Visions of Mana only released yesterday, August 29, but according to a new report, plans to cut back at and eventually close the JRPG’s developer – Ouka Studios – have been in the works for a good while, with the current situation being that NetEase has cut “all but a handful of jobs”.This comes from Bloomberg, which has been looking into NetEase and Tencent, and the scaling back of Japanese investments both big Chinese companies have been doing.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Ouka opened in 2020 and went on to hire veteran developers from the likes of Capcom and Bandai Namco. Visions of Mana, published by Square Enix was revealed at last year’s edition of The Game Awards, and locked in a summer release via a gameplay reveal at the Xb…
Read moreAfter arriving back in all of our lives by showing off his latest project, god game Masters of Albion, at Gamescom Opening Night Live, veteran developer Peter Molyneux has now been asked what kinds of changes and evolutions he thinks the next few decades of gaming might see. His answer? More Hollywood adaptations and, well, AI.The controversial dev, who was once a key figure in Fable, and has since done some other stuff that’s often proven polarising or bizarre, was asked – along with a bunch of other industry figures – by Eurogamer where he thinks the world of video games be in 25 years time.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “AI is going to be a real game changer,” Molyneux said as part of his answer, “There will come a time where AI will be used t…
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