General Gaming News

[Hatredsheart]

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warhamme ... ore-162617

[Sly Boots]

So apparently Ron Gilbert has been working in secret on a Monkey Island sequel for the past two years, which is slated for a release this year:

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/return-to-mo ... announced/

[Wrathbone]

Excellent.

[Raid]

I'm excited, and I've only ever actually played the fourth game at any length. I think I tried all four of the original series (I don't know where the Telltale game fits in), but it was probably at a time where I craved action games and didn't get very far into the first three. Completed the fourth though, complete with the stupid monkey kombat stuff.

[Sly Boots]

Telltale was after the four original games, and worth a look (I think you can get them for practically nothing these days). I love the original trilogy, way better than the fourth game, and the (fairly) recent remasters are well worth checking out.

[Snowy]

Played them back in the day but never got far with them, and they became early fixtures in Snowy's Massive Pile of Unfinished Games. Milk never came out of my nose.

[Animalmother]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/tech ... ading.html

I'm sure no one saw that coming

[Alan]

I want to want it but everything in this video makes my blood churn. Bruce looks so bored!

[Animalmother]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/ ... be-buying/
Ubisoft might be up for sale. Article says if a private non gaming entity buys it then that's generally never been a good thing for games. Then again it's crap when either Sony or Microsoft keep gobbling up companies.

[Animalmother]

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61383672
EA to quit using the Fifa title in it's game's. Apparently Fifa was looking for $1 billion every 4 years for the license rights. EA will still be able to use the player likenesses, club names, logos and stadiums so they've obviously worked out a better deal somewhere.

[DjchunKfunK]

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61383672
EA to quit using the Fifa title in it's game's. Apparently Fifa was looking for $1 billion every 4 years for the license rights. EA will still be able to use the player likenesses, club names, logos and stadiums so they've obviously worked out a better deal somewhere.

Those rights have always been separate from FIFA, they are made with different bodies. The FIFA license gets them the name and the rights to include the various tournaments.

[Raid]

I don't claim to know much about the professional football industry, but if the tournaments are owned by FIFA, is there a chance they could pressure teams into not allowing their likenesses to be used in games outside of those tournaments to spite EA? Let's face it, FIFA don't exactly have a good reputation when it comes to background legal stuff, and FIFA's potential earnings are surely massively diminished if the teams are all available in other, likely better games.

If that's not likely, then why exactly have EA been paying for the license when they could just go to the teams themselves for their image rights, and invent a fictional tournament for them all to play in? I'm going to assume given the official branding that the licensed parts of FIFA games have has been a massive draw to the series, given the presumably quite expensive recreations of hundreds of real athletes, their uniforms and the stadia they play in. Look at the box art for FIFA 2020, where a man I assume to be a footballer is tugging on his shirt and pointing to what I assume is his team's logo, as if to say "Hey, look at me, I play for... I want to say... Massive Cocks Football, buy the game and you can sorta play for Massive Cocks Football too!"



(I always found the vaguely cultish side of football a little disconcerting, and I do wilfully ignore any and all information about it I can, but I guess this is pretty big news for the games industry)

[Sly Boots]

It's not among the games I play, but from a footballing perspective surely FIFA only controls the international tournaments - World Cup, European Championship etc - so although I've no idea to what extent those tournaments appear in the game, it does feel like their absence will barely go noticed. The game as I understand it is far more focused on club football, over which FIFA has little (if any) authority.

I don't believe they'd be able to put any pressure on clubs - "hey, Liverpool, if you let your team appear in EA's football game then your players won't be able to play in the World Cup", Liverpool: "hey FIFA, that's great news, it means our players will be much fitter to play for us, who actually pay their wages, instead of getting knackered flying all over the world to play in pointless games we don't care about. Cheers!"

If anything, it currently works the other way round - players are legally obliged to appear for their international teams if selected, and if they don't then they're blocked from playing for their clubs during the same timespan as those international games.

On a wider point, it's somewhat baffling that, given the above, they've ever bothered licensing the FIFA name at all... as opposed to, say, UEFA, which controls all continental club competitions, which play a far greater part in the game.

[Animalmother]

On a wider point, it's somewhat baffling that, given the above, they've ever bothered licensing the FIFA name at all... as opposed to, say, UEFA, which controls all continental club competitions, which play a far greater part in the game.

Maybe someone in EA asked the same question. I also wouldn't be surprised if Fifa was getting too fucking greedy and forgot they aren't actually required for the series to continue.

[Raid]

I had to look up exactly how all of these acronyms are linked; if UEFA is part of FIFA, it wouldn't make sense to call the game UEFA 20xx as it would prevent the inclusion of teams from outside of Europe. I have no idea if FIFA games include, say, Brazilian teams. Anyway, as FIFA are so ridiculously greedy, I can only assume it was them that required the games to have their branding, rather than EA seeking it. FIFA seem to love tooting their own horn if the trailer for their horrible film from a few years back is to be trusted.