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He makes videos about stuff he knows nothing about. He's a Sony shill and a Kojimbo fanboy.
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He makes videos about stuff he knows nothing about. He's a Sony shill and a Kojimbo fanboy.
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"Games journalism" literally died. If you wonder who won in Gamergate, Gamergate won. The only survivors were little worms like Schreier who managed to parlay their momentary notoriety into actual jobs with "real" journalism.
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And a CDPR shillboy.
I was never a fan of YongYea because he was one of the first YouTubers I noticed padding an 80 second video to 10 minutes to please the YouTube algorithm.
I'm trying to think which non-YouTube people are left. There's IGN and Game Informer, both notorious for being shills for sale to highest bidder. Digital Foundry eventually told ResetEra to fuck off, but their parent site EuroGamer I've not heard mentioned in ages. I don't know if they still own Digital Foundry. @Miller says OAG has stopped updating. Pretty much all the names in the OP are in witness protection judging by how visible they are.
The closest thing to survivors are Jim Sterling and Extra Credits, both of which still have an audience, albeit rapidly dwindling ones. Extra Credits moved into history and politics, and Jim Sterling trooned out for attention.
Though that's just based on my own perception of the sites. I don't know what the actual numbers are. Their YouTube numbers vary depending on which site I check. eg. Polygon is still pulling in 150k viewers per video, while EuroGamer barely gets 30k.
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Yongyea doesn't care, he know the hardcore fans will endorse his every anti corporate take until one day decides to flex their muscles on him
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If James May's Big trouble in model britain showed, You have lots of reasons to be mad at hornby.
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YongYea is annoying, his videos sometimes pop up in my recommended list and I wonder what he has to say about [thing]. 5-10 minutes later I still wonder what he has to say about [thing]. He's like a shitty reply girl. Rwhitegoose is a bit similar, less annoying and boring but jesus christ, I clicked to know what the weird speed trick in Perfect Dark is, I already know about libertarianism.
DigitalFoundry is still part of Eurogamer, their written articles appear there, what their agreement with the site is I don't know but DF spawned from Beyond3D's "How many pixels" megathread. EG probably reached out to Leadbetter at some point and asked if he could add more words to his forum posts to turn it into an article. That they have their own name suggests that they're more of a separate entity.
Maybe Leadbetter approached them, I know that game journos have been incredible hesitant to feature any content that centers around the technical.
The reasoning have been that no one is interested, it is too complex for the readers to understand, it's hard to write in an engaging way aaaaand we're not allowed to talk to programmers - the last one is extremely journo. They want to be fed information to publish and if it is complicated they might still fuck it up, if they would ask technical questions those will be misguided and the programmers just gets confused and any answer/discussion that follows will be fucked. That's why PR universally put the kibosh on people who can't think interviewing people who can't market product.
DF have no problem getting access though, leading up to release of a game their technical deep dives/interviews becomes part of the marketing push to court a segment of consumers. Weird how that works.
General tech reviewers for phones and shit are in a similar situation. Most of them don't know anything about hardware, yeah a 2700mAH battery is more than a 2400mAH batter, but what's the power draw of the redesigned SoC? So instead they measure the thickness of the phone, weigh it and discover that it is 37 grams heavier than the previous model so that's bad, how many millimeters is the bezel(old review criteria) and so on. I think they influence phone design, flagship models compete to win and get all those good reviews. The whole thing is like the fashion industry where what's attractive or hot in a runway models and their appearance is micromanaged by gay dudes. Tech journos are gay and now we have gay phones is what I'm saying.
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They put chemicals in the silicon to turn our freaking phones gay!
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Funny enough, PES is moving to Unreal engine. But they still need more time to work on it. So the 2021 game was merely a heavily discounted DLC for 2020 with some extra features, select kits updated with the licences they could obtain. When Konami is more consumer friendly, have to really rethink things
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One of their employees (the german guy) is a regular user on ResetEra. There's a screencap of him whining about people who use gendered pronouns for some robot in a video game.
Leadbetter seems like a cool guy.
"Lootboxes = bad, EA = bad, Konami bad, Kojima = God, CDPR = Great, Sony = Great", that's pretty much his entire schtick. I've heard that he also cries about the Orange Man on Twitter.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/assassins-creed-valhallas-animus-decides-which-version-of-eivor-is-canon/
We have now wound so far around ourselves that having a fully voiced, fully integrated female protagonist is still trying to weasel out of having a female lead.
I guarantee the creepy goatee writer has raped at least six children.
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I love how 'we wrote ourselves into a corner at the onset of the this series but we want to let people pick their gender and not have to write two characters' is still, STILL somehow a sexism issue.
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Forcing themselves to show a [current year] version of History is really worrying. With AC Origins and Odyssey they have introduced a "discovery" mode that is supposed to show people what the past looked like. It's pretty much historical revisionism.
It's going to be interesting to see if Ubisoft will portray the vikings as a progressive society.
It's going to be interesting to see if Ubisoft will portray the vikings as a progressive society.
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They don't want female representation, they want male erasure.
All male characters must be gone from games because those CHUDs will never play girls.
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lol...
cold political takes aside, i have absolutely no idea why these Twitter Influencers™ who do absolutely nothing other than regurgitate lame triple-a industry news have such a massive followerbase? nibel is my go-to example for this shit, this motherfucker has no discernible personality whatsoever and seemingly only exists so he can leech off game journos (which is simultaneously pathetic and hilarious). are they trying to land a job at some big media outlet? are these people making thousands a month by relentlessly shilling tlou2 news or whatever the fuck? jesus christ
i don't even read this to know it's just paragraph after paragraph of schreier the rat shilling for unions in the games industry. i think everyone had "crunch = bad" beaten into their heads 20 years agoJason Schrier writes an article condemning CDProject Red for crunch.
Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Orders 6-Day Weeks Ahead of Launch
Polish video game developer CD Projekt Red told employees on Monday that six-day work weeks will be mandatory leading up to the November release of the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077, reneging on an earlier promise to not force overtime on the project.www.bloomberg.com
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That's not new for Konami. They actually updated the rosters for their Japanese baseball game for free. The most recent Yugioh game got free card updates as well. Lazy fucks like Yongyea and Jim Sterling would rather screech than promote alternatives.
With PES, being more consumer friendly is one of the few ways Konami can stand out. EA has purchased the licenses to so many of the big teams and leagues. A lot of normies have forgotten the console version even exists.
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No game journalists bothered to report that Playstation has now released a slew of free default avatars and included Ape Escape. There's also new Gravity Rush avatars as well.
I'm telling you the free robot game for the PS5 is a tech demo for greater things.
All the Jak ones appear to be from the HD collection. However this is one of the series that Sony has been apparently shopping around to get another dev to make. This was the last big update before the PS5 launches so all the old shit they're referencing now seems like it's going to lead to more things in the future. Because games like Motorstorm and Heavenly Sword got no mention.
I'm telling you the free robot game for the PS5 is a tech demo for greater things.
All the Jak ones appear to be from the HD collection. However this is one of the series that Sony has been apparently shopping around to get another dev to make. This was the last big update before the PS5 launches so all the old shit they're referencing now seems like it's going to lead to more things in the future. Because games like Motorstorm and Heavenly Sword got no mention.
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The funny thing is that despite all the hand wringing about Kassandra in Odyssey (and to be honest a female Spartan is laughable on its face) the majority of players chose Alexios. So Ubisoft straight up canonizing her before release wasn't enough to dissuade people from choosing the dude, inadvertently proving the executive right. These dipshits have been clamoring for the option to choose gender in every game, and to be able to fuck any character no matter if it makes sense, and now they're mad that it's as bland and creatively sterile as people were warning lol
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Also the crowing about the new online policy for Playstation isn't new at all. They just changed the warning to be more defined by saying "anyone in the room" can record all the stupid shit you say and snitch on you. This has existed since the PS3. But now 3,000 backstabbing trannies just realized they can snitch on people.
Third party software is no different and shit from there can be submitted to the same channels to get accounts banned across any and all gaming platforms.
It's like people thinking that snap chat can't be recorded.
Third party software is no different and shit from there can be submitted to the same channels to get accounts banned across any and all gaming platforms.
It's like people thinking that snap chat can't be recorded.
BrokenWokenBespoken
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Saved you a click does the same thing. People don't want to support the soulless media empire machines but still want to be well informed. Forums caught on to that and started handing out infractions and bans for it citing copyright. The question is if sites like Kotaku or Polygon says fuck that shit and enforce copyright on Yongyea and other influencers
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Sad thing is they can and I have warned people of this but everyone thinks they know how fair use because Sargon won his case.