Ain't that the truth! I would say it would be difficult for them to get the licensed IP again as an indie studio, but considering Games Workshop licenses the Warhammer 40K license all over the damn place to the point we get like 10 games a year, it might not be that difficult lol. 

That's crazy to think considering Creative Assembly already went through layoffs last year when Hyenas was cancelled and now they're going through layoffs again?! They can probably start by not having Total War be an annual release anymore lol. There's a great Total War game then it's followed up by a middling one. It's been a long time since there were actually good back to back releases. 

Hell, I wouldn't mind if CA took a shot at a Halo Total War lol

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Hope Microsoft signs a multi-game deal with Relic, they're going to need an immediate publisher. Also, I've a feeling that half of those dozens of new independent studios that were opened over the past few years won't even make it to their first game.

Many of those studios are not big in the first place so if they are forced to lay off a significant amount of their staff I don't see how their project can survive.

I saw where Smilegate closed the AAA Barcelona studio they opened a few years ago before they could release their first game.

You do smaller projects with much shorter time to market.  Every studio is not cut out to do 5 year long AAA projects.  Sometimes you have to be more adaptable to the market and know when its time to invest in shorter projects or larger projects.  A lot of those studios try to do Spiderman 2 type of budget game when they really should be more focus on making smaller tighter projects like Prince of Persia.

Global Head of Xbox Marketing,  xbox keeps making horrible choices...

First of all, there was nothing wrong with her tweet.

Secondly, Elon Musk? Really? TheQuartering? Keep that trash out of this thread.

It is a bad take or do you consider it a good take?; who are they fighting? White gamers? Considering Xbox marketing has been honestly between horrible bad/non existant for most of the world it is a shame...

Edit: she made her posts private...... The head of global Marketing whose purpose is to Market Xbox and put it in a good light has made het X account Private.