Sunday marks my fourth 10-hour flight break in two weeks. ~can do I slept in, stayed up late on Saturdays, and made a list of fun games and non-game writing to keep my physical breakdown from worsening. Why not do it sooner? That’s a stupid question. You were busy with that flight.
Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese and Alex Donaldson discuss each of their own Dragon Age: Veilguard Review, a year has passed. Admittedly, this may speak more to fellow press snitches than to readers, addressing the profession’s classic anxiety about whether past criticism has been overly harsh or overly forgiving, but it’s still a thoughtful Sausage Factory insight.
For a year now, I’ve been thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about the Dragon Age: The Veilguard review, a five-star review I wrote for Eurogamer. It bothers me. To be blunt, I’m not happy with the way it sits. I don’t think The Veilguard is a 5 star game, nor do I think it’s BioWare’s best game. Suggesting such a thing has been bugging me for 12 months, especially as new information has emerged about Veilguard’s problematic development and I’ve learned how the Mass Effect team is directing the project, ignoring the Dragon Age team to its core.
For GI.biz – I promise to hook up some non-extended RPS colleagues later – Rob Fahey consider why Even Amazon, which is making endless money, has failed to make a sustainable foray into gaming.
Size, finances, and technological dominance alone are not enough to succeed in the creative industries that cosplay into the tech sector on weekends. Google hasn’t made the long-term commitment needed to build a business in this space, while Amazon seems to lack the consistent vision and high-level support needed to leverage a real competitive advantage on behalf of its gaming ambitions.
to rolling stoneWill Borgar searches for lost meaning. awe Alma, the ghost girl.
Alma is established as the monster of FEAR. She’s on the cover. But the real monsters are Armacham, her father, and capitalism. It’s hard to blame Alma. She is what they made. The real horror happened long before FEAR began. It doesn’t just stare from the shadows. They conduct business in public, in broad daylight, and demand respect. It’s easier to turn the ghost of a little girl into a monster than the systems and people who killed her.
A good piece of original reporting. here The Esports Advocate’s James Fudge explains why the International Olympic Committee (IOC) split with sportswashing gold medalists Saudi Arabia following a previously agreed upon plan for an esports Olympics.
Sources have told TEA that friction arose between new IOC President Kirsty Coventry (who took office in June) and the individuals responsible for running the esports Olympic Games in Saudi Arabia because they were unable to agree on several key points, namely the critical issue of the IOC Charter itself. The IOC charter generally requires game organizers to collaborate with relevant stakeholders/federations, but in esports there are only the International Esports Federation (IESF) and the Global Esports Federation (GEF), so the Saudis have not been keen on involving them in the process as both organizations are struggling financially and have no control over the stakeholders’ intellectual property.
here they It comes as Crunchyroll’s previously excellent subtitles and typesetting for its localized anime library declines. The place is pretty technical, but it’s full of the grueling history of how we got here.
There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from this. The problem with the Funimation-turned-Crunchyroll management is that they still have no respect for the medium of animation. They also appear to be treating Crunchyroll and its methods of operation in a “pirate” manner. Crunchyroll’s use of Aegisub and ASS is not entirely wrong, as it comes from the methods of pirate fandom. But fanubbers care deeply about anime as a medium (otherwise they wouldn’t be subbing it illegally for free as a hobby). This means that the method developed by fanubbers for developing anime subtitles is actually very efficient for the job. Basically, it’s much better than any “industry standard” for subtitles.
This week’s music is Marco Beltrami’s Thump Thump Thump Thump Le Mans 66/Ford v Ferrari Soundtrack. Happy Sunday! Don’t wake me up.
