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> Members of [ZeniMax Workers United](https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23495139/microsoft-union-zenimax-bethesda-cwa), a union of over 300 quality assurance workers in Texas and Maryland, have voted to authorize a strike.
> The vote, which passed with over 94 percent in favor of authorization, does not mean workers have gone on strike like SAG-AFTRA members have in the [ongoing video game voice actors strike](https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24213808/video-game-voice-actor-strike-sag-aftra). But should contract negotiations break down, the ZeniMax union now has the permission to call a strike.
> This authorization comes as contract negotiations between union members and parent company Microsoft continue into a second year.
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> We recently spent several hours playing Doom: The Dark Ages on a high-end PC (but NOT at max settings) and talking to the developers. What we have now is a much better appreciation of the technology, how idTech 8 improves over its predecessors - and what you should expect more generally from Doom: The Dark Ages. It's looking great!
If you prefer to read see: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-doom-the-dark-ages-hands-on-tech-preview-id-tech-8-impresses-hugely-on-pc
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Patch 2.00 also changes the Point Gain/Loss System. Now, the higher your opponent’s rank is, the more points you will earn for a win. Moreover, the lower your opponent’s rank is, the more points you will lose for a defeat.
Matchmaking rankings are imprecise for the top players which can lead to big swings when weights are applied. Similar problem in Dota.
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toSC2: Wings of Liberty was very good but they definitely overdid it with expansions and couldn’t work themselves out of that hole.
I’m not sure what do you mean by Microsoft quality lately. Just recently Black Ops 6, Hellblade 2 were received very well and Indiana Jones is a GOTY territory. Avowed was mixed but some of target audience seemed to like it a lot.
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> Blizzard is reportedly receiving a number of pitches for new StarCraft video games from Korean studios.
> In an article brought to the internet’s attention by X / Twitter account [@KoreaXboxnews](https://x.com/KoreaXboxnews/status/1905666402482356533), [Asia Today](https://www.asiatoday.co.kr/kn/view.php?key=20250328001954391) listed four Korean companies who are reportedly competing with each other to develop new games based on the StarCraft IP and secure publishing rights: NCSoft, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton. Apparently some of these companies have traveled to Blizzard’s headquarters in Irvine, California, to make their pitches.
> NCSoft, which is behind the Lineage and Guild Wars MMOs, is said to have pitched a StarCraft RPG of some kind (an MMORPG?). Nexon, maker of The First Descendant, has pitched a “unique” use of the StarCraft IP. Netmarble (Solo Leveling: Arise, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad) is hoping to make a StarCraft mobile game. And Krafton, the company behind battle royale PUBG and The Sims competitor inZOI, wants to make a StarCraft game “based on its own development capabilities.”
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> Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU owners continue to face system stability issues, with reports of blue screen crashes (BSODs), system instability, and game-breaking bugs. While many users have been frustrated by these problems, Nvidia’s apparent primary focus on its new RTX 50-series cards has only added to their concerns. Now, a new issue has surfaced (via [Overclock3D](https://overclock3d.net/news/software/game-devs-warn-nvidia-rtx-40-30-series-gpu-users-against-using-new-nvidia-drivers/)) that may be directly linked, where PC game developers are actively warning users against installing the latest 572.xx GeForce drivers, due to performance and stability issues.
> Players using RTX 40 and even some RTX 30-series GPUs have reported problems after updating to the 572.xx driver. Newly released games, including [*inZOI*](https://steamcommunity.com/games/2456740/announcements/detail/512953841353754054?snr=2___) and [*The First Berserker: Khazan*](https://steamcommunity.com/app/2680010/allnews/), have been particularly affected, with players experiencing stuttering or frame drops. Developers of these games have gone as far as recommending users roll back to the older 566.36 driver, released in December 2024, to restore stability. The problem has been widely discussed across Reddit and various forums, with many pointing fingers at the latest Nvidia driver branch as the common denominator.
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> 12 employees have been affected, decision due to firm "weigh\[ing] the future health of our studio against the month-to-month realities of game development"
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> “You’re going to see a remaster of System Shock 2. I’ve been asked twice earlier today why we didn’t do a remake, and I said, ‘are you somehow under the impression that because we do a remaster that we won’t be able to do a remake in the future?’ That might be something that I can either confirm or deny. But there’s going to be content coming out.”
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Text @ Eurogamer: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition-switch-tech-review
> Xenoblade Chronicles X on Wii U delivered a remarkable open world with brilliant visuals bearing in mind we were dealing with a console that sits within the same technological generation as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. And what this new and improved 'Definitive Edition' on Switch proves is that the game still holds up today, comparable with some ninth generation console efforts. John goes into depth on what made the game so impressive to begin with - and how this last Wii U to Switch port makes the game even better.
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> [Ubisoft Entertainment SA](https://archive.is/o/nw0qA/https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/UBI:FP) will carve out a unit including *Assassin’s Creed*, *Far Cry* and *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six*into a subsidiary with an enterprise value of about €4 billion ($4.3 billion).
> [Tencent Holdings Ltd.](https://archive.is/o/nw0qA/https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/700:HK) will invest €1.16 billion to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity, which will have licenses for the intellectual property of the games in exchange for a royalty, the French video game company said in a statement on Thursday.
> Ubisoft, which was founded by France’s Guillemot family, has been working to bring new investors into its video game properties, Bloomberg News has reported. The valuation of the new unit surpasses Ubisoft’s current enterprise value.
> Ubisoft’s US-listed depositary receipts jumped as much as 12.5% on the news.
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> Behold, the unknown planet Viewros… Harness Samus Aran’s new psychic abilities to survive and find a way home in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, coming to Nintendo Switch in 2025.
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> **I want to build a better world, not live in the ruins**
> I've historically been an enjoyer of post-apocalyptic media, but as our actual times threaten to become as dystopian as our fiction, I'm finding it a bit harder than usual to stomach doom and gloom during my rare moments of free time.
> Too many games--even some of the most commercially successful ones--are set in futures that are unpleasant at best and outright despairing at worst. *Fallout*, *The Last Of Us*, *Horizon*, *Cyberpunk*–they're all a huge bummer. I could go on forever listing games like this, but something that's got me especially downbeat about this preoccupation with pessimism is that it's found even in my favourite place, strategy gaming
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> You might be wondering why exactly a real-world soccer player is being added to a game whose cast is otherwise made up of more conventional fighting game semi-superheroes with handles like Rock Howard, Vox Reaper, Tizoc, and Kain R. Heinlein. The short answer is, I don't know. If it had been [Vinnie Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnie_Jones), okay, *maybe*, but Ronaldo? I don't see it.
> But there are some interesting connections between the seemingly disparate pieces. The Fatal Fury games are developed by SNK, a Japanese gaming company founded in 1987 that's now almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammad bin Salman through the Electronic Games Development Company, a part of the [Mohammed bin Salman Foundation](https://misk.org.sa/en/the-mohammed-bin-salman-foundation-misk-announces-completion-of-strategic-investment-in-japanese-gaming-company-snk-en/).
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> Reprising its Asura engine tech, Rebellion aims to deliver something a little different in Atomfall - an open world survival adventure set around the UK's Lake District area. The concept is appealing, though on PS5 and Series X the tech has issues with reflections, low quality textures, and generally lacking image quality. Thankfully the PC release offers some options to address each point.
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[Livestream link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OqoRxXUjGA)
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> If you’re looking for some solid evidence that Microsoft’s strategy to bring Xbox games to PS5 is seeing some early success, look no further than Sony’s own PlayStation Store today. The top preordered games in the [US PlayStation Store](https://store.playstation.com/en-us/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1) are *Indiana Jones and the Great Circle* and *Forza Horizon 5*, with the $99.99 premium versions of both games proving the most popular.
> [Resetera](https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-is-topping-the-pre-order-charts-on-the-playstation-store-with-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-and-forza-horizon-5.1144932/) posters have noticed it’s the same story in the [Canadian](https://store.playstation.com/en-ca/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1) PlayStation Store and across a variety of European stores, including [France](https://store.playstation.com/fr-fr/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1), [Germany](https://store.playstation.com/de-de/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1), [Italy](https://store.playstation.com/it-it/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1), [Spain](https://store.playstation.com/es-es/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1), and the [UK](https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/category/3bf499d7-7acf-4931-97dd-2667494ee2c9/1). Microsoft-owned Bethesda [announced earlier this week](https://www.theverge.com/news/610817/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-ps5-release-date)that *Indiana Jones and the Great Circle* will debut on PS5 on April 17th, with the premium version providing two days of early access starting April 15th. *[Forza Horizon 5](https://www.theverge.com/news/620993/forzas-on-ps5s-horizon)* is also coming to Sony’s rival console on April 29th.
@[email protected] Uh, that sucks. Why do they even need GI for, money laundering?
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> The second philosophy is taking inspiration from 90s game development to ensure the scope is manageable. "We want to get back to the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 era," said Liang, "when the games were not so big, the budgets not sky high, the team manageable, and all the developers were passionate and creative and with experience. It's like a bigger indie game, but with budget and with experience and with a stable hand, and everything feels so integrated from the starting point when you press down the Start button to the finish point of the staff list."
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> [Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor](https://www.ign.com/games/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor) is remembered for many reasons, but perhaps best of all for its Nemesis system, an incredible mechanic for generating memorable Orc encounters. According to a former executive, the Nemesis system came about from trying to solve a different problem: secondhand sales.
> In a [new video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5f65WksXqA), Laura Fryer — former vice president of WB Games who oversaw the publisher's Seattle studios at the time — talked about her time with Monolith. While discussing the way trend-chasing affects the industry, Fryer mentioned that chasing trends is what "literally led to the Nemesis system."
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> Earlier this year, when [Activision](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/activision-blizzard/activision/ "Companies > Activision [1,505 articles]") first announced the remake collection, it also announced a list of skaters planned to be featured in the game. This list included every classic skater originally featured in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4, except one – Bam Margera, known for his roles in Jackass, Viva La Bam and the Tony Hawk series, [was seemingly missing](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bam-margera-is-seemingly-not-returning-for-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4/).
> Now, during a live stream on [The Live Club](https://www.youtube.com/@thenineclub) skating podcast, it’s been claimed that Bam was added to the game at the last minute after Hawk demanded he be included.
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> In the first episode of this four-part series we explore the decisions that led a pair of brothers to embark on the development journey of a lifetime.
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> 50% of mobile players have now received a reward with real monetary value from a smartphone game. Meanwhile, 72% of that group say real-world rewards are now "important" when it comes to them selecting a new mobile game to download.
> That’s according to the second part of Almedia's Rewarded Returns report conducted by Atomik Research, which surveyed over 2,000 mobile players across the US and UK.
> The reward-based UA approach seeks to acquire, engage, and retain more players by placing a rewards campaign over an existing game.
> As such, a player might receive cash, Amazon credit, or payouts of other currencies of real-world value for reaching particular stages or achieving certain tasks within a game.
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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.20-194213/https://aftermath.site/assassins-creed-shadows-seasons-change-nature-review
Yeah, so get this. One of those apps is a shipping company that’s close to being a monopoly. You could pick up their parcels with just a phone number but now you need account for safety. So I can’t uninstall it. I need notifications on because I’m a klutz and need reminders. And so I’m also invited to collecting some dumb coins or NFTs they sell. Discord made way into people’s lives too, they’re now dependent and screwed.
Yeah, not buying it. I’m getting spammed with „quests” from multiple apps now that got the same idea. Seems like a workaround for Apple App Store rules where apps shouldn’t be using notifications for ads, but „quests” are fine somehow. It’s always apps that need notifications and are so important you can’t uninstall them. Gee, what a coincidence.
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toThere were some allegations of toxic work environment which seemed to be confirmed by couple of execs being arrested a year ago or so although I don’t think that kind of thing made gamers cancel anything.
If I had to guess why this happens on Lemmy then I’d bet on people not knowing that they get information from politically biased sources and those guys can be really good at hiding their true nature. After their opinion is formed the good old „stop liking things I don’t like” instinct kicks in and hence the downvotes. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t guilty of this, hence I can describe the process in detail. Took me way to long to realise.
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toGot to watch this now, it’s another very good showing on current gen consoles from Ubisoft (from technical perspective at least).
Also happy to see that 40 FPS with RTGI mode is becoming increasingly more common. It’s feels weird that this generational leap is happening at the end of life of this hardware and hinges on a gamers having fairly modern TVs though.
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toIf you play games with FSR3 (which is commonly used on consoles) then you know what’s being shown on those screens even when resized into a post stamp. FSR3 dithers and smudges this kind of detail terribly and it’s much worse when seen in motion. There are some examples that capture it better even in a still frame due to consistent nature of motion:
(Yes, this really affects the shape of a waterfall lol)
As much comic book holy bible is a holy bible. It’s an ecumenical matter.