Studio Fumbles General

SkoomaDealer

Nintendo out here fighting ghosts and losing.

SkoomaDealer

It’s a shame no one ever made a Gundam hero shooter and their fans have to settle for skins in the second most popular hero shooter in 2025.

Dielan

Suprised they lasted as long as they did tbh

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250501630767/en/Valnet-Acquires-Premium-Gaming-Publication-Polygon-from-Vox-Media

Valnet is the same investment firm that owns TheGamer so I'm sure the layoffs involved are not political, just about money

If my theory about thegamer being mostly an AI ghostwriter is right, they will likely so the same to polygon to then turn a profit

SkoomaDealer

“Premium Gaming Publication”

I wonder if Polygon was somehow making money.

Dielan

OOF

Dielan

Dielan In a hilarious double whammy the DualShockers AI ghostwriter is just misquoting the tweet lmao

Dielan

Even Paul Tassi isn't defending marathon anymore

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/19/its-just-over-for-marathon/

The whole concord-haters-looking-for-a-new-target defense is over. Game is being judged on merit without any shields

Dielan

Oh I was wrong! SAG didnt like how epic did ai vader after all

The complaint here is they didn't bargain with SAG first, instead directly working with the estate of JEJ. Not sure what ground SAG has to stand on here

SkoomaDealer

Inb4 the contract says Epic is in the clear.

SkoomaDealer

Borderlands 4 trying to follow Marathon out here. At least they haven’t been caught stealing art yet.

Dielan

RANDY NO

Dielan

OOF

Dielan

2 hours of intro cutscenes just to deny refunds?

SkoomaDealer

Splitgate 2 did a little fucky wucky

SkoomaDealer

Nintendo is also making poor choices and using technically the truth to lie to their players.

Dielan

Remember 6 months ago when the crab devs grandstanded about leaving Twitter?

Well they deleted that tweet and came back some time ago. I didn't notice until a viral tweet by them. Guess they had no choice when their new game (called Peak) started doing well

First image is the bluesky evidence. They didn't delete it there

Dielan

Confirming what we already knew

SkoomaDealer

On the surface, this is just normal business stuff. But there are some key bits like all those strikes and such making production staff cost more in the US. Which means people in the US cost more. Basically, the strikes shot everyone in the foot and this is the gun.

SkoomaDealer

Not our usual kind of studio fumble. But Critical Roll is choosing not to use their system for the next season, but instead use DND 2024. Which is the most lambasted system of DND. Even my liberal neighborhood hates it (the intended audience).

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