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Verken « Naughty Dog eller Neil Druckmann har vært involvert i « The Last of Us: Sesong 3
En av grunnene til at serien The Last of Us ble så utrolig hyllet og vellykket, ifølge både vanlige TV-seere og fans av spillene, anses ofte å være det faktum at skaperne, Naughty Dog og Neil Druckmann, var involvert i produksjonen. Vi venter nå på sesong 3, som for tiden er under produksjon, men en nylig kunngjøring har gjort fans bekymret for seriens fremtidige kvalitet.
Da Druckmann nylig ble spurt i et intervju med Washington Post om hvordan arbeidet med serien går, svarte han:
«Jeg var ikke involvert i utformingen av denne sesongens kreative retning, og Naughty Dog hadde ingen kreativ rolle i utformingen av denne sesongen. Så jeg kan ikke personlig uttale meg om hvordan produksjonen går.»
Han legger imidlertid til at det fortsatt er Naughty Dogs spillserie, og at de tilsynelatende planlegger å gjøre mer med den i fremtiden:
«Det er et par prosjekter på gang som jeg gleder meg veldig til å snakke om når tiden er inne.»
Vi kan bare spekulere i hva dette kan være, men det siste store The Last of Us-prosjektet var The Last of Us Online, som ble lagt på hyllen da det var 80 % ferdig. Det betyr at vi kanskje ikke bør ta noe for gitt likevel, selv om en potensiell tredje sesong definitivt ville vært velkommen.
Miami sheriff er stærkt kritisk over for Grand Theft Auto VI
Hele verden synes lige nu at sidde på kanten af sædet og venter ivrigt på Grand Theft Auto VI, som forventes at være det spil, der mere end noget andet viser, hvad den nuværende generation virkelig er i stand til. Eller måske burde vi sige næsten hele verden, for der er dem, der ikke er helt imponerede over Rockstars gangster-epos.
Rosie Cordero-Stutz, sherif i Miami-Dade, fortalte The Miamian (via Rock Paper Shotgun), at spillet gør grin med Miami og "inkluderer mord, røveri, narkohandel, bilkapring, vold mod politiet og anden adfærd, som mændene og kvinderne i Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office hver eneste dag arbejder på at forhindre."
Hun er heller ikke helt begejstret for, at dele af det sydlige Florida foreslås at blive redesignet for at tiltrække opmærksomhed fra Grand Theft Auto-fans på den ene eller anden måde, og mener i stedet, at Miami bør forsøge at markedsføre det ægte produkt.
Vi formoder, at mere kritik af Grand Theft Auto VI er at forvente, jo tættere vi kommer på udgivelsen, da mange mener, at Rockstar glorificerer et liv i kriminalitet, og voldelige spil, som vi ved, normalt ikke er politikernes favoritter.
US Open tennis: Sabalenka, Alcaraz, Pegula and Medvedev in action on day six – live
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Leylah Fernandez has broken Pegula early, taking a 2-0 lead in the first. You might recall that Fernandez was Emma Raducanu’s opponent in the 2021 US Open final; since losing that match, the Canadian has only gone past the third round at a slam once (the 2022 French Open, where she made the quarter-finals) but has won five WTA Tour titles and is a consistent presence in the world’s top 30. So which career path would you prefer: hers or Raducanu’s?
Sabalenka takes the first set 6-3, remaining dominant against an opponent who is playing decent stuff. Marta Kostyuk also claims the first set 6-3 over Alexandrova, while Sorana Cirstea has claimed the opener against Paolini by the same score. That feels like an upset, even though Cirstea is seeded higher – No 16 to Paolini’s 19.
Continue reading...Even during a RAMpocalypse, Sony and Microsoft come across as less consumer-friendly than some PC brands with their refusal to give US tariff refunds back to consumers
No consumer technology market is pleasant right now, but somehow, even during a RAMpocalypse, Sony and Microsoft are managing to make console gaming look like the worse of two evils. Both brands have filed motions to dismiss class action lawsuits that charge them with not passing on tariff refunds to their consumers, even while a few gaming PC brands are managing to make the consumer-friendly decision in the opposite direction.
In case you're not up to speed, last year, US tariffs were brought into play by President Trump that had massive knock-on effects for consumers. As import and tax rates changed on products produced outside of the US, some brands were forced to increase their prices. This impacted plenty of technology companies, but led to price hikes on the PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X.
Now, the US Supreme Court has deemed these tariffs illegal, resulting in refund payments being made to impacted businesses. That means that Sony and Microsoft are being paid back damages for the extra money they had to pay the US government for operation in its markets at the time - in fact, back in July, Sony told its investors that it expected to receive $508 million in refunds. In theory, this is money that should be passed on to the consumers who stomached the extra costs, not pocketed by the businesses who changed their prices to still ensure profits came in.
Lawsuits were filed against Sony and Microsoft that accuse them of hiking prices solely due to US-imposed tariffs and argue that consumers are now entitled to refunds, but both companies' legal teams have countered by requesting that a judge dismiss the suits, shunning any legal responsibility.
"There is nothing unjust about Plaintiff purchasing an Xbox at an advertised price and getting exactly what he paid for—regardless of whatever theory he devised months later about Microsoft’s cost structure," said Microsoft's legal team in their request for dismissal, according to Game File.
Similarly, Sony's legal team reportedly said: "Paying fair market price for voluntarily purchased consumer goods is not a legally cognizable injury in fact."
Pleading Sony's innocence and pointing blame at inflation, component costs, and demand, the letter also read, "If tariffs were the cause of the price increases, one would expect SIE to lower prices once the tariffs were eliminated – not raise them again.
"Instead, the timeline confirms that PlayStation console pricing includes a diverse and dynamic set of input costs," the letter reads in GamesIndustry.Biz.
Meanwhile, a little less than a month ago, PC building brand Arctic announced it would be passing on its US Tariff refunds onto its consumers through a US promotional sale of its goods:
"As a consumer myself, I feel your pain," said Arctic's CEO, Magnus Huber. "We're passing it on to you by offering a dedicated sales promotion across the US... it will remain active until every single dollar ARCTIC received from the tariff refund has been paid back to our customers."
This was a surprising move, particularly in a gaming PC economy that's absolutely rancid thanks to AI-induced inflation that's still impacting tech manufacturing, arguably more than US tariffs were.
Similarly, Panic, the maker of the Playdate handhelds, is also directly refunding customers who paid extra during the US-tariff period. Granted, this pro-consumer response is rare and not echoed by many other tech brands, but as industry leaders, it reflects badly on Sony and Microsoft to make less effort than smaller brands working to help their customers.
I'm not going to sit here and say that PC gaming is more affordable, but I think any ruse that Sony and Microsoft have managed to get across through the years that console gaming is somehow more consumer-friendly is dead and gone. In the last few months alone, Sony has announced the end of its support for physical media, has insinuated that anyone who doesn't understand digital licensing is an "unreasonable consumer", and has reiterated its terms and conditions through an email to PlayStation account holders that reminds them of their lack of digital ownership.
Yes, Sony, "for the players" indeed.
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