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Phil Spencer wants to see other digital storefronts on Xbox

GamesIndustry.biz

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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The future of gaming is as opaque as ever

Game Daily

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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Web3 Gaming Consolidates to Survive

Deconstructor of Fun

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 companies enact callous layoffs, amid their own competence controversies

Game Daily

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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new Quake map: Daughter Drink This Water

Radiator Blog

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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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

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.