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• Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 “Halo Studios” keep Halo.

  At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 “Halo Studios” it had no chances of being good.

  Activision is a publisher, they don’t only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard’s Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn’t fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish FPS games that feel almost nothing like Call of Duty.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1h ago

• My point is that Activision isn’t a studio. It’s a publisher. I read Activision said they are forming a new studio for Halo.

  I mean, I didn’t bring up all of Activisions classic games like Pitfall, just the most recent games they have published since those are most relevant to the topic.

  “the era 343 was turning out good games too”

  Ok but that never really happened. Ensemble made Halo Wars and Creative Assembly made the sequel which were decent IMO (the first being better IMO). Every other game with the Halo brand under 343 was garbage. Forget about Spartan Strike and Spartan Assault? 343s first game was Halo CE Anniversary, which was horrendously bad, so I suppose it is poetic in a way that Halo Studios, which only survived long enough to drop a single game, would die with yet another rehash of Halo CE.

  Except for maybe Fireteam Raven, only because I never had the chance to play it, 343 never had an “era of making good games.” Halo 2A was pretty good but it launched in the very broken MCC which took them years to fix.

  4,5, and Infinite were the absolute low points of Halo, with Infinite being the best of the three only because of the art direction. But they are all far below Bungie-era Halo games.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Activision doesn’t only publish Call of Duty though. They publish all kinds of games: Sekiro, the Tony Hawk games, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc.

  Way more potential than what 343 had. I mean, 343 was purposefully NOT hiring former Bungie-era Halo employees. The important ones, like Marcus Lehto, Marty ODonnell, heck they only brought Joe Staten to get Infinite “back on track” and then promptly kicked him to the curb too. 343 definitely deserved this earlier, I am gonna be honest.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• I mean, not thrilled Activision has it, but at this point literally anyone other than Halo Studios would be better.

  on Next major Halo game being developed by Activision, as Halo Studios all but closes as part of Microsoft's Xbox restructuring in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• What’s the problem? That’s what all video games from almost every studio has been for the last like, 15 years. A completely different game with a recognizable brand name slapped onto it. Mainstream consumers don’t care apparently.

  on ‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I am assuming this means they are planning on adding a “free with ads” tier to Xbox Cloud Game Streaming. Which doesn’t really bother me that much if its a free tier. But if they add this to paid tiers or full games that would probably lose them a lot of goodwill that Asha seems to be pretty keen on regaining lately.

  on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• Perhaps, but then you kill that person and the power vacuum that is now created is likely to attract someone so much worse. There is no guarantee the next person will be better than the current one, and if the next one is worse, it would be your doing.

  on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 4d ago

• Pretty sure that would be the most lethal genocide in human history

  I don’t know of any previous genocide that wiped out 60% of the world population.

  on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 4d ago

• If they haven’t announced drives being removed, then there isn’t any proof that they are planning to do it. There is no benefit of doubt, nor is there evidence to support your claim.

  on Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital in c/games@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• Is there any proof that their next console isn’t going to have an optical drive?

  on Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• People haven’t lost interest in gaming. The entire global economy has gone to crap. People dont have the disposable income they used to have, and food, gas, and utilities are more important to buy than video games.

  Many people have moved to PC gaming because they already have a PC and Steam and GOG have very affordable games and vast libraries to choose from that isn’t available on console, most of which are unlikely to have performance problems on their device. PC also has the most discount sale events for games, I am pretty sure.

  If they could actually afford it, gaming spending would be higher, especially on walled garden consoles. Guaranteed.

  on PlayStation Blackout Had ‘No Significant Change At All’, Analyst Says in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• Whichever build doesn’t die in the first 10 minutes lol

  on Do you have a favorite Caves of Qud build? in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• I wish Metroid Prime 4 was vaporware lol

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• Its Kojima though, one of the biggest names in game creation. People like me buy games just because he worked on it. And its always a fire game. Sony can easily account for him while handling their other projects. He’s like Yoko Taro, except Square doesn’t let Yoko Taro make whatever he wants. But I still buy all his stuff because its always fire, even though I really don’t like Square Enix.

  Sony is just burning every bridge possible. No idea why, but it seems like they are speedrunning ending their company, like every other company, but they just found new method to reduce time.

  on PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima’s ‘Physint’ on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• The cinematic was fire, but I wasn’t getting “open world shooter” from it. Rather, I thought this was “Helldivers 2 with Starcraft window dressing,” which would be awesome I won’t lie.

  on STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion in c/games@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I’m not giving Sony any more money. Crunchyroll already sold and leaked my data illegally like 4 times. No more.

  on Witch on the Holy Night Anime Movie Releases Worldwide in January 2027 in c/anime@ani.social · 11 Sep 2026

• Dang, he played Minos in Heaven’s Lost Property, too.

  Rip to a legend.

  on Mike McFarland, voice of Master Roshi in Dragon Ball passes away at 56 in c/anime@ani.social · 11 Sep 2026

• Those aren’t goblins. Those are smurfs.

  on "So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?" Main Visual in c/anime@ani.social · 11 Sep 2026

• I have a feeling this one might not be as good as the older series. Seems to be a trend with recent remakes or mew asditions to classic series.

  Except GitS, which I think is a unique exception.

  on "EAT-MAN The Over Order" New Anime Announced in c/anime@ani.social · 11 Sep 2026

• Apparently, the Tetris Company is a copyright troll / vexatious litigant.

  According to Tetris Holdings LLC v Xio Interactive, the 10x20 play area and block shapes are somehow copyrighted, despite these being argued as public domain previously.

  Therefore all Tetris clones are somehow illegal. Absolutely insane.

  Even crazier is Tetris Company somehow owns a copyright on the Russian folk song that was used for the original game in the video game market. Somehow, using that old, public domain song in any video game is infringing on Tetris Holdings copyright. How is that legal? Why is such unilateral control of public domain works allowed?

  Source

  on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• I am curious to know what exactly the copyright infringement was? There are a vast myriad of Tetris clones, none of which the Tetris Company have taken down. Copyright isn’t something you can pick and choose when to enforce it, copyright holders are legally obligated to enforce it on every infringement, or they lose the copyright. Was the game using Tetris IP music or something?

  on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• Probably CryzenX, who has been remaking OoT in Unreal Engine for a while now. Seems Nintendo didn’t bother to try making theirs look any better than CryzenX’s attempt, sadly.

  on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Transitions and a minor less-than-a-second pause are one thing. That’s not what I am talking about.

  The triforce animation instantly tells me that’s a 4+ second loading screen. Nobody puts those in for stylistic choice. Even Resident Evil 1 style door transition screens are significantly faster than in the original RE when they show up in modern indie games. RE1 had them because of a hardware limitation, and the creatives decided to hide them with the door animation. Modern developers aren’t usually so creative and they just shove a tiny animated sprite in the bottom corner, as seen here with the animated triforce.

  on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• “This will be graphics in 2013.”

  Nintendo really is stuck in 2013, huh? Wonder when they’ll get to the UE5 Slop trend… 2040s maybe?

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  “We kept the load screens in some areas to keep the essence of the original game.”

  No dawg, you did that because the hardware required a load screen there. The transitions would have been instant without the animated triforce if it was purely a style choice and not a hardware limitation.

  Absolutely insane that people here still suck up to Nintendo. Holy.

  on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• “Yes.”

  on Give me your Asuka memes! in c/animemes@ani.social · 8 Sep 2026

• As is customary of older anime, be aware most if not all of these contain any of the following: graphic violence, graphic nudity, high amounts of foul language. In other words, its probably not for your grandma or your living room TV.

  Bubblegum Crisis (DO NOT start with Tokyo 2040, start with the original OVA first, it has better aesthetics and art) is always a recommendation from me. Along with the related series Bubblegum Crash, AD Police Files, Parasite Dolls, and A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve.

  Armitage III has a cyberpunk aesthetic but on Mars, the story isn’t perfect but it’s interesting enough. The original, not the movie with Kiefer Sutherland which is just the OVAs cut down into a movie.

  Dominion Tank Police was a fun series.

  Goku Midnight Eye is all attitude and little substance. I really liked it, but don’t watch it expecting an intricate plot. Its just entertainment, not more. But its cool entertainment.

  Cyber City Oedo 808 is another one that isnt that deep but oozes pure classic cyberpunkium.

  on Recommend some anime for me in c/anime@ani.social · 8 Sep 2026

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  on Give me your Asuka memes! in c/animemes@ani.social · 7 Sep 2026

• They intentionally wanted to make the shot-for-shot remake fail so they can point at it “still failing” and continue to ruin more remakes.

  on Original vs Netflix vs Anime in c/animemes@ani.social · 7 Sep 2026

• Please clarify what game you are talking about in the title of the post next time, talking about Colonel Miller had me thinking this was about Metal Gear’s Colonel Miller, the father of Kazuhira Miller.

  on Metro Exodus. Colonel Miller's Prototype. in c/games@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Ah yes, Quake III At Home But With Mecha.

  This one’s Axis. Good times, though I didn’t get to really play it that much.

  on Guess The Game (#017) [solved - see comments] in c/games@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

• Good. SteamDB is completely dead being bought by NexusMods.

  Who wants to bet the first thing to go will be concurrent user count? Or perhaps I will need to make an account (for data harvesting) or pay a subscription to view the numbers.

  on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. in c/games@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

• This is such a Japanese business thing to do. I’m not even surprised. I understand the need to protect your employees, especially when Japan has a history of whackos damaging businesses that sometimes result in deaths, but this is going a bit far IMO. I think they could comply with Japan’s new law about worker protection without needing to go this route.

  In Japan, laws have pretty much always been dictated by big businesses, just look at their defamation laws. Even if what you say is true, if it harms the company in any way, you will still be arrested and are basically guaranteed to lose a case in Japan for that.

  I am interested to see if they try to implement this outside Japan. I mean, Japanese businesses almost always try to apply Japanese law outside Japan (most famously, Nintendo), but still interesting to see if it happens.

  on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Piracy has never been tried successfully as theft, because it does not deprive the original owner of their lawful copy. It has always been tried as Copyright Infringement.

  on Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• This game has absolutely horrendous performance problems.

  It baffles me that people are rating this higher than games like KOTOR and Republic Commando.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• I think CoD peaked with World at War.

  I stopped playing after that. I played Advanced Warfare and Infinite Warfare and thought they were cool but not what I expected from CoD. Also played CoD WW2 and that game isn’t even a shred of what WaW is.

  on Is Old or New Call of Duty better? in c/games@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• Let me guess, just like the FallOut 2 DMCA a few weeks ago, which Bethesda rescinded after learning about it, some third party that uses AI to search for DMCA violations filed yet another false takedown. Again. Most likely without Microsoft even knowing about it.

  EDIT: Its the exact same third party as the one that Bethesda overturned after learning about it earlier. I expect this one to be overturned soon as well.

  on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice in c/games@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• I think people severely underestimate the freak of the average healthcare worker.

  on Hentai logic vs real world in c/animemes@ani.social · 28 Aug 2026

• Steam is only a monopoly by technicality. It isnt Steam’s fault that all the other competition is literal trash compared to Steam. Except maybe GOG, but they don’t typically offer the kinds of games I would buy on Steam. I only buy DRM-free games on GOG, if it has DRM I just buy it on Steam.

  Sandwiches would have a food monopoly by technicality if the other options were 3 week old poached eggs and dog feces. That’s not sandwiches fault, and sandwiches shouldn’t be forced to sell less so more people are coerced into eating the other two options that suck.

  on Despite Steam's concerning domination over the market, one of the things that I love about it is the ability to continually comment on other people's Steam reviews. in c/games@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Out Trigger on Dreamcast, for sure.

  on Guess The Game (#015) [Solved - see comments] in c/games@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• I’ll check out his channel, maybe I will find something I don’t know about yet lol.

  I don’t really collect them, just picked them up over the years for viewing and held onto them ever since. Same with all my VHS tapes and DVDs. It’s not really for any sort of “preservation effort” per se, as there are already really clean digital copies of what I have available online and even on streaming platforms in some cases, just that I bought them and used them like any other normal person does. Hopefully they still work after I die, maybe the next generation will have interest to use them (and not just hoard them to sell at auction after being graded at some corrupt auction house like Heritage).

  on Peak • Cre: @myonglette in c/animemes@ani.social · 27 Aug 2026

• I have to be honest chief, I have no idea who that is.

  For context, I own a LaserDisc Player, and a good amount of anime OVA LDs. I saw Twinkle Nora Rock Me “before it was cool,” probably. Its just a joke after all.

  on Peak • Cre: @myonglette in c/animemes@ani.social · 27 Aug 2026

• Ex Arm is pretty good, but I am fairly certain it has more total animation frames. Honestly, why even waste the time with so many frames? Twinkle Nora Rock Me! proved peak didnt need all those extra frames, its just waiting for the cult classic revival it deserves.

  … Any day now…

  on Peak • Cre: @myonglette in c/animemes@ani.social · 27 Aug 2026

• there is no universal peak thing.

  Say you haven’t watched Twinkle Nora Rock Me! without saying you haven’t watched Twinkle Nora Rock Me!, fake fan.

  on Peak • Cre: @myonglette in c/animemes@ani.social · 26 Aug 2026

• At first glance I thought this was a reference to Armitage III and had to do a double take.

  on Have you ever seen them both in the same room? I think not in c/animemes@ani.social · 26 Aug 2026

• Since GKIDS is an American company formed in 2008, you have to consider what the average American in 2008 thought about anime. And for the 99% of them, “animes are cartoons, and cartoons are for children.” The company was also formed by someone that ran the International Children’s Film Festival. So that explains that.

  Ironically, in Japan, there isn’t much of a distinction between anime and cartoons. They’re both called anime, which is just short for animation or animated work. So for the Japanese, Tetsujin 28, Berserk, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, and Shrek are all “anime.”

  GKIDS is currently owned by Japanese film giant Toho.

  on GKIDS Acquires North American Rights to "VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST" - Theatrical Release This Fall in c/anime@ani.social · 23 Aug 2026

• Ironically, Goblin Slayer returns to the intensity of its first episode basically never again in the show (except for brief moments occasionally through out both seasons).

  on I may be the opposite of most otakus, but screw it in c/animemes@ani.social · 23 Aug 2026

• I mean, this kind of argument is a bit stupid. Are we supposed to not recommend any books because garbage like Mein Kampf exists (and is infact still printed today)? That’s some certified Grade A trash that is permanently associated with books (or more specifically, the book genre Autobiography or Philosophy).

  on Both are annoying in c/animemes@ani.social · 23 Aug 2026

• Let’s be real, are any of them honest? You know the answer.

  on Duvet from "Serial Experiments Lain" Becomes the Most Streamed Anime Opening in Spotify History in c/anime@ani.social · 23 Aug 2026

• An Asset Flip is easily definable:

  The developer purchased an asset pack or multiple asset packs on a game engine asset store, made no changes or almost no changes, and uploaded it as a game.

  What you have defined (a game that is the same as another game but with different art) isn’t usually called an Asset Flip, but instead a Clone. Clone games usually have much more effort put into them compared to Asset Flip games.

  on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• I don’t know anything about this particular situation so won’t comment on it either way. I just think its funny that so many people can be so confidently wrong when it comes to thinking something is AI generated.

  I get when something feels suspicious, and often feel this myself, but to be so confident to say it as fact and then be totally wrong when the artist posts a timelapse or something is hilarious to me.

  on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork in c/games@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026