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[FakeSympathy]

Hey at least it's not EA that closes studios constantly even if a game launch is a success! Or was that Microsoft?

But yes, Sony PS department is pretty bad at investing in game development.

I usually hate publishers meddling with the game development, but with Sony they really need to check in more often on how the game is turning out. Like, Destiny 2 was already in pretty bad shape, Concord fell flat with $400M, and now we have this catastrophe

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Like, Destiny 2 was already in pretty bad shape

Let's not forget: That whole thing with "vaulting" old Destiny 2 content was bullshit. Bungie had to settle a ridiculous plagiarism case (brought against them by a fanfiction writer) out-of-court because they couldn't produce the older content as evidence- because they'd deleted it.

Who's out there trusting Bungie with their money now, knowing they'll happily destroy the content you paid for and lie to your face about it?

 

[BrawlMan]

@FakeSympathy,

DMC Season 2, May 12th, 2026
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[FakeSympathy]

The bill is based on a false premise: that consumers "own" digital games with permanent access

Oh yes, you are right, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHY THIS BILL IS GONNA PASS. Because everyone is tired of not having actual ownership of their games

No software product is required to remain available to consumers indefinitely

All it sounds like is you are admitting how terrible online storefronts are (maybe save for Steam)

AB 1921 would force publishers to renegotiate for perpetual rights

Umm, isn't that something the publishers SHOULD BE DOING? BTW, you talk big about how this brings impossible legal obligations, but you sure seem to be happy supporting the likes of allowing gambling mechanics in rated E games, or shut down fan projects. Curb your double-standards.

AB 1921 is seeking to create a new consumer right to digital games by taking away rights from the creators

The creators, or your greedy pockets?

AB 1921 will result in fewer games, higher costs and less innovation

I think you mean fewer shitty live-service games, controlled and regulated costs by not expecting billion-dollar revenue, and more innovation as you would allow developers to stop playing safe with the said live-service game designs.

For these reasons, I must respectfully SUPPORT AB 1921 and ask for you to go fuck yourself.

Sincerely,
A Korean guy in his early-30s living in Seattle

 

[BrawlMan]

For these reasons, I must respectfully SUPPORT AB 1921 and ask for you to go fuck yourself.

Where can I support this?! Sign me up now!

 

[FakeSympathy]

Where can I support this?! Sign me up now!

Sucks that neither of us are residents of CA, otherwise I think we'd both be voting Yes.

Hell, I would even create false IDs just to get some extra votes in......wait a minute!

 

[BrawlMan]

Sucks that neither of us are residents of CA, otherwise I think we'd both be voting Yes.

Canada definitely needs this. They're paying more than us, even back then. I want this bill to pass through! Get to it citizens of Canada!

 

[Ezekiel]

Posted today on 4chan.

https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/738650091/rocksteady-is-making-a-batman-beyond-game-set

Rocksteady is making a Batman Beyond game set after Arkham Knight, and is considered a soft reboot of the franchise with a new lead. They picked up the original concept they had before they cancelled it for Suicide Squad. The original had Damien Wayne as Batman Beyond, but now they've scrapped that and made it Terry McGinnis instead, which was Paul Dini's choice as he is writing for this game.

Game is still early in development and I don't have much info on it yet besides that the game seems to be an adaptation of the animated series story with elderly Bruce Wayne and Blight as the main villain, with a custom Nemesis System (From Shadow of War/Mordor) villain as his right hand man/woman.

Game is your typical Arkham game, but isn't set in one night like the others. And it is less futuristic than the Animated Series (Think Cyberpunk 2077 rather than flying cars and full on sci-fi, with some parts of Gotham still looking old and non-futuristic).

The images I'm posting here are from a dev build of a year ago from my source, which I've re-generated with AI in order to hide any hidden watermarks that could get my sources in trouble.

 

[Ezekiel]

Video games are the only business that works like this. Where instead of just a Batman Beyond game, it has to be a shitty Arkham version of Batman Beyond. But it's obvious WB doesn't see much potential profit in Batman Beyond for there to be no live action or more game adaptations after 25 years. Probably fake.

You know what would be hilarious but entirely expected? Terry McGinnis' Gotham City was evacuated because of some contagion or bomb threat. For the fourth time. No dynamic friendly encounters, because that takes work. The only civilians again relegated to scripted, isolated missions. Big deal if the bad guy wins, since it's mostly buildings and not people that are in danger.

I wasn't that impressed when I rewatched the show as an adult maybe twelve years ago. I didn't exactly dislike it, but I quit in the last season, in which the animation was poor for large chunks. Fake Batman. His vengeance resolved in episode 2 and then he just does it for the money probably. Full flight, invisibility, sniper shots that only knock him about. Too overpowered. Ridiculous futurism for how little time passed for Bruce Wayne, who is a creep for screwing Barbara. Too many villains go to Terry's school. Dawson's Creek Batman. (I didn't watch Dawson's Creek. Just assuming because I don't know any teen melodrama series.) Bland music compared to the orchestra in Batman TAS.

Falling to the center of the Earth was hardcore. At least they understood the appeal of tortured, tragic characters in Batman TAS (and the Burton movies). Roster wasn't as good, though.

Can imagine the difficulty balance for his powers now: battery limits. The obligatory upgrade system is used for battery upgrades, among other tech and abilities he should just have from the start in shorter episodic adventures that can have some decent structure and pay villains the attention they deserve. Replay your favorite episodes when you feel like it instead of an overlong adventure once every ten years because too many sections are tedious and it always resets you to the beginner abilities and tech in new save files.

 

[thebobmaster]

Ah, yes, 4chan, the most reliable of sources.

ETA: And yes, I get it. Everything made after 1999 is automatically worse than anything before it. Modern movies suck. Modern games suck. Modern shows suck. After 1999, there is nothing good, before 1999, pretty much everything was awesome, and you get 16 likes on other message boards that have such a system for standing up to THE MAN who dares to not make things to your personal tastes. You don't need to keep telling us how much you hate everything. Stick to those message boards where you get likes and your personal echo chamber that tells you what you want to hear rather than challenge you to, you know, not constantly be negative.

 

[thebobmaster]

I . Fake Batman. His vengeance resolved in episode 2 and then he just does it for the money probably

OK, apologies for the double post, but for someone who bitches and moans about how literally no one understands certain characters the way you do, you literally have misunderstood Batman here in about the most blatant way possible. No version of Batman, at least no good one, is continually driven by revenge. The one time he was, in Batman Begins, it was explicitly pointed out how wrong it was. He hesitates at the last second to get his revenge, and when his love interest finds out what he almost did, calls him out on it bluntly by saying he was disrespecting the parents he so idolized. The entire reason for Batman's crusade is not revenge, but to keep as many people from experiencing what he did as he can. It expands into fighting crime and trying to clean up the city, but the core essence of why Batman fights crime is to prevent more Bruce Waynes.

But then, that requires some actual fucking THOUGHT put into critiques instead of "I don't like this, so I'm going to find things to complain about even if I have to make them all up or not actually try to approach the material as written." You didn't want something different from BTAS, you wanted more BTAS, and any time it gave you something that wasn't BTAS, you found a reason it wasn't as good as BTAS.

Also, STAS is better than BTAS. Maybe not as high highs, but even that's arguable when episodes like "World's Finest" exist, but there is no STAS equivalent to "Batman In My Basement" or "The Terrible Trio", either.

 

[Ezekiel]

Ah, yes, 4chan, the most reliable of sources.

ETA: And yes, I get it. Everything made after 1999 is automatically worse than anything before it. Modern movies suck. Modern games suck. Modern shows suck. After 1999, there is nothing good, before 1999, pretty much everything was awesome, and you get 16 likes on other message boards that have such a system for standing up to THE MAN who dares to not make things to your personal tastes. You don't need to keep telling us how much you hate everything. Stick to those message boards where you get likes and your personal echo chamber that tells you what you want to hear rather than challenge you to, you know, not constantly be negative.

For those he don't know what he's talking about, it's this post:

He wasn't responding to me, but he wasn't ignoring me either. It's passive-aggression. He can't help it.

Ignoring the rest of your post, since it's just your opinion. I mean, the post I quoted was liked by sixteen people, so maybe it's a you problem.

2001: A Space Odyssey 4K UHD (1968) - Page 57 - Blu-ray Forum

2001: A Space Odyssey 4K UHD (1968) 4K Blu-ray and 4K Movies

forum.blu-ray.com

Which doesn't even link to my own post on Blu-ray.com, but a stranger whose comment I happened to find interesting, and the whole point of telling how many likes he had was to refute Xprimentyl's claim that no one cares.

Very ugly of you.

 

[thebobmaster]

I personally don't see that as being nearly as ugly as posting for weeks and months on end on certain subjects with a constantly negative tone, and then acting attacked when people call you out on your negativity. I'll admit, I did misunderstand that you were referring to a comment you liked rather than one of your own comments elsewhere, and that does make the tone of my response a bit more unnecessarily aggressive than truly warranted. I withdraw that part of my issue. I will, however, make no apologies for being just flat out tired of your constant negativity, and willingness to misrepresent the source material to promote said negativity, while being utterly hypocritical when you talk about how no one understands the source material like you do...often including the actual writers in that category of not understanding it.

 

[BrawlMan]

BTW, I have not read any of Zeke's recent post, but I can tell by people's repsonse in the general gaming new and movie news thread, they're nothing burger complaints. Nothing new here.

Back to actual news again:

I did not see this coming, but go Shift Up. Earn that pay check.

Shift Up says it will publish Stellar Blade 2 instead of Sony, wants to ‘reach a broad global audience from day one’ | VGC

It’s also “actively exploring further platform expansion” for the first game…

www.videogameschronicle.com

Guerilla Games co-founder and Epic veteran building ‘a European alternative’ to Unreal Engine | VGC

Epic’s former tech director claims he’s building a rival to American and Chinese game engines…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Ezekiel]

BTW, I have not read any of Zeke's recent post, but I can tell by people's repsonse in the general gaming new and movie news thread, they're nothing burger complaints. Nothing new here.

Back to actual news again:

There BrawlMan goes again, after he claimed--what, a week ago?--that he would let me be. If you're hiding my posts but still making useless jabs at me, then you're not actually sticking to what you promised Drathnoxis and others. Like I said earlier today, he can never let me go. It's kind of sweet.

What's the value of your post? You will never stick to your promise of ignoring me.

 

[BrawlMan]

WWE champ Cody Rhodes says Nintendo sent him a cease and desist for wearing a Zelda Triforce on his boots | VGC

“It was polite, they weren’t coming after anybody…

www.videogameschronicle.com

Several Xbox users managed to download Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, 10 days early | VGC

The whole game was seemingly accidentally made playable over the weekend…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[BrawlMan]

ebay rejects GameStop's offer! Yes and called it!

Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social)

eBay Rejects Unsolicited Proposal from GameStop. "We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive." https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ebay-rejects-unsolicited-proposal-from-gamestop-302769000.html

bsky.app

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/ebay-rejects-gamestops-audacious-56-billion-takeover-bid-2026-05-12/

 

[thebobmaster]

I love that their response includes the phrase “Neither credible nor attractive.” to describe the offer.

 

[CriticalGaming]

https://x.com/i/status/2054547487629697439

I dont wanna live on this planet anymore.

 

[BrawlMan]

https://x.com/i/status/2054547487629697439

I dont wanna live on this planet anymore.

So what? Who cares? Much better games out there, and no one is forcing you to play the crossover.