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Bethesda didn't get hit particularly hard it seems, mostly in non-development areas.

The Microsoft Studio Behind Halo Franchise Is All But Starting From Scratch Key points from the article: At least 95 employees laid off (FTE and contractor) Tatanka will be in Unreal Engine and may not be (just?) a battle royale No new story content for Infinite. New ideas were pitched for new Halo games in Unreal Engine but those folks were also impacted by layoffs

The price increase in Japan will finally allow MS to achieve their long-sought, mythical goal of selling a "negative" number of consoles in that region!

New "screenshots":

Information from the latest issue of Edge:

From my perspective, there is no such thing as a decisive Ukrainian victory as they will never be able to generate sufficient combat power to push Russia entirely out of the Ukrainian territory they occupy in the Donbas region (Donetsk and Luhansk) and Crimea.

ISW analysis for 30 January 2023: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 30, 2023 | Institute for the Study of War WWW.UNDERSTANDINGWAR.ORG Western, Ukrainian, and Russian sources continue to indicate that Russia is preparing for an imminent offensive, supporting ISW’s assessment that an offensive in the coming months is the most likely course of action (MLCOA). NATO Secretary Jens S

The "$600 million" amount has only been reported by this source, LotR/Hobbit fan site: Warner Bros. Exit Talks Begin For ‘The Lord of the Rings’ & ‘The Hobbit’ Franchises (Exclusive) – Fellowship of Fans FELLOWSHIPOFFANS.COM Not exactly Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, or some other entertainment industry source, so I'm calling "bullshit" on this one for now. Also, the $600 million amount represents a "package" which implies that it encompasses the acquisition of the IP from Embracer, the development budget for the Crystal Dynamics game project, the production costs of the movies, TV shows, etc. Thus, it's not that Amazon paid Embracer $600 million for the IP.

That's right, bitches - THE CREW 3 (or something) is comin' at ya! The Crew 3 is real and an announcement is coming tomorrow | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Ubisoft's tepidly received racing series averts the axe.

No, you're absolutely correct, so I assume that a Sony "priority contract" (if one exists) would be with AMD, not TSMC.

There is no "official" relationship between the Wagner Group and the Russian government whatsoever. In fact, the Wagner Group -- like all PMCs -- is technically illegal under Russian law, so "theoretically" the US could do to Wagner in Ukraine exactly what it did to Wagner in Syria - i.e., blow them all to hell and back.

Which is more than likely a function of both insufficient demand and supply.

They're released Sunday at 9pm Eastern.

Sony must've really cut a helluva contract with TSMC to ensure a relatively healthy stream of PS5s because there's an unquestionably significant difference in the volume of PS5s being available for purchase compared to the Xbox Series X and they both use TSMC as the fabricator.

That lengthy ISU analysis that largely focuses on protraction of the conflict through the delays of providing Kyiv with the higher-end weapons systems required to mount significant, sustained counteroffensives kinda skirts around a not-completely-unrealistic reason for those delays from the perspective of the West: the overall Western objective isn't so much to give Ukraine the tools to set the conditions for a quick, decisive victory but rather to set the conditions where Russia will bleed both manpower and resources -- even if that means Ukraine does the same -- and that's only possible for grinding attritional warfare.

ISW analysis for 29 January 2023: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 29, 2023 | Institute for the Study of War WWW.UNDERSTANDINGWAR.ORG Delays in the provision to Ukraine of Western long-range fires systems, advanced air defense systems, and tanks have limited Ukraine’s ability to take advantage of opportunities for larger counter-offensive operations presented by flaws and failures in R

Who?

In Egyptian mythology, life was created because a god decided to rub one out:

This makes that look totally mundane in comparison.

She was the voice of Tess in The Last of Us.

You can keep your Greek/Roman/Norse myths - Egyptian mythology pwns them all! From the Contendings of Horus and Set:

I have a feeling that this game's commercial performance will make it seem like it did.