Official announcement from Taiko official twitter. From the platforms listed seems like it might not be released on Steam
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Official announcement from Taiko official twitter. From the platforms listed seems like it might not be released on Steam
That's some wild news huh. I'm not too worried about megacorp consolidation since indies will continue to exist.
Toys for Bob will have to rename to Toys for Phil.
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I was checking some things on SteamDB and I noticed that we will probably get another patch for Horizon Zero Dawn. Their QA Depot is really active, Nixxes doing some work for sure.
I was really digging the music in Nobody Saves the World from the beginning and now it all makes sense, its Jim Guthrie!
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Well, this sucks
Official announcement from Taiko official twitter. From the platforms listed seems like it might not be released on Steam
well the translation of the tweet saysWell, this sucks
"Xbox Series X | S / Xbox One / Windows PC "Taiko no Tatsujin The Drum Master!" Delivery decision on January 27, 2022! Compatible with Xbox Game Pass from the delivery start date! Choose your favorite song from a rich lineup of about 70 songs from popular songs such as "Flame" and "MEGALOVANIA" to classic songs, and enjoy playing Japanese drums!"
maybe the translation is missing something but I dont see anything that would explicitly outrule a Steam release
Its mostly because of Bandai JP announcements usually will explicitly mentioned STEAM as a platform, but its not stated in this case, so I'm not optimistic on a Steam release.
But yeah guess we will see what happens when the game is released.
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What gintaro said, usually they would mention it, however we will have to wait and see, it would be very weird to see a Bandai Namco release on PC not coming to Steam, but hey, let's wait.
I thought that EA and Take 2 would be bigger – and Embracer smaller, despite having bought a bajillion studios
this puts it into perspective
Jeez, Bargains.
Lets have a whip round, we might be able to buy Sega.
Lets have a whip round, we might be able to buy Sega.
Looking at that list, Sega and Capcom seem "cheap" AF, and I have to assume that valuation of Konami is coming from everything but actual games.
Damn
Also, that Taiko game is not a port but a new game. A new Taiko only on Xbox and PC. What are they even thinking. Crazy.
Also, that Taiko game is not a port but a new game. A new Taiko only on Xbox and PC. What are they even thinking. Crazy.
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He still made out like a bandit though
I'm now along the thinking that even if Kotick got kicked out, he still reaped the benefits of running a poor working environment for years on end, so there's no net positive to be had with or without a "golden parachute". Treating your employees like crap keeps getting rewarded and will continue to under our morally bankrupt economic paradigm.
Took the 3rd vaccine shot yesterday, my body has really down. Super tired, hurts all of my body, feeling warm and cold. I got that young and heatlhy people would feel it the worst, but didnt' expect this.
True but either way it will be a good thing that he's gone. If Microsoft really is committed to their plan to good workplace environment and if it means paying out the nose to get rid of bad elements and then foster a good place then I will still applaud them.
i'm a broken record at this point but i really HATE how steam handles free dlc with the game launching every time you add one to your account, I don't know any other store that does this
- GOG treats it as a normal order with a $0 price
- EGS treats it as normal order with a $0 price
- JAST store does the same by adding the license to your acc
- PSN treats it as a normal order with a $0 price (been ages since i bought anything there maybe I don't remember correctly though)
- I don't even remember the last time i used Origin but iirc it still treated it as an order with a $0 price
Yeah that's very silly.
I also had basically 0 side effects from the first and second shot but felt basically dead from the third one. Luckily it didn't last too long.
About a month ago you could get 12 months of EA Play for around $10. It was ~$8 in my country.
I guess I got placebo then XD Only effect I got was sore muscle at the place where I got vaccine. First shot gave me chills when I went to sleep and awful headache next day, second one sore arm and light headache next day, third one basically nothing XD
Too bad TImmy got there first with PC Gamer.
These will be nice for non-deck users too.
(fuck Denuvo).
GoW is doing better in terms of both retaining a more active player base and being on the Steam best seller chart than both HZD and Days Gone. Sony must be happy.
PCGamer reputation as corporation mouthpieces doing the heavy lifting.
Makes me wonder why MS did not just go with EA and Take Two instead. A lot of Activision IPs need serious investment to get them anywhere.
this puts it into perspective
EA is an easy answer: They have a butt load of sports IP that have contracts that bind them to release the game on as many platforms as possible.
Take Two is probably not going to give up that easily. they don't have many active IP's and GTA is just printing money. Also, Rockstar is probably a "FUCK YOU" developer who doesn't care about interference.
I think Activision/Blizzard actually sold pretty cheaply, for just about the same number as their market cap (if I googled that right). A company that's doing well, and hoping to grow wouldn't sell for that exact number, but ask for way more. I assume Kotick was looking for a way out while making as much money as possible, and the Microsoft deal was the most lucrative way of doing so.
Microsoft were obviously on the market looking for prey, but the Activision situation was a matter of converging convenient circumstances. Before the scandals, ATVI's value was even higher than the price they are gonna pay today (~when the sale closes). ActiBlizz lost about 45% of its value during the past year on the back of the lawsuits, bad abusive practices, loss of confidence in their leadership and of course, the decline of their games. Microsoft saw a bargain and pulled the trigger.
All the other companies on that list... well they aren't in similar situations (maybe you could argue Square is trending down). Take 2 just bought Zynga for 12B so the price increased quite a bit, and while that suits Microsoft's mobile strategy, that also maybe pushes the actual value of the company beyond where it makes sense to buy.
All the other companies on that list... well they aren't in similar situations (maybe you could argue Square is trending down). Take 2 just bought Zynga for 12B so the price increased quite a bit, and while that suits Microsoft's mobile strategy, that also maybe pushes the actual value of the company beyond where it makes sense to buy.
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They sold for a quite significant uptick over the market cap at the time of the announcement (>30%).
However, they sold for roughly the market cap that ATVI had before the issues started to be in the spotlight. So if you believe that Microsoft is getting the franchises and developers but not the problematic reputation / workplace culture then it was a good deal for them. (And IMHO that seems like it's mostly working out)
Those numbers shouldnt be taken at face value, its just market cap, a buyout could probably cost 2 or 3 times more
this puts it into perspective
I think buying Ubisoft (or any of the JP companies for that matter) might be more difficult from a legal perspective (since the regulators in Europe and Japan would get more involved and might not look too kindly at the transaction).
Ubisoft also might not want to be acquired. (at least they fought against Vivendi).
I'm still playing the new Supraland and I just found another post game area
That Yu-Gi-Oh game is doing very well right now and has over 140k CCU and is currently the 5th most played game on Steam.
Great to hear! I love postgame content. The Crash DLC in the original Supraland also has hidden areas and they are pretty hard!I'm still playing the new Supraland and I just found another post game area
Just now realized there's a Postal Service (the band) reference in the achievements for Chicory. I'm filing the paperwork to retroactively make it my 2021 GOTY.
If MS came and offered 15B i doubt that Yves would think twice.
Also he really hold a grudge with Valve XD
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