Submitted 22 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/games/950204/xbox-ninja-theory-shutdown-hellblade-senua
Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure.
follow up to the last post just a few hours ago that they were negotiating with xbox. who knows what will happen to the other studios mentioned.
So uh, what’s that mean for Senua–the game that they literally just announced at their showcase less than a week ago?
During that event, Microsoft also revealed a new Hellblade game, Senua, and its future with this change is unclear.
From the article.
will be entirely AI generated.
I hope this joke doesn’t become true.
Senua’s Psychosis: AI Boogaloo
Will this be another Bayonetta 2 situation?
What is the Bayonetta 2 situation? (I know the game, just don’t know what the situation is.)
Monopolies buy competitors to strip them and bury them. Then there’s no competition for your mediocre games and lower quality for higher prices
Ninja Theory only have themselves to blame. Hellblade 2 took like 8 years to make and was a barely interactive ~5 hour walking sim.
I can’t speak to Ninja Theory specifically but it is suspicious that all these studios they bought up slow to a crawl or turn out lower quality games after acquisition
Ms is in the top 3 revenues and those are significantly higher (>2*) revenues from the rest of the companies below the top 3
top 10 from the Wikipedia list of largest video game companies by revenue
New CEO can’t stop Xbox from killing any studio within reach.
There’s speculation that Arkane will be shuttered soon as well
Well, she’s been bringing all her AI chums onboard, so I’ll guessing AI will save the day… /s
RIP to my hopes of another Prey title.
Good, now you know how we Prey original fans feel. First time?
(this is a joke, I like Arkane and hope they don’t get shuttered) (also goddammit why name it Prey when it has literally nothing to do with the original IP you still own? Bethesda you clowns)
I’ve honestly been having some trouble getting into Prey. Don’t know why. It theoretically should be everything I enjoy in a first person game, but somehow I always turn it off after a half hour or so. I’ll keep trying because, hell, I paid for the damn thing. But yeah… It’s no dishonored (but what is really)
Didn’t those hopes die after that vampire shooter of theirs?
Hellblade: Senua’s Studio Shutdown
Hellbalde: Studio Sacrificed
Aw
FUCK, I love those guys!
Don’t judge me, but I think their take on DmC is the best combats system in any action game.
o7
I low key prefer DmC over the others. The gameplay and music is just so good
Amen!
Actually, Doom 2016 felt strangly similar to me with it’s action, secret room keys, soundtrack, half-cartoon visual style and overall flow.
You just can’t beat a Noisia and Combichrist collab.
Devil may cry 5 is the best for me. I think it was DmC but polished too a mirror finish.
I was so sad when they announced the acquisition couple of years back because I knew this was about to happen
DmC introduced a lot of gameplay elements to the series that I loved, but I think the way dmc5 builds on it is truly unmatched
gonna miss Ninja Theory o7
I guess the kinda games they make cost a lot of money and don‘t have the mass appeal to rake huge RoI in, still wish clearly talented studios like these could do their thing in a smaller scope under publishers that don‘t calculate MS kinda RoIs instead of just being closed down.
As ever, even if they make acceptable profit… they’ll never make obscene profit. So betting on a high risk, extremely high reward product will always been more attractive.
Lmao the AAA industry does not and has not taken risks in at least 15 years. They exclusively follow focus group and investor trends while turning down any innovation or risk.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve had to say “Microsoft, guys, you’re sitting on a giant pile of amazing IPs and you have so many glorious studios. You’re sitting on a goldmine, folks. So why are you all so bad at this?”
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 minutes ago
It’s because they aren’t using enough AI. That will surely help.