The free Marathon demo is losing players daily. Unlike many other games, it failed to bounce back during the weekend and by Monday dipped to 18K (against 143K on its first day). That's 87% loss in less than a week.

The final game is planned to be paid and it doesn't look good for Bungie and Sony.

#Bungie@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

They are now above Expedition 33 by user score!

Since Nacon has no budget to burn, they moved the planned presentation two months forward. And promise to fix the budgeting issue.

They are the company behind Spiders, Daedalic, and dozens of other studios around the world. They unified over the years to be more resilient but it kinda didn't work out.

#Business@GameDEV
#Finance@GameDEV

Microslop is slopping again: they banned tons of people permanently for saying Microslop, then everyone started to do so and they locked down the server

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#Microsoft@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Microslop: never stop sloppin!

The post is not fully correct: using this checkbox on an expensive microphone was always wrong. Such mics should only be managed via their custom apps to get proper results.

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#SoundDesign@GameDEV

It's not even a new word by the way!

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Insane story: a random collector purchased a bunch of consoles and unfinished games from a scrapyard.

The police raided his place and took it all away. Without any compensation. And placed him under investigation.

#SEGA@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

Someone found a glitch or hack in Fortnite creative. Players report that the brainrot game is stealing all their V-Bucks without them even opening it ever. And Epic Games refused to explain or refund anything so far.

#EpicGames@GameDEV
#Fortnite@GameDEV

Gamers Nexus investigated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU040CTdJI0

Who would've guessed, right?

Can I remind you that this was filmed years ago and we literally got exactly this in a form of Open AI military deal.

The video is written by the professor from Berkeley, Stuart Russell, who tried to limit AI research and ensure their legal grounds before implementation. His efforts failed, he's still trying.

You know who funded the video back then? Elon Musk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
#AI@GameDEV

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Laura reveals she was kicked out after an unnamed executive handed her a bathrobe to put on at GDC 2004. She refused, left immediately, and was reorganized out of her role the following week. Even with the support of several colleagues, the HR team gave up on her.

Phil Spencer then stepped in, bringing her onto his team where she contributed to noscripts like Gears of War.

Phil is generally praised by everyone who speaks of him as a colleague and boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKUq3zDa0wc
#Xbox@GameDEV

The company named Unity just divided its users again...

#Unity@GameDEV
#GameAssets@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

NVIDIA is doing it again

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

And the inevitable 😔

If you missed my posts about it: I've tried the game a week ago, and spent 16 hours in it, and liked a lot of things that defining Highguard. Their team play features, sieges, character skills, and so on.

But flaws are obvious in level design, weapons design, optimization, loot, mining and upgrades, and many other things.

And yet: it's free, go try it out before it's gone. The learning curve is steep but when passed through it will be a fun time.

My current achievements status in HG 😊

Haters will say that Jpeg files can't contain sounds. But I have a JPEG with the sound!

#Windows@GameDEV

Imagine that this bug exists for at least 2-3 big releases and Microslop is STILL unable to fix it...

Their update literally removes crucial system components, responsible for wired internet authentication.

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Windows@GameDEV