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Reflector’s closure and Tripwire’s layoffs raise a costly question: are studios making games players want, or expecting players to validate their plans?
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🍪 Atari’s Comeback Needs to Work for Its Shareholders, Too.
Atari’s comeback brings growth and a new U.S. ticker. Shareholders still deserve clear answers on financing, ownership and how that growth creates value.
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🍪 Ōkami Looked Like a Masterpiece Before It Knew How to Be a Game
Ōkami found its signature art before its gameplay. How technical limits, failed ideas and one breakthrough weekend gave Amaterasu the Celestial Brush.
The Next Big PlayStation Upgrade Should Be Its Price.
Shawn Layden’s cheaper-console argument raises a useful question for Sony: how much of the next hardware breakthrough should go toward letting more people play?
Nintendo Knows Experience Matters. But Whose Experience Does It Protect?
Nintendo deserves credit for preserving experienced teams. Its history of job cuts and contractor concerns makes the global no-layoffs narrative harder to defend.
🍪 “Not Actual Gameplay” Didn’t Save This Mobile Game Ad
New ASA rulings challenge misleading mobile game ads, from a 60-second excavator bonus to disclaimers that fail to explain the experience players can expect.
The Zelda Director Who Was Offered More Time and Got Angry
Hello there, moon watchers, deadline survivors, and Zelda fans who have never fully trusted a smiling mask salesman. Today we are talking about Majora’s…