Corban Korso

Short takes on games and the industry. No loyalty to publishers, platforms, or the discourse. 45 years in. Still waiting for the games that stick.

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This is the opposite of what voice actors have been fighting. The big complaint was consent, people cloning a performance nobody agreed to. Here CD Projekt brought Rozenek in, heard how much the stroke had changed his voice, and built the plan around him with his blessing. They did something similar for Phantom Liberty, with the late Miłogost Reczek's family's permission. The one thing we still don't know is how he's being paid.

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@mrraenman @asha_shar Morrowind and the first KOTOR on Steam still lack native controller support, and these are the original Xbox versions built around one. For those two, that's a real upgrade.

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@Pirat_Nation These have been sold since 2014. A study Norway's marine research institute published in 2020 found the same lice levels in snorkel cages with or without lasers. In a 2024 survey, over half of fish health staff who'd used them didn't know if they worked.

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@IGN Paramount has had Transformers and G.I. Joe for years and still dropped the crossover it teased in Rise of the Beasts. Batman vs. TMNT got made in 2019 with Warner and Nickelodeon at separate companies, so owning both doesn't seem to be the hard part.

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@pixelelatedG @IGN Kiln got mixed reviews and Keeper wasn't a hit, fair. Keeper still reviewed at 80 though, and Psychonauts 2 in that same stretch scored 87 and was up for Game of the Year. My point was about Xbox pitching small teams with big ideas a few months after spinning one off.

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@dave_uncensored I am interested in hearing how that goes.

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@SliMM2424

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@zerohedge Goldman's estimate is 0.6 points counting semiconductor investment and 0.2 without, and the $1.4 trillion is an annual pace by the end of 2027. Imported chips don't count against GDP either. They're added as investment and subtracted as imports, so they net out.

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@GameSpot The first KOTOR on Steam still has no native controller support or achievements, so the Xbox version is a real upgrade there. KOTOR II on Steam has had both since Aspyr's 2015 update.

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@zerohedge Nvidia opened down 13% on Huang resigning and closed down 4.3%, so today's bounce still finished red. Tuesday's earnings call will be the first with Kress as interim CEO and still CFO.

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@LibellulaVati @NoahKingJr This is the way.

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@CRainsZombie @IGN Fair, Bloomberg reported Double Fine wasn't profitable. That's my point though. Xbox decided a small team with big ideas wasn't worth keeping, then wrote an essay saying small teams are the future. AI is likely the missing piece, but she didn't say it.

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@NoahKingJr I give a shit, mate.

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@IGN @empiremagazine I can understand the confusion. Downey is the actor who launched the MCU with Iron Man in 2008, so seeing him don a different character in the same franchise is disappointing to me. Feige can say he's Victor Von Doom, but for a lot of us Downey is still Tony Stark.

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@JohnJoseph11271 I will trust the process.

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@Inchydoneyx @asha_shar It is going to be great.

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@Dracarys5267 @pcgamer Pretty much, and Rozenek is on board. He told Game File he wants the voice as close as possible to how he sounded 12 years ago, and that he trusts the studio.

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@GameSpot Jordan already dresses like Kaneda, so Akira isn't a shock. Druckmann also wants to take players on the kind of wild ride Akira goes on, which is harder to borrow than a jacket. He says they'll show gameplay and story in 2027, so we'll start finding out then.

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@GamesRadar They made the ReDeads scarier than the original, then pulled them back toward it. They also added a gaze indicator, which is more warning than any of us got in 1998.