New Content and Features

• New Festivals and Events: Added the Desert Festival, Trout Derby, SquidFest, and a new environmental event in summer.
• New Farm Type: Meadowlands Farm, which includes a coop and two chickens.
• NPC Dialogues: Expanded dialogues, including custom gift reactions and dynamic dialogues.
• Multiple Pets: Players can now have multiple pets after maxing out hearts with their starter pet.
• Ginger Island Map: A new world map for Ginger Island that shows real-time positions.
• Winter Outfits for NPCs: NPCs now have winter outfits.
• New Items: Big Chest, Dehydrator, Mushroom Log, Bait Maker, Heavy Furnace, and Fish Smoker.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Gameplay Adjustments: Bee houses now work with flowers in garden pots, and the gold clock can be turned on or off.
• Translation and Localization: Improved translations and added options for different fonts and font sizes.
• Crash Fixes: Addressed various crashes, including those related to NPCs and specific events.

I regret buying a PS5 at all. I haven’t been a PSN subscriber for over three years at this point and I don’t feel inclined to be in the future. All the games my friends and I play are on PC and really the only game worth a damn is Astrobot, which is far and away the most fun platformer game I’ve played and is the sole game to justify that console purchase lol.

I echo the other comments here saying this generation is a waste, it really is and there is nothing really to be gained by getting the latest and “greatest” console today. Maybe it’s just a sign of the times that consoles just don’t have that much pull like they used to, unless they’re portable like the Steam Deck or Switch.

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I hate how YouTube seems to intentionally show salacious ads if you opt out of ad personalization. I get a ton of Temu spam despite not purchasing anything from that app or even having it on my phone, and the ads themselves usually feature scantily-clad women that takes up 70% of the screen. I’ve made a habit of just opening up the comments section and keeping them open the entire duration of the video. It really feels like YouTube/Google/Alphabet is saying “oh, you don’t want people around you to think you’re a perv? Let us collect more data about you so you can save face in public when you use our app at the gym or at work.”

What else is new lol

Something that may prove a little controversial is that EmuDeck will still work with both Citra and Yuzu, as long as you have them installed, but EmuDeck will not provide them directly after they were both shut down by Nintendo. They also won’t remove them for people who had them installed initially.

Glad they aren’t touching my previously installed emulators. Not that I really thought they would but it’s comforting to know they aren’t going anywhere on my machine lol

Damn dude lol

I gotchu fam, no worries 👍🏻

That’s a pr statement if I’ve ever heard one. Also read as “we didn’t edit the trailer properly to show what the game is going to be like”

Everything is derivative

Bring back AA games

Ah ok, so they don’t act like spikes or glue in Bloons Tower Defense?

Whoa, that looks incredibly cool, definitely going to wishlist this one

Valve has objectively done far more good in the gaming space than any other company so I would say yes, their achievements are worth celebrating even if it is monopolistic. They’ve proven to be trustworthy for the time being, unlike other companies.

Is it a “We hear you and are discussing internally” or a “Yeah, we hear you, so what?” type of vibe?

That’s fair, all choices merge back into three our four endings iirc, so yeah the meaningful choices part does fall flat on its face.

That’s arguably one of the few things that was fine at launch

What’s this game like on the Steam Deck? I really want to have it be my go-to travel game when I’m waiting for the train

We now consider this anniversary version of Half Life to be the definitive version, and the one we’ll continue to support going forward. Therefore, we’ll be reducing the visibility of Half Life: Source on the Steam Store. We know Half-Life: Source’s assets are still being used by the Source engine community, so it’ll remain available, but we’ll be encouraging new Half-Life players to play this version instead.

Wow. Didn’t think they’d ever acknowledge HL:S again but here we are. This is such a cool update.

Too bad Unity axed that project to create a game in-house using the engine to identify weak points and improve the engine. My guess is they realized how many of their acquired tools aren’t as good as they had hoped and didn’t want to admit they messed up in a few places. I sense lots of tech debt in the engine.

Immediately thought of Spool, ah old funhaus was peak

I’ll eat a sock if they do this. Take2 are some real hoes for microtransactions and have no issue cranking out half-baked content to the masses

Well they’re not gonna cut top salaries, can’t have any of that, it’s bad for business!! Imagine being able to only afford one yacht instead of your standard three! Gotta let those lackeys at the bottom of the pyramid go, what’re they even holding up, anyway? The foundation of the company? Surely not.

Someone didn’t read diary of a wimpy kid

They released the game 5 years too late, it was clearly made for a different market

Awesome! Hope they’ll be able to work on the backlog of promised features more instead of kicking them down the road to the next version.

Deserved

This article really doesn’t say any new info.

Welcome to games “journalism”