Square Enix announced that it expects to record approx. 22.1 billion yen (approx $140M) in "content abandonment losses" for the fiscal year ended March 2024

- At a Board of Directors meeting on March 27, 2024, they voted "to revise their approach to the development of HD games… pic.twitter.com/7wzZp4RFN5

— Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) April 30, 2024

https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/pdf/20240430_01_en.pdf

3 minutes of Lo Wang staring at the green-haired potty girl in Master Leep's Temple. I crouched to ensure Lo Wang doesn't use chopsticks, and I didn't speak to her or hit her so she doesn't shoot back at me.

I also had my weapon holstered and my status bar and crosshairs removed so all I can see is the girl. I didn't even move.

Out of all the girls in Shadow Warrior, the green-haired potty girl was my favorite to stare at.

Some zoomer praising the game. It is a very interesting piece of media, I wouldn't really consider it a "game" due to it being point and click more of an actual art project tbh. !besties

Iz overu (speaks in Korean)

Darn, turns out I really want boobs to return to video games.

I hope the western gaming industry keeps failing until pretty women are allowed back in Video games as the default.

Of all the words on pen and paper,

The saddest are these,

The Otaku's were right,

2D and 3D vidya women are better than real women.

( And real women hate 3d women )

Now hear me out, the other day I was wondering in my sleep if champions were real and Rito would remove this "polite" filter in lore so that would make champions feel more real.

For example I am 100% sure that Sett calls his opponents "r*tards" every single time just because it suits him as a character. For the same reason I am sure Draven and Jax would be spitting racist remarks on each second (RPS = racism per second). For no other reason then the fact that it fits their characters. Kled, I will not even mention that one. That mf would be collecting offences and criminal records like Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Whenever I play league I have certain picture of each champion how would they act in real life.

What do you guys think?

wtf a redditor made a funny shitpost?

yes I'm baked

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ceqrb7/the_hypocrisy_is_too_blatant/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1cel2y9/they_just_changed_2_skins_why_are_you_so_butthurt/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ceefp3/remember_when_the_consequence_of_your_game_having/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1cep5fp/stellar_blade_creator_states_toning_down/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1cejplt/goals_send_a_letter_to_sony_interactive/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1cemndw/mods_censoring_for_even_mentioning_the_original/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ceqpab/how_did_baldurs_gate_3_survive_sony_uncensored/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1cepowt/vara_dark_reports_a_very_weird_bot_attack_on_her/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ceopdc/i_found_the_only_uncensored_outfit_in_stellar/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1cedlaf/splash_damage_episode_109_stellar_blade_devs/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ce9kpn/whatever_you_make_of_the_controversy_shift_up_is/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ce1paw/censorship_reminder_that_as_of_2018_developers/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1ce75wc/journ?sort=controversial*list_attacks_shift_up_director/

These are literally just the top 13 threads on the sub, as of posting. That's why there's a random 40k thread in there.

Yes I know it's low effort but it's Shabbos, I'm resting.

theres an epic new map in Experimental

!g*mers

Redditor found out it was fake but the game devs complied anyway lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/yuzu/comments/1cdcdmf/garrys_mod_is_removing_20_years_worth_of/l1iohu7/?context=8&sort=controversial

SHIFT UP's action game Stellar Blade is a day away from release and there's already been some controversy that isn't sexual for a change, as Sony says it will remove in-game artwork that shows ‘hard R' due to unintentional racism.

In Stellar Blade, there's an ‘R Shop' referencing the information broker Roxanne. There's also ‘Hard' graffiti that can be found in numerous parts of the game. However, there's one instance in Stellar Blade where the graffiti and R Shop are shown next to each other, showing what appears to reference a racist slur, which Sony claims was “unintentional.”

Sony provided a statement on the matter:

“The placement of two graphics near each other in Stellar Blade resulted in an unintentional objectionable phrase. Shift Up had no intention of creating offensive artwork and will be replacing the graffiti for the Day 1 patch.”

When asked if there are any plans to remove the art from the physical games as well, a PlayStation representative said that it “Should be removed for all users in the Day 1 update.”

The patch has since gone live and the ‘Hard R' artwork has since been changed to say ‘Crime' instead:

Seethe in the comments:

All of you fricking idiots were warned! But no “It's going to be uncensored”, “It's a based game guys!” Bunch of stupid fricking weebs, weebs are fricking laughing stock.

If you're a weeb, then you're calling yourself a subhuman who has no spine whatsoever.

Where's the lie?

You cope too much cute twink. KEEP YOURSELF SAFE you cuck

Ibought two copies because i have tons of money to spend unlike you, you born poor and will die as poor lmfao enjoy working 7$/hr at fast food

America is a mistake.

The corrupt West deserves to be nuked and obliterated completely.

Eastoids still bussyblasted at a lil' bit of nuke correction.

And the idots were attacking you for stating the truth. This is why weebs are cucks. They live in their own little world like a filthy basement dweller.

!nonchuds I will remind you all that the reason why 4chan stays alive is because Hiro gets paid by research groups who want to study the link between anime and rightoid extremism.

>jewish chadslayer101

Rightoids are beyond parody

And here's another article whining about Stellar Blade.

It's the usual over virtual cleavage so not gonna' bother with a write up.

While we're talking about Shift Up let me bring up their now dead gacha game Destiny Child. I really liked the OST the game had

Thanks

Niru is a very famous MapleStory streamer who became the first person to ever reach 299 lvl. Ever since then a huge amount of people in the community have been watching his streams and waiting for him to get to lvl 300, even the devs were watching him. In his final stream, he managed to get 299 99.99% and immediately logged off the game and started shit-talking the devs right in front of 20k viewers on Twitch

What's even funnier is the fact that the official Maplestory account on Twitter had already made a tweet congratulating him

https://twitter.com/MapleStory/status/1783562860108316936

The devs even promoted the stream through in-game banner but when he started ranting the banner instantly disappeared

Ryu ga gotoku games own hard and the latest owns extremely hard. Go get it

All my prompts had "dark skin" in to be fair but I forgot about aggressively wrestling the ai with things like "Nigerian, African" to actually make it do dark skin

!g*mers

There was no way we could fit the whole map of gta3 in PS2 memory. Streaming involves loading models from the DVD as the player moves around. This was the hardest technical challenge during the development of gta3 and was coded by Adam Fowler.

The closer models physically are on… pic.twitter.com/EWBb5tyygn

— Obbe Vermeij (@ObbeVermeij) April 25, 2024

For twitterphobes

I thought that was pretty neat. Also a Burnout 3 dev showed up ( )

After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we're approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years.

Over the next few months, we'll be sharing more details about our launches coming later this year, including World of Warcraft: The War Within and Diablo IV's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. To celebrate these upcoming releases and to bring our communities together in new and special ways, we will soon share some exciting plans for other industry trade shows and conventions like Gamescom. We can't wait to tell you more about those plans soon. We're also looking forward to the Overwatch Champions Series' stops at both Dreamhack Dallas and Dreamhack Stockholm. And we're thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024. While these events are distinct from BlizzCon, we're harnessing all of our creativity and imagination to ensure that they carry the same spirit of celebration and togetherness.

Our hope is that these experiences – alongside several live-streamed industry events where we'll keep you up to date with what's happening in our game universes – will capture the essence of what makes the Blizzard community so special.

No matter how you choose to connect with us at these events this year – whether it be in person or virtually – we can't wait to see you there!

My guess that it's a combination of low interest, having nothing to show, and microsoft not liking live events, even though it's the 20th anniversary of WoW. I haven't been excited for a Blizzard release since Overwatch anyway.