After 2024, it feels like the games industry is poised for a vibe shift or maybe a reckoning

Its lofty price tag is making us start to think about how much Nintendo’s Switch successor and future PlayStation and Xbox consoles will cost, too. While Nintendo’s statement didn’t go into specifics, Pocketpair eventually revealed that three patents were at the center of the lawsuit. They had to with how players could actively throw a ball-like device to capture creatures and transition from walking to riding or flying on said creatures. Interestingly, the lawsuit does not address any Pal designs that look eerily similar to Pokémon. As clone games become vogue again, the results of this case will likely set parameters for how much developers can copy games they enjoy.

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2023 was historic when it came to the number of video game industry layoffs that took place during it. Companies like Embracer continued their downsizing initiatives, but it wasn’t the only major culprit this year. That dubious honor goes to Microsoft, which has laid off nearly 3,000 Xbox developers this year following its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee.

Gunner Stockton’s 66-yard completion to Arian Smith set it up, but Georgia got a sideline interference penalty to shave 15 yards off that gain. Notre Dame kicker Mitch Jeter converted a 48-yard field goal with 39 seconds to go in the first half. Riley Leonard hit Beaux Collins on a 13-yard touchdown over the middle and leads 13-3 with 27 seconds to go in the half.

Microsoft also replaced Game Pass for Console with Game Pass Standard, a $15-a-month subscription tier that neither supports Xbox Cloud Gaming nor includes day-one titles on the service. Those who wanted to play games like Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on day one through Game Pass had to pay for the most expensive version of the gaming subscription. Some Marvel Rivals players who played the game using compatibility layers like Valve’s Proton reported getting flagged as cheaters and receiving bans. This morning, the development team issued a statement on Discord, which you can read below or via GamingOnLinux, saying it has lifted those bans. Outside the Superdome late Thursday morning was a Jefferson Parrish Sheriff’s Office mobile command center and about a half dozen of their trucks on a street. New Orleans police also were spotted and a dog from a K-9 unit was brought up to help make sure a media bus approaching a gate had no suspicious cargo.

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The vibe can continue while Ubisoft as we know it dies, megacorps buy up more and more studios and then shut them down after a single failure. We can keep on like this; we’ll lose more talent, sure, but there will always be new bodies for the grist mill. But it seems to me that maybe in 2025, maybe in 2026, enough people are going to be well and truly sick enough of all that to start turning the wheel just a few degrees.

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Stay updated with all the news and get all the analysis on multiple sport-specific channels. We wrote about the dangers of the unlimited content churn in 2019 and have expressed our exhaustion with live service games more than a few times; we felt it at the end of 2023, and still feel it at the end of 2024. You could point to that as proof that 2025 will just be more of the same. A million social media posts declaring the system is broken or that game CEOs should be fired instead of their staff won’t necessarily lead to proactive change, but I’ve never felt like gaming is more fed up and ready for a vibe shift. The popular multiplayer game Liar’s Bar is set to get a brand-new game mode, which is coming to the title sooner than expected.

The forecast outside calls for a low temperature of 60 at kickoff dropping to 56 by the end of the game with winds E from 5 to 7 miles per hour, according to weather.com. Georgia’s defensive front has asserted itself with 15 sacks over the last four games and figure to have the advantage in this one. The Bulldogs cronly games should slow the Irish run game just enough to take the pressure off a Gunner Stockton-led offense to pull out a close victory. New Orleans police superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said hundreds of local, federal and military police will enhance the Sugar Bowl security and citywide. As expected, Roderick Robinson and Branson Robinson aren’t dressed out and won’t play. Roderick Robinson is standing by the running backs warming up with a jersey and sweats and watching.

A Star Wars show that’s set during the same era as the KOTOR games hasn’t been forgotten about, according to an industry insider. On desktop and Android (iOS is still audio-only for now), you can now have the miniplayer visible while you play one of the games from YouTube’s library, as shown here with The Vergecast’s holiday episode. On the drive to the Superdome, we passed long lines of fans outside a couple of restaurants looking to get a pregame meal. He had even more in 2021 when he had 5 catches for 87 yards in a touchdown in a Notre Dame rout.