I've heard of Ale Abbey! I think it might have been on the PC Gaming Show or something this past summer. I do like 2D base builders.
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Different publishers hold those rights, so any sort of XS/XG collection isn't possible.
Last we heard on Xenosaga, Bamco didn't think it was profitable. I doubt anything Xenogears is coming if it hasn't shown up by now.
Just heard of this guy for the first time in the chatter around reviews for this game (which has been...interesting, to say the least). Similar tastes to mine, so that's promising for me for Veilguard. Speaking of which, sounds like I should be trying Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Still need market demand. People want these products.
You can't just chase a trend and throw out a game and expect it to print money. Ask Sony how that went for their run at a hero shooter.
For specifics, I'd like to see consistent, transparent censorship standards, and Steam Workshop files made publicly available.
Steam's censorship issues are only going to be more of a problem as the Japanese PC market continues its explosive growth. The platform's inconsistency is surely frustrating Japanese developers, and the lack of transparency is giving fuel to a (not unearned) narrative that its content reviewers are arbitrary and xenophobic.
The Workshop matter is far smaller in comparison, but Steam is gatekeeping crowdsourced work product.
Deep dish crust has been surprisingly easy to replicate at home, but for the life of me I can't get the sauce and especially the sausage anywhere near where I want it. I swear Lou Malnati's does some outright witchcraft with their sausage. It's so good.
Plus, it's amazing how hard it is to find whole milk mozzarella in some places.
It's 2024. National defense infrastructure isn't just oil and steel anymore, it's silicon.
A lot of those games are still around, just not in legal distribution channels.
The more at-risk stuff is newer games going forward, such as live-service games or games locked down with DRM that requires authentication to play.
Here's a second person, then. It shouldn't be too surprising; anyone that works in games media will tell you that new releases are what drive peak engagement.
RSS can be similar to their Twitter feed, with a curated set of highlighted games once a certain amount of reviews are in. I already get a dozen feeds that have reviews in them anyway, and I often read them even if I'm not already interested in the game. Why not an aggregate? I'd subscribe in a heartbeat.
I doubt anyone knows how much of the playerbase it makes up, but the WoW subscription effectively went up to $20 a month for anyone that's using in-game gold to fund it.
There are certainly people that specifically like that kind of storytelling that puts the onus on the audience to do some digging. It's why Malazan Book of the Fallen is popular, for example.
It didn't do as much for me in Elden Ring, but I enjoyed it in Dark Souls 3 and it's why Demon's Souls has one of my favorite moments in gaming. Wouldn't have worked with more explicit narrative.
Maybe, but if it does ever happen, we're still very much in the embryo stage. Like, behind VR or at the level of 1990's-era game streaming services.
What was most telling to me was even Hasbro seemingly chose not to chase the fad with Magic: the Gathering. Depressingly, it was presumably because even NFTs would be more friendly to players than their tightly-controlled market.