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Let Mom Sleep! Sega has started working on reboots of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio In the company’s annual earnings report for the year ending March 2021, it named Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi as “examples of past IP” it wanted to utilize through reboots, remasters, and remakes. Other games were mentioned such as Street Of Rage, Panzer Dragon, and Rez Sega exec Shuji Utsami also hinted at building triple AAA multiplatform titles with global releases Crazy Taxi is set to be released in 2024 - 2025. No time frame for JSR Say goodbye and Don’t Tera Up Gameforge and Bluehole will be shutting down Tera (On PC) on June 30th An official announcement on the Tera Steam page states it is ending PC support to “focus internal development efforts on other projects” This however leaves the question what does this mean for console players? There currently is no answer to this Gameforge says the Tera websites and social media pages will be going away as well. But Gameforge accounts will be safe What could this mean? F2P, P2W, P2E?!? Oh, just Sony Are you a fan of F2P games? I think we all are to an extent! Well, Sony is going to dampen that by putting ads in F2P games.. That’s right. Some Sony F2P games will no longer just be an argument of grinding more versus paying to win Sony plans to bring ads into F2P games running on Playstation platforms only, so far, late 2022 They are making a system available to game devs to “help them further monetize their games.” The system will incorporate ads via in-game “billboards” and other entities. This advertising method will not be forced, but encouraged to F2P developers. The ads will be built-in at the platform level of this new system. This means easier integration for rewarding players for interacting with ads (skins, items, currency). They way ads are incorporated are up to the devs, but Sony supplies them. Allegedly, Sony is still contemplating taking a cut from advertising gains in this manner.