Podcast: Vertical Slice

Vertical Slice 299: Γράψε μου μια παπάτζα

Published 21/02/2025

Vertical Slice

Vertical Slice 299: Γράψε μου μια παπάτζα

00:00 / 1:25:47

Να ‘ναι καλά ο Shuhei Yoshida που μας φτιάχνει το κέφι.

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Olympic eSports Games
- Inaugural Olympic Esports Games will now take place in 2027
Netflix Games και Night School Studio
- Netflix-owned Night School Studio cuts undisclosed number of staff
Niantic και Scopely
- Niantic reportedly in talks to sell video game business in $3.5bn deal with Scopely
Αποτελέσματα
DICE Awards 2025
- Astro Bot and Helldivers 2 win big at DICE Awards 2025
Η Nintendo κόβει παροχές
- Nintendo discontinues Gold Points reward program
- Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers offer won’t count for Switch 2 games, Nintendo says | VGC
Shuhei Yoshida
- Shuhei Yoshida looks back at 31 years at Sony PlayStation | exit interview

Vertical Slice 298: Κομμένος ο βήχας

Published 14/02/2025

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Vertical Slice 298: Κομμένος ο βήχας

00:00 / 1:19:51

Η ESA κάνει όνειρα, η Paradox κάνει αγορές, το Football Manager 25 μας αφήνει και το State Of Play είχε απ’ όλα εκτός από ταυτότητα.

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M&A
- Paradox Interactive acquires Haemimont Games
ESA και iicon
- Entertainment Software Association Unveils iicon, Game-Changing Thought Leader Summit to Harness the Power of Interactive Entertainment and Shape the Future of Business and Culture
PSN
- Sony apologises for global outage that took PlayStation Network offline for nearly 24 hours
Crytek
- Crytek cuts 15% of workforce, Crysis 4 put on hold
Αποτελέσματα τριμήνου
2025 State Of The Game Industry Report
- GDC 2025 State of the Game Industry: Devs weigh in on layoffs, AI, and more
State Of Play
- State of Play | February 12, 2025 [English]
- State of Play February 2025: all announcements, trailers

Vertical Slice 297: Soul-sucking action

Published 07/02/2025

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Vertical Slice 297: Soul-sucking action

00:00 / 1:33:34

H ΕΑ βρίσκει ταβάν (ή τοίχο;), το Kingdom Come Deliverance II συνοδεύεται από αναμενόμενα δράματα, η Netflix απομακρύνεται ακόμη περισσότερο από το gaming και η Nintendo αστοχεί αλλά δεν ανησυχεί.

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Vertical Slice 296: Κακομαθημένο twitter feed

Published 01/02/2025

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Vertical Slice 296: Κακομαθημένο twitter feed

00:00 / 1:26:53

Μικραίνει η BioWare, μετακινούνται καρέκλες στη Sony, ο Phil Spencer αδυνατίζει και τα handheld gaming PC το χαβά τους.

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GreekGameDev
- “Become a hard bitten Cat Detective Albert Wilde”
Transmedia
- Zach Cregger to Tackle ‘Resident Evil’ Reboot, Igniting Bidding War (Exclusive)
- ‘Beyond: Two Souls’ Video Game Getting TV Series Adaptation By Elliot Page’s Pageboy
Νέα κεφαλή σε Annapurna Interactive
- Annapurna appoints ex-Netflix exec Leanne Loombe as head of games
Σμίκρυνση BioWare
- BioWare’s “agile, focused” approach sees jobs cut and others redeployed across “EA teams”
Αποτελέσματα
- Capcom
  - Capcom’s financials are “in-line” with forecast despite a 33% drop in net income, 15% fall in net sales
- Microsoft
Κι άλλες δηλώσεις Spencer
Ηγεσία Sony
- New Leadership at Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Sony Interactive Entertainment appoints Hideaki Nishino as president and CEO
Αλλαγές σε PSN και PS Plus
PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025
Άντε πάλι με τα φορητά
- What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2

Vertical Slice 295: Γιακουμής

Published 24/01/2025

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Vertical Slice 295: Γιακουμής

00:00 / 1:38:03

Όλοι πέφτουν έξω εκτός από τους Κινέζους, κάποιοι κάνουν όνειρα για άνοδο τιμών και το Xbox Developer_Direct μοίρασε ημερομηνίες και ανακοινώσεις.

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Transmedia
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release in March 2027
Προγείωση για Netflix Games
- Netflix is refocusing on narrative, party, kids and known-IP games
Phantom Blade Zero
- Phantom Blade Zero reportedly got ‘substantial’ investment due to Black Myth: Wukong’s success
Πάει το Horizon MMO
- NCSoft’s Horizon MMORPG has seemingly been cancelled
Αστοχία EA
- EA revises FY2025 and Q3 guidance due to underperformance across two franchises
- EA shares drop 7% after company lowers guidance due to weakness in soccer, other games
$100
- PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025
- There is ‘hope’ that GTA 6 will cost as much as $100, says analyst
Xbox Developer_Direct 2025
- [4K] Developer_Direct 2025
- Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 Recap: Everything We Announced

Vertical Slice 294: «An update from Nintendo»

Published 17/01/2025

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Vertical Slice 294: «An update from Nintendo»

00:00 / 1:36:12

Ε, τέλος πάντων, Switch 2.

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Vertical Slice 293: 1 στα 16

Published 10/01/2025

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Vertical Slice 293: 1 στα 16

00:00 / 1:23:08

Φορητά και Nvidia κάνουν κινήσεις στη CES, όλοι ετοιμάζουν ταινία και κάποιοι δεν κάνουν για marketing.

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Transmedia
Το SteamOS εξαπλώνεται
Φορητό Xbox
- Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds
Xbox Cloud Gaming και LG
- Xbox and LG to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs
Private Division
- Bloomberg: Ex-Annapurna Interactive staff to take over Private Division portfolio
Ζορίζεται η Tencent
- Two Epic Games Board Members Resign Amid Justice Department Antitrust Concerns
- US adds Tencent to list of firms allegedly connected to Chinese military
Κόστος ανάπτυξης
- Development costs for 2020’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War exceeded $700m
GeForce RTX 50
- New GeForce 50-series GPUs: There’s the $1,999 5090, and there’s everything else
Απολογίες κάθε είδους
- 2024: The Dead Game Review – by Ethan Gach – Dead Game

Vertical Slice 292: Φορητομανία

Published 03/01/2025

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Vertical Slice 292: Φορητομανία

00:00 / 1:34:13

Τι περιμένει η αγορά για το 2025; Στέκει ο αναβρασμός για νέα φορητά από… παντού; Καλή χρονιά; Α ναι. Καλή χρονιά.

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Vertical Slice 291: Motherfluffing

Published 20/12/2024

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Vertical Slice 291: Motherfluffing

00:00 / 2:37:48

Στον Nadella Nadeliές και βουτιά στα επετειακά The Game Awards που ξέχασαν την επέτειό τους.

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Vertical Slice 290: Αρθριτικά, αθροιστικά και immersive sims

Published 13/12/2024

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Vertical Slice 290: Αρθριτικά, αθροιστικά και immersive sims

00:00 / 1:30:22

Ο Indiana Jones έφτασε, η Traptics ετοιμάζει κάτι νέο, η Capcom ρίχνει δόλωμα και το μεγάλη ομάδα της Square Enix καταλήγει support studio στο Eternal Strands.

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Xenopurge
Transmedia
- Pokémon and Aardman partner up for “exciting” 2027 collaboration | News-in-brief
EA και προσβασιμότητα
- EA expands free library of accessibility patents to make more games inclusive
Suicide Squad
- Rocksteady ends Suicide Squad development less than a year after release
Epic Games και Telefónica
- Epic Games announces deal with Telefónica
Capcom Games Competition
- Capcom announces Capcom Games Competition – student competition utilizing RE ENGINE
Eternal Strands και Square Enix
- Eternal Strands launches January 28, 2025; post-launch content collaboration with Square Enix Creative Studio III announced
Ubisoft και Tencent
- Ubisoft shareholders in talks over possible buyout terms, sources say
  - Ubisoft’s handling of cancelled PlayStation exclusive Wild was ‘a real scandal’, director
Γονείς, εφηβεία, gaming
- Influence of parental mediation and social skills on adolescents’ use of online video games for escapism: A cross‐sectional study
Cyberpunk 2077
- Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City infiltrated by Balatro’s giggling joker in 2.2 update secret
Sony και Kadokawa
- Employees at FromSoftware owner Kadokawa reportedly “thrilled” about possible Sony takeover
30 χρόνια Tales of
- Tales of Series 30th Anniversary Project Special Broadcast