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BioWare documentary about the doomed studio is in the works, titled “Massive Effect: A BioWare Story”🚀 It details the studio’s history from inside, leading up to their greedy draconian shut down by the creatively bankrupt EA Source: @DEADLINE #SaveMassEffect

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake physical pre-order having a late shipping and preventing players from playing at launch is totally unacceptable🚀 Same goes for the habit of releasing physical media a month or a year later, just to make people buy the game twice. Or studios that put the game on one disc and leaves the rest of it to be downloaded, instead of more than one disc, which was always standard practice. That’s totally negligent and there’s no excuse for it. Games like Phantom Blade 0 Control: Resonant, Alan Wake II and others did it, and this part of the reason why physical media suffers. Physical media does not lack demand It lacks support💿

This is more relevant than ever now, and it shouldn’t be a controversial nor a debatable opinion🚀 Apply this to any other industry and you’ll realize how ridiculous the status quo is: “If a clothing shop can take back your clothes at any time, you should be refunded at any time” It feels like we’re living in a repo men world of gaming and fanboys are ok with it😅

How much?🚀

#SaveMassEffect petition has gained more than 300K signatures so far🚀 In addition, Mass Effect community has started another petition to the Canadian Government’s House of Commons asking to save BioWare and Mass Effect. The petition states: ✅Provide BioWare with the capital necessary to secure independence of themselves and their intellectual property from Electronic Arts and resume business as an independent, Canadian company; ✅Protect Canadian businesses and cultural institutions from being dictated by American and foreign corporate interests; and ✅Champion the values of inclusivity, tolerance, democracy, justice, and civil rights at the centre of Canada's national identity by preserving BioWare's invaluable contribution to the global entertainment industry. Much respect to the Mass Effect community who have shown to be the most active and united in terms of taking a stand and making change for the best of the franchise.

Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told players straight to their faces that physical media “makes no sense” and compared it to listening to music from vinyl🚀 Merely weeks later, his company announced 11 physical variants on vinyl and CD for GTA6 soundtracks. I guess these two are fit for each other😅

Sony CFO stated that PlayStation 6 development is progressing as scheduled🚀 She added that they secured the necessary memory needed for for their next fiscal year. They are setting out to make solid progress to crest their next generation console. On another note, the manufacturing cost for PS6 was estimated by reports to be $650, and PS6 is also speculated to cost over $1000. Leaks have also shown that Sony is making two separate systems, one a handheld claimed it be coming late 2027, and the other is the PS6 home console. No official word has been made regarding those systems. What is the maximum you’re willing to pay for a PlayStation 6?😎

Larian Studios’ Swen Vinke stated that Divinity still has a long way to go🚀 ✅The game is built by largely the same team behind Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2, plus new talent. ✅He stated it will be even larger and more ambitious than Baldur's Gate 3, building directly on the success of both previous titles. The game was announced at The Game Awards of 2025, after an elaborate teaser that had players wondering for weeks leading up to the event😎

Arkane’s French union claims XBOX is sabotaging Marvel’s Blade by enforcing a 19-month hiring freeze, despite the game's high quality and smooth development🚀 ✅The union asserts that while Arkane is profitable, Microsoft is shutting it down in a relentless pursuit of maximum profit optimization. ✅Arkane argues that closing the studio makes no financial sense, claiming the shutdown costs would likely exceed the expense of finishing the game. ✅The union demands a say in any potential studio acquisition and higher, fairer redundancy payouts, calling current Microsoft offers "outrageously low." ✅Arkane emphasizes its primary goal is to remain open and complete Blade. Source: @VGC It’s crazy how unfortunate this game is, being announced years ago and nothing they shown, and if these reports are true, it’s being sabotaged by its own publisher, amidst reports of sale or closure. I wish the team all the best, and I really hope this turns out to be a superb quality game. There’s so much potential with the Blade IP.

PlayStation Store Black Friday discounts are being impacted by Sony’s dynamic pricing, which causes some players to get offers about $7 more expensive than others🚀 There’s still no explanation for why or on what basis these prices are being decided for users. This is the all-digital future This is what fanboys say is “fear-mongering” NO DISC 💿 NO BUY (Special thanks to @Pirat_Nation for the info🫶🏼)

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Those two cancelled games need to be saved and go back in development🚀 Even if we crowd-fund it. Don’t try to convince me that a game from 20 years ago is too hard to remake authentically today, the demand is there, and Mass Effect is in demand as well, especially with Exodus and The Expanse: Osiris Reborn coming and basing most of their appeal on filling the void left behind by Mass Effect We need more of these fames😎 #SaveMassEffect Save Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake

God of War: Ragnarok has sold over 21.6M copies, and made $1.4B in revenue on PS5, PS4 and Steam, according to Alinea Analytics🚀 This puts Ragnarok only second to GOW (2018) which reportedly sold ~23M copies. Formerly, it was reported that Ragnarok cost $200M to make, making it a massive financial success for Sony Santa Monica. God of War Laufey, the game that takes place adjacently to 2018 and Ragnarok on the timeline will come May 20th, starring Kratos’ wife Laufey. A new mainline God of War is confirmed after that along with remakes of the original trilogy😎

February 2027 looks like this after God of War Laufey was delayed🚀 Which one(s) will you be getting?😎

Gun to your head. Name a game without the letter “I” in its title🚀

The video game industry has been trying to gaslight players into submitting to their predatory practices by masquerading greed as evolution or financial viability🚀 Shutting down studios and games that players want in favor of games no one asked for, and a statements in the vein of: ✅“single player games are dead” ✅“Physical media makes no sense” ✅“Live service is the future” ✅“Streaming will be mainstream in 3 years” ✅“Gamers are over” ✅“Game development is hard” ✅“MTX make game development viable” They weren’t based on objective facts, but a deformation of reality to make players, many of whom are young and/or easily to manipulate with fanboyism and different kinds of tribalism in order to goad them into a accepting whatever predatory practices. Through fake PR word salad, aggressively marketed slop for the lowest common denominator that plays in their emotions and insecurities, and smug condescending negativity towards criticism, vilifying it as “toxicity” they are trying to convince you that there’s something wrong with you for demanding value for your money. That’s why you need to speak out, and be loud, because gaming is at is worst and most expensive and least inspired and unsustainable than it’s ever been, and only voting with our voices and wallets consistently is our hope for a better future for gaming. We need to vote the people who never valued gaming as anything more than a business OUT OF GAMING NO DISC 💿 NO BUY #SaveMassEffect