There are quite some doubts about Marathon, so let's summarise:

1. It's a generally good game with horrible UI/UX that slows it by a mile. Bungie sorted out maps, shooting, and teamplay.

2. The game was made for $250M (before marketing). And according to multiple sources is being mostly played on PC (Steam) with constantly falling CCU.

The game is paid but the initial batch of users was not meeting the quota to pay off the production budget even remotely.

PlayStation and Bungie are in superposition: they expected it to be much worse to simply cut the loss and fire everyone. But it got some attention too big to make this decision right away. But it's also not good enough to keep everyone so layoffs are imminent.

Morale: your game can't cost 2.5 GTA V budgets and aim for just a million people. Also, UI/UX fixes could be much cheaper than this outcome.

#PlayStation@GameDEV
#Bungie@GameDEV
#UIUX@GameDEV

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#RPG@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Via Dr. Sono

Amazing, LOL

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#WTF@GameDEV

NVIDIA wasn't doing great on Linux for ages but recently they built a team to fix it and also gathered some people from the community. And several distros were doing fixes too.

Eventually, it worked out: the 5-30% gap in performance is no longer the thing. Even the first step already gave users up to +12% of gaming performance in the new Ubuntu 26.04. About 20% more and it will get the parity with Windows 🫠

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV
#Linux@GameDEV

Teardown with multiplayer and co-op!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AfSSvmWkxY
#Physics@GameDEV
#Coop@GameDEV

The founder of Kyoto Animation Hideaki Hatta apparently died mid-February.

The legendary studio he founded with his wife had strict rules to avoid overwork, but still made it through all struggles and 2019 arson that killed several people.

They are known for Lucky Star, K-On!, Violet Evergarden, Hyouka, Miss Kobayashi, Beyond the Boundary, Nichijou, Haruhi Suzumiya, A Silent Voice, and many others.

The studio was inherited by his son who will follow the family goals, so no changes are planned so far.

#Anime@GameDEV

One video to sell you BF2042

#Battlefield@GameDEV

Have a nice weekend, folks!

UPD: That was originally a James Vincent McMorrow music video that was later re-used with a completely different (though more suitable) song by Pink Floyd. PF removed the original mix from YouTube many times, but some smaller channels still have it.

#Music@GameDEV

The new Pokémon Pokopia game got 89 on Metacritic, sold 2.2m copies in a few days and boosted Nintendo shares by 19% (which is the best growth since 2016).

#Nintendo@GameDEV
#Pokemon@GameDEV

Steam seemingly tired of sneaky malware and working with FBI to do some counter-measures.

#Steam@GameDEV
#Malware@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Modern YouTube reviews be like

#meme@GameDEV

Nature is healing 🙏

#Adobe@GameDEV

LMAO: local food chain Happy was caught spying on workers and consumers with 3rd party AI (which is illegal in Europe).

They fully rejected the issue, told that they only got the proposal but declined it in 2023. But the investigation has internal details, screenshots of their custom UI, and it was all in use with exact locations (identified).

Then their legal team tried to fk Louis Rossmann (if you know you know) and now he will fk them back.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2D7hdJF2AwU
#AI@GameDEV

Meanwhile, Slay the Spire II sold 3 million copies. No DRM, no always online, no $250m budget.

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Admin is trying to touch the grass but there's no grass yet 😭

How's your Saturday going?

Okay, I found some ♥️