News Thread XII: Xbox Humiliation Ritual - Part 12 the 12th

The read I saw is that this is going to be used as a funnel to send bribe money to the Trump family, and will get shut down as soon as that no longer has any political value

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I wonder if they died back in 1987–with Skate or Die!–when they dropped the whole “software artists” thing:


– Disney Execs Are Reportedly Pushing For EA Acquisition & Transition To Game Production

In any case they were certainly dead inside by the early 2000s =p

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https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players

I recognize so much AAA culture from this video. The passive aggressiveness between people, the flat affect and personalities that everyone has because your entire life is building this game. Throwing people under the bus. It’s all there. yeesh

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I like the idea that they died because they fail to choose skate.

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I hope these things aren’t gonna be $1000 too :cryingdaddy:

guessing $999.99

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I dig all the little design changes that don’t seem like much but are definitely improvements on how the index works.

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VR… in 2026? :yikesghost:

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Arkane is gone and Spector is retiring but imsim ain’t dead yet, baby!

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I think the price will probably be close to a Quest 3 actually.

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IMMERSIVE SIMS ARE DEAD… or are they???

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Cheaper than I thought but still way too much for me. I want a VR headset but only to play Samba de Amigo. I wish I could just borrow someone’s for a weekend or something lol

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when i was in my master’s program we took a tour of their studio 10 years ago and i remember thinking back then “this is kinda fucked”

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was hobo santa there. did you see chris’ clips4sale foot fetish marketing expert. ben lesnick: freelance pedophile would’ve still been working there too but this would’ve been right before/right after that exploded and they banished him to the corner office with the wing commander manuals… I have so many questions

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this might have been before hobo santa’s time and i don’t think the marketing expert would have been appropriate to show us

bear in mind we were also with john and brenda romero who were our program and creative leads of the master’s program

i don’t know if that makes the marketing expert more or less likely, i think with both of their combined affects it rounds out to “relatively unlikely”

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the marketing expert is Chris’ weird wife who was overinvolved in everything for a few years if that helps. i should have put expert in quotes

oh yeah we never saw her lol

it was in santa monica/venice beach-ish which is already kind of a strange area for a game studio (although it was becoming silicon beach at the time) and they were really crammed in there, basically elbow to elbow with workstations next to each other…i remember being kind of unimpressed for how much money they had, it was definitely the least office-like office we had been to at the time

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ohhh you visited one of their satellite studios

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god i don’t know anything about these companies lmao

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