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ShadowInk Designs Radio Episode 10 (X) - Hardcore Gaming News
@IndieLauraSDG & @StirringDragon are featured in this episode!
Keynotes:
• GTA VI Extended trailer watch party & analysis
• CyberLeek situation
• The phasing out of physical media
• Acclaim returns
• Turok: Origins looks not that great
• Mega Man: Dual Override looks great
• Super Mario Crossover
• Commodore 77
• Laura and Bruce's game - Unknown Realm
The gaming industry is going through a massive shift right now. 👀
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🎮 SOCOM II Is Back Online! 6 Days Until Launch!
Lets talk about bots.
Ever since I was a little kid playing SOCOM, I wished we could fill a room with bots and play whenever I wanted. Now we’re making that happen!
We’ve added 1–15 bots to Respawn on Frostfire and Vigilance, and they’re already playing great. You can jump in, practice, or have some fun without waiting for a full room.
Next, we’re working on their objective behavior, teaching them to defuse bombs and escort hostages, with the goal of supporting every game mode. As we gather more live playtest data, we’ll use it to keep improving how they move, fight, and handle objectives.
This is why open source and tools like SOCOM Forge mean so much to us. Giving the community access to the code and tools creates opportunities to build features we’ve wanted for years and finally make those ideas a reality.
Huge thank-you to Fuse and Phil for all their work bringing the bots to life! 🎮🔥
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#SOCOM #SOCOMII #SOCOMIILegacy #Socom2
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The Keaton Hobby Show xitter.cf/i/spaces/1nxeLMgmVEWJX
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26th of November is still on.
Plan is to get this released, support it and get the f*ck out of here with all this AI stuff going on 😉🤣
Might steal a fishing boat a couple of cannons (and a parrot) 🦜
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I'll never forget that my Grandmother on my mother's side helped introduced me to Windows XP. From that point on I became a hardcore PC gamer.
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I can’t believe this but I gotta do it. I never wanna hear MAGA NURSES CAN’T BE NURSES. The shit I hear from liberal nurses is beyond unprofessional. I hope this nurse learns from this report I’m about to make on her. I’m just glad I stepped in and helped the patient who was attacked by 2 random people.
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This...sums up Bioware writing perfectly.
Whoever Bioware was, it was not the OG Bioware. That team is long gone.
Bioware filtered their hiring, focused on nepo hires and politics, drove others out...until they completely forgot how to make great games.
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Harsh reality. You will spend three years building your game and the top comment will be 'add multiplayer.' Players dont want your vision. They want their wishlist. Build the damn game anyway.
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A senior writer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Ghost of Yōtei has joined Bethesda Game Studios, presumably to work on the next Elder Scrolls game.
If you've seen how terrible Starfield was, and how censored Oblivion Remastered was, this shouldn't come as a surprise. Your expectations for Bethesda should already be rock-bottom.
And given that we now have Chris Avellone's account of BioWare hiring people based on their political beliefs (linking my post on that in case you missed it), and that this is almost certainly an industry-wide practice, it's hardly surprising that this Veilguard writer had no difficulty finding new work.
This is yet another example of failed studio rejects being rehired by their ideological allies at other game studios that are also marching toward their doom.
I'm afraid the Western video game industry is most likely doomed to collapse entirely before it can be rebuilt.
It seems like all we can do is keep our wallets closed, voice our grievances, and let others know what needs to be done.
The DEI/woke cancer is terminal.
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Chris Avellone (best known for Planescape: Torment, KOTOR II, and Fallout: New Vegas) talks about BioWare's hiring practices.
To the surprise of no one with common sense, they were discriminating based on political beliefs.
They literally went through people's LinkedIn profiles to see if they were woke enough for the studio.
If you were wondering why the Western AAA industry is in the shape it's in today, this is the reason.
Here's basically how I imagine it all happened:
First, studios started hiring based on DEI because companies wanted an easy ESG paycheck.
Then, the DEI hires, mostly white liberal women who aren't gamers, started hiring people based on the criteria Chris Avellone talks about.
Then, slowly but surely, studios ended up being entirely made up of liberal lunatics, or at best, people with no political beliefs.
DEI is basically a virus or a cancer.
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We appreciate you 🙏 You're doing God's work.
Make Gaming Great Again – AI in All Game Dev is Inevitable xitter.cf/i/spaces/1DGleVygBAlJL
@Boogie2988 is making a great comeback
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Reports indicate that Gears of War: E-Day's sales have fallen off a cliff in just a couple of weeks since its launch.
The game is struggling to retain players, with only a 13k player peak over the last 24 hours.
Many people are saying that the next studio to suffer major layoffs and potnetial closure after BioWare's shutdown is "The Colatition". Others are predicting that while the Gears of War franchise will continue, it will be the last from this studio.
E-Day took over 7 years to develop, with costs estimated to be as high as 280-400 million dollars, others even claiming to have cost 500 million... With current sales estimates and projections, they are predicting a catastrophic commercial flop.
