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200 million dollars
8 years of development
Sony shuts down all of their Japanese studios and redirects their efforts into developing "cinematic" experiences to appeal to western gamers
Sony liquidates countless other studios in the pursuit of funding this game
Sony buys Bungie to aid in developing this game
Sony thinks this is going to be a huge success rivaling COD and Fortnite, so they fund an entire multimillion dollar CGI-animated episode to be aired in Amazon's Secret Level anthology series
Shuts down in 10 days
Sony refunds everyone

Man, Sony is taking L's like a motherfucker.

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled by hal_5700X in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 89 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, we saw this coming. When Manifest v3 first talked about.

Google an ad company are killing ad blockers. Yeah, that sounds right.

YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers by hal_5700X in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 109 points 8 months ago

Use Youtube frontends. Here is Privacy Guides' page about Youtube frontends. All of Youtube's BS will disappear.

Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data by hal_5700X in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 75 points 9 months ago

To disable it in about:config

browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled = false

browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled = false

Sony removed Helldivers 2 from sale in countries where PSN is not available. For example whole CIS region. by hal_5700X in c/steam@lemmy.ml

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 86 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

steamdb link

It's crazy to see Sony kill their golden goose.

Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries by hal_5700X in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Will...that was fun.

RIP Helldivers 2.

Todd Howard says Bethesda's trying to 'increase our output' with Elder Scrolls and Fallout 'because we don't want to wait that long either' by hal_5700X in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 68 points 9 months ago

After Starfield, I don't know if 'increase our output' is a good thing.

Starfield Is About to Get Some Really Good Updates Soon, Says Howard by hal_5700X in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 73 points 9 months ago

Too little, too late. Six months later and still no creation kit. Out of any Bethesda title, this one might have the most potential for modding. But they wasted it.

'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs by hal_5700X in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 94 points 10 months ago

Exclusive deals suck ass. So good.