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The end of the Gamespot forums

Gamespot is moving to a new CMS (Wordpress), which is good for them, but bad for everyone who used the social stuff from the old custom made CMS that was made for Gamespot in the early 2000s. Aka, the forums. They are keeping the accounts and usernames for the new site, but any user generated content does not seem to be coming along, as they said they will be sunsetting them. At the very least, it's not happening immediately, they said there's a window of time, and they will let us know when it will be sunset. I don't think there's anyone at Gamespot left that even knows how to handle all the code that runs the social component of the site, which is why the new site doesn't even have them or link to them. It will likely be replaced with Fandom software (if anything). I’ll miss the social media aspects of this site like the blogs, user videos, and forums, it’s what I grew up in since 2005. I found the site through a Bellsouth directory when looking for videogames. ...

State and stupidity of Xbox

I’ve been seeing some defenders of Xbox and Microsoft say that closing down the game studios whose games underperformed is the right thing to do. I think this read of it infantilizes the executives and makes the people getting paid less than a percentage of what they make seem like they have real control. If an executive approves a game about a polar bear wielding samurai swords, then the executives will also make sure that their marketing department will launch proper support to sell the game, and their finance department allocate appropriate budget for the title based on market conditions and the expected timeframe the game will take to develop. The people making sure the polar bear can swing the samurai sword should not, at any point, be worrying about those other aspects. Bad executive decisions tend to fail. Good ones don’t. There is more to being a game executive than micromanaging a game studio, in fact, if they are doing so, then that means they aren’t doing the rest of t...

Why would they do this?

They would do it as an honest attempt to bring Star Fox back from the dead. Upon first impression, I did not like the new art style for Star Fox at all. They seemed intentionally designed to be unappealing and somewhat grotesque. The new designs are very opinionated, but now I think that’s very respectable. I don’t mind the designs anymore, but I believe the Illumination movie version design was a lot better. Other than the character art style, the game looks gorgeous at least. Nintendo really put a lot of money on it. The new cutscenes seem extensive and the online multiplayer mode could be interesting. I wish it was a remake of SNES Star Fox, since that one is the hardest to go back to, but it looks like a lot of work was put into it. Also, since this is a remake of Star Fox 64, which was a remake of SNES’s Star Fox, let’s see: 1. 64 2. 3DS 3. Zero 4. Switch 2 So counting SNES, it’s 5 versions of the same game.

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