@TheIronFox the change to gearbox tells me the closure of Volition was planned for a while
FPS: First Person Shooter documentary is out now for all the people that didn't back its crowdfunding campaign and are willing to pay full $25 price for a digital download. (So not for me at this moment.)
https://fpsdoc.com/
Official statement from Volition on the studio closure.
I think it's quite something to put this out precisely at Starfield review embargo - almost as if they know the world's gaming press will be busy.
Volition staff on Twitter are reporting that parent company Embracer has just closed the 30-year-old studio behind Saint's Row and Red Faction, with mass layoffs #VolitionJobs
I hate all the "for the kids" legislation that's really just "hoover up all that data".
Only parents can protect their kids online. Parental controls for devices should be easy to use and really, that's it.
Stop trying to kneecap the entire web so one lazy fuck can avoid their kid seeing a female-presenting nipple or whatever. You being a lazy fuck is hurting them, not the nipple.
We fought this, and we won!!
This is the result of a lot of work from privacy and security advocates, researchers, sex worker groups, and members of the lgbtq+ community who worked really, really hard to show the fundamental flaws in age verification.
Well done friends!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/31/roadmap-for-age-verification-online-pornographic-material-adult-websites-australia-law/
while itch creator day is over the sale on my games is still running over at https://eniko.itch.io/ until midnight pacific time thursday
our finances are going to be dangerously tight by the time we launch kitsune tails next year, so any support is very appreciated ๐
(image is gif of roguelike midboss showing ability animations)
made a slightly longer post on cohost about the tile layer movement scripting language DSL i just created for #KitsuneTails: https://cohost.org/eniko/post/2426033-made-a-scripting-lan