I'm probably going to wait for a sale but my first impression is that it gives off a very "we have Nier Automata at home" feel, while switching out the Tim Burton style robots for more Code Vein or Resident Evil style enemies. And if that's what Shift Up is going for then more power to em I guess.
I for one can't wait for all entertainment in this country to be owned by 2-3 companies and have anything older than a few years stashed in a vault where no one can legally acquire it.
@bigsocrates: The plan for Embracer is to invent a time machine and go back to when they thought they would be able to flip their newly-purchased assets to a Saudi fund, and make sure it actually goes through that time.
SI hollowed out by vulture capital until they decided even the necromanced husk was too much trouble to keep upright. ESPN on the verge of replacing its last few remaining journos with 24/7 NFL coverage and gambling punters. The Baltimore Sun acquired from another VC firm by a local rich guy whose first words were basically "I don't give a shit about this paper or you" and records show he's a big donator to Trump and to "Moms For Liberty" among other awful groups. It's pretty fucking bleak all around.
I suppose you could go the Defector/Aftermath route but that only works if you already have a following built up from several years of other works, and willing to spend money on reading what you're writing. There's also The Lever and Ken Klippenstein for more hard news items, but they are tiny operations who can only do so much. Good luck trying to break into writing (fiction or nonfiction) as a newbie, let alone earning enough to not starve from it.
I appreciate the editor who filled in the many characters for Reverse: 1999, but they went a bit overboard in attaching (Reverse: 1999) to some of their names. Please erase the aforementioned parentheses attachment when renaming the names below. I'm not sure if they can be reclassified as aliases or not, depends on the wiki style I guess.
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