And artists are getting paid peanuts in return.

Album sales have plummeted and Spotify are slowly replacing real artists with AI generated music to avoid needing to pay them.

Music streaming is an excellent example of what we don’t want to happen to another art form.

Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.

As one of those old farts that picked up Minecraft during the 0.0.x days, this isn’t far off. Wrong perspective though.

OpenMW and TES3MP is a great way to enjoy Morrowind in a modern engine and with friends.

There’s plenty of mods available for OpenMW so you can make it look stunning and add loads of new functionality.

They’ve sold between 5 and 8 million copies of that game to date.

I think they’re doing fine without needing a sale and devaluing their product.

“Third person perspectives incentivise purchases of hero skins, with players buying 62% more on average” - Executive leadership

Nah

I’ve been on the Profiling branch for a couple of years and these changes are awesome. Tanoa was unplayable for me until I switched.

Kudos for Bohemia’s continued support for A3 while we wait for A4 (Reforger has also been a fantastic glimpse of the future of their engine).

If true, that’s ridiculous. If I were Apple, I’d be throwing money at CodeWeavers to get Proton-like capabilities into macOS.

Apple Game Porting Toolkit 2 kind of makes it clear Apple aren’t trying to force developers to make native games; taking a similar approach to Steam and Proton (Game Porting Toolkit is based on CodeWeavers’ CrossOver, the same developers working on Proton with Valve).

The side effect of SteamOS is that Arch Linux totally rocks for gaming.

antireal.info

I’m such an fool to have missed that wicked pun haha!

*RocketWerkz

(DayZ was the game Dean Hall made before founding RocketWerkz)

Yikes that was written poorly. Author flips back and forth between Deadlock and Deathlock.

Bang for buck.

Morrowind was made by a team of about 35 people. Sure they could have put the effort in but then you’ve got all those animations to make and test. How do they tie into stats? Do they look dumb at higher stat levels? Also they’ll use up a little more resources on console which was a big struggle (Morrowind literally had to reboot the Xbox mid game to free up memory).

I’ve heard rumblings it’s actually to test out the upcoming move from Gamebryo/Creation to Unreal.

Easier to task a smaller team to take the current state of the UE5 framework for TES games and recreate an existing game (i.e. concept and content complete) and get feedback early so TES6 can learn from it while they are still in development.

It’s been in Apple devices since iOS 18 and it’s a good thing Android is adding it.

*Skywind

NetHack takes me waaaay back. Blows my mind DevTeam are still working on it. I haven’t played in a few years. NetHack, Angband, C:DDA, etc are all games I play on long haul flights since they use the least battery and I’ve not been on a long haul since the pandemic.

That and Dwarf Fortress; learning curve is steep but they’re rogue-likes. Death is an opportunity to have a whole other adventure and learn from your mistakes and see what RNG has in store for you this time. And there’s infinitely repeatable!

Also big up for Cataclysm: DDA. One of the greatest games ever made.

Free means you can easily get any friends to dip in and play which is a big factor.

Subset Games rock. Really looking forward to whatever they put out next. It’s been rather quiet from them but they said in an AMA they have several prototypes kicking around. Fingers crossed.

Yeah an ex Virtuos developer said they had been working on a remake in UE5 for Bethesda. Can’t find the reference but it was a big rumour a while ago.

They need to. Strong rumours that Bethesda has tasked a studio to remake Oblivion in a different engine.

How do you connect the DualShock to the potato? Mine doesn’t seem to have Bluetooth but… Greensprout?

Isn’t this just a historic note. Dark Souls came out years ago.

The very same reason I use macOS for work. I know older versions work fine but when you’re collaborating with a bunch of people using the latest versions and all the cloud and AI stuff, macOS is the most reliable *nix host to run it on. Can’t wait for Wine to figure it out so I can throw my last Windows box and mac in the trash.

Ah yes, we can’t let our child know about sex so here, have this game where you murder people instead. Hahaha.