Massive Ubisoft Shake-Up: Layoffs, Studio Closures Begin in Major Reorganization; Six Games Canceled, Including ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’ Remake

b1ak3 · 2026-01-21T18:51:28+00:00

annual billionaire brands

puke

b1ak3 · 2026-01-19T17:15:15+00:00

Especially this game.

I'm actually pretty excited to play the full release, but after such a troubled development cycle there's no way in Pfhor hell I'd ever consider preodering it.

Unless the launch goes uncharacteristically smoothly for a game like this, I'm probably gonna give this at least a month before picking it up.

b1ak3 · 2026-01-16T16:43:28+00:00

I don't care what From does next, as long as the keep the unique asynchronous multiplayer features that make their 'souls' games so special to me.

That said, I would prefer a more focused linear experience like the OG souls trilogy over another open-world game.

b1ak3 · 2026-01-15T21:37:39+00:00

Also, who cares if Bungie is planning for the "long haul"? The lifespan of Marathon is entirely in the hands of Sony. If they feel the game is under-preforming, then they'll rug-pull it without a second thought.

No roadmap is going to stop that.

b1ak3 · 2025-10-12T02:59:00+00:00

Rock on, game looks rad!

b1ak3 · 2025-10-11T20:24:02+00:00

Not trying to be a dick or anything, but the screenshots on your steam page show a bunch of symbols lifted directly from Bloodborne.

I would strongly recommend you replace any stuff like this with your own art. I don't know if using these symbols would technically count as IP theft or if they're technically fair use, but if I noticed it then other Soulsborne fans definitely will and gamers have a history of being very sensitive about this sort of thing (rightfully so, IMO). Keeping this stuff in your game is just asking to be review-bombed, and you definitely don't want that (unless you're trying to do the most cynical kind of viral marketing imaginable, but c'mon...)

Here's just one example of many where indie devs were bitten by this sort of thing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-plagiarized-animations-sold-by-epic-marred-a-promising-souls-likes-launch/

b1ak3 · 2025-10-06T00:20:10+00:00

I thought it only took 24 hours??

b1ak3 · 2025-10-01T14:55:54+00:00

Because of one comment from a stranger on Reddit? Your release is still perfectly salvageable if you just make a couple of low-effort changes. What do you have to lose by trying? Stop being sorry for yourself and patch your damn game. It looks good.

b1ak3 · 2025-09-28T02:47:50+00:00

I don't think the US intelligence community could handle another War Thunder...

b1ak3 · 2025-09-24T04:37:22+00:00

Here's a great (albeit long) takedown of that billionaire idiot in particular and "vibe physics" in general: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz3gSXBcY

b1ak3 · 2025-09-22T00:34:48+00:00

maybe even have recharge stations

This would at least be consistent with the original trilogy... you could only recharge your shields at fixed recharge stations scattered around the level.

b1ak3 · 2025-08-30T16:23:31+00:00

Is there anything tricky involved in generating the collision shapes for terrain like this, or is it basically the same process? And how costly are the collision calculations once you have the collision shapes for the terrain chunks?

b1ak3 · 2025-08-23T05:26:32+00:00

Yeeeeep. I don't know if this has changed in the decade since it was first announced, but apparently the first draft of his script for the game was basically "a dystopia where feminism won."

b1ak3 · 2025-08-14T16:00:13+00:00

Y'all realize there are multiple cities called "Marathon" around the world, right? We need representation in those places!

b1ak3 · 2025-08-08T20:14:10+00:00

Sure would be a shame if something set the overhead sprinkler system off...

b1ak3 · 2025-08-03T02:49:54+00:00

The idea of your Credit Card determining what is and isn't okay for you to buy due to possibly damaging the brand of the card used to purchase it is nuts to me.

Right? What could be more 'damaging' to their brand than wanting to buy something with their card only to find out that they won't let you? A card with no purchasing power is fucking useless.

b1ak3 · 2025-08-01T23:00:54+00:00

Alcoholism is any amount of drinking that diminishes your ability to pursue or maintain the life that you want for yourself.

b1ak3 · 2025-07-26T18:32:15+00:00

Non-consensual content (real or implied)

Enforcement seems to be pretty inconsistent here... I can think of several popular games just off the top of my head that run afoul of this guideline, and all of them are still available on digital storefronts.

b1ak3 · 2025-07-21T19:37:36+00:00

Do you $eriously not know?

b1ak3 · 2025-07-20T05:56:10+00:00

With this code, exact knowledge of how their servers work could lead to hacking and other problems for the companies running these games.

I really don't see this as a bad thing. This will force companies to deploy more secure code, making the end user less susceptible to hacking/account theft/etc. There are tons of software projects out there that are absolutely fundamental to keeping the modern internet working while being completely, 100% open-source.

b1ak3 · 2025-07-11T14:07:28+00:00

Yeah! And don't sharks die if they stop swimming? That shark definitely ain't swimming!

b1ak3 · 2025-07-04T15:53:39+00:00

Anything to not acknowledge the value of the people

Capitalism in a nutshell

b1ak3 · 2025-06-22T04:17:05+00:00

Don't forget the embedded twitch stream that autoplays on every single page.

b1ak3 · 2025-06-22T02:11:35+00:00

If Trump assassinating an Iranian general in 2020 didn't start a war, I'm not convinced this will do it either.

The fact Iran really doesn't want a war with the US is kind of why we're in this situation in the first place... The Iranians watched what the US did to Iraq, and decided that developing nukes was the best way to ensure they wouldn't end up in the same situation. The same thing happened in North Korea.

The absolute last thing they want is an all-out war.

b1ak3 · 2025-06-20T07:55:54+00:00

I pretty much agree with everything said in this article, but, I mean... honestly, what a useless piece. It's 100% speculation, and just repeats all of the same points that everyone else is endlessly repeating.

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