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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #400 on: August 05, 2010, 02:48:22 PM »
Also, a recent study shows that more people use social networking sites than ever before (it's up to something like 23%). Even if they migrate, that is why these social gaming publishers want to make their games for multiple sites. I don't think any of them are worth $563 million, but the market won't be going away anytime soon. It may shrink, but I think it will still be viable.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #401 on: August 05, 2010, 02:49:31 PM »
High Voltage Software fires 25. Probably the Tournament of Legends team.

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« Reply #402 on: August 05, 2010, 02:56:11 PM »
High Voltage Software fires 25. Probably the Tournament of Legends team.
they should have cancelled that game ages ago and focused on The Grinder.
Sad to hear that people had to lose their jobs though.

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« Reply #403 on: August 05, 2010, 04:26:10 PM »
they are a company that is constantly hiring, so id expect they follow crab fisherman rules too
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« Reply #404 on: August 07, 2010, 02:37:41 AM »
High Voltage Software fires 25. Probably the Tournament of Legends team.
they should have cancelled that game ages ago and focused on The Grinder.
Sad to hear that people had to lose their jobs though.

If HVS knew when to cancel a game they wouldn't be one of the biggest shovelware developers around.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #405 on: August 07, 2010, 12:46:34 PM »
They do the shovelware on contract to an outside company; they don't have the option to cancel those games.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #406 on: August 08, 2010, 05:15:40 PM »
if they can stay open im sure they invert between shovel ware and the decent games they've been making.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #407 on: August 30, 2010, 12:53:37 PM »
Playdom has shut down its Acclaim Games brand (they bought it three months ago). For those who don't know, this Acclaim had nothing to do with Acclaim Entertainment. After Acclaim went bankrupt, a man named Howard Marks bought the rights to the Acclaim name and re-launched it as Acclaim Games; it's focus was on MMO games. Playdom is offering a refund to anybody who bought Acclaim Coins (the common currency used in all of their games).

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/acclaim-dies-a-second-death/
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #408 on: August 30, 2010, 03:40:13 PM »
Wow. I never even knew Acclaim had been revived in the first place, so hearing that it died again is really weird. The name is garbage, though. Its not associated with quality games, so why would anyone want it? Atari was a name people knew and loved, so when that name was revived it caught on and remained, but Acclaim? The name Acclaim lacks Acclaim, despite its name.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #409 on: August 30, 2010, 03:43:26 PM »
To be fair, it was only near the end that Acclaim became associated with bad games. They were one of the most popular publishers from the NES era up to the N64/PS1 era.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #410 on: August 30, 2010, 04:26:35 PM »
yeah Acclaim at time put out pretty good games, during the n64 era they were pumping out Turok and Wrestling games, although the wrestling games don't hold up today like their competitors wrestling games. Acclaim was always a better publisher than developer though. There was some crossover with Midway, because they published a few of Midways games. Midway is now Warner Bros. Games or whatever.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #411 on: August 30, 2010, 04:30:16 PM »
I had read this story a day or so ago "Acclaim shut down" and I thought it was really old since Acclaim has been shut down for some time now.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #412 on: August 30, 2010, 04:52:50 PM »
Acclaim's NES output is overall pretty damn bad.  During that time they just made some of the worst ****.  Acclaim's greatest claim to fame was when they would publish the home version of Midway arcade games.  As an arcade dev Midway was one of the best so it's no surprise that NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat II are such classic SNES games.  The classic gameplay was designed by Midway and Acclaim merely had to not **** up the port job (though they weren't innocent of doing that from time to time).

I knew Acclaim had been resurrected in some form.  I remember hearing about that years ago but I had forgotten about it until now.  I guess their product was just not on my radar.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #413 on: August 30, 2010, 05:01:47 PM »
I heard Turok was a good game and I remember hearing the hype about it back during the N64 days, but I've never actually played it. I suppose at this point there's no point, because however good it was then its probably horribly dated by today's standards. It would be a good thing if the IPs like that get resurrected, but there's no need for the Acclaim name to continue as such. The name has no connection whatsoever with the company that once was. Just like how the modern Atari is nothing at all like the old Atari company. Of the people who remember the name Acclaim, I don't think there's many who remember it very fondly, or would consider it a quality brand. I certainly don't from my experiences with their games (Midway ports not included).
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« Reply #414 on: August 30, 2010, 05:09:14 PM »
Acclaim published the Wizards and Warriors games on NES which gives them points...though those games were made by Rare
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #417 on: October 09, 2010, 06:06:01 AM »
Didn't they make most of the handheld CoD games?

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« Reply #418 on: October 09, 2010, 06:57:50 AM »
the only thing i knew them from was geist, but it seemed like they were on the way up not down...oh well
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #419 on: October 09, 2010, 05:24:09 PM »
Didn't they make most of the handheld CoD games?

Yes. Including the upcoming Black Ops game which comes out November 9th. Now that they're out of business, I wonder what this is going to mean for the game.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #420 on: October 09, 2010, 10:13:25 PM »
Note: n-Space is not closed.
http://nspaceinc.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/n-space-rumor-control/

Kotaku just sucks at reporting news.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #421 on: October 09, 2010, 11:43:19 PM »
Note: n-Space is not closed.
http://nspaceinc.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/n-space-rumor-control/

Kotaku just sucks at reporting news.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #422 on: October 10, 2010, 12:06:26 AM »
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http://nspaceinc.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/n-space-rumor-control/

Kotaku just sucks at reporting news.

What did Kotaku have to do with the rumored report?
it was sources close to gameblurb that posted the story. Kotaku reported on the 25 laid off back in August.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #423 on: October 10, 2010, 01:50:12 AM »
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Kotaku just sucks at reporting news.

What did Kotaku have to do with the rumored report?
it was sources close to gameblurb that posted the story. Kotaku reported on the 25 laid off back in August.
http://kotaku.com/5659586/rumor-geist-call-of-duty-ds-developer-n+space-shuts-down

Sure, the rumour originated at gameblurb, but Kotaku was too lazy to fact-check, and just spread the misinformation.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010
« Reply #424 on: October 10, 2010, 01:55:57 AM »
In this case, if you call it a rumor, and it is a rumor, true or not, that's not really a case of bad journalism.  However, the fact that Kotaku doesn't seem to have done anything to update anyone on the status of the rumor is relatively negligent, in my opinion.

For comparison's sake, I commented that the rumor existed on my most recent podcast.  As soon as I saw something contradicting it, I went and posted a comment to let people know.  We've not seen anything from Kotaku addressing this yet.  The shoddy journalism is on the fact that they were so eager to quickly report an untrue rumor, but comparatively have not reported on the truth of the matter yet, in any way.