The more I see and hear from the executives in charge of major AAA gaming companies, the more convinced I become that they truly neither care about their product, nor do they want to. While they still make stupid amounts of money thanks to the casual audience, AAA is nonetheless becoming less and less relevant…
Tag: AAA publisher problems
Marathon is Everything Wrong with AAA Gaming
With just about everyone out there weighing in on the Marathon situation, I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to write anything about it myself. After all, what is there to add at this point? It’s a terrible situation that was entirely avoidable, and is likely to lose Sony an insane amount of money and…
Embracer Group is Going to be Shrinking Soon
A few years ago, Embracer Group emerged as a new, major gaming publisher and immediately set to work acquiring as many up-and-coming studios as it possibly could. Many were concerned that the organization would outstrip the likes of EA and Activision-Blizzard and become an even worse force within the industry. Well, Embracer Group has indeed…
Stay Tuned for the Next Exciting Episode!
It may be a new year, but it seems that AAA publishers are just as determined as ever to show the depth of their contempt for their paying customers. Okay, maybe that’s a bit harsh but after everything we’ve seen from the likes of Konami, Activision, and Square Enix last year, one might have cause…
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