wave of consolidation right now, and Swedish holding company Embracer Group is riding it to become one of the newest players in a rapidly shrinking space. A few years ago most people had never heard of it. Now it’s bigger than rivals like Ubisoft...
It's Time To Bring Back Deus Ex
2.5.2022
It’s been a long six years for Deus Ex fans, who’ve understandably been concerned that the long-dormant cyberpunk series would remain untouched. But today, in the cold, harsh light of an industry-shaking acquisition, we’re feeling…is it hope? This is what hope feels like, right?Read more
Crystal Dynamics, Eidor Montréal a Square Enix Montréal mění majitele. Odkoupí je gigant Embracer Group
2.5.2022
Po získání spousty menších studií tentokrát Embracer Group sáhne po světoznámých značkách, které doposud patřily pod vydavatelství Square Enix
Další obří herní obchod. Square Enix prodalo značky Tomb Raider a Deus Ex
2.5.2022
Vydavatelství Embracer Group dále rozšiřuje své portfolio. Pod jejich křídla nově patří i studio Crystal Dynamics a montréalské pobočky Eidosu a Square Enix, včetně jejich kultovních značek jako Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain nebo Thief
Square Enix Selling Tomb Raider, Deus Ex & Thief Studios (And The Games As Well)
2.5.2022
The Embracer Group, a planet-swallowing mass of video game publishers that already includes the likes of Gearbox and THQ Nordic, tonight announced a deal to purchase a number of storied studios and properties from Square Enix.Read more
The ‘Digital Town Square’: What Might Musk’s Twitter Deal Mean?
30.4.2022
Jean Burgess, Professor and Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, the Queensland University of Technology._____
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, seems set to purchase the social media platform Twitter for around USD 44bn. He says he’s...