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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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meStevo
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Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge
The Madden and Apex Legends publisher is apparently looking for a way out
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The video game market is consolidating like never before, and Electronic Arts is scrambling like everyone else. The Battlefield and FIFA maker recently pursued a merger with NBCUniversal, and also held potential acquisition talks with Disney, Apple, and other companies, according to a new report by Puck. While a deal isn’t currently in the works, it doesn’t sound like EA plans to give up anytime soon.
“In recent years, as media companies have taken greater interest in the rapidly growing gaming industry, Wilson and Electronic Arts have held talks with a number of different potential suitors, including Disney, Apple and Amazon, sources with knowledge of those talks told me,” wrote Puck’s veteran media reporter, Dylan Beyers. “Several sources familiar with these talks say EA has been persistent in pursuing a sale, and has only grown more emboldened in the wake of the Microsoft-Activision deal. Others say that EA is primarily interested in a merger arrangement that would allow Wilson to remain as chief executive of the combined company.”
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Utnayan
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Haha whoever purchase these assclowns may as well just burn their cash instead and see more value from the heat it gives off on a cold night.Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge
The Madden and Apex Legends publisher is apparently looking for a way out
The video game market is consolidating like never before, and Electronic Arts is scrambling like everyone else. The Battlefield and FIFA maker recently pursued a merger with NBCUniversal, and also held potential acquisition talks with Disney, Apple, and other companies, according to a new report by Puck. While a deal isn’t currently in the works, it doesn’t sound like EA plans to give up anytime soon.
“In recent years, as media companies have taken greater interest in the rapidly growing gaming industry, Wilson and Electronic Arts have held talks with a number of different potential suitors, including Disney, Apple and Amazon, sources with knowledge of those talks told me,” wrote Puck’s veteran media reporter, Dylan Beyers. “Several sources familiar with these talks say EA has been persistent in pursuing a sale, and has only grown more emboldened in the wake of the Microsoft-Activision deal. Others say that EA is primarily interested in a merger arrangement that would allow Wilson to remain as chief executive of the combined company.”
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I was just thinking the same thing. I feel like they would need a complete overhaul once purchased.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Meh, FIFA tried to more than double their licensing fees, remains to be seen if it's a real loss or the 30 year old franchise keeps on trucking. Almost certainly will be the latter.
EA is over 10k employees, over $5b a year in revenue, profitable, and growing. They'll be bought if the terms are right.
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Embracer sees ‘great potential’ in Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal sequels, remakes and remasters | VGC
The company is set to acquire the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain IPs…
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About time someone picked up the Legacy of Kain IP. It’s been dead for years. Now I hope they remake/remaster the original classic Blood Omen Legacy of Kain that came out on the PS1.
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Intrinsic
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I think they did this with Polterchrist and a Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.
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Polterchrist (2001) | Comedy, Horror
Polterchrist: Directed by Brady Hall, Calvin Lee Reeder. With Warren Etheredge, Brady Hall, Brian Wendorf. Teenage partiers, copious amounts of alcohol, a bowling alley and a cursed biblical relic: what could go wrong? A malevolent Jesus Christ coming back to life and killing them one by one...
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Brahma
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Unreal Engine 5 photorealistic graphics
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Daidraco
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Saw that on some stream. My curiosity at this point just revolves around "After the average users PC is doing photo realism at 8k 240 refresh/fps, then what?" What's around that corner? Thats probably a good 30 years before the "average" user can produce that kind of output (or stream it to their home media) but, ya.Unreal Engine 5 photorealistic graphics
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Malakriss
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The vast majority of games don't require more than 60 fps, even more so if you narrow it to console games. 8K60 would be an acceptable baseline and 8K120 as something reasonable for normal PC gamers to push for in another decade. But then the professionals would still be on 1440p monitors with 480 Hz and polling rates above 10000 Hz.
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Daidraco
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Stating 8k240 was kind of an exaggerated example - was just trying to skip that answer. I can "BARELY' tell the difference between an 8k tv and a 4k tv when theyre side by side. Is that because Im getting old and my eye sight isnt 20/20 anymore? Idk. But just.. what is next? Once hardware reaches that point, and the software is there to take advantage of it - thats the area I always enjoy theorizing about.
Malakriss
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Games might support displaying 8K resolutions but the textures are typically limited to 4K. Both for file size reasons as well as time constraints on design. HD Remasters at 1080p usually have modders designing character models at 4K/8K but the background, buildings, objects, etc are baked into the game and not going to be messed with. By the time Unreal 5 becomes the new standard devs and artists might be pushing into 8K but screens outpace what you can realistically put on them. So you'll see upgrades in engines to make use of facial and clothing detail, then lighting and effects. Why? Skins and DLC. That's where the post-box sale $$$ comes from.
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Hateyou
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Does it need to keep pushing once it’s at max realism and refresh? It moves into a realm of just pushing the visual things that are happening that we don’t see in real life for maximum escapism. Focusing on stories and exotic locales. Space exploration, new planets and worlds, just looking like it’s a real thing instead of a game. There doesn’t need to be a what’s next once we’re at holodeck levels.
Daidraco
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Thats part of it, sure. I guess I was looking at it from a more granular perspective of where the focus of resources is going to go at that point. Grass for example, how many times is a company going to design grass before they just share that asset with the rest of the companies within the corporation. My theory (or just maybe a personal hope?) is that the funds and time thats reduced from the art department will go towards making everything interactable and destructive environments. Vaporware EQNext Voxels put on steroids for example.
Hateyou
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I’m guessing the push to VR will become more prevalent. Once you’re at that level of realism and your brain can’t distinguish the game from reality there will be some wild shit people come up with.
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