Qore Canceled

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Sony's Qore interactive magazine began in June of 2008 and has been released monthly onto the PSN ever since. But today on the PlayStation Blog, it was revealed that April 2012's edition of Qore would be the last issue released.

"As the first interactive digital magazine on a game console, Qore provided an innovative mix of quality HD video and interactive content covering over 160 new games," PSN's Executive Producer Kevin Furuichi noted on the PS Blog.

"With this April episode, Qore concludes its run on the PlayStation Network. As a send off, the Qore team built one final DLC package: the Qore Ultimate Arcade features a compilation of 11 mini games offered through the series. Our thanks to all involved in the creation and production of Qore and to the many fans who regularly watched each month."

Word of Qore's cancellation comes on the heels of dire news set to strike Sony Corporation. The company is purportedly prepping to lay off a full 6% of its global workforce -- 10,000 people in all -- and has warned that its biggest yearly loss is on the horizon, purportedly reaching $6.4 billion in total.

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I never knew about this magazine.
 
I never subscribed to this magazine/digital marvel... (Since it wasn't really a traditional magazine, it was more like a 1 GB app that updated every month to give you news, previews, insider access, reviews, etc... about the various games.) But I do remember one issue they distributed for free was in honour of inFamous so they posted that giving everyone an issue. They had a special about the making of inFamous's music (showing some clips of the making, talking about the inspiration, matching the music to the game world and other interesting things like that.) It was a pretty neat feature, especially for those who were hardcore fans of everything Sony. Though admittedly, I felt it's pricetag was a little too high (3$ an issue for single ones and 25$ per year for an annual subscription). Especially once PS Plus was rolled out, which I can't remember whether this was a part of the Plus or not...

Though I'm wondering how much it cost Sony to produce...

I do feel bad for those 10,000 people who are about to lose their jobs. The worst part is that the more companies lay people off, the longer the recession continues. (It's a huge circle... companies lay people off to save money, people without work don't spend money on things, companies don't earn as much profits because people aren't buying, so they lay off more people...) Plus the fact that if the people at the top didn't insist on taking such huge amounts of money, I'd imagine there would be more than enough to keep the 10,000 (probably even hire more on) and actively pursue new projects.
 
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