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from the virtual front
- Ubi opens up
Sometimes, a news story comes out
and you have to double-check – is this
something I’ve already heard? This is
one of those cases: Ubisoft chief Yves
Guillemot said the studio will focus
more on open-world games in future.
Turns out he hadn’t said it before, it Must
felt like he had, given it’s an incredibly
obvious thing for Ubi – the studio that
mainly does open-world games – to do.
Speaking with GI.biz, Guillemot added
that he wanted Ubi’s games to cater for
those not after gigantic 150-hour epics,
but that the main focus would be on
crafting those gigantic beasts of games
which can live on for many years with
new content being added along the way.- Anti-sale to
increase sales
No More Robots chief Mike Rose has
publicly stated he thinks indie devs
should charge more money for their
releases, along with making concerted
efforts to build stronger communities
around their games. &iting 6team figures,
Rose said sales of indie games are
around 70% lower year-on-year between
5 July 2018 and 6 August 2019.
“Games released in 2019 are making
around half as much money as games
released in 2018,” Rose said. “Developers
are pricing their games too low – higher
prices are, on average, resulting in better
sales, and much better revenues... It’s
tricky to pin down [exactly] why this is
happening, but the average developer is
pricing their game lower, which definitely
isn’t helping them.”- Angry, or just...
Huge news from Sony HQ as PlayStation
owners around the world were served
a diktat from the Japanese platform
holder. Turns out we’re supposed to be
calling it the ‘cross’ button, not the ‘ex’
button. Apologies to anyone reading
that who wasn’t sat down, we should
have forewarned you. The claim came
from the oɝcial 3lay6tation 8. Twitter
feed, which named the four face buttons
as square, triangle, circle, and cross.
Reactions were swift and brutal.
Not long after this vile communiqué
was handed down, 168,950 people
had voted on a Twitter poll started
by 3lay6tation 8., with of them
agreeing it was, in fact, the ‘ex’ button.
No word at the time of writing if
PlayStation will bow down to the will of
the people and correct its huge mistake.03