As initially spotted by journalist Chris Kerr and verified by VGC – that the results of these consultations have started coming through, with some Ninja Theory employees stating on LinkedIn that they were either facing redundancy or have already lost their jobs.

Alessio Mellina (technical sound designer), Katrin Mair (gameplay programmer), Xoe Subari (PCap tech staff), Loong-Wei Ding (technical director), Matteo Tummino (sound designer), Matt Le-Fevre (senior technical artist), Pietro Berto (character artist), Justin Pedersen (technical artist) and Daniele Galante (principal sound designer) are among those who have confirmed their jobs are at risk or have ended.

“After four years, it’s hard to put into words how much this place and the people in it have meant to me,” gameplay programmer Katrin Mair wrote. “I’ve learned an incredible amount, grown so much as a programmer, and had the chance to work with some genuinely brilliant people. What I’ll remember most is how much people cared. About the work, about the details, and about each other. I feel very lucky that this was the place where I got to start my career and grow into the programmer I am today. It’s incredibly sad knowing that we won’t get to finish what we were working on. So much care, talent and effort went into it, and I really wish we’d had the chance to see what it could have become.”

What's there to even say at this point, honestly? It's all so tiring.

Well these are only half character, half mech but you know they're rad.

Was scrolling Tik.tok as you do and found this like fusion design of Hitmonchan from Pokemon x Gundam and Hitmonlee x the Z'Gok. Almost makes me imagine it like a steel type granting gigantamax.

Source: it's me :) https://bsky.app/profile/sotypicallytori.bsky.social/post/3mx3cmstook2z

The Starbird perching on top of the head is a neat detail!

Remember when Obi-Wan said Darth Vader fell to the Dark Side because he wasn't as good a teacher as Yoda? Well Yoda's student, Count Doku, fell to the Dark Side too. And Obi-Wan's student ended up killing Doku so he was an even better teacher than Yoda.

Like regardless of how tough or how effective they are. They really do carry themselves as the next level of opponent characters.

The Elites members of the Foot Clan from TMNT are fun and a threat when they get introduced. Also kind of funny, because how are you ninjaing it up with a huge battle axe, even the trident guy at least is using a thin one.

Bit blatant a Captain America in space but kinda charming and we've already had a Captain of Britain, Canada, the Soviet Union so it's not like the worst angle to go for. Plus I do like a proper Skrull superhero, kinda wish it was Virtue but his story does sorta have a proper end as like a pacifist christian charity Superman so I can see why you'd rather not bring him back.

Also Knull's back and all white and blue now, the Space God of Light or something.

David Zaslav Shares Farewell Video to Warner Bros. Discovery Employees

David Zaslav, four and a half years after closing the debt-burdened deal that formed Warner Bros. Discovery, is bidding farewell to the company’s employees as it is about to get swallowed up by David Ellison’s Paramount — to create a media giant saddled with even more debt.

Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, shared a video with employees Monday expressing gratitude for their hard work and creativity over the years. (The video, viewed by Variety, is available only on WBD’s internal portal.) Zaslav will exit with the megamerger of Paramount and WBD, scheduled to close Oct. 6, with the new Ellison-run company adopting the name Skydance Corp.

In the video, Zaslav sits alone in a director’s chair in the Loft warehouse at Warner Bros. Studios’ Ranch facility in Burbank, California.

“For me, it’s been a great honor to be alongside all of you,” Zaslav says, speaking to the camera in the 3-minute video. “I hope you take pride in what you’ve built, what you’ve created, and the role you’ve played in shaping an extraordinary history.”

Zaslav’s video includes a montage of Warner Bros. Discovery’s greatest hits, including clips from “The Pitt,” “The Lego Movie,” “Barbie,” “One Battle After Another,” “Dune,” “Hacks,” “Friends,” “The House of the Dragon,” “White Lotus,” “Abbott Elementary,” “Sinners,” Discovery’s Shark Week and (of course!) “Harry Potter,” as well as shots from CNN and WBD’s sports programming. According to a company source, Zaslav wanted to share his goodbye message as a video rather than a text memo in order to capture the visuals.

(Note: Half of those were before he came on.)

“I can’t wait to see what you do in the years ahead,” Zaslav says. “I’m so grateful for all these years at Warner Bros. Discovery, for the wonderful experiences creating content, telling stories and getting to know so many of you.”

Zaslav has been among the most highly compensated CEOs in the media biz. In 2025, his pay package totaled $165 million. That included a one-time grant of stock options valued at $109.6 million, which the company awarded to Zaslav on June 12, 2025, for his work on the company’s plan to split into two publicly traded entities (one housing WB’s HBO, HBO Max and studios business; the other largely composed of the linear TV network business along with Discovery+ and other assets). The WBD split into two companies did not proceed because of the deal to sell the company to Paramount Skydance.

When the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger closes, Zaslav is set to receive a “golden parachute” payout of at least $550 million.

Over the years, Zaslav and his lieutenants made job cuts across the company as they looked to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency. For full-year 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery had a pro-forma EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) loss of about $2.1 billion. In 2025, it generated EBITDA profit of $1.4 billion and has been on track for double-digit percentage growth in subscriber-related revenue growth in 2026.

Jackass. Someday, I hope he fucking rots.

Yes Halloween is not until many days but we will still honnor this month of spooks by talking about...non scary horrors.

What are works you think perfectly mix the horror and the comedy? Weirdly despite loving black comedy i don't remember good exemples, apart for the first Scary Movie.

Of course don't talk about just movies. Animes, shows, mangas, games and comics are fair games.

Giant mecha warcrimes are back on the menu! Fuck the smoke jaguars

With the recent debate about Control: Resonant on the Podcast and me finally going back to play Witchfire after refunding it a year ago. (Side note, go play Witchfire, it hits 1.0 later this year and it is so SO fucking good.) I've been thinking about what makes guns feel 'good' to shoot in a game.

I remember when Destiny 1 and 2 were around, one thing that I heard consistently was how great the guns felt to shoot. My favorites were the Hand Cannon's, same with Witchfire to be honest. The way those things sound and thunder as they strike an enemies head fills me with a sense of indescribable joy. Even the automatic weapons just felt really nice and tight.

I think Apex was another game where the gun feel felt really good. (Been years since I played it, I think it was around the time of Asche when I quit and haven't been back since.) But aside from the QOL improvements like wall climbing and respawn systems, the gunplay was what really made Apex so fun to play. All of the weapons from the R03 to the Wingman just-MWAH. Absolute perfection.

And now with Witchfire, I've only unlocked 5 or 6 weapons, but they all feel phenomenal. The automatic weapons are a bit weak, but the hand cannon, shotgun, and bolt action lever all feel-simply divine. (I haven't unlocked any demonic weapons yet, but I'm looking forward to them.)

I really think sound, animation, and feedback are a big part of what makes a gun in an FPS feel good to fire. Even if the damage is slightly low, if the gun feels good to fire that's what matters most. I don't play a lot of third person shooters, so I'm curious about as to what makes combat in those games feel good, compared to an FPS.

Anyone with some more knowledge or experience of FPS games have some feedback or opinions on this topic?

Let's say they're one those bosses who start as a human and drink something to turn into a monster. What's the plan if they win? Are they going to keep doing their CEO job or whatever as a giant eyeball monster?

So, finished the new Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave. Good game, I enjoyed it, but MAN could you see the seams where cut content had been removed and slapdashed together. The main premise is that you are traveling back in time from an apocalyptic future to save various "Flame Lords", i.e. folks with the strength to change the future, and the game as released came out with four of them as routes, though there's very clearly four additional lords that are still in the story but got their routes cut. We also know the main avatar was added very late into development, and there's even theories that bosses from these cut routes got repurposed into being recruitable units in the actual game, thus resulting in a lot of lackluster, almost missing supports.

I'm just fascinated by some of the choices made for this game's development, and it really got me thinking: what are some pieces of media, whether good, bad, or mediocre, that you just wish you could've been a fly on the wall for during their development?

The season of Shitstorms past is upon us. Personally, I love horror movies and think Halloween is as good an excuse as any to indulge and watch a bunch of stuff to make my skin crawl. I've watched probably hundreds of horror movies, but I'm always on the look out for more cool stuff. So, I wanted to ask the second best sub for everything; what are your lesser known horror movie recommendations?

I have quite a few myself but I'll try and keep my recs brief(ish).

- Basket Case

A guy in New York get a room in a hotel with his now detatched, Boglin-esque, violently cannibalistic conjoined twin brother in a wicker basket. A really silly, funny grindhouse horror movie that is gross and hilarious in equal measure.

- Scared Shitless

Trevor from GTAV plays a plumber who takes his son on a job at a hotel that ends up with more than hairballs in the plumbing. Really tongue-in-cheek, gross monster movie, I thought it was a lot of fun and surprisingly well made.

- Dolls

A disfunctional family's car breaks down near a spooky mansion, in which an old toymaker and his wife have magic shenanigans going on with their dolls. Stuart Gordon classic, very creepy and weird with fun awful characters.

- One Cut Of The Dead

A film crew is making a low budget zombie movie, when all of a sudden the zombies stop being fictional. Can't say too much more about it without spoiling stuff, but it's one of my favourite movies ever and it's worth sticking with.

- Cannibal Mukbang

A guy hooks up with a woman who partakes in the aforementioned Mukbanging online, except he learns she's actually eating people. A surprisingly interesting "relationship horror" movie that is a bit rough in patches but has a lot of cool stuff in it.

- Titane

A female erotic car show dancer and serial killer is forced to go on the run, changing her itentity, after being impregnated by a car. Yes, impregnated by a car. A bit more well known, but still an excellent queer/body horror movie with tons of depth.

- Split Second

Rutger Hauer is a loose cannon cop on the trail of a killer who ends up being what looks to me like a knockoff Xenomorph. Rips off Alien so hard but has a lot of cool action and fun dialogue.

I keep thinking on that one moment in the new Spider-Man movie with the new Black Widow, I was clearly supposed to go "Oh, it's the lady from the thing!"

But all I got was "Wait, who is she?"

And that made me think... this feeling will probably be tenfold for Doomsday, the movie that's actually supposed to be the get together of all previous movies.

I would love to be wrong about it, but will I?

my own example would be Jet Set Radio as that game was feels right for Sega to publish it as I can't imagine anyone else publishing the game anywhere else at the time(I know the first game was a Dreamcast exclusive in 2000 but still).

Source.

There are like hundreds of these ladies in MGS4, and it's never elaborated on as to where they come from. Did Liquid Ocelot kidnap hundreds of women to inject with nanomachines, or are they female soldiers recruited from around the globe? Where did all these women come from?