A | The OPCW’s lack of a coherent, objective and fair-minded response to recent crises centered around Syria and Russia demonstrates its politicization and domination by Western interests, and the longer the watchdog stays out of Ukraine, the better, former diplomats, geopolitical observers, and international legal experts have told Sputnik.,“In Ukraine, the OPCW has fortunately not been pressed into action. This, I suspect, is because the US is satisfied with the situation as it is, with no need for the US itself to be drawn in, as would no doubt be the case if a chemical attack was fabricated,” Peter Ford, Britain’s former ambassador to Syria, said.,The veteran diplomat, who warned the British government against the folly of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and stressed that the campaign by Western powers to topple the Syrian government in the 2010s could open a “Pandora’s box” of endless crises, said the Syria case demonstrated clearly that the OPCW is no longer an independent, impartial agency.,“The Syria crisis proved without a shadow of a doubt that the Western powers have bent the OPCW to their own will, destroying in the process the organization’s credibility, probably irretrievably. This is a tragedy for world peace,” Ford stressed, referring to documented OPCW efforts to censor and smear agency whistleblowers who revealed that the watchdog’s report on the April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria, was doctored to implicate the Assad government.,Today is 4 years since Douma massacre. US claimed it was a chemical weapons attack & bombed Syria. OPCW found no evidence of CW, but its findings were doctored & censored. Also confirmed is that a hospital scene was staged. Ongoing OPCW cover-up denies justice to Douma victims.— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 7, 2022,In Ukraine, Ford fears, the international community can now only depend on “self-interested restraint on the part of the Pentagon in controlling its proxies rather than the deterrent power of a genuinely impartial international watchdog.”,Chemical Weapons Danger in Ukraine,Since the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine in February, Russia has sent the OPCW and its technical secretariat over two dozen notes warning of possible staged provocations by Ukrainian forces or radical nationalists involving chemical weapons. Last month, the agency assured the international community that it was “closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine” for chemical weapons use.,On Wednesday, the Russian military indicated that it had information regarding Kiev's plans to stage a provocation in the Donetsk People’s Republic using chlorine gas to accuse Moscow of indiscriminate attacks targeting chemically hazardous objects.,Situation in UkraineLIVE UPDATES: Moscow Warns OPCW of Possible Provocations by Kiev With Chemical Weapons in DPRYesterday, 08:12 GMT,Alessandro Bruno, a Toronto-based geopolitical analyst and political observer at Lombardi Letter, says that while the OPCW’s official mission and goals are “certainly worth pursuing,” the problem is the watchdog’s control by Western interests seeking to obfuscate the truth and objectivity in favor of politicized objectives.,“They seem to have targeted only specific sides in specific wars to suit specific aims, which typically are those of Western powers. There have been many efforts to manipulate these organizations by the dominant powers, particularly in the West,” Bruno said.,The scholar recalled instances of claims by the US and its allies about Russia’s use of chemical weapons, from the allegation that Russia poisoned pro-Western Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the mid-2000s, to the 2018 Novichok scandal in Britain, which “many thoughtful journalists have debunked,” to the Alexei Navalny “poisoning” saga of 2020, which doctors treating the opposition vlogger have debunked.,Russians Did It! A List of Dastardly Deeds Ridiculously Blamed on the Kremlin22 March 2018, 14:14 GMT,“Yet the accusations of chemical weapons that Russia used have persisted, even though they defied all logic. That's the biggest issue with these organizations. They must be more neutral. Their headquarters must be in more neutral locations because the fact that many of these organizations operate from Western capitals makes them more prone to Western media misinformation,” Bruno said.,The geopolitical analyst still fears that the West could use the pretext of ‘Russian chemical weapons use’ in Ukraine “to get more directly involved in the conflict and potentially trigger a much wider physical war.”,“So far, I think, some of the powers came to understand that making an accusation like that in this conflict would be riskier than the accusations they made in Syria and Iraq, Navalny and Yushchenko and so on, that this would have much bigger implications, that this would blow back against the West,” Bruno stressed.,Tool of US Interests,Christopher C. Black, an international criminal and human rights lawyer with 20 years of experience covering war crimes and international relations, echoed Bruno’s sentiments about the OPCW’s noble stated aims and their stark contrast with the body's actual history, which “shows that [the watchdog] acts to serve the interests of the United States and its NATO and other allies.”,“We saw strong evidence of this when the USA tried to get rid of the Director General Jose Bustani of Brazil in 2002, when the United States was preparing its invasion of Iraq and John Bolton went to The Hague and threatened his family if he did not resign,” Black recalled, pointing to Bustani’s 2018 interview with The Intercept in which the former OPCW chief detailed the threats made against his children living in the United States.,“We Know Where Your Kids Live” John Bolton threatened head of chemical weapons commission as part of effort launch war against Iraq https://t.co/p8uluxbWGH— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 2, 2018,“In August 2020, it was revealed through leaks from Austrian government sources that the OPCW and British claims that Novichok had been found in the blood of the Skripals allegedly poisoned in the UK were false, that in fact no such agent had been found in their blood at all. But the findings were suppressed and a false report issued to back the UK claims,” the lawyer added. “Similar results were seen regarding the alleged poisoning of Mr. Navalny. We can quickly understand what goes on behind the scenes at the OPCW,” Black said.,'Novichok' Would Have Killed Navalny, Developer of Substance Says2 September 2020, 15:26 GMT,Black finds it unlikely that the chemical weapons watchdog will change “without a change in the balance of power in the world,” which is taking place, but whose effects on international organizations will be slow to appear.,In Ukraine, the lawyer fears, “We cannot expect any objective consideration of Kiev regime or NATO claims of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine for the reasons stated above, despite the fact that Russia has not used them, does not use them and will not use them. To the contrary, we have a situation in which Kiev and NATO forces keep making false claims while themselves preparing chemical weapons attacks to be staged as false flag attacks to be blamed on Russia and when Russia asks the OPCW to investigate this, Russia is met with silence,” he said.,How OPCW Can Regain Credibility,Dr. Alfred De Zayas, a lawyer, writer and former independent expert on international order with the United Nations, similarly doubts the OPCW’s ability to reform itself under current conditions, saying the agency “has long been instrumentalized to pursue the geopolitical interests of Western powers.”,The international legal expert is confident that agencies like the OPCW, the International Criminal Court and the Human Rights Council can regain their credibility by demonstrating impartiality. “This is possible if the BRICS countries become more vocal and more visible on the international scene. There is no reason why African, Asian and Latin American countries should dance to the tune of the ‘Washington consensus’,” De Zayas stressed.,In Ukraine, the OPCW’s assurance about “monitoring the situation” carries only a “purely propagandistic value,” and is “intended to charge and convict Russia even before there is any evidence of violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention,” the observer believes.,“If the OPCW investigates not only potential Russian war crimes, but also expands its investigation to potential chemical weapons violations and war crimes by Ukrainian forces and by foreign mercenaries, including US, UK, French, Georgian and others, then the OPCW might regain some credibility. That, however, would be ‘out of character’. It is not unlike the ICC, which in the eyes of many observers in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland – has lost its little credibility and will have no authority unless and until it indicts Western politicians and bureaucrats including Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Victoria Nuland, Barack Obama (the king of the drones), Donald Trump, Nikolas Sarkozy, etc.,” De Zayas concluded.,10yrs On From Iraq War Logs Bush & Blair Should be in Prison Not Assange22 October 2020, 18:29 GMT。
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据报道，索尼在收到玩测的负面反馈后，已重启了 PlayStation 服务型游戏 Horizon Hunters Gathering。
C | Horizon Hunters Gathering 是 Guerrilla 正传单人 Horizon 系列的多人衍生作品，该系列以写实的视觉效果著称。
D | 在今年 2 月公布时，Horizon Hunters Gathering 被拿来与 Capcom 的 Monster Hunter Stories 3: 命运双龙 系列进行比较，尽管许多人质疑它是否能找到受众。今年早些时候进行了封闭测试，原计划随后在 PlayStation 5 和 PC 平台上发布。然而，据彭博社报道，由于玩测反馈不佳，索尼已下令重启该游戏。显然，Guerrilla 自 6 月以来一直在努力重启该项目，并计划剥离游戏的服务型部分，将其转变为“具有故事模式且规模小得多的传统合作多人游戏”。听起来这次重启面临着巨大的压力。彭博社称，本周员工被告知，Guerrilla 必须在 12 月之前用该游戏的下一个里程碑来打动 PlayStation 的高层。
E | 项目并未取消，但听起来存在这种可能性。彭博社补充道，部分 Horizon Hunters Gathering 的员工正被转移到 Guerrilla 的另一个项目中，该项目也有一个定于今年年底完成的里程碑。显然，一个“微型团队”正在开发下一款 Horizon 单人游戏，我们暂且称之为 Horizon 3，但它无疑会带有一个新的副标题，而且距离发布还有好几年的时间。当 Horizon Hunters Gathering 公布时，游戏总监 Arjan Bak 表示，在游戏中你将在战术性的三人合作行动中对抗致命机器，并让你的猎人适应紧张的任务。“战斗具有战术性、反应性和高度的技术性，在延续 Horizon 游戏战术精准度的同时，融合了团队合作的动态，”Bak 当时表示。“Horizon Hunters Gathering 的基础围绕着具有挑战性和可重复性的狩猎展开。”Bak 确认了两种游戏模式：“机器入侵”（Machine Incursion），被描述为由“强大 Boss”领导的、成群机器从地下门户涌出的“高强度任务”；以及“大锅降临”（Cauldron Descent），这是一个更长的、多阶段的试炼，其中“不断变化的房间将猎人推向极限，从残酷的机器遭遇战到为做好准备的团队提供力量和奖励的隐秘之门。”这两种模式在封闭测试中均已提供。游戏中有可供选择的猎人阵容，每个猎人都有独特的近战或远程玩法及武器。Bak 表示，还有一个 Roguelite 技能系统来打造你想要的配置。在剧情方面，有一个叙事战役，“将引入新的谜团、角色和威胁，但我们目前还处于保密状态，”Bak 在 2 月份表示。“我们可以说的是，Hunters Gathering 完全属于正史，其故事不会在发布时停止！”游戏的名称就是社交枢纽：Hunters Gathering。这是一个“充满活力的社交枢纽，玩家可以在这里联系、准备并共同庆祝胜利。在这里，你可以自定义猎人、访问商贩、升级装备，并为下一次冒险组队。
F | ”目前尚不清楚在重启后的游戏版本中，这些内容还有多少（如果有的话）会被保留。Horizon Hunters Gathering 是索尼陷入困境的服务型游戏雄心的又一个麻烦，目前这一战略似乎正在全面撤退。虽然 Arrowhead 的 HELLDIVERS 2 取得了突破性的成功，在短短 12 周内售出 1200 万份，成为 PlayStation Studios 历史上销售最快的游戏，但索尼的其他服务型游戏要么被取消，要么遭遇了灾难性的首发。事实上，索尼的 Concord 是 PlayStation 历史上最大的游戏灾难之一，在因玩家数量极低而下线之前仅维持了几周。索尼随后决定彻底关停该游戏并关闭其开发商。在 Concord 失败之前，索尼已经取消了 Naughty Dog 的 The Last of Us multiplayer game。去年，据报道索尼取消了两款未公布的服务型游戏，一款是 Bluepoint 正在开发的 战神：诸神黄昏 作品，另一款是 往日不再 开发商 Bend 的作品。
G | 索尼在 2022 年 2 月宣布计划在 2026 年 3 月前推出超过 10 款服务型游戏，随后表示此举将为不同受众带来不同类型的游戏。作为这一举措的一部分，索尼斥巨资收购工作室，引入了 命运之轮（序章）/Journey of Destiny(dependent origination) 和 马拉松The Messenger from Athens at Marathon 的开发商 Bungie、Jade Raymond 的 Haven Studios 以及现已关闭的 Firewalk Studios。但在 2023 年，索尼总裁十时裕树表示，公司正在审查正在开发的 12 款 PlayStation 服务型游戏，并承诺在 2025 财年底（即 2026 年 3 月底）前仅推出其中的 6 款。
H | 当时，十时裕树表示索尼仍在研究另外 6 款服务型游戏何时推出，并补充道：“这并不是说我们要坚持某些作品，但对于玩家来说，质量应该是最重要的。”今年 4 月，The Last of Us multiplayer game 衍生作品的总监谈到了取消该项目带来的“毁灭性”影响，他在索尼公开消息前 24 小时才得知此事。Vinit Agarwal 还解释了索尼在服务型游戏领域命运多舛的推进过程。“发生的情况是，在新冠疫情期间，游戏行业看到了巨大的增长，因为每个人都在家，”Agarwal 表示。“所以在 2020 年，资金大量涌入游戏行业，因为人们突然因为待在家里而玩了更多的游戏。他们还能做什么呢？“不仅如此，在线游戏特别看到了巨大的提振，因为人们想和朋友一起玩。他们见不到朋友，所以必须和朋友在线玩。
I | 因此，在线游戏得到了巨大的恩惠。所以索尼决定像其他人一样在在线游戏上投入大量资金。这也是为什么 The Last of Us Multiplayer 获得了资金，我们得以启动并取得了很大进展，而且游戏内部表现非常非常好。我们开发到了接近 80% 的完成度。它非常接近完工了。“但随后，所有在 2020 年推动游戏行业的力量，成为了它在 2022 年、2023 年开始下滑的原因。随着人们回到办公室，突然间人们没有那么多时间玩游戏了。消费减少了，经济也下行了。因此，所有涌入游戏行业的资金都无法维持。因为资金被撤走，他们也不得不缩减之前的支出。基本上，他们超支了，他们表现得过于热切。”Horizon Hunters Gathering 并不是 Horizon 宇宙中唯一的多人游戏。奇怪的是，NCSoft 和索尼正在合作开发 地平线：钢铁前线，这是一款为移动设备设计的 MMORPG，但也可以在 PC 上玩。据说 NCSoft 正在与 Guerrilla 密切合作来打造这个世界，但这在很大程度上是一款由 NCSoft 开发的游戏。
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