After the cancellation of Destiny 2 support and obvious decline of Marathon, Bungie is laying off "the majority of the Destiny team and some people from the Marathon team". The expected 50% reduction in the workforce from earlier reports was apparently surpassed.

Please, don't read the text on their picture, it's fucked up and today is not that day to read that.

Hermen Hulst's statement.
Bungie's post on Twitter.

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Avatar Season 2 is not working. They are constantly skipping time, teleporting literally thousands of miles without any context or explanation, missing very important things from the original series, and such. The talk to king Bumi alone is such a downgrade, I can't believe they're for real.

Showrunners were forced to turn 8 episodes into 7 and also cut the budget further. So most of these episodes that are left they're talking, chatting, yapping and whining. In such a slow and careless tone that it kills me. Nothing happens 90% of the time.

And I'm the person who kinda liked the season one for some of their ideas and scenes. So imagine how it feels for people who didn't like live action at all.

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It's not just Steam that is struggling, SteamDB (that gives a much better search tools) is also ain't making it through Steam Summer Sale...

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Good stuff on sale
(Beyond the obvious)

Just Cause 3 (-85%) — Worthy with DLCs, dumb and fun game on a 1000KM island. Fly around in a jetpack, walk in a spider-bot, destroy 100 military bases, and just have fun.

Ghostwire: Tokyo (-90%) — learn Japanese culture and city legends, also kill ghosts and use them to fly around. Also very sad crap if you into stories.

Dead Island 2 (-90%) — Worthy with DLCs, very fun zombie-slashing game, good in co-op.

RAGE 2 (-80%) — made by Just Cause devs in collab with ID Software. Amazing shooting and powers, huge map, odd driving. Short and dumb story but at least you are the president of the US.

Mass Effect Trilogy (-92%) — literally 100+ hours, all DLCs, still feels good AF. Let's pretend Andromeda never existed, OK?

Blacktail (-80%) — a Slavic folk walking-sim + open-world game about Yaga. You fight trolls and mushrooms, make alliance with Bees and Stones, and find 30 boboks.

Call of Juarez (-90%) — better Wild West game than RDR2. You walk around, shoot everyone in slow-motion, and comment like Jason Statham.

State of Mind (-90%) — we have Detroit Become Human at home. Practice alcoholism, cheat on your wife since she has a scar after the car accident you got her into, neglect your kid, betray best friend, blame others. UPD: Just checked the game and recent reviews say it's crashing in the main menu on modern PCs. So I've tried it now and found no issues.

Share yours in the comments!

Brazil is 61 hours btw. Almost 8 days of work.

It seems that the ultimate edition of GTA VI goes with instant "free 1 month of GTA Online subscription with auto renewal". Regardless of your current access to GTA V which is at least odd or borderline illegal. Yep, it then sits as the endless subscription that will charge you after one month.

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Fair enough

Compulsion Games that is among Xbox studios under fire, now allowed people to find new job before the mass layoffs.

They are also the creators of We Happy Few that I liked a lot but somehow can't recommend widely.

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Have a nice weekend, folks! 😌

Keyword was always a very hard place to fit: tight budgets and limited time are synonyms of production houses. It wa rather surprising that they were still active in such an expensive area.

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Rockstar confirms that GTA 6 discs will be available several months after the launch.

Some people speculate they will charge 10$ extra like Nintendo told companies to do. This will also make collectionfags buy a second version of the game.

So tiresome.

Looks legit!

- Gave Mewman

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Yep, exactly this

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_SJJiP_Twxc
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1. Cry that AI causes bad prices and ruined the gaming industry

2. Use AI to make memes about it and make prices even worse

That's BS IMO, since these pieces are only possible during heavy subsidiary from governments and investors.

And AI is not making money, not causing rise in efficiency, and only rise prices for both consumers and corporations.

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