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There’s been a lot of criticism in the gaming world lately. Yes, I’m talking about The Day Before, but it goes beyond that. In fact, negative feedback from the community seems to have gotten so bad that Starfield‘s design director has had a few (hundred) words to say about it. As reported by PC Gamer, Bethesda’s own Emil Pagliarulo decided to give an honest opinion about “how disconnected some players are from the realities of game development.” The thread – which goes on for 15 posts – offers a defense of studios,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online retailers have every reason to be concerned about negative reviews, as they severely reduce the appeal of a product. An extensive study by Marton Varga of Bocconi's Department of Marketing and Paulo Albuquerque (INSEAD), recently published in the Journal of Marketing Research investigates to what extent negative reviews can influence prospective buyers and finds that even a single bad…

It’s official: E3 is dead. For over two decades, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was the video game industry’s most important event. For enthusiastic gamers, it was Christmas and the Super Bowl rolled into one trailer-full event. It served a more important role on the business side, as it was a key way for smaller developers to get their games seen and make deals with publishers. Now, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced it’s formally retiring the once powerful event for good. It is, quite…

Share of respondents (in percent) who stated that a containment measure placed a (very) strong burden on them in winter 2021/2022. The legend shows different containment measures and the correlation between answers on the 5-point scale and life satisfaction. Correlations are based on OLS regressions to control for baseline life satisfaction from fall/winter 2019. Credit: European Sociological Review (2023). DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcad077…

Bethesda, the developer behind Starfield, has started to respond to negative reviews of the game on Steam with reasons why players are misguided in their assessment. At the time of writing, I’ve counted over 100 negative reviews on Steam that have received a response from the developer. Bizarrely, in some responses, Bethesda representatives have taken to telling players what they can do in the game. “You can fly, you can shoot, you can mine, you can loot! Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quests to complete…

Understand the key elements that power advanced recommendation enginesOne of the most important types of models in recommendation systems at present is the two-tower neural networks. They are structured as follows: one part of the neural network (tower) processes all the information about the query (user, context), while the other tower processes information about the object. The outputs of these towers are embeddings, which are then multiplied (dot product or cosine, as we already discussed here). One of the first…

In mid-2021 people were stuck at home and their disposable income often went towards upgrading their phones. But then the market hit several difficulties in quick succession: first it was component shortages, then inventory build-up depressed shipments, then people started keeping their old phones for longer. It has been 27 months since this all started, but Counterpoint Research is now reporting that sell-through rates are showing year-on-year growth once again. October sales were bigger than previous months going all…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: captain marvelIn Captain Marvel #2, Yuna learns that stealing Nega-Bands is a one-way ticket to cosmic trouble with a side of supervillain.Published Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:26:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Captain Marvel #2 drops on Nov 22, delving into Yuna's Nega-Band heist gone wrong. The comic introduces the Omen, Yuna's new foe, as she's bound to Captain Marvel. Written by Alyssa Wong with art by Jan Bazaldua, Captain Marvel faces cosmic…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain By analyzing the results of many prior studies on the use of screen-based technologies by children, an international team of psychologists and human biomechanics researchers has found mixed outcomes. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the group obtained and filtered data from previous research results to draw conclusions about the impact of screen time on children's…

Negative reviews can be scary for business owners but can also be a chance to grow and improve.  How you handle negative reviews affects how potential customers see your business.  This article explores the importance of responding to negative reviews, determining why they happened, and tips for addressing dissatisfied customers’ concerns. Negative reviews can help your business Today’s customers largely rely on review sites to inform their purchasing decisions. Negative reviews can deter potential customers…