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2K Games Is Making A New Sports Franchise, And All Signs Point To Soccer

2K Games Is Making A New Sports Franchise, And All Signs Point To Soccer https://ift.tt/L6MkCan 2K Games has announced the formation of Small Axe Studios, a new developer that it says will be focused on building a new "blockbuster" sports franchise. While the publisher--which is owned by Take-Two Interactive--has commented which sport will be joining its other franchises, it looks like 2K might be taking on EA's annual soccer series, EA Sports FC. Currently, Small Axe Studios includes several former EA developers, with Aaron McHardy as studio head. McHardy had previously been in charge of EA's FIFA franchise for 15 years, and other notable names include Gary Peterson as Small Axe's head of design, Tom Pan as head of operations, technical art director John Cruz, and engineering lead Mike Thompson--all EA veterans. Small Axe Studios logo Another clue that 2K Games will be making its own soccer game is the Small Axe logo, which resembles a soccer club ba...

Let's Talk About The Starfield Discourse | Spot On

Let's Talk About The Starfield Discourse | Spot On https://ift.tt/SjCuW9w

Sigh. It’s been a long week on the internet.

The Starfield review embargo is up and discourse around it has been running wild--just look at the comments on our review. But in the midst of all this chatter, we can't help but think about how much it distracts us from us having meaningful conversations about games and truly enjoying them. Though someone else's opinion on a game can't take away any of the joy you experience while playing it, going into a game with anger, defensiveness, or cynicism can absolutely sour the time you spend with it.

This week on Spot On, Tam and Lucy discuss the damaging impact negative discourse can have and why focusing only on this negativity and feeding into the console wars can take away the excitement of new releases. The two also discuss Baldur’s Gate 3, and how, for a while, that game was swallowed by discourse, to the detriment of the discussion around it.

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