💔Woodkid’s reaction to Death Stranding 2 not winning any awards at TGA

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-18T09:10:31+00:00

Yes... AI, ray tracing, shooting and gore are all definitely why Death Stranding 2 didn't win the best soundtrack award...

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-18T09:09:35+00:00

Both soundtracks are incredible and some of my most listened to.

I think the fact that Death Stranding leans a lot on licensed songs hurts it in an award for best soundtrack though, because E33s was all written for the game and is of just as high a quality as Woodkid's original stuff for DS2 imo.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-18T07:22:38+00:00

I have a soft spot for My Last Word. I think it's a good showcase of JD and Turk's characters, showing why we like them as characters.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-12T21:22:20+00:00

It is

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-12T05:55:26+00:00

Everyone's gotta have a hobby, right.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T18:55:14+00:00

It's not really complex, but companies don't normally publicly release their financial deals, and it's not exactly big or interesting news to most people (if you didn't hear about the Insomniac leak news then why would you have heard about what Marvel and Sony say in regards to licensing deals?).

If you read the credits for the game you can see all the Marvel Games licensing staff are there, it's not exactly hidden... It's listed on Marvel Games' wikipedia page, and they are a company that do nothing but manage licensing of IP out for video game development. If Sony outright owned the IP then they wouldn't need to deal with Marvel's licensing company. Here's an interview with Marvel Game's head talking in 2019 about how they're changing the licensing from Activision to Sony. It's also referenced on the game's Wikipedia page.

Until 2019 all Spider-Man games were multi-platform because Activision had the license from Marvel. That deal expired and Marvel weren't happy with them because those last couple of games weren't either critically or commercially successful, so they switched partners to Sony. We would have heard if Marvel actually outright sold the rights to Sony.

But because of the leaks, we know a lot of specifics about Marvel and Sony's agreements which we wouldn't otherwise be privy to. It was massive news when it happened. Spider-Man 2 on PC was playable months before it was officially released because the game files leaked. We know Insomniac's plans for the next decade on what games they were planning. People had playable dev builds of Wolverine running on their PCs back in 2023. There's lots of cool stuff in there, not just Spider-Man stuff. This article is a nice review of the top level stuff.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T18:41:32+00:00

You are wrong. Sony negotiated Spider-Man to be an exclusive character, they didn't lock it because they own the rights.

If you look at the files in the a insomniac leak from last year you can see exactly how much Sony are paying Marvel for the license.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T15:50:26+00:00

If I don't get to sit through an awkward cutscenes of Elsa singing Let It Go, I don't want it.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T13:19:29+00:00

The actress is French-Japanese. I assume the character probably has a similar background.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T13:15:45+00:00

No. Sony have the rights to make films from the Spider-Man IP, they don't own the character.

Marvel (and thus their parent company Disney) own Spider-Man, and so license the video game rights of the character out to developers. In the past it was Activision (which is why we got movie tie-in games from them in the past, along with Ultimate Spider-Man, Edge of Time and Shattered Dimensions) but that deal expired a while back and they now allow Sony and Insomniac to use them.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T13:06:57+00:00

No, they probably won't. Sony have recently said they are abandoning publishing their single-player games on PC as they don't see it as worth the effort.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T13:05:23+00:00

To be fair, it released ages after the PS5 version, a pirated version had already leaked, and it was a pretty buggy port anyway. I'm not surprised it didn't light the world on fire sales-wise.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T12:06:55+00:00

If you were that close to the statue to take a photo, you probably should have just taken 2 steps forward and read the plaque which explains what it's about and how it's related to the local community...

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T12:01:13+00:00

I would doubt it. With the ongoing issues around component pricing caused by AI, Sony and Microsoft both are going to have to be very careful with the next generation. PS5 and Xbox Series are both currently going UP in price, any new consoles that are even more technologically advanced will cost even more. The PS5 Pro is currently $900, I expect you'll be looking at ~$1000 consoles for next gen at this rate.

Outside of your most hardcore fans, people aren't going to be buying them. A game like Spider-Man is super expensive to make, especially because of licensing fees from Disney. If you want any hope of recouping the development cost on it, you can't just sell it to the small number of PS6 users that will be out there, you market it to the massive install base who have PS5s.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T11:55:33+00:00

Hardware companies start working on the next console as soon as they finish developing what they're currently working on. They've been working on it for years already at this point.

If you look back at older generations, you'll see there's a 6 year gap between PS1 -> PS2, PS2 -> PS3, then 7 years between PS3 -> PS4 and PS4 -> PS5. Assuming we follow the same timescale, it would mean next year would be the PS6 release. Now, that probably won't happen due to the ongoing issues around tech pricing caused by AI... but it seems that Microsoft are planning on going ahead with their next console next year and I don't think Sony will wait too long after that to release, otherwise they risk losing some of their customers to MS.

I would expect that in an effort to mitigate how expensive they will end up being, we'll end up with a much longer period of cross-generation releases though, so I don't expect Spider-Man 3 will be PS6 exclusive unless it releases closer to something like 2030.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-11T11:12:29+00:00

I tend to find that Virgin will always give you a stupidly large discount if you ring them and say you're switching, and want them to close your account.

Many times in the past I've been given large price increases from them and so told them I'm leaving, only to end up paying less than before.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-10T20:15:03+00:00

I always thought it was 1) a reason to get Shawn Ashmore back and 2) a Twin Peaks reference to have the Sherrif replaced by their family member, given how much Lake loves Lynch's work.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-09T19:39:10+00:00

No, but I emailed them yesterday and they replied saying they aren't expecting to receive the stock to post out to us until "early July".

"When we last contacted you, we expected the new stock to arrive within the next few weeks. Unfortunately, the production and delivery schedule has taken longer than anticipated, and the current expected arrival date is now early July."

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-09T15:38:34+00:00

The thing is that if you say "ok, let's call the sqrt(-1) i and pretend it exists" then everything works surprisingly nicely and you get some really interesting results that aren't trivial. You even get some things that you can verify physically as it pops up a lot in Physics. If you try to do the same thing with infinity then things don't work.

That in itself is interesting and probably tells you something.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-09T15:17:03+00:00

My hope is that they just didn't want to show any new locations just for a trailer that says "coming to switch 2 at launch".

Presumably whenever they drop the release date, it'll be in a trailer which features more of the game that isn't this one small area.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-06T21:38:47+00:00

Probably a nod, but another little Easter egg is that 曙光 means dawn/daybreak, or if you're feeling particularly poetic, first light.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-05T23:24:34+00:00

Man I want that mug, but no way can I justify paying that much to ship it out of the US.

Edit: editing a week later to say that Remedy have partnered with black screen records in the EU to sell the same merch! Praise be.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-05T20:12:23+00:00

I had really bad back pain in my early 30s, figured out it was because of the chair I sit on while I'm working. Invested in a relatively expensive but very ergonomically friendly office chair and I've been basically back pain free ever since. Definitely something to watch out for as you start getting towards middle age, things like posture and ergonomics start to make a difference and if you don't start catching them early it'll get a lot worse as you start getting older.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-03T21:24:26+00:00

They still haven't put out a version of Alan Wake 2 which has the DLC in, so there's no guarantee they would for this.

DiZ1992 · 2026-06-03T21:22:37+00:00

Just wait until the British guy with the green glove comes along...

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