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Page 1 of 3Nexon says ARC Raiders is a “replicable strategy”. Given the huge pop, rapid decline and familiar monetisation cycle, perhaps it actually is.
Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia offers huge armies and beautiful character art, then buries them beneath shallow combat and constant admin.
Tripwire built Killing Floor 3 around season passes, abandoned KF2, and trapped itself supporting a live-service sequel almost nobody plays.
Sony cancelled Kojima’s Physint, rebooted Horizon’s live-service project and poured hundreds of millions into Wolverine. What exactly is the strategy?
Record heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are already hammering Europe while Big Tech keeps demanding vastly more power, water and infrastructure for AI data centres.
Jim Ryan squeezed gamers for every penny while greenlighting endless live-service failures. Lets look at how his spreadsheet mentality set the industry back a decade.
Bluesky alienated its entire anti-AI user base by forcing the GenAI app Attie into the ecosystem. A scathing breakdown of Jay Graber's out-of-touch tech disaster.
Masayoshi Son, GenAI’s premium clown, missed Amazon, sold Nvidia, tried to sell Arm and now bets $64.6bn on OpenAI while calling bubble fears blasphemy.
Following the Code Vein 2 disaster, Bandai Namco fumbles another easy win. Sword Art Online: Echoes of Aincrad features empty open worlds and exhausting, rigid gameplay.
Code Vein 2 has launched to a disastrous 52% rating. I breakdown how Bandai Namco killed the franchise with poor UE5 performance, removed co-op, and aggressive censorship to chase a 'modern audience' that does not exist.
Iron Tower’s Colony Ship offers plenty of systems and branching choices, but little curiosity, weak exploration and a space setting that barely matters.
Zuck blew $14 billion on a tech bro to build Meta's Muse Spark LLM. It is a hilariously pathetic closed-source bot that copies OpenAI and bombs basic logic.
