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🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter 9 - IGN buys Gamer Network, STORIES FROM SOL: THE GUN DOG, Open AI uses Scarlet Johansson Voice

# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by a Part Time Inidie Game Dev

🎮 Game news

IGN buys Gamer Network

I see this as consolidation of Games Media and something I am a part of the problem. Aftermath (A new gaming news site from form editors at Kotaku) reports there is layoffs happening to gaming media as this goes through.

Maybe I should pay for a subscription in order to have diverse voices and more Games Journalism coverage and not Click Bait ad support articles.

I hope there will be game news and media sites around in the future something we have to decide with our wallets and feet.

Belluar News on IGN:

IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.

Gamer Network’s publications include GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247, and Dicebreaker. The business also holds shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry, and Hookshot (which operates Nintendo life, Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension). 

IGN Entertainment is the division of Ziff Davis that includes IGN, MapGenie, HowLongtoBeat, and Humble Bundle. It has acquired the brands from PAX and New York Comic-Con organizer ReedPop, which initially bought the Gamer Network business in 2018. 

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🔎 Interesting Finds

Retro game STORIES FROM SOL: THE GUN DOG

Found this video on an indie game Stories from SOL The Gun Dog, by Space Colony Studio making a Visual Novel Game which has a 1 Bit Color Scheme mostly Green.

Wishlist on Steam or Play the demo:

📱Social Post

Scarlet Johansson discovered her voiced is used by Open Ai ChatGPT Voice. Too much likeness. I feel that while unrelated to Gaming, AI is coming for games and some of these artisans and creators roles in Game Dev will be transformed by AI, like voice acting. Concept Art has some parts already using gen ai as well as code generation.

I hope that we can get paid for the work in making games when they take the code art and media assets to.

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