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As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....

MurrayL ,

Start paying attention to the top new & trending Spotify playlists in genres you're interested in.

MurrayL ,

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I don't see even a single mention of cloud gaming in the article?

This is about studio closures and a disconnect between MS's actions and the types of games they say they want.

MurrayL ,

Mostly agree, except I've never liked the dpad on the 360 controller. An XB1 or Series S|X controller is a noticeable step up IMO!

MurrayL ,

The return on indie games (if there even is a return) is already vanishingly small for 99% of releases - printing and distributing physical copies would just be pouring even more money down the drain.

MurrayL , (edited )

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.

MurrayL ,

I think BioShock just got grandfathered in through its System Shock lineage.

MurrayL ,

And yet that's exactly how they operate!

Valve: How going boss-free empowered the games-maker

... But you're right that it is often considered the cause of many of their problems:
Valve's unusual corporate structure causes its problems, report suggests

MurrayL ,

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.

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