friendo

i remember looking into the saber interactive stuff and there's a game developer magazine interview (i can't link but it's from may 2024) with the ceo that says they moved out of russia because of the war

"Those dual offices have since evolved into a sea of global studios (some built by Saber, others being subsidiaries absorbed from its divestment from Embracer Group). Saber isn't stationed in Russia anymore, as the country's invasion of Ukraine led to the last employees in the nation decamping in order to keep working with their Western colleagues, joining many other developers who've divested from the region."

maybe this is inaccurate but it's pretty much the only official-ish comment i've seen about the continuing existence of the russia studio; everything else seems to be a reddit or steam comment as best as i could tell. (there's also a bunch of stuff about embracer divesting from the russia studio and a st petersburg-based LLC closing down and so on but none of that seemed to conclusively resolve that the russia-based studio is itself closed)

while we are at it...... let's get radiant historia and strange journey remasters.....honestly metaphor yeah feels like persona 6 but it also felt like radiant historia 2.......

it's genuinely puzzling how excited people are to hop into the comments and do armchair market analysis on how badly this game is doing. i sincerely don't get why. is it because people have some beef against bungie? i never played destiny and barely played halo so maybe i'm missing something. is it frustration over other beloved games getting shafted? is it just that we have been so broadly disempowered by corporations that schadenfreude is one of the only reliable pleasures left to us? it is it some vague "ethics in game journalism" nonsense? i feel like i am always seeing "too much" coverage of this or that game i don't care about and i'm never really compelled to jump in and do owns on the way it's being covered. genuine answers would be appreciated, i really don't get it

i too hate when video game websites give positive coverage to video games they like. and also, it's never happened before. there definitely weren't daily news articles about helldivers 2, an extremely successful game, for like six months