Maybe I’m blind, but I can’t see it? The target audience is PC gamers, and even though I rarely browse gaming websites anymore, this type of snark seems to be fairly standard for the last 10+ years.

Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, but it’s looked pretty much the same for the entirety of its almost 14 year run. There’s an argument to be made that it’s showing its age in places, an argument I won’t make because I don’t think so myself, but all the same, as revealed during today’s Minecraft Live, Mojang announced that the sandbox game is getting a pretty big visual overhaul update called Vibrant Visuals. Now, don’t worry, it’ll still be all blocks and squares ‘n’ that, but it will be changing up how lighting looks.

A blog post explains things in a bit more detail, with one of the big things being that there’ll now be volumetric lighting. What that translates to is things like sunlight shining more naturally across different surfaces, even shining through windows, and every individual block will cast its own shadow. Mobs and items will glow a bit more too, so it’s not just about the overworld lighting.

This update is coming to the Bedrock Edition of the game first, with the post noting that it hopes to bring this “graphics revamp (either fully or partially) to as many devices as possible”, though there’s not even a release window for it yet. There are plans to bring it to Java Edition too.

I might not have much of a horse in this race as someone that only really plays Minecraft once in a blue moon (and normally swiftly puts it down because I’m not that kind of creative and I get too stressed out from survival mode), but honestly, I’m not a fan. Minecraft is inherently not a natural looking game, and this lighting overhaul just adds a touch to much realism for my tastes. Besides, this kind of lighting already exists in countless mods, so for plenty of people it’s not even really needed.

In any case, there were a few other announcements from Minecraft Live too, like the fact you’ll soon be able to fly around on friendly versions of ghasts, which I do quite like the look of. There’s a live event taking place from March 25 to April 7 too where you get to hang out with Jack Black’s version of Steve to defend a village in some mini-games, which’ll net you a cape if you’re successful. Bit less exciting, but to each their own!

First line in their about us:

Rock Paper Shotgun is about PC gaming.

If you haven’t tried it yet, the HL1 fan remake/remaster Half Life Black Mesa is great, one of the best games out there in my opinion.

Main takeaway is the HL2 still looks pretty good

Skaven to finally make their 40k debut

A stable 30 fps is perfectly playable for most people, yes

The market don’t care what either of us think, investors will do what investors do, speculate.

It’s difficult to take your comment serious when it’s clear that all you’re saying seems to based on ideological reasons rather than real ones.

Besides that, a lot of the value is derived from the market trying to figure out if/what company will develop AGI. Whatever company manages to achieve it will easily become the most valuable company in the world, so people fomo into any AI company that seems promising.

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What an awful game by Madrid, toothless even with 1 man up

-football real Madrid - Barcelona

Apparently the drug (meldonium) he tested positive for is a common drug you can buy over the counter in Eastern Europe.

Hey, announcement will be made soon™. The poll have been stable for a while, I don’t think it will change much.

Explains why her face looked so different compared to Witcher 3 Ciri, I guess it’s the cost of tying voice actors to the game models.

John Linneman from digital foundry said the game reminded him of why he loves games after all the AAA slop and UE5 games they’ve been through. Up there in quality with the Mario games.

Great counter

Dortmund 2 - [3] Barcelona - Ferran Torres 🦈 85’

Dortmund [2] - 2 Barcelona - S. Guirassy 78’

Dortmund 1 - [2] Barcelona - Ferran Torres 🦈 75’

Dortmund [1] - 1 Barcelona - S. Guirassy Penalty 60’

Dortmund 0 - [1] Barcelona - Raphinha 52’

Quite uneventful first half

-football Dortmund - Barcelona

I’m not old enough to remember that time, but during the Blatter era they at least pretended to care. Nowadays it feels like Infantino does whatever he want without a care.

Yeah, no judgement on my part. I still watched the highlights that was posted on reddit, but didn’t engage beyond that.

Boycotted the Qatar WC, will probably skip the 2034 too. FIFA have really become shameless after Infantino took over. Not sure if anything will ever be done about it though.

If Real Madrid fails to qualify, this will be the greatest format ever.

Thanks for pointing it out. I’ve re-pinned it with the local automod

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I wouldn’t mind moving the community off of lemmy.world over to another instance. I’m currently travelling so I’ll need to take a deeper look into alternative instances later.

In regards to the controversies surrounding mods/admins on lemmy.world. I honestly think it’s mostly just a result of lemmy.world’s size and its generic nature. Speaking as an admin that has had my fair share of team discussions about how to moderate our instance, there isn’t a magical solution that everyone will be happy with. Other lemmy.world mods also have no say on this community’s moderation.

The technical aspects are valid concerns though. Generally when programming.dev experience federation issues, it’s also with lemmy.world, due to its size.

Auckland City players must be stoked, that’s some fun games for them.

It wasn’t really a question in that sense. What I meant by that sentence is that the game is already planned to be removed (from sale), so Blizzard suing GOG wouldn’t make much sense. However that doesn’t mean that GOG/Blizzard can just take the game away from those who already purchased it.

(after they fled the Russian invasion).

Some of the developers stayed in Ukraine from what I’ve heard.

I think you might have replied to the wrong person

TAA seems to be seduced by Pérez’ sweet nothings, so he might be a lost cause.

VVD and Salah clearly wants to stay on the other hand though.

It’s developed primarily in Ukraine.

Games are constantly pulled from the Steam store, but that doesn’t result in owners losing access to the game, GOG is no different. The only thing that will happen is they stop selling the game, it’s standard practice.

GOG also offer offline installers that would be impossible for even GOG to take away from you.