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Sony To Pay Out Nearly $8 Million In Class-Action Settlement Over Game Prices

Sony To Pay Out Nearly $8 Million In Class-Action Settlement Over Game Prices https://ift.tt/mZvwBR8 Sony is set to pay out nearly $8 million to PlayStation customers as part of a settlement regarding digital game prices. The settlement ( via IGN ) comes after Sony's motion to dismiss the lawsuit was denied, and settlement class members across a more-than-four-year period are potentially eligible for a payment. The lawsuit, originally filed back in 2024 , alleged that Sony established a monopoly over PlayStation Store prices by making publishers "cede control over the final price to Sony" and that Sony "eliminated the last vestiges of price competition when it stopped allowing outside retailers to sell digital download codes that could be redeemed on the PlayStation Store." Sony is not agreeing to wrongdoing as part of the settlement, and will be avoiding a civil trial if the terms are agreed upon by the court. Once that happens, the claims against Son...
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BioShock Successor Judas Is A Procedurally Generated Roguelite

BioShock Successor Judas Is A Procedurally Generated Roguelite https://ift.tt/NMBwr17

Bioshock creator Ken Levine's Judas has been in development for almost ten years, and now his studio Ghost Story Games are finally ready to show what its been working on all that time. While Judas is still a narrative-driven FPS in the style of the Bioshock games, it's also a procedurally generated roguelite set in a dynamically-shifting open world. Here's what we know so far.

Judas is fundamentally built around a concept Ken Levine calls "narrative Legos," which he has been refining since his GDC talk by the same name all the way back in 2014. The concept mixes procedural generation with bespoke building blocks of narrative or dialogue, creating a game that can react to a player's decisions in a way that feels natural.

"We call it pseudo-procedural because it's not like Minecraft where everything's being generated off a set of pure mathematical heuristics," Levine explained in an interview with IGN. "You build all these smaller piece elements in the game and then you teach the game how to make good levels essentially, and good story, and most importantly, reactive to what you do."

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