I think BioShock just got grandfathered in through its System Shock lineage.
I think BioShock just got grandfathered in through its System Shock lineage.
Except for all the small studios also struggling or going out of business because getting investment right now is really, really hard.
The megacorp closures and redundancies are far from the entire story, they’re just the headline grabbers.
Wow - Take Two shuttering this studio AND Roll7 (OlliOlli, Rollerdrome) just a month after they announced they’re buying Gearbox for almost half a billion. Absolutely catastrophic mismanagement. What a shitshow.
As mentioned in the article, these are all union VAs and their new agreement explicitly protects them from AI being used without their permission.
If it turns out they really did use AI to rework some of the voice lines, there could be a major lawsuit coming…
I mean, that’s basically the main character’s arc in Office Space, right? Still rings true.
There’s no such thing as a zero-effort port
That’s just not true - in fact, Apple is well-known for repeatedly releasing ‘new’ products/features that already existed elsewhere, but acting like they invented it. That goes all the way back to the original Macintosh.
Or, to use your example, everything I can find says MacOS added Bluetooth support in 2004, while Windows XP was patched to support Bluetooth in 2002.
MacOS is good software, but let’s not pretend Apple hasn’t built their entire empire based on pinching other people’s ideas and marketing them better.