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konnichiwa said:

Rewards seem to have changed? I am a gold member now on bing and can't search for 90 points on pc anymore.

What country do you live in? They are the same for me, but I am in the US. 150 points for PC search and 100 points for mobile search. 



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trunkswd said:
konnichiwa said:

Rewards seem to have changed? I am a gold member now on bing and can't search for 90 points on pc anymore.

What country do you live in? They are the same for me, but I am in the US. 150 points for PC search and 100 points for mobile search. 

From today I have no more levels and can have max 60 points a day, a quicksearch some have it for months already,  updates seem to be random (In Belgium BTW)








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Zippy6 said:

Christopher Dring is now reporting that obsidian are negotiating their survival. Obsidian!?!? Wtf?

https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-divided-over-its-future-and?triedRedirect=true

"Today, the mood is different. Xbox is looking to reallocate where it spends money. The company wants to invest in its big franchises, and to do that, it needs to cut from elsewhere. Studios such as Compulsion, Ninja Theory, Double Fine, Obsidian, Undead Labs and others are deep in negotiation with Microsoft to avoid closure"

Shouldn't take much negotiating, all Obsidian has to do is say "we'd like to work on Fallout". Asha said she wants to speed up to the release schedule of their biggest franchises, Fallout is their 3rd biggest franchise I believe after Elder Scrolls (Over 60m lifetime sales for Skyrim) and CoD (500m sales across 20 games as of 2023, for an average of 25m per game, and over 30m per game on their biggest sub series), and as things stand Fallout 5 can't exit the pre-production phase at Bethesda until Elder Scrolls 6 releases in probably 2028 or 2029, and can't have the full team on it until TES 6 expansions finish like 2 years later. Obsidian is the only studio they have outside of Bethesda who is familiar enough with the Fallout series to take over development alongside a supervisory team at Bethesda that includes Todd Howard.

If they try and fight to keep Avowed 2 in development, which was recently leaked to be in development, they are hurting themselves. Asha is not interested in a series like Avowed the underperformed in sales and gamepass players. 

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G2ThaUNiT said:

Reads to me like Halo side game teams will see layoffs with the remainder of the devs on those teams being refocused on getting the next mainline out sooner and closer to what fans want from the next game

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Fuck me I just woke up in a cold sweat.



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Wow, she is one heck of a driver, impressive stuff



Arkane's head resigned yesterday and has been replaced by MachineGames' co-founder and studio head Jerk Gustafsson according to Jez from Windows Central. No word yet on who is replacing Jerk at Machine, and there wouldn't be much need for a new head at Arkane if they were being shut down in just a few days, so the current speculation is that Arkane and Machine will be merged together alongside some "trim the fat" style layoffs at both. The two studios have worked together in the past on Wolfenstein Youngblood.

If the speculation of a merger is true, no idea if they will work on both games they were already working on separately, or if Wolfenstein 3 will be delayed with Machine assisting on finishing Blade faster and then both teams moving back to Wolfenstein 3 or something else. Blade is the further into development project of the two and will most likely release first.

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this is kinda cool, not sure why my 250th game isn't on here tho



shikamaru317 said:

Arkane's head resigned yesterday and has been replaced by MachineGames' co-founder and studio head Jerk Gustafsson according to Jez from Windows Central. No word yet on who is replacing Jerk at Machine, and there wouldn't be much need for a new head at Arkane if they were being shut down in just a few days, so the current speculation is that Arkane and Machine will be merged together alongside some "trim the fat" style layoffs at both. The two studios have worked together in the past on Wolfenstein Youngblood.

If the speculation of a merger is true, no idea if they will work on both games they were already working on separately, or if Wolfenstein 3 will be delayed with Machine assisting on finishing Blade faster and then both teams moving back to Wolfenstein 3 or something else. Blade is the further into development project of the two and will most likely release first.

According to Schreier, this change occurred last summer. I guess this is just a formality.



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