Agreed. I think 2XKO could be big enough and accessible enough to bring in Smash players. Riot probably realized they were cannibalizing their own hit game

Also Rivals 2 will likely do well. If anything, we’re seeing platform fighters getting more and more recognized as a genre rather than one game and a bunch of clones.

He saw that pic of the Pope with drip and it spooked him. This is a joke but that pic actually spooked me. It was the first AI pic I saw that I thought was a real photo.

This game has been hyped within the fighting game community for years. For those that don’t know, the Cannon brothers created the company that’s developing this game. The Cannon twins are the founders of Evo, the largest fighting game tournament. They also created rollback net code allowing fighting games to be much more playable online. They have possible the most clout in the FGC.

The game will be a 2v2 tag fighter with the ability for a team to have 1 or 2 players. The specials will be simple inputs (direction + special button rather than motion inputs). It will also be free to play which a lot of people feel is an underexplored model in fighting games.

Agreed. During the pandemic, I adopted a policy of unsubbing to any subreddit that made me angry. Usually this came in the form of people bringing up trump/capitalism/whatever out of completely nowhere. luckily the Beehaw people seem to be pretty good about actually having conversations and not just devolving into mocking trump every second. But whenever I venture into some of the other instances, I see some of Lemmy’s true colors. Chronically online people completely out of touch with reality kinda run shit around here.

Federated alternatives are slowly building steam and people seem to have gotten pretty salty about corporate social media

I think you’re overselling the importance of this one. When I’ve talked to friends about federated alternatives, they really aren’t interested. Even if they hated Twitter/reddit and think they’ve gotten worse, they just don’t really care about a federated alternative. I’ve heard some interest in threads, so maybe we count that?

Tbh, I feel that extraction shooters haven’t really gotten started yet. Tarkov popularized it but it’s too hardcore for most people. Hunt Showdown is more my speed but it’s still kinda niche. I haven’t seen a title really bring the concept to the masses. This might be that title.