Major Update Highlights - 64-Bit Support: Enhance your gaming performance and stability with our transition to 64-bit architecture. - New Boss Units: - Double the Challenge: Confront two powerful new boss units, each offering unique gameplay experiences. - Station Unit: - Introducing the New Station Unit: Expand your strategic options with this innovative addition. - Shield Upgrade: - Fortified Defense Mechanism: Upgrade your shields to improve defense capabilities against formidable foes. - Background Graphics: - Infinite Cosmic Space String: Enjoy a stunning visual experience with our newly designed infinite cosmic space continuous string in the backdrop. Prepare for an upgraded adventure that combines enhanced visuals and intense challenges. Dive into the action and explore all these exciting new features!

"It wasn't fear anymore, it was madness. And when you're mad, you cease to exist." The Last of Us, Limbo, Inside, Bioshock: take all these games with amazing stories and you'll find that video game storytelling works hand in hand with superb gameplay design. From Inside's simple 2D platforming forcing you to act like a puppet to Bioshock's main power-up gameplay system showing you memories of residents of Rapture, all of these games have a story that feels satisfying because it ties back to gameplay. I think that sort of storytelling is why some narratives can only be experienced in video games and why those games and more like them are so good. But they're not the only games with a good story. The Town of Light is a first-person walking simulator game about a mentally unstable girl named Reneé and the journey we go on with her, exploring her past and present through her memories and experiences at a mental asylum. From the beginning it reminded me of Benoit Sokal's Syberia and this "other type" of games with a good story. I mean games that are so focused on their presentation that either their gameplay is too simple (like Syberia) or genuinely simple gameplay designs are not present in them and this makes the whole experience suffer. Case in point, The Town of Light is a beautiful game and it's one of the best depictions of the on-goings and effects of being held up in a mental asylum in any media I have ever experienced. The game really manages to create an authentic immersive mental asylum in Italy through the various hospital documents, posters of fascist Italy, pictures of Mussolini and through it's dialogues and story accompanied in each of the game's fifteen chapters by an animated sequence of what is going on with Renee. What I adored even more is how the developers actually went to a real life mental asylum and recreated it in-game, highly recommend to check out the live-action trailer after finishing the game. It seems to be that the whole purpose of this game's existence is to make you realize how fucked up these asylums were in real life and it really commits to that which is awesome. There are even branching chapters that you can get based on multiple choices you can make during the game which seems to really unlock different parts of the story. Unfortunately, while the presentation really gets fully realized, the gameplay and feel of the "game" aspect of it is actually annoying. I don't know how common it is for games like these but having unskippable cutscenes is always lame, the fact that my character can't run is stupid. The game was also very fond of crashing on my system even though it's built on Unity and I expected that would mean it would be pretty stable. Overrall: The Town of Light is absolutely worth one playthrough atleast if you can look past the gameplay issues I mentioned and it's really a very unique and one of a kind presentation in gaming because of the themes it deals with. 7.5/10

See also https://www.pcgamesn.com/thief/the-dark-mod-update

I feel seen.

https://archive.is/2025.03.06-011758/https://www.ft.com/content/4ab9efe7-36bc-44ff-b2cd-06eb2c38203a ::: spoiler Tap for article # Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing ## US group has sought to broaden its appeal to a mass audience  Video game developer Jason Citron founded Discord in 2015 © Kimberly White/Getty Images/TechCrunch Discord is in early talks with banks about a public listing, according to people familiar with the matter, in a sign of a possible revival in the sluggish US IPO market. Founded in 2015 by video game developer Jason Citron, [Discord](https://www.ft.com/stream/42c52c5f-e7f3-430d-b592-5caa08de5a31) offers multi-person voice, video and text-based spaces to its 200mn global monthly active users. The San Francisco gaming chat platform was considering listing as early as 2021, according to people familiar with the matter. However, many technology companies and investors have put their [IPO plans](https://www.ft.com/ipos) on hold due to political and market uncertainty. That is expected to change this year as interest rates have fallen and US President Donald Trump has laid out a more tech-friendly regulatory agenda. Discord was last valued at about $15bn in a 2021 fundraising, according to PitchBook. The company’s revived IPO plans remain subject to change, one of the people said. “We understand there is a lot of interest around Discord’s future plans, but we do not comment on rumours or speculation,” the company said in a statement shared with the Financial Times. “Our focus remains on delivering the best possible experience for our users and building a strong, sustainable business.” CoreWeave, an [artificial intelligence](https://www.ft.com/artificial-intelligence) cloud computing provider, filed for a New York IPO this month that would raise about $4bn and value the group at more than $35bn, which could make it the largest tech flotation of the year. A series of valuable start-ups, including fintech groups Stripe and Chime and data platform Databricks that had been forced to stay private far longer than planned are expected to reignite plans to list their shares. Discord initially found popularity among gamers, as well as retail trading and cryptocurrency communities, but has since sought to broaden its appeal to a mass audience. The company has largely shunned advertising, in contrast to larger rivals such as Meta, X and Reddit, in favour of offering its users premium features for a fee. In 2021, it attracted interest from multiple Big Tech groups, rebuffing a $12bn takeover bid from Microsoft. The recent IPO plans were first reported by The New York Times. :::

Hello everyone ! I get some game codes with the Amazon Gaming thing, and some of them I already have or I can't play, so I share them with you. Please tell me in the comments/DM if a game picks your interest, and I'll send the code to you in private message, and mark it as submitted. - ~~[Wolfenstein YoungBlood](https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/Wolfenstein-Youngblood/C421ZX7RCG0W) (Microsoft Store)~~ (claimed) - ~~[Wolfenstein YoungBlood](https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/Wolfenstein-Youngblood/C421ZX7RCG0W) (Xbox Series or Xbox One)~~ (claimed) - ~~[Yes Your Grace](https://www.gog.com/fr/game/yes_your_grace) (GOG Galaxy)~~ (claimed) - ~~[Colt Canyon](https://www.gog.com/fr/game/colt_canyon) (GOG Galaxy)~~ (claimed) - ~~[Bioshock Infinite Definitive Edition](https://www.gog.com/fr/game/bioshock_infinite) (GOG Galaxy)~~ (claimed) - ~~[Bioshock 2 Remastered](https://www.gog.com/fr/game/bioshock_2_remastered) (GOG Galaxy)~~ (claimed) - ~~[The Talos Principle](https://www.gog.com/fr/game/the_talos_principle_gold_edition) (GOG Galaxy)~~ (claimed)

What is all this daily pain and suffering for if I don't do what I was meant to do? We die eventually... fuck it!

I'm really sad, started to play this game recently and was having so much fun

I liked how saints row let you be naked.

Top ones I know of these days are siege, but some people have made a case that dead by daylight is pretty bad as well. Like if any of you remember the Xbox 360 Halo days. I think those would pass for toxic today. What do you guys think? Is the most toxic community out there in gaming?

[Free doom mods](https://freedoom.github.io/)

I blame the consolidation of sports titles under a limited number of developers and publishers. But maybe I just feel this way because sports games aren't my thing.

Microsoft might be preparing to integrate Steam and other game launchers into the Xbox app. The company briefly posted a mockup image showing the new Xbox app...

Hi all. My headset recently broke and I was wondering what the best headset with a mic yall would recommend for under $100? Preferably less than $70 if possible. I don’t have a ton of money to spend right now so I’m just looking for something basic to chat with my friends on discord or while playing games on Ps5, Pc, and Steam Deck. I had ordered a used pair of (Kingston Model) HyperX Cloud II’s, but they sent me the wrong model (which I’m returning) and I’ve heard nothing but bad things about the HP model. So what would you say is the most similar to that quality in 2025? Also I don’t post much on Lemmy (or Reddit previously) so I’m sorry if this is in the wrong place—so if there is a better place to post this please let me know

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/18752399

My blog is live, with my first post being a look at 3D platformer prototypes from various sources. I played the abandoned Kickstarter game Lobodestroyo, the decade-old prototype for Corn Kidz 64, and a couple of forgotten games inspired by Spyro.

Here are the links to the two games, and as always they'll be free to keep if you claim them before next Thursday: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/guacamelee-stce-7cdbc8 https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/guacamelee-2-ac4977