StarCraft 2, during the Terran campaign you chill out in a bar between missions. There’s no actual gameplay tho, other than optionally talk to NPCs.

Thanks, I’m familiar with the lootbox mechanics in valve’s games, but had no idea this kind of gambling existed…

CS2 skin gambling

What is that?

Steam deck is digital only and is selling like hot cakes.

OK you guys sure seem to take your pandering really seriously, so here you go: I’m sorry, this scene is peak writing and a major step for inclusivity. EA is a true champion of the LGBT community, and certainly not a bunch of soulless businessmen driven by profits and focus groups.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

I’m not bothered at all lol, I would have already forgotten about it if you weren’t so bothered yourself :) But yeah, IMO it would have been better if they had used a less “modern” word. You did notice that fantasy characters usually don’t speak like they’re from the 21st century, right?

Did you read the article? I found it pretty convincing, as an example “non-binary” is not a word I expect to be said in a fantasy setting. The author also mentions a fantasy book where it’s done much more naturally.

If you read the article you’ll see that the author takes issue not with the inclusion itself, but the hamfisted way in which it is included. Pandering can be fine, but when it’s just checking boxes in a cringy, lazy way it’s not, and worse it becomes fodder for the gamergate type to rage about.

I watched a friend’s teenage son play a couple of times. They don’t seem to play battle royale or any kind of competitive mode anymore, they just chat and dick around in what seems to be seasonal levels. Reminds me of my WoW days where I logged in to do my dailies more for the social engagement than the actual gameplay.

Yeah but it does it much faster and more efficiently (according to him).

I liked it a lot, although the DLCs were far more memorable than the base game.

Their own solution is actually better than a VPN for this use case. It’s an encrypted proxy which anyone can download and run, so it’s much harder to block.

Most of the controllers beforehand had proprietary connectors that would never work in the PC.

That was in the 90s… 20 years ago I was gaming on PC with a PS1 dual shock using a cheap adapter, and then switched to the Xbox 360 controller which used a standard USB port.

Haven’t played origins but I’m pissed off just reading your comment lol, glad I haven’t bought an EA game in like 10 years

If you’ve got a switch gathering dust and have no interest in using it for gaming again (e.g. if you’ve got a steam deck), it’s nice to have the option to convert it to an Android tablet for the multitude of use cases the stock OS doesn’t support: streaming, a proper web browser, chat apps, …

Kinda:

The process he eventually settled on started with Mechner using a video camera to record his brother running and jumping in a parking lot across from their high school. Once he found a take that worked, the video was played back on a TV in a dark room and the screen was photographed with a 35-millimeter film camera, frame by frame, creating roughly 35 photos of his brother in action. Mechner then traced over each photograph with a black marker and white correction fluid to create a high-contrast black and white silhouette of each pose, and then used a photocopier to assemble all of them onto a single sheet of paper that was scanned into an Apple II using a special capture card. With the poses all digitized, Mechner then painstakingly cut them all out, pixel by pixel, and used a special graphics tool to assemble them into frame animations.

Haven’t read the article but it says “recompiled into native PC ports” so these aren’t ROMs, they’re actual Windows .exes and Linux binaries.

It’s primarily a native port for current gen consoles.

It definitely is, but yeah you’ll die a lot at first. Once you know your squad’s (and the enemies’) abilities it becomes like chess, where you spend a lot of time thinking about the consequences of a single move.

Only game I’ve ever 100%'d

I don’t think the goal is to lock you into their browser, since you still can change it through the GUI. It seems to be part of the recent push to block software which changes hidden settings. The end goal being to lock down the OS and prevent users from disabling features MS wants to push onto them.

Just from this screenshot, it seems that good loot will drop more frequently if you choose to disable trading, to make up for the lost opportunities I guess.

It’s an expansion, not a new game.

Path of Exile is a good example. F2P, quality game, shit ton of content, and not once did I feel tempted to buy cosmetics. I did buy additional stashes once, but that was a conscious choice to support the devs after playing for tens of hours.

Bethesda softworks published the game but it was made by japanese studio Tango, who also made Hi-Fi Rush.

Go for it but keep in mind that it’s a lot of dialogue and no combat.

The middle one is the IG currency, to buy “amazing palettes and gear” whatever that means.

Yep this one’s in my wishlist, I’ll get it next time it’s on sale!

Nice, I loved FEAR 1 and 2, thanks!

I’m itching for a good single player arcade-y/soldier-y FPS. Anyone have a suggestion? Haven’t played CoD (nor BF for that matter) since the one with the No Russian level.

Thanks for the heads up! What cable do you use under linux?

For marketing? He was a “popular Polish voice actor” apparently.

Yep, waiting for the next sale to finally grab it.

If you’re into metroidvanias (platformers where you gain abilities over the course of the game, expanding gameplay and allowing you to access new areas in earlier zones) there are lots of really good indie titles. Hollow Knight is the reference, both Ori games are awesome. Dead Cells is also worth a try if you’re into fast-paced action games, though it’s more of a platformer rogue-lite.

Not really a platformer, and not really chiptune, but Katana Zero is pretty fucking great in the gameplay, music and story department.

“John Romero’s about to make you his bitch. Suck it down.”

Same, waiting for a discount on the definitive edition or whatever before finally picking this up.

And a USB-C port, and native support for KBM.

Most people simply don’t get the point. They don’t understand, let alone care about, digital privacy and security.

Anecdotal evidence: I have a short Gmail address (think [email protected]), and a lot of smartasses use it to subscribe to everything, mostly as a throwaway but also on e-commerce sites, fintech bullshit with access to their bank accounts, …

Once I got curious and reset the password, logged in and the moron had already filled in all his personal info, including his credit card. Another time I sent an SMS to the guy asking him to stop, he replied “it’s my address, my nephew set it up for me, I guess we just have the same one”.

These guys would never take 10 minutes to set up a 2FA app.