Random Gaming Talk

[chronovore]

Anywho, someone on Reseti pointed this out



Either video games are cancelled or this VGA and next spring is gonna be spectacular in terms of announcements.

The dev industry feels like it's in a panic: After Embracer's US$2,000,000,000 deal fell through, Epic laid off 800 ppl/15% of workforce, Bungie took it in the shorts right after, many places are in a hiring freeze. I was in a 2nd interview with a Sony first-party studio where the team "loved" me, but they paused hiring for the role. It is a shit-tastic time to be looking for work. 

A friend in the finance business says 2023 profits are record-high even though people are not sheltering-in-place like 2020-2022. Those profits aren't evenly distributed, for sure, but there is a bunch of money roiling around out there.

Another friend who I've known since my first job in dev nearly 30 years ago thinks it is at least partially due to a speculative stance on the disruptive influence AI will have in the next 2-3 years.