like, apparently niantic has been doing ingress stuff in the park where one of their meeting spots has a speaker playing a low, stress-inducing drone in the middle of a fucking public park
sometimes video games are too much
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I know one of the writers on the new Bloodlines, so I feel itâs in good hands in that regard (I like their work).
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apple are in the middle of announcing a game subscription service which is launching with, apparently, a sequel to beneath a steel sky and a sakaguchi title
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On what platforms?
wwwhhhhhhhhhh
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whatâs happening to video games
Itâs starting to feel like the 1980s gaming boom all over again. I wonder if thereâs market research that says there is serious demand for this, or all the tech companies are doing it now out of fear there is and theyâll be left out?
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in Appleâs case they are trying to position themselves as the home for literally all media that has any kind of full-fat production chain attached to it (i.e. not user-generated) and which is not already produced by another streaming service in house
itâs disturbingly heavy artillery where the magazine and film industries are concerned (though theyâre obviously concerned enough about long-term revenue to take their chances), no idea where videogames will shake out
like thirty minutes after beneath a steel sky theyâve trotted out spielberg and oprah
Oh, itâs Apple platforms, nothing I need to concern myself with.
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Furries are big in 2019. So is sci-fi. How about âBeneath a Steel Ratâ
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Streaming services with content owned by the service has eaten so much of movies & TV (Netflix) everyone believes this is the future for other media. Iâm less optimistic about Appleâs chances than established game companies or Google, but a big bucket of money doesnât hurtâŠ
yeah fuck subscriptions
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Shoutout to all the GamerGate choads who bought a lifetime dlc subscription for FleetCOMM
My entire experience with apple products is that one time I played the Daedalus Encounter on a cousinâs mac back in the 90s. And making a photo with a girlâs iphone when she handed it to me. Iâm not going to start with apple at this point in my life, not even for videogames
I wonder how successful this will be at resurrecting the mobile âcrafted experienceâ market â the games Apple favors, like Monument Valley, Sword & Sworcery; the kind people once thought the tablet format would support but have mostly been crushed as the market refines to various types of endless F2P number machines.
Looking at a list like,
Beyond a Steel Sky (a sequel to Revolution Softwareâs beloved sci-fi point-and-clicker Beneath a Steel Sky), Little Orpheus from The Chinese Room, Sayonara Wild Hearts from Simogo, Klei Entertainmentâs Hot Lava, WayForwardâs Spidersaurs, Finjiâs Overland, AbzĂ» developer Giant Squidâs The Pathless, Sonic Racing, and more
these are all titles that people want to see on tablets and phones but would have a hard time even justifying a port these days
wonder what theyâd even do for a Black Knight 3
One weird standout from that slide of Apple Arcade partners: Platinum Games.
Have they even done any mobile stuff before?