Yesterday it was the Limited Run Games Showcase 2023 and while I am not covering stores or specialized stores, Limited Run Games has a special niche on being a bridge of gaming publishing and specifically, classical games being brought to the current gaming generation.
Gaming veteran and co-Presidnet of Naughty Dog Evan Wells gave some news and indeed is an end of an era for the Playstation Studios as the executive has announced that he is stepping away from the company that he began working right at the New Millenium.
In Xbox related news, Microsoft ran an important showcase for the independent gaming studios and developers community as Xbox has been a stronghold for indies developers for years and 2023 is not an exception.
Last Year, Electronic Arts needed a big association after Lucasfilm decided to strip EA from being an exclusive Star Wars game maker and found some “exclusivity” air thanks to Marvel, who already green-lighted an original Iron Man game as a first product of their joint venture.
Just last week, a Sega executive announced that the Japanese gaming veteran was actually scaling back all Web3 and NFT gaming projects so that it could do it without violating any previous agreement.
Reminding you all that 343 Industries are the current developers of Halo but NOT the original makers, as Bungie and Microsoft decided to part ways in the late 2000’s and the condition is that Microsoft was to keep Halo as a franchise.
I believe that this past weekend was a big opportunity to Twitch to reestablish connection with its streaming community after some difficult months with both competition and streamers unhappy.
Someday, I am going to invest time to actually research a big problematic of the gaming industry in the 90’s and early 2000’s and their methods of storage that proved in losses as for the example, Square Enix CURRENTLY lost both Final Fantasy VII and VIII source code and had to rely on reverse engineering their respective PC version for all the relaunch and remasters.
I tried to not to follow this topic anymore because it is NOT a service for Sonic The Hedgehog in terms of gaming news and positivity about the main Sega franchise, but I guess I cannot ignore this development on co-creator Yuji Naka’s saga.
Ironically, Sega has been one of the gaming companies that decided that it was time to mix NFT and Gaming via the concept of Web3 gaming and pretty much we have heard some high-profile association, but maybe all came to a surprising end.