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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Jul 20

Good idea

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · May 22

Terrible

Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · May 19

Spotify is the worst for independent artists. It’s important people know

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · May 19

Wow! “Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones”
futurism.com/spotify-accu...

Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.

futurism.com

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Mar 31

I’m sad

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Mar 14

Had a fun interview with CultureScape.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICS...

Why Prey & Dishonored Changed Immersive Sims Forever | Raphaël Colantonio (Arkane Founder)

YouTube video by CultureScape

www.youtube.com

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 18

I’m not making the rules, but here is how I believe people read scores these days:
-6 typically bad
-7 either it might be good but it’s broken or it’s mediocre
-8 either means it’s boring but polished, or it’s great but not perfect
-9 and 10 is where you know you have a good game that is polished.

Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 16

RIP Viktor Antonov.
I wish I told you how much admiration I had for you but we get caught in our lives until a surprise like this hits us.
You were instrumental to the success of Arkane Studios and an inspiration to many of us, also a friend with whom I have many fond memories

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 12

Crazy!

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 11

Game as a service, because the implicit proposition is that the game will keep finding ways to get money from you in return of updates that gamers might or might not need

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 8

Yeah, the world is moving fast. Remote work has changed the world in ways we didn’t suspect

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 8

Yes, but that only works if people move out of expensive areas, and even then, taking half salary is a tough one

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 8

I worry for American game dev. Europe make equally good games for a fraction of the cost. America isn’t in the leading position it had in the 90s. And China is catching up too. The main culprit is the salary difference, but what is the solution? Cost of living here is absurd. Not blaming the devs

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 7

Latest single from my other passion project: Weird Wolves. Give it an ear ;) share if you like it. We’re on IG if you want to support us there.
The song is also on our Spotify Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1pu...

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

I hope I’ll get to go to Korea.

Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Yeah. Too many illogical decision that hint that the execs in charge didn’t know anything about Thief

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Funny 15 years old secret is that before Dishonored became Dishonored, it was meant to be Thief4. We were working on it but Bethesda lost the bidding war of the Thief IP to Square

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Too bad. They buried an amazing franchise by being afraid of embracing the strengths of the IP. Classic

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Yeah I can see how that would be a typical random exec decision that nobody in the team wanted. Happens all the time. Sad

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

The follow up question is how is it possible that no-one told whoever had this reason that not using Steve’s voice would be received as a crime by the fans? How did they let it happen? Steve could have dubbed, like they would in an animation movie

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Genuine question (with a bit of a judgement, I admit). Anyone knows why the Thief4 guys didn’t use Steve Russel for Garret’s voice? It’s criminal, sorry can’t help the judgement. There’s got to be a rational answer.

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Great news for Spotify who’s finally profitable Now Daniel @eldsjal.bsky.social, would you please pay the artists fairly by switching to a user centric model? My band has 250 super listeners and we only make a few bucks a month. Not cool. (Weird Wolves)

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

There we go! Signing a publisher is part of the long road to ship a game, and it is a critical piece to the magic. We’re super happy to announce our partnership with Neowiz. The stars align for our new baby to come out and hopefully you’ll love it as much as we do

www.gematsu.com/2025/02/wolf...

Wolfeye Studios retro sci-fi first-person action RPG to be published by NEOWIZ

NEOWIZ will publish Wolfeye Studios’ previously announced upcoming retro science-fiction first-person action RPG for console and PC, the companies announced.

www.gematsu.com

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Raphael Colantonio @rafcolantonio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thank you! I hope I won’t disappoint :)

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