This actually doesn't sound terrible? I mean I'm sure people will find ways to abuse it, but the concept seems pretty good. There are plenty of tiny channels that could use something like this to get more attention when they put out a video.

Good luck with that, I guess? Don't really see that stopping anyone. If something can be modded into the game someone will mod it into the game.

Sega is definitely winning the console war now.

So, has Embracer officially surpassed EA's killstreak of video game studio closures yet? They've got to be getting close.

Just think of all the memes you could mine from four hours of patented Lucas dialogue.

No? Xbox might not be in the greatest place right now, but it's a far cry from where Sega was when they discontinued the Dreamcast. Yeah, Microsoft stepped on a lot of rakes with the Xbox One, but it wasn't a Saturn-style disaster and Microsoft is still doing well enough to buy out a major game publisher.

I'm impressed at how well thought out this battle plan is. I'm usually pessimistic when it comes to governments taking pro-consumer stances, but then again all it takes is one government siding against game companies to set a precedent. Hopefully this picks up steam and gets to a wider audience. It feels like one of the few things gamers can agree on these days is how much they hate business practices like this.

No ads? No awkward celebrity cameos? No sponsors? Just video games? At a video game event? Ridiculous.

More seriously, there are a lot of good studios on that list and I'm excited to see what they have to announce.

GOG continues to do great work. Alpha Protocol isn't necessarily a good game, but it has a lot of interesting ideas in between long stretches of glitches, jank, and broken gameplay. Hopefully this sells well enough to justify bringing more abandoned titles to GOG. The little mini-documentary they put out going over the process of getting the game on GOG is also great and highlights all the recent efforts to push back against the "own nothing and be happy" mindset game companies are trying to push.

Shame. If they are laying off most of their staff I don't see Wyrdsong coming out now. In retrospect 2022 was a bad year to found a new gaming studio, even with all the talent they had on hand.

NASA releasing a TTRPG module was not on my bingo card for 2024, but here we are. Hope this is well-received because it would be cool to see them branch out into more "nerdy, but educational" content like this.

So, what studio is EA going to shut down to offset the good karma from doing this?