Save wizard for ps4 key1/31/2024 ![]() ![]() It's unclear how many of those 1,900 layoffs at Hasbro were at Wizards of the Coast, which oversaw a banner year for Dungeons and Dragons (January's OGL catastrophe notwithstanding), but Kotaku Australia noted that Wizards was hit particularly hard, with D&D 5th edition co-designer Mike Mearls, Magic the Gathering producer Paul Cheon, and head of publishing and licensing Liz Schuh among those impacted. The wrapped.games summary of 2023's industry layoffs helped put it in perspective for me. In an earlier draft of this piece, I homed in on that question of increasing game size and development cost as something to harp on, a key contributor to this layoff apocalypse, but that just doesn't feel right as a culprit or catch-all. My mind's been dominated by Baldur's Gate 3 and Armored Core 6, each respectively one of the best RPGs and shooters I've ever played, but a big surprise has been how deep the bench goes this year: every genre from horror to fighting games to puzzlers to 4X has at least one heater you can really sink your teeth into. It's hard to celebrate such a stellar year for games when it was surrounded by so much misery in the games industry itself.Ä¢023 is absolutely part of that canon now, with a deluge of amazing games from indie to triple-A level, the dam seeming to burst on all those Covid-delayed projects we've been hearing about for a minute. I can also personally attest that 2007 was a great year to have an Xbox 360 and be allowed to play M-rated games for the first time. ![]() 2004's a big one too: Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (my sweet baby) released within a few weeks of each other. 1998 is understandably always in these conversationsā -it's almost absurd that Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time, Baldur's Gate, Half-Life, Thief: The Dark Project, and Starcraft all came out in the same year. ![]()
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