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I Stopped Playing Palworld For This Creature-Collector Game

I Stopped Playing Palworld For This Creature-Collector Game https://ift.tt/EgacYCd When I think of creature-collector games, I think of the Pokemon series and, in more recent years, Palworld. Pokemon's decades-long dominance faced plenty of imitators throughout the years, until Palworld's monster-collecting, base-building, and weapon-crafting hit broke through. Since then, every new creature-collector game has to answer the same question: What makes that worth playing instead? HoYoverse might finally have an answer. Enter Honkai: Nexus Anima. It goes without saying that Nexus Anima borrows ideas from the genre's biggest titles, but it feels more dedicated to combining the best parts of Pokemon and Palworld than replacing either of them, while still adding its own flair by way of interesting battle mechanics, beautiful worldcrafting, and a riveting narrative. I can't stop playing it. The Anima are adorable. In my formative years playing Pokemon, I knew the i...
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Former PlayStation Boss Says Gaming Faces "Existential Threat"

Former PlayStation Boss Says Gaming Faces "Existential Threat" https://ift.tt/Zbqosvl

According to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, non-endemic companies like Netflix or Google are one of the biggest threats to the video game business today.

Layden spoke at a keynote on stage with GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring at the website's Investment Submit last week. Listing his top three concerns for the industry in the years ahead, he claimed that "consolidation can be an enemy of creativity," and that "rising costs in gaming are an existential threat to all of us." He then referred to non-endemic companies like Netflix, Google, Apple, and Amazon as "barbarians at the gate."

Layden sees what happened to other entertainment spaces, like music and TV, as cautionary tales. The music industry was permanently altered by iTunes, for example. Netflix aided in destroying home video rental and changed consumers' relationship to the cinema. He is hopeful that gaming will disrupt itself, rather than being changed by outside forces. He said, "Where it doesn’t take a Google or an Amazon to completely flip the table. We should be smart enough to see these changes coming and prepare ourselves for that eventuality."

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