Destiny developers reflect on the end of an era: ‘We all worked so hard to maintain the quality bar under unrealistic constraints’

Yesterday, Bungie announced that Destiny 2 is officially over, with its final live service update arriving on June 9. After 10 expansions, 30 seasons, three episodes, and spanning almost a decade, it’s not an understatement to say that it’s the end of an era. The salt in the wound is a report that Bungie isn’t…

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Ubisoft has staff for ’70 Warhorse-sized studios’ after cuts, says Kingdom Come director—’That could be 10 KCD2-sized games… released every year’

Ubisoft has been having a bad time of late. At the beginning of this year, it announced an enormous “restructuring” effort featuring cancellations, layoffs and, yes, generative AI, and all that following some rather dire preceding years. Via “voluntary” reductions and less-voluntary layoffs, Ubisoft has reduced its total number of staff by around 1,200 people…

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If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap

Every week, I search through all of the major online retailers for the best graphics card deals, hunting down the lowest prices for the latest Arc, GeForce, and Radeon GPUs. Although a handful of models are wildly over their MSRP, many are still within an acceptable margin above it. However, according to a breakdown of…

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