{"id":490,"date":"2024-05-08T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:38:46","slug":"with-creative-developers-shutting-everywhere-the-future-of-games-looks-bleaker-and-boring-keza-macdonald-pushing-buttons-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/with-creative-developers-shutting-everywhere-the-future-of-games-looks-bleaker-and-boring-keza-macdonald-pushing-buttons-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWith creative developers shutting everywhere, the future of games looks bleaker and boring\u201d &#8211; Keza MacDonald (Pushing Buttons, Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe kind of games and studios that are being \u201crationalised\u201d out of existence here are exactly the kind that we need in 2024: smaller, creatively interesting games that offer alternatives to the increasingly homogeneous gaming behemoths that have been hoovering up money for more than 10 years. Roll7\u2019s releases are exactly the kinds of games that should form part of an artistically as well as monetarily valuable portfolio for a publisher such as Take-Two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grand Theft Auto prints money, and the publisher\u2019s executives take home tens of millions every year. Is it actually true now that such a publisher can\u2019t support smaller games, too \u2013 even if they win awards and turn a profit? What is the point of having an \u201cindie\u201d publishing label if you\u2019re simply going to buy good studios and shut them down after barely two years?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/pushing-buttons-roll7-studio-take-two\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/pushing-buttons-roll7-studio-take-two<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe kind of games and studios that are being \u201crationalised\u201d out of existence here are exactly the kind that we need in 2024: smaller, creatively interesting games that offer alternatives to the increasingly homogeneous gaming behemoths that have been hoovering up money for more than 10 years. Roll7\u2019s releases are exactly the kinds of games&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}