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card game, Afterlife, next yearNinja leaves Twitch, joins Mixer for
reported $50–100m. Million. Not pence01Headlines
from the virtual front
- Lighting,
apparently
We tend to avoid much mention of David
Cage, but the man did make a good point
recently so let’s break that duck for now:
chatting in an interview with GameSpot,
the Quantic Dream CEO and director of
the likes of Detroit: Become Human and
Heavy Rain explained where he sees the
next technological arms race in gaming
going. And it’s not resolution.
While the hardware manufacturers
might want to push things like 8K at us,
Cage highlights elements like ray tracing
as an actual key forward step in graphical
tech. “I don’t think it’s going to be a war
about resolution,” he said. “I know that
people talk about 8K these days and
blah blah blah. I don’t think this is the
real next battle. I would rather put focus
on lighting. Lighting, lighting, lighting.”
Lighting then, David?- EA explains
Switch
ignorance
We’re running a bit low on EA games for
the Switch, which is odd considering the
two companies went to some length to
show off the fact they were Super Best
Friends at the console’s launch. Instead,
we’ve ended up in a situation similar to
previous Nintendo consoles, where one
of the world’s biggest publishers largely
ignores it.
We may have found out partly why
that is thanks to an investor’s call with
EA chief Andrew Wilson – when asked
why things like The Sims 4 weren’t on
Switch, Wilson replied that the company
evaluated two things on bringing a game
to a platform: is it a good fit, and is it
something Switch owners wouldn’t just
play somewhere else. Yep, EA doesn’t
bring games to Switch because Switch
owners will just play them somewhere
else. Brilliant.- IMPORTANT
NEWS STORY
Is this worth an entire headline? We’re
going to go with yes. Hideo Kojima was
stopped on his way into the United
States, where he was travelling to for
Comic-Con in San Diego, because he
was carrying a physical re-creation of
the baby in a pod from Death Stranding.
The one you can see above these words.
Border control was wondering just
what a man would need a fake baby in
a plastic container for, and we’re sure
the questioning surrounding it was...
enlightening. Maybe the border guard
now knows more about Death Stranding
than we do, who knows?0302