… After Mike Mearls, Christopher Perkins, and Jeremy Crawford the designers who established the brand’s success during the 5th edition era all left the company in recent years, D&D found itself facing an identity crisis. …
… Sony and Microsoft seem to have realized — or rather, remembered — that exclusive games give a platform meaning, identity, and a reason to buy. …
… And today, that’s Discord.” Beyond using it as a straightforward community hub, Kurppa Hosk developed a gamified subsystem within the platform. …
… Sharma's rebranding puts all sorts of non-Xbox things like World of Warcraft and Candy Crush under the Xbox banner, and Sharma is still talking about cloud gaming and about Xbox as an "ecosystem" or amorphous platform which "reaches" 500 million players. …
… Some fans will no doubt raise eyebrows at the addition of brand-new narrative content when beloved existing narrative content didn’t make it into the game. In many ways, Black Flag Resynced is the same game it ever was. In many ways, it’s brand new. …