GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 27, 2024

Xbox head Phil Spencer has said that he wants to see more digital retailers on the console, such as the Epic Games Store and Itch.io. When asked by Polygon if he could see these storefronts on the platform at some point in the future, Spencer said he believed console players would benefit from more options.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The company told Polygon that it wants to “more effectively drive player-centric communications” The news comes only a few weeks after Ubisoft closed its studio in London, with the loss of more than 50 jobs. ” Last week, Ubisoft quietly laid off half a dozen members of its communications and social media team.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

Another example of changing priorities and consolidating resources can be seen in the partnership between Polygon and IMX. Polygon has a huge ecosystem of games, art collections, big retail brands (like Starbucks), and so many more. Forcing your players to download a launcher for just one game can only go so far.

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

Downright wild Back in 2020, I wrote a piece for Polygon that looked back at the “downright wild” predictions game industry insiders had made ten years earlier. The woeful 2010 predictions focused on techno-utopian, science fiction fantasies that are still, today, a long way from realization.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

Then I used another tool called OBJ2Map to convert the polygons into Quake-style brushes. First I had to download the original Halo map geometry files , open the files in a Halo mod tool called Adjutant (now known as Reclaimer ), and then export the map geometry out to.OBJ.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

In-game models used in the cutscenes are obviously not suitable for close-up cutscenes in terms of texture or polygon quality. Despite the game’s powerful use of top-down view, the live cutscenes of Lost Ark are full of bugs.

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