The Guardian review is more critical than others. I’ve never known they even review video games. Are they always like this?

it’s selling well too though it’s actually 78$. They put Mailbox and Auction House on it which AFAIK the only mount that has both which is incredibly valuable.

If not the fuction I wouldn’t mind but because the function is so valuable it’s really poor form by Blizzard. I even love the mount and buy it as cosmetic but I’m not supporting this at the state it is currently.

Yeah I really liked puzzles and only found the timing puzzles annoying on a controller though with mouse and keyboard it was much easier.

I love the movement a lot in the last game and it’s so great to see more of the same focus! I hope it’s just not a reskin though

swamp people?

so they’ve covered all 4 horsemen in the last 4 games:

• Darksiders 1 - War
• Darksiders 2 - Death
• Darksiders 3 - Fury
• Darksiders Genesis - Strife (+War)

What do you think is next?

it’s 100% that they count mobile games as “gaming” so grandma and grandpa playing candy crush and wordle are “gamers” now. They list 11% on console but even that seems high. 23% on PC probably includes wordle too.

I think you’re right that they need to be transparent with what is considered political and what is not through a visible flag or something.

Though it’s definitely great idea to reduce weights on political content and discourage it. That’s the only way to get off this swamp and if we have to sacrifice gay pride parade talks to prevent the rise of fascism and genocide then it’s a pretty good deal imo.

Agreed.

Threads is actually kinda fun if not all of the spam and straight up harmless idiots. Meta is right for once.

There are plenty of other tools for politics and it’s better kept in smaller more mindful communities rather than these pools of random algorithmic shit.

Ones that don’t involve a cable lol

I guess the experience varies wildly based on ear shape but I never lost a bud. I think there are better ways to address this than to add a whole ass cable though. That’s not very creative.

Why would you want that? I can’t imagine to ever going back to non wireless buds

Same to you pal 👋

Did you really say that you can do as well without food economy as without video game economy. Lol go home 🤡

Nah yes you do. I’m sorry but as much as I love games I can do fine in a world with no commercial video game market. I can’t say the same about world without farming market lol

Gamers are peak delulu to the point where it’s emberassing to associate yourself with this hobby as an adult.

You’re implying that all labor is the same?

Fair point tho as a consumer you don’t really have a practical way to affect this so this whole exercise just feels mentally unhealthy.

How did you come up to that conclusion?

The reality is that it’s an extreme privilege to work in entertainment and art full time so caring about the well being of this industry as a consumer is really not a priority and honestly it shouldn’t be.

I’m a gamer but it’s still so hard to care about layoffs in an entertainment industry. We’ll have fewer games in the next few years? That’s like at the bottom of the list of issues we’re facing in 2024.

True though that’s a bit of a potato/potatoh probpem as the easiest way to patch-in offline would be to run server locally rather than have 2 different architectures of offline and online plays. That’s already how many games work today actually - singleplayer is just a server with only you on it.

This would be a huge precedent for video-game preservation. IANAL but this would mean one of these two:

• service cannot be shut down without release of server source code
• whole game need to be reclassified as software service

Seems like the latter would be an easy loophole tbh.

gg.deals can do that through tags. For example here’s tag for epic exclusives: https://gg.deals/games/epic-games-exclusives/. You can use the “Tags” filter and search for “exclusive” to find all related tags.

Seeing TF2 at silver feels so bittersweet.

Most are very fair though. dota2, cs2, pubg, apex (I think) only sell cosmetics.

That’s awesome! Thanks

Did he pay with Euros or that’s some fantasy currency?

The original title sucks and doesn’t deserve to be repeated.

Nah there’s not rules for “gens” it’s all bullshit that could be anywhere between 3 to 7 years looking at wiki release tables. Now especially new generation is super easy to release as consoles are just PCs.

It almost seems like a bait and I fell for it 🫣

The only reason I clicked on the article is because I thought next gen launching late 2025 with GTA6. Ps5 came out over 3 years ago so 4 year generation sounds about right.

It’s not the first time either. Time to pop Kotaku into the block list.

Honestly, they should sue Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. The fact that we allow such restricted computers that can land you in prison for manipulating them is just absurd.

More realisticly Epic is just choosing their battles where they can see that they can make progress but they can’t say that.

I wonder how are they going to adapt the controls for Hades. It can get very twitchy so playing on touchscreen gonna suck.

Not surprised by bg3 though I am surprised with MK1 taking best multi-player. I guess fighting gamers must be really happy with the recent releases!

Dudes are literally working in meth 💀

Ngl I’m a senior engineer and I take 2.5mg of Adderall once in a while to go through a tough bug or release. I can’t imagine taking it every day tho, the side effects really start to show and eventually you’d do worse than without it entirely.

It really messed with your head with long term use - it’s not gonna end well for these people.

Nah man you’re confusing semantics with the vibe. Obviously it e-sport teams have to be businesses but theres more passion and history in one team than whole overwatch league combined. That could never happen with city teams, well we’ve never seen it.

Nah most export teams are owned by people who are passionate about it. It’s a digital medium so why limit it by some small region? Overwatch league was opposite if everything good about eaports - the international connection of a global game people are passionate about. Team Liquid (in any game) has more character than all overwatch city teams combined.

I feel the opposite. The idea felt antiquated and corporate. I dont want nationalism in my exports thanks.

I was on the fence about buying on launch and glad I didn’t. I’ll just pick up the complete edition in a year or two.

When it started out as “One” suffix to signal that it’s a hub sort-of-thing it made sense but then they took it and ran with it. I wonder how many sales XBox missed because of their dumb naming schemes. I honestly still don’t know which xbox is the newest one.

Yes I really liked the first one but it felt a clunky at points. It seems like this is just an improvement is almost every way!

I really liked the demo and was about to buy it on ea release but was not into the mtx stuff. Excited to give it a go now!