MurrayL

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MurrayL , to No Stupid Questions in As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

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

MurrayL , to Games in Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio

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 , to Games in Favourite controllers

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 , to Gaming in Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios

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

MurrayL , (edited ) to Gaming in Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios

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 , to Games in Devolver co-founder says large-scale game dev "crushing under its own weight a little bit"

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 , to retrocomputing in Apple MIDI interface Demo - 1987

Are you thinking of Spy Hunter?

MurrayL , to Games in Recommendations for Pacific Northwest Themed Games?

Lake

MurrayL , to Games in Half Life 3

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 , to Gaming in Kerbal Space Program 2 studio reportedly shut down by Take-Two

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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