Horrible news that would make gamers cry.

[Psychotic Ninja]

You now have to pay for animations (which is true now).

[BTGBullseye]

You have to pay for each patch, as well as the DLC to make the patch work, as well as the expansion to make the DLC work, and pay for another patch to make the DLC work with the patch.

[Blightmare]

Every keypress is a microcharge.

[BTGBullseye]

You are required to maintain a constant internet connection to the primary game server for a singleplayer-only game, or the game turns into a virus that destroys everything on your computer, overwriting it with random child porn images, and then reports you to the police.

[Binky The Rabbit]

Apple pays Valve to make all Mac-compatible games on Steam Mac-exclusives.

[BTGBullseye]

All audio is DLC. All soundtrack/music is locked behind an ad paywall, and even if you pay for everything, you still can't get past the paywall.

[Selfsurprise]

Due to fan pressure Konami reverse their cancellation of Silent Hills. Because Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro are no longer involved in the games production, the title is currently undergoing a revamp by Michael Bay and a licencing contract with Disney Interactive.

[Binky The Rabbit]

Sony announces its next-gen console will be VR-only.

[Scampi]

Gabe Newell eats a baby.

[AP_Pastor]

Red Dead Redemption is released for PC

 

Crashes more often than Arkham Knight for PC.

[Binky The Rabbit]

Blizzard shuts down the World Of Warcraft servers permanently.

[Psychotic Ninja]

EA succeeds in trademarking the word 'ghost'.

[AP_Pastor]

Konami trademarks the words "Metal", "Gear" & "Solid", files frivolous lawsuit against Kojima.

[Fric]

EA teams up with Ubisoft to make that one special super over hyped game, that will have its servers shut down 6 months after release, that we always dreamed about.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Nintendo goes bankrupt

[Binky The Rabbit]

Every major LPer announces that videogames don't matter, and become sport vloggers.

[BTGBullseye]

Nothing at all happens for 6 months.

[Psychotic Ninja]

Half-Life 3 is released as a broken mess, with microtransactions, DLC's that the grand total is greater than $200, campaign is under 2 hours long, shitty frame rate, took $50 million to "make", and over all, makes Mighty No. 9 look like a masterpiece if it was written by Mozart, and was a song.

[Selfsurprise]

Sony announce that they are producing a narrative-heavy RPG quadrilogy spinoff of the Soul Calibur games, based on the adventures of the character Olcadan.

 

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Seriously, somebody came up with this character. He was actually in a game, which was quite a popular series if I recall correctly. That means potentially hundreds upon thousands of people saw, fought against and/or played as Olcadan at some point in their lives. It's actually quite awe-inspiring when you think about it. I might add Olcadan to my list of things that should survive long after the human race has gone extinct.

 

Nothing at all happens for 6 months.

[Zaraki]

Valve's main HQ gets burned down with all people inside.