Unlabelled Games "Project W:" When Eidos Montreal Was Making the Next Final Fantasy (Super Bunnyhop)

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Games "Project W:" When Eidos Montreal Was Making the Next Final Fantasy (Super Bunnyhop)

"Project W:" When Eidos Montreal Was Making the Next Final Fantasy (Super Bunnyhop)

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:59 PM PDT

8 new games added to Origin Access Vault, including Mad Max, Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition, Spore and more!

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:44 AM PDT

Assassin’s Creed Origins, Six Months Later

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:08 PM PDT

Best 'economy' in games?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:36 AM PDT

Dear /r/games, tell me what you think is the best economy in a video game! It can be anything from actual trading in Anno to reward systems like Rocket League.

Anything economics-related goes; trading, management, resources; go wild!

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Hitman: Sniper Assassin Leaked by Korean and Aussie Rating Boards

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 02:40 AM PDT

3rd Party Game Boy Players | Gaming Historian

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 05:14 AM PDT

Daybreak Games (Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies, LOTRO, D&D Online, H1Z1) Caught Up In Russian Sanctions, Deny Ownership By Oligarch

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:43 AM PDT

You may have noticed a post by Massively a few days ago on this really strange shit going on at Daybreak Games right now.

In short, Daybreak (formerly SOE of Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies fame) got sold off to a Russian holding company. The company's owner is an oligarch who was recently sanctioned by the US.

Instead of addressing this issue directly, and explaning to us what's going on, Daybreak has decided to rewrite wikipedia articles, delete previous press releases, and gaslight the community into believing that they were never sold to a Russian holding company.

There's been a a lot discovered about this weird saga since the Massively article released, and I decided to synthesize everything I could find here, as well as provide some context about this company's past actions. Let me know what you think about all this.

In case you don't want to watch a video, I'll summarize some of the key points:

-In 2015, Daybreak was sold to Columbus Nova, a holding company owned by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.

-In April of this year, Vekselberg was caught up in the Russian sanctions by the US for interfering with the 2016 election.

-In recent days, Daybreak has been claiming that they were never sold to Columbus Nova at all, but to a man named Jason Epstein. Epstein is listed as a managing partner of Columbus Nova. Despite his linkedin page claiming he left the company in 2017, he is still listed on their website. His biography explicitly states that he manages Daybreak games as part of his duties at Columbus Nova.

-Daybreak deleted a 2015 press release that states they were sold to Columbus Nova, the company owned by the oligarch. Thankfully, I have a copy of the press release.

-IP addresses linked to both The Renova Group (the oligarch's parent company) and Daybreak have attempted to alter Daybreak's wikipedia article to state that Jason Epstein owns the company in full and on his own. Both attempts were quickly caught by wikipedia, and the IP addresses have been banned from the sight.

If anyone has any further information, or finds an article with more information, let me know and I'll add it to this post. I know this may seem a bit silly, but Daybreak developed or published a lot of popular MMOs, and they could all be in jeopardy right now.

UPDATE: This isn't mentioned in the initial video, because the story is moving faster than I can handle, but according to PCGamer, Daybreak has just layed off an unknown number of employees.

UPDATE 2: According to this more recently updated article, it seems Daybreak's claims might actually be true. It's pretty complicated, but their claims of being owned directly by Jason Epstein may well be accurate. If this is the case, then they would unaffected by the Russian sanctions and therefore in the clear.

Here's a quote from the article:

Ars Technica has picked up the story from us now and has gotten fresh statements from Daybreak (it sounds like the same Daybreak spokesperson we've been speaking with). The spokesperson claims that Jason Epstein was an "ownership partner of Columbus Nova" when he purchased Daybreak in 2015 "through his wholly-owned LLC, Inception Acquisitions" – a company our commenters have been theorizing about over the last few days – which "[led] his purchase to be conflated" (yes, it uses the passive there) with Columbus Nova's ownership. They didn't think it would be a "big deal" since he owned both groups as the primary owner.

"What they should have said was 'Jason Epstein, owner of Harmonix, purchased Daybreak,' [or] "Partners of Columbus Nova purchase Daybreak," the spokesperson reportedly said. Epstein, the company claims, has since left Columbus Nova and they just never got around to repairing the record until now (it "[fell] through the cracks"). This more or less comports with what we've been told by other inside sources (as above) but certainly appears to stand in contradiction to the Tuesday claim that Daybreak never had any affiliation with Columbus Nova.

More interestingly, this spokesperson now claims that Renova Group also doesn't own Columbus Nova, that while CN did "[manage] some accounts" for Renova, those accounts weren't "tied to Russia." It is not clear why Daybreak and Columbus Nova didn't correct the record on that, given the three years of "widespread reporting" it acknowledges went on (and it never bothered to correct).

Apparently that is changing, as given this new claim – that Renova doesn't own CN – Daybreak has politely suggested we change our original title, which refers to other sources' claims that Renova owned CN and both were subject to sanctions. At this point, given the constant changes in story, we believe the burden is on CN to prove its ownership one way or another. After all, as @Nobody-Special tweeted, Renova's own website claimed that it owned Columbus Nova up until February of this year; that wasn't just something the press have been making up over the last three years.

Also, there are rumors circulating that Intrepid Studios, the company behind the upcoming Ashes Of Creation, is in talks to buy Daybreak games from Columbus Nova. So far they've declined to comment.

Update 3: Here's an opinion piece by Massively about this whole debacle. In essence, even if Daybreak is telling the truth, they argue that the way they've handled this has shattered their already diminished reputation.

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BattleTech's complicated lore, explained by its creator

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:02 PM PDT

Limbo of the Lost: The Greatest Bad Game

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 12:51 PM PDT

Nixxes Software will handle the PC version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, will collaborate with NVIDIA

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 04:48 PM PDT

Escape From Tarkov 0.8 Another Shocking Netcode Analysis?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:37 PM PDT

Monster Prom launch trailer - Humorous multiplayer dating sim

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 05:21 PM PDT

Fallout 4 VR Beta adds support for the Oculus Rift and Windows MR systems

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:59 AM PDT

Children of Morta is Indie Dungeon Crawling at Its Finest

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 02:05 PM PDT

Why Was Generals 2 Cancelled? - Investigating Command & Conquer

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 10:26 AM PDT

Yelling About Jak X: Combat Racing

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 05:27 AM PDT

Any fans of Rare's lost game Dinosaur Planet around? I wrote this about what could've been.

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 07:41 AM PDT

Nintendo The Download, April 2018

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:23 AM PDT

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