Atari absolutely demolishing itself out of ignorance and greed? Now that's retro!Atari, and I must say this from the deepest sincerest chambers of my heart...plz just die already.
Atari says it may need extra funding to continue following VCS retro console flop and blockchain struggles
Atari is in a spot of bother, and has signalled it may need extra cash to continue.www.eurogamer.net
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Come to think of it, have there ever been any notable Spanish game devs? France has had a fair few, Germany has Crytek and Egosoft, and of course there's the UK, but I'm not aware of anywhere else in western Europe that's had a big hand in the industry.Spain Will Provide 8 Million Euros in Grants to Develop Video Game and Metaverse Experiences – Metaverse Bitcoin News
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Mercury Steam is a studio from Spain that did the Lords of Shadow games. They would go on to do Metroid: Samus Returns & Metroid Dread.
I don't know if it's notable to anyone else, the The Game Kitchen did Blasphemous and are Spanish. Which is quite appros considering the game is set in the Fantasy Land of NotSpain and follow the religion of NotCatholicism and at the end you fight the NotPope, you fucking Heretic
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They aren't.Microsoft confirms that Sony has blocked these 4 games from hitting Xbox forever
Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and more are apparently being held hostage by Sony.
They are aware that Bb is a sony's 1st party exclusive and they own the ip, right?
Microsoft is either that stupid and oblivious, or their lying, trying to build sympathy and hopes the gaming public and Xbox fanboys will go into a crazed angry storm. Either way, it's insulting to everyone with common sense and a functioning brain.Microsoft confirms that Sony has blocked these 4 games from hitting Xbox forever
Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and more are apparently being held hostage by Sony.
They are aware that Bb is a sony's 1st party exclusive and they own the ip, right?
"MOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!! SONY WON"T SHARE THEIR TOYS"-Microsoft, Probably.
Seriously though, what the hell is Microsoft even doing with these companies at this point? I really feel bad for Ninja Theory. And I can't believe I'm saying that. Senua 2 has been development since 2018? I've had my problems with the developer in the past, and how they got there it was mostly their own fault, but sucks that they haven't done much else ever since they've been bought out my Microsoft. They had that one stupid Anarchy Reigns rip off nobody played and forgotten about, and that's it.
I kinda wonder if it's not like what people accused EA of doing a decade ago: Buying studios and then killing them just to lock up the IP, but that only works short term because inevitably people are gonna want to play SimCity again and just make their own SimCity. And one has to question the profitability of spending money to buy devs but not actually use those devs when someone else can just make another game just like the IP you own by just filing off the serial numbers. On a similar note, Konami owns Castilevania and refuses to do anything useful with it, but Metriodvanias have blown up in the last few years and Konami gets to watch everyone eat their lunch because they decided they don't care anymore. Hell, circling back to Bloodborne, one could argue FROM makes the best Castlevania games now.
You are not the only one to come to the same conclusion. Before Bloodborne, it was the original Dark Souls that held that title. Also, Dark Souls, and Demon Souls, as a whole are considered the best Berserk games ever made.
FROM loves to put Berserk references in their games so that does not shock me at all.
Senua was like a surprise success I feel. Like the game had a cool concept and presentation which garnered some acclaim but the game itself wasn't great. Now with Senua 2, I feel like they are struggling with what to do with it, because Senua didn't feel like it needed a sequel let's be honest.
Pentiment came out from Obsidian, which is a MS studio now. It's definitely not everyone's bag and very much an indie title but it did come out.
At least MS isn't demanding all the studios do AAA games all the time so that's maybe a good sign? Maybe?
While the first game did well, it only did enough to barely break even. It wouldn't keep Ninja Theory afloat when they were self-published at that time. Before that point, no one else would take them, because of the DmC (2013) fiasco. They had no choice but to take Microsoft offer. It was either that, or die after making their own game that was self-published.
