The developer of a small indie game shared his numbers:

- 3,042 copies sold
- $37,917 gross revenue
- 27k wishlists at launch
- 31k outstanding now
- 73/74 positive reviews (98%)
- 1,000 copies sold in the first 24 hours

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Arkane Lyon has less than a month to find a new owner: if they will not be sold by November 13, the studio will be closed. And 217 people will lose their jobs.

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There's a big internet disruption going on right now, affecting Reddit, Twitter, Zoom, Cloudflare, and tons of other services.

Among games, Fortnite, RuneScape, VR Chat, Rocket League, and Tarkov are the most affected right now.

Cloudflare is doing its thing

The last name of the Kotaku author adds up, but EA, that was a really dick move...

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That's a banger, folks!

Drop your likes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1bVGpE66cg

After Mass Effect trailer leak the fans are furious and asking for EA boycott. The petition to save Mass Effected reached 100K subs almost instantly

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According to analytics, EA is currently in debt by $18B and have to pay roughly $1.8B/y for this. But they only generate about $1.5B of revenue a year so they have to cut costs and fast. BioWare are not the last bastion to fall this autumn — more will follow during November talks between the stakeholders. The promised cut is about $700m.

Instead they have to focus on EA Sports and Shooters which company only sees through the prism of Battlefield 6 and Apex Legends. A reasonable person would say their commercial performance is rather exceptional but EA is building Battlefront 3 with the same expectations.

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It's already in every Smart Device in the world, half of the routers, and your toothbrush as well...

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>the writer for Dragon Age Veilguard and Anthem is one of the lead writers for Ghost Of Yotei
>se same person has been working as Senior Quest Designer for Bethesda since last year

The Elder Scrolls VI is going to be peak.

Modders turned Total War into an FPS...

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Wait, 4A decided to lie and they "forgot" to tell us that the new Metro Redux and Last Light are not just upscaled, they are also packed with DLSS5 Slop!

Which looks horrific on stylized humans and on these ones specifically (more examples).

And (drum roll) YOU NOW CAN ONLY PLAY BOTH GAMES WITH ADS IN THE MAIN MENU.

PlayStation is taking a huge baseball bat and beating their own balls for two straight years! (via)

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