Moving around in “peaceful” should be ok as a playground for learning the controls.

It’s basically the same thing as gambling but with less regulations and social stigma. It’s not going to get better if no one does anything - and it’s not going to be the unregulated casinos cosplaying as gaming studios that will do it.

It should be forbidden to even refer to it as buying (I think some places already have laws for that), and they should also be forced to put a big disclaimer every time stating the game might become unavailable at any moment if it has things like DRM or core online functions.

It’s exactly because we live in capitalism that, as consumers, we need to punish greedy behaviour.

Other big companies offer bigger free upgrades for years without demanding more money from who already bought game (Minecraft says hi), indie developers have less sources of revenue and lots of them still offer updates for longer than even a console life cycle - and neither are tying the updates to buying a brand new console.

They published some interesting mobile ones. And then figure out the crappy slop based on their TV shows actually does better, so they are going all-in on that.

Just don’t release the game in the US and Japan.

The game is Caravan Stories, and it’s only mentioned in the 3rd paragraph, with the rest of the article being SEO bait. I hope any reporter writing articles like this steps on a Lego with a foot, trips, and steps on a British power plug with the other the foot at least once a week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention

The European Patent Convention (EPC), Article 52, paragraph 2, excludes from patentability, in particular

…

schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers; [emphasis added]

That excludes video game related patents twice in one line.

European courts don’t recognise software patents, no matter where they were filled.

Users will end up verifying it. Activision just got caught using gen-ai in call of duty and had to come clean.

If developers are caught lying they will lose credibility.

The guy is a billionaire, he as no excuse to have a third rate gaming chair.

I wonder if they are ok with people pirating games as long as they still value Nintendo’s investment. /s

Without the Wii U we wouldn’t have the Switch, but without the GameCube we wouldn’t have the Wii. Disruptive innovation is not always progress, and cycles of iterative improvement are essential for good engineering and real innovation.

I’m old enough to remember the Kickstarter campaign. I lost track of how many release dates flew by since then.

Sometime in 3025.

Something tells me having 3000 trying to justify their wages is how they got a bloated mess in the first place.

In a completely useless way because of the single market.

Since Apple claims they need to gatekeep iOS apps to prevent fraud, and they let this one through, they should be held accountable as complicits.

You are right about USB, thunderbolt 3+PCI Express on the other hand allows very low level memory access, and in older implementations there’s nothing the operating system can do. But then again even if they force a specific thunderbolt configuration to prevent DMA it will still leave the “normal” PCIe ports as a way to access the memory outside the purview of the OS.

That and Geralt’s story got a natural end in Blood and Wine, and it would be stupid to bulldoze that.

The article explains it well. At least some of them see it as defacing a work of art, which I think it would be fair if games were unique pieces and not mass produced - it would piss me off if someone drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa in the Louvre but if you want to do it on your mass printed Mona Lisa copy, be my guest.

Trump is going to derail this, it’s basically “Microsoft Antitrust 2 - The googliest-orangest Boogaloo”

I believe this is what he wants. I even believe he’s doing everything to convince his bosses that Xbox consoles have a future. I also would suggest everyone working on the Xbox hardware team to keep their CV updated, because when your boss starts talking about your team “definitely” having a future there’s at least a 50% chance of layoffs not being far behind.

Techbros see all cyberpunk as an utopia, Zuckerberg even renamed his entire company after the Metaverse in Snowcrash when that’s one of the obviously dystopian cyberpunk worlds.

(Good) cyberpunk was always a documentary done through a slightly distorted mirror lighten up under neon glow.

Their lack of a patent for controller vibration prevented Sony from having vibration on Sixaxis - notice that despite all the BS that it interfered with motion sensing, Dualshock 3 came out just a few months after Sony managed to settle the suite with Immersion.

Since there’s no penalty for making a patent and not using it, it’s probably cheaper for Sony to pre-emptively register everything that comes from brainstorming sessions.

Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s ever going into a an actual product.

Probably Starfield would be the Bethesda game to benefit more from it. At least they could make cities feel like cities.

This is the gaming version of XKCD 1172.

AWS SLOs are going to shit aren’t they?

They have 200 solitary prison cells.

In other news: Chinese marketing departments caught up to Western marketing departments in overselling their products.

It’s not a coincidence it happened on the same day. After the first studio did their announcement the others kind of had to come forward to lay their claim.

Court cases over patent infringement do, no matter how stupid parents over software and videogames are.

Releasing a new full price sandbox game instead of keeping supporting the old one (even if it’s mostly in the form of DLCs) is not good for the gamers.

If they can bring back Christian Whitehead to help them, it sound like a good idea. If it’s the Sonic Superstars people, please don’t.

In the same way that any game with nazi zombies or even every single historical war game. I don’t seem them kicking out Call of Duty

Not necessarily, when you target one very specific setup you can use performance tricks you can’t use otherwise. When developing for PC you are forced to play by the rules because you can’t rely on a quirk of a particular combination of components because everyone has a different one.

That is a lower circle of hell.