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The success of “Coyote vs. Acme” is especially glaring given Warner Bros.’ abysmal 2026 box-office performance. The studio has siphoned off a string of money losers, including Tom Cruise’s dark comedy “Digger,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk rock “The Bride!” and DC’s “Supergirl.”

“There was legacy value in that IP, and the box office grosses of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ reflect it,” says analyst David A. Gross of FranchiseRe. “All-audience films are extremely valuable and among the biggest earners at the box office. And there would have been upside with stronger marketing.”

Moreover, the wall-to-wall negative press Zaslav generated for shelving a finished movie (that was supposedly well received in test screenings) wasn’t worth the headache, according to studio sources. The decision did little to endear the former television executive to the film community after his predecessor Jason Kilar’s ill-fated decision to put the studio’s 2021 slate simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max had isolated many creatives in Hollywood. Although other employees within Warner Bros. pushed back on the decision to bury the film, Zaslav relegated the final call to accountants, sources add.

Commemorating the anniversary, Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka took to X to talk about what it looked like developing the title back in the day.

Kodaka says that, in a sense, he considers himself to have reached a pinnacle with Ultra Despair Girls, as he will “never be able to write another scenario that surpasses it.”

However, he states that he made this game with the firm intention to make players “absolutely cry through experiencing the relationship between Komaru and Fukawa,” which could be a big reason why he went all in on developing it.

As he explained in one of his previous interviews, Kodaka doesn’t consider his sad scenes complete until they actually make him cry. “When I test play the game and a tear softly falls down my cheek, that’s when I consider it finished. This is an absolute for me. […] If I’m unable to cry, I switch back to the creator’s perspective and try to think about what went wrong.”

Edit: Kodaka comments about the article

SEGA president and COO Shuji Utsumi recently talked to The Nikkei about the company’s pursuit of a global “transmedia strategy” in recent years – including the expansion of popular gaming franchises through movie adaptations, merchandise and other media. One of the topics he discussed within this context was the phenomenon of “game fans who don’t play the games” and why Sega considers such audiences important.

According to Utsumi, the company has in recent years seen an increasing number of fans who don’t necessarily play games. While he mentions this is true of all of Sega’s IPs, he singles out the Like a Dragon series as an example. Like a Dragon-related merchandise has been performing extremely well for Sega, with about 60-70% of customers being women. Utsumi explains that this layer of the fanbase often becomes acquainted with Like a Dragon’s story and characters through official YouTube content or by watching streams by popular content creators, and “many of them have never actually played the games.”

Fresh off the back of Netflix's GTA 6: An Extended Look premiere, a preview from New York Times revealed that the open-world maestros at Rockstar Games built a whopping 600,000 different animations to bring Leonidas to life - its people, its critters above and below sea level, its cars, and practically everything else that moves. But that massive stat doesn't tell us much without some context, so let's zoom out. To compare Grand Theft Auto 6 to the already mammoth games that came before it, Rockstar developers told the publication that GTA 5 included a still impressive

55,000 animations and Red Dead Redemption 2 had an also almost unbelievable 300,000animations.

Yoshida illustrates this point with an episode from the development of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. As an advisor to Kepler Interactive, Yoshida played a demo of the game about two years prior to its launch. He was immediately impressed by the combat, which he describes as a "combination of turn-based JRPG mechanics and real-time action inputs reminiscent of The Legend of Dragoon" (which he was the producer of).

However, despite being personally impressed by the gameplay, Yoshida observed a tendency for turn-based JRPGs to be dismissed as outdated at the time, so he advised the developers at Sandfall Interactive not to label it as one. "It's incredibly well-made, but it would be better not to call it a turn-based RPG. That alone might cause players to overlook it." Consequently, the branding was adjusted to terms like "reactive turn-based battles."

"I can ask the AI to give me 75 different variations of one thing, but I cannot have 75 different illustrators come up with a variation in three seconds. This is the world in which we're living, and while we were this small team and building [the game], we put it in. We didn't even realise it was AI any more because we were used to seeing it."

Have a post from the official Dead Rising account.

>Kazutaka Kodaka: We've announced that the game will be released in early 2027, so there is still some time to wait. In the meantime, please play RAIN CODE.

If you play RAIN CODE first, Danganronpa 2×2 will be 100 times more interesting.

First time I have seen a trailer for a Steam Bundle.

Detectives,

We are very excited to announce that we have partnered up with New Blood Interactive to celebrate ‘Fallen Aces - Episode 2: Shadow of Death’ by bringing you the ‘Of Mice and Mobsters’ Steam bundle!

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