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c/games@lemmy.world ·

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 2d ago

"Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs

Rock Paper Shotgun "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs

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Halo is officially dead. It’s been dying for a while, this seals it.

For long time halo fans in the aughts, this is literally the last thing any of us ever wanted. Halo was always a completely different game than Call of Duty, but business never understood that and so today officially marks the end, where the Halo we knew is gone, and anything new will be a CoD clone more than anything else.

c/gaming@beehaw.org ·

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 2d ago

"Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs

Rock Paper Shotgun "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs

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cross-posted from: poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/4812656

Halo is officially dead. It’s been dying for a while, this seals it.

For long time halo fans in the aughts, this is literally the last thing any of us ever wanted. Halo was always a completely different game than Call of Duty, but business never understood that and so today officially marks the end, where the Halo we knew is gone, and anything new will be a CoD clone more than anything else.

c/games@lemmy.world ·

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 13 Aug 2026

Laura Fryer - HR is killing Games

www.youtube.com

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Laura Fryer gives a fairly scathing review of HR’s encroachment and obvious power grab to be less “day to day” and more to (verbatim) be “at the same level or above the CEO”.

Video goes into how HR makes toxic work environments that demonize ever speaking out or questioning anything, and the toxic positivity that holds games back.

From HR -> “People and Culture” -> “Chief Disruptors”

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I don’t click on links without knowing what they are first, what is this?

on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2h ago
Why do you think suddenly they’re trying to crack down on piracy?

on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2h ago
rather than mourn, are they going after Samsung to replace said food? When I worked best buy our warranty covered food spoilage up to 2 years I believe (if it was the fridge/freezer’s fault, not just a random power outage or something). I’d expect Samsung to do the same.

on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
I remember the big CoD vs Halo “wars” back in the day, and this is exactly what I didn’t want. I liked Halo’s slower combat, more strategy combining shields, grenades, melee, and weapons. Now (5 and Infinite confirmed) it’s just another twitch shooter, with pistols/rifles that act like snipers and everyone trying to one shot. The few Infinite MP games I did play I was always alone in the warthog while others just went on solo. It’s not the same experience it used to be.

on "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
They want Xbox to make a resounding comeback while also removing all of the talent from the studios. Cat’s out of the bag, we already know it’s not “14 layers of management” being fired, it’s everyone. They aren’t making the latest awesome Halo for the next Xbox, they want some sloppy sad corporate approved vibe coded cheap thing that they can ship with the limited number of new consoles.

and people will still go buy it in droves.

on Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I interviewed there last year. I was penalized for not using enough AI in my interview. I used it, just not enough of it.

They told me it was a company wide mandate. That I should be ready to not write any code but to use AI for everything.

So, whose fault is it?

on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2d ago
That’s why I think I’m just calling it. Halo 5 was bad, Infinite had good gameplay but the story was meandering and boring.

Campaign Evolved was the second remake of the original, which again is just graphic flashiness with none of the understanding of what made the game special to begin with.

Multiplayer has been moving from the magic that was 2 and 3 to more CoD style because they don’t understand that you can have a shooter that isn’t a twitch shooter. So I don’t have any hope for their multiplayer either.

I’m very sad, but I’m just kind of done with it.

on "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Game fails? Layoff Game succeeds? Layoff

on Xbox planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week | via Wario64 in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
There’s dozens of free open source apps that do this already. Why would I want to lock into a what appears to be proprietary (and probably vibe coded soon to be abandoned) project?

on [CBH] Show Lemmy: An iOS app to monitor SSL certificate expirations across your domains/services [Free codes] in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I feel you and your frustrations, same for me on all accounts. Mom wonders why I don’t visit often but then sits there on Facebook the entire time.

I tried to fight it online, you won’t win. Their algorithms bury your stuff, your comments get the stupid laughing emoji, it’s not worth it. Plus it just starts to suck you in so it’s a lose lose.

The only thing that helps is getting them off their phones. There’s no silver bullet there, but simply disconnecting them somehow. Starting a hobby with them, or hiking, or something that isn’t being in their phones. If you ban phones you’re the villain so be careful, but you can do things that are less phone involved. When they’re not memorized by their phones they come back a little.

on Social media addiction affecting boomers, BBC hears in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
It is just insane how freaking tiny we can make things. The fact that we have computers at all is simply incredible.

on China crafts working 3nm gate-all-around transistors without EUV — stacked nanosheets target 3nm without EUV, but full node remains distant in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Thanks!

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
And why are they so mad at us for things we don’t do?

“We just make and manufacture weapons, we don’t use them, that’s other people, why are they mad at us?”.

And we just want people to be safe.

“Please bend over for your safety inspection, we want you to be safe, this is all for your own protection. How dare you be upset at us”

on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5d ago
How do you get started?

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Very interesting, first I’ve heard of them. I’d live to hear more, to help diversify my aquisition of Linux isos of course

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
How does that replace everything?

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
How does that work?

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
Standard corporate America right there. You proved our product is a sham and worthless? How dare you we’ll sue you out of existence!

God forbid they step back and rethink their product.

on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
If they went straight to legal it means they legit don’t know how to stop it. That’s pretty damning for them.

First step would be to analyze the hack and the patch it so that the bypasses no longer work. I’m guessing the hack exposes a serious flaw.

on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Remember when conservatives were spreading propaganda against EVs that there was no way our grid could support them? I remember.

on AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
Right? What’s stupid idea. Just as stupid as the reddit temporary blackout with third party apps. Should Have just closed out all of their accounts and subs.

on PlayStation Blackout Had ‘No Significant Change At All’, Analyst Says in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
I’ve been personally boycotting them since they bent over and spread in January 2025, so this was news to me. They really have a flock deal?

on Prominent Online Creators Demand Lowe's and Home Depot Ditch Mass Surveillance in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Anyone who has gone through an IPO knows how fucking rigorous all of the audits and reporting are for investors. Guaranteed 1000% that they failed the audit, or worse they didn’t even get to the audit stage, or as you said their finances they know are shit. It is zero surprise to me that they’re waiting.

on Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Pass. You’re either a troll or very naive, either way I don’t respect your take.

Edit: turns out I can edit comments too. Apparently saying I don’t respect the take makes me “hateful”. You do you.

on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Let’s hope the Streisand effect is in play here

on Another big James Talarico interview is punted to YouTube due to FCC threats in c/technology@beehaw.org · 11 Sep 2026
Piracy is a service problem, not a price problem.

on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Would be horrible if loads of people made independent clones/mirrors of that repo while it’s up again

on Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I used to be Xbox, bit as I became more and more of focused I ended up building a pc for the livingroom, with steam big picture and a controller. Rdr2 is a big TV game for me, weird to play at a desk

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Ah got it. Sorry to be pc master race but that’s why I didn’t notice. Although their hdr implementation leaves a lot to be desired

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Grand Theft Auto is a video game franchise built around criminal activity," Cordero-Stutz said in a statement (via the Miami Herald). "Its fictional world includes murder, robbery, drug trafficking, carjacking, violence against law enforcement, and other conduct that the men and women of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office work every single day to prevent.

Ah so he would be equally upset promoting movies or tv shows who show any crimes. Nuance and satire are not a thing for this man. See now Hollywood, Miami doesn’t need anything filmed in their city.

Such an obvious ploy to try and convince the oearl clutchers to vote for him for mayor. Even though this is a very unique thing to bring in tourists.

But no a train and plane wrap, and a place for selfies and influencers will bring Miami into chaos.

on Miami wants to turn parts of the city into a real-life GTA Vice City, but sheriff opposes the plan in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I’ll be honest, does rdr2 need a next gen update? Or is this a specific release for ps5 or something?

Personally I don’t play GTA 5 online, but I like how Alana Pearce put it. I don’t like it, not my thing, but it’s just a money printer that lets rockstar make whatever they want to with near unlimited budgets. So thanks to those who buy shark cards and micro transactions so we can have masterpieces like GTA and rdr

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Fully agree. It’s the zeitgeist right now, it’s the biggest gaming moment in a long time, and while the hate of crunch and union busting is real, rockstar has a solid track record of near perfect games. Few of them, but near if not actually perfect. Guaranteed most people here complaining will pick it up after a while and justify it to themselves.

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
It’s that it’s not downvoting at this point. It’s brigading. That’s what I’m really annoyed at. It’s not that people disagree, it’s that everyone dogpiles on because GTA bad must hit downvote to send it to -1000. That ruins it for those who do want to enjoy it and makes it harder to see, and then we can’t have an honest conversation about it until someone posts “hey it’s kind of annoying that it’s being brigaded”

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
I actually do agree with you. I am tired of people only complaining and brigading on anything GTA. Its so cringey to me, they could simply ignore the content, but instead have to make sure everyone knows they’re on the Lemmy bandwagon. They’re hipsters, plain and simple. They are too cool for the next star wars and biggest game of the decade, and they have to make sure eeeeveryone knows this. I am excited for the game and wish I could engage more with that side.

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
I’ve seen way way way more here on Lemmy bitching about GTA 6 than I have seen actually about it. The complaining about rockstar and GTA 6 is probably 80% of all the rockstar content I see here.

on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? in c/technology@beehaw.org · 6 Sep 2026
My discord account itself is 11 years old now, most of my accounts are, but they still need to age check me. What did I set it up which n I was 4?

on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Yeah I’ve tried to convince family and friends of the dangers, that it’s not tinfoil hat anymore that is is happening and can’t get through. Some have come over, but most will continue to use everything.

on People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public: a full third of all AI users admit to having told their chatbots a secret. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I can’t afford groceries but thanks for a racist knockoff of a game that came out decades before I was born, sweet.

on Gaming Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
I’ve been doing that, I use kubernetes, so kagent. Sammy at first but it calmed down. It’s neat to have it auto triage something that went down or failed, parse the logs, look at the hardware and health and then tell me when it’s time.

GPUs are sparse but I run on a 3090, VRAM is king. If you have one for a server it’s not horrible to spin up an llm

on [AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
I think that’s what I’m trying to say though, is rockstar is one if only two that actually may be worth it, and that’s only if they meet a red dead 2 level of relplayability.

I break things down by hours of enjoyment vs cost. So let’s say a movie ticket is 2 hour a for $20 now. So $10/hr. Pretty high. Ubisoft games are $60 and it takes about $60 hours, but I’ll only play it once probably. So $1/hr. Much better than a movie theater but then there’s red dead 2. $60 originally, but I’ve played now 5 times at 120 hours a play through, so 600 hours. (I did not plan for the math to work out that easily, but it’s accurate). So 600 hours, so $0.10/hr. So to me and my personal math, $100 is justified, even twice, if I will be playing it over and over.

It’s also why I truly laugh and shame ubisoft for thinking they deserve the same. There’s absolutely no way it does. It’s 1/10th the value of a rockstar game.

on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
If I go that route it won’t be day one, which means some reviews will come in. This is looking like it may be near RDR2 levels, if it is and reviews confirm it, I could see then deciding to and buying a second copy on PC later.

I would only do that for rockstar and cdpr, honestly because both have made games previously that have been worth it. I get downvoted to hell, but honestly a game like rdr2 is worth $100, even twice over. It’s a masterpiece. Same with cyberpunk for me. If the reviews come in and people say it’s truly a masterpiece, I could be swayed. But that is a pretty high bar.

on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
I’ve been thinking that actually, but they’re overpriced now. But maybe a month or two after release, we’ll see

on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Yes and no. I use llama server to run my own local models, and then open ice to monitor it. From there a lot of open source services host MCP servers which then can help integrate. I then use it to auto write the documentation on the layout so next time when I say “go to the ZigBee controller and tell me…” It knows first go to the docs, it remembers where it is and any useful commands, then continues on.

on [AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
I’ve learned that’s just kind of Microsoft’s thing. Whenever they have a product that might actually be a “disruptor” they figure out a way to shoot themselves in the foot.
- iPod landed but lacked video. Microsoft makes the Zune and it was awesome, but clunky software and a boxy shape made it fall, and they killed it before a needed v2.
- Xbox & Xbox 360 had Microsoft riding high, and then they ignored gamers and threw away their target market with the Xbox One
- Hololens promised true AR gaming, and they threw that out before they even made a consumer version.
- Mixed Reality followed Hololens, was genuinely a cheaper VR alternative, had one myself. Then they silently killed it before reducing the hardware to ewaste a couple of years later.
- Windows 7 was their best OS after XP, so of course they change everything about it to make Windows 8
- Skype was the only video calling service that people regularly used, and they bloated it and enshittified it, causing it to collapse just a few years before Covid, allowing Zoom to take over.
- Cortana had genuinely more functionality than Alexa, but they stopped investing in it, forced it down everyone’s throats, then sunset it, leaving ewaste speakers.
(and so many more)

They either come up with a good idea and half ass the execution, leaving the consumer disappointed, or they kill it off before it ever has a chance to take off. Google I guess at least let’s a product get to it’s highest peak making sure they disappoint the maximum amount of users, but Microsoft just makes sure that the users never even arrive.
on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
We weren’t talking about Rockstar’s issues, but okay. I agree, I dislike the disdain towards PC players, but I also think they make some of the best immersive games out there, and so far haven’t disappointed. So yes, I was willing to buy into their hype and marketing, but Sony ruined it for them.

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
Wow they’re really efficient at enshittification now. They don’t even need to wait for buyin or for the service to be successful! They just enshittify it early now

on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Yeah I’d want to see a true job board link. While I love the idea of the fediverse being used this way, networking between nerds, I want to see that this is rooted in a real actual job somewhere.

on Looking for engineers from US in c/programming@beehaw.org · 3 Sep 2026
“Due to the decisions we made, we now fear our own customers”. You know, companies that make good products don’t usually fear their customers.

I was literally ready to buy a PS5 for GTA6, money set aside and all. PC gamer through and through but GTA has always been my game. Sony completely ruined that, and I have no interest in it. Unfortunately others are buying them at inflated costs and wiping my personal refusal out, but still. One less playstation sold, Sony.

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
But that’s my point, this isn’t like the fediverse, this is true peer to peer, which means one person hosts everyone would theoretically see it, which means everyone would have to see the inevitable horrific shit and prune it themselves.

on Open source Peer-to-peer Huggingface with a Social Layer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026