Nick Scarpino

Namely, I believe Crystal Dynamics is doing the same thing with Perfect Dark, which got canceled once.

Yeah.

And like, I...

When that first started happening, I could see a bit of that vision of, okay, cool, you got this big game that you're working on, you have a studio that's available to help you out with this thing while they're doing their own individual projects and stuff.

Yeah, work together.

That's cool to see Microsoft partnering with these, I forget if they were Square Enix at the time, or if this is always post-Square Enix, but seeing Microsoft partner with these non-Microsoft studios to make these games, cool.

To see where we're at now, where it's like,

I, like, fucking Perfect Dark isn't happening.

That then leads to layoffs at Crystal Dynamics.

We're at a place where we're getting layoffs at Adels Montreal, which, like, it's hard to pinpoint exactly how we got here.

I don't want to just blame Xbox or whatever, because I'm sure there's many different factors here.

But, yeah, like, it feels like it all kind of fell apart in a way that...

Yeah.

Tough shit, man.

Real tough.

Let's move on to story number two.

Kojima is going to deliver GDC's first keynote in five years at the GDC Festival of Gaming, as they're calling it this year.

Festival of Gaming.

Fucking Alphabot and Glinda are there.

This comes directly from a press release.