2025-10-04
I find it weird how people are defending Microsoft's several price hikes. This isn't a Sony vs Microsoft lame ass console war. This is capitalism and corporate greed pricing gamers out of gaming. Everyone should be opposed to billion dollar companies price gouging. Weirdos
Bloomberg
Sources: Microsoft putting some of its top titles on Xbox Game Pass is cutting into its higher-margin game sales, giving up $300M+ in Call of Duty sales in 2024
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division surprised many video game enthusiasts this week when the company announced a 50% price hike …
2025-09-27
Looking more into the investors behind this, yeah I don't think this is a good thing. These are the companies that just worked to overtake tiktok alongside investors who will definitely be pro censorship. Yikes.
Wall Street Journal
Sources: EA is in talks to go private in a deal valuing it at ~$50B; investors include Jared Kushner's PE firm and Saudi Arabia's PIF; EA closes up 14.87%
Investors including Silver Lake eyeing deal that would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever
2024-01-11
Game studios using AI instead of real art, Valve allowing Steam to publish AI games, Sag-Aftra signing away rights of actors to have their voices AI generated and AAA studios like Square Enix leaning into AI while the industry suffers from massive layoffs is fucking depressing.
IGN
Valve plans to add an “AI disclosure section” to Steam, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content and to let gamers report illegal AI content
https://steamcommunity.com/... James House-Lantto / @Theeo123@mastodon.social : https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ ... Valve has posted new, and clearly defined rules or games using A...
2024-01-10
Game studios using AI instead of real art, Valve allowing Steam to publish AI games, Sag-Aftra signing away rights of actors to have their voices AI generated and AAA studios like Square Enix leaning into AI while the industry suffers from massive layoffs is fucking depressing.
IGN
Valve's Steam plans to add an “AI disclosure section”, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content, and to let gamers report illegal AI content
New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.
2023-11-07
I cannot express how much I hate this. I want stories and characters created by real people. This fucking sucks, especially when developers are being laid off and discarded by studios who care more about profit than people.
VentureBeat
Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI enter a multiyear partnership to create multi-platform AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character creation
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :