{"id":510,"date":"2024-05-15T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:38:46","slug":"big-studios-are-making-big-cuts-but-indie-gems-like-animal-well-are-still-out-there-keza-macdonald-pushing-buttons-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/big-studios-are-making-big-cuts-but-indie-gems-like-animal-well-are-still-out-there-keza-macdonald-pushing-buttons-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBig studios are making big cuts \u2013 but indie gems like Animal Well are still out there\u201d &#8211; Keza MacDonald (Pushing Buttons, Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe Verge reports increased scrutiny from Microsoft\u2019s highest bosses on the Xbox division, after the $7bn Activision merger, causing it to \u201cprioritise high-impact titles\u201d. Worrying words for all the formerly independent studios that Xbox has bought in recent years, such as Double Fine (Psychonauts, pictured) and Ninja Theory (Hellblade). As Kotaku put it in its report on a town-hall meeting held at the company: after buying up studios, Xbox leadership says it doesn\u2019t have the resources to run them\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/pushing-buttons-big-studio-cuts-indie-developers-animal-well-retro-games\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/pushing-buttons-big-studio-cuts-indie-developers-animal-well-retro-games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Verge reports increased scrutiny from Microsoft\u2019s highest bosses on the Xbox division, after the $7bn Activision merger, causing it to \u201cprioritise high-impact titles\u201d. Worrying words for all the formerly independent studios that Xbox has bought in recent years, such as Double Fine (Psychonauts, pictured) and Ninja Theory (Hellblade). As Kotaku put it in its&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-510","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\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}