Subscription services like Xbox Game Pass turn developers into 'wage slaves', says former PlayStation boss

Subscription services like Xbox Game Pass turn developers into ‘wage slaves’, says former PlayStation boss

Former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden thinks subscription services like Xbox Game Pass are a “danger” to the industry, and that the model risks turning developers into “wage slaves”. In a wide ranging Games Industry interview on the state of the industry, Layden compared gaming subscription services unfavourably with music subscriptions services. While products…

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OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel’s Panther Lake chip officially isn’t Celestial, it’s really just Xe2 ‘Plus Plus,’ but even Intel itself doesn’t yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia

The utterly baffling status of Intel’s Arc graphics technology just got a bit clearer. Oh, and a whole lot more confusing, too. In a nutshell, the Xe3 iGPU in the new Panther Lake chip definitely isn’t based on Celestial, Intel’s supposed next-gen graphics architecture. Instead it’s a tweak of Xe2, as seen in the Intel…

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: ‘I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself’

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida loves Diablo. He’s talked about Blizzard games several times over the last several years, including when he named Diablo as his dream crossover for FF14 two years ago. If you’re worried he’s forgotten about it, don’t: in an interview with Techradar, Yoshida reiterated that he’d like nothing more than…

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