With Trump in office soon you can forget about regulation.

And in any case, it’s tech-adjacent so legislators have zero idea how any of this works.

The new Indiana Jones game is really fun.

With Michael Bay of all people. Sounds like something out of a comedy sketch.

Vivendi got so close to killing Valve and HL2, it is scary. Gabe had balls of steel and championed on.

How they went and changed how a whole industry because it was calculating light with a bad algorithm.

Read the article: it’s a freaking 139gb patch. So those that preloaded in anticipation are pretty much back to the starting line.

So many amazing total conversions spawned off that MP.

Meanwhile Synology keeps updating my ageing NAS.

They may not have the best bang for the buck for hardware but their software package is really well put together.

Yeah, just call it TDFDWaL and be done with it.

Or Ubisoft with a AAAA.

I don’t know, the first one was cobbled up together from early access by programmers at a marketing firm and while janky (part of the charm some would say), it was quite an achievement.

The approach which should have delivered better results was wrecked with takeovers and company drama then dumped to the public in a bad state.

Such a tragedy. And that was a game that just needed a tech upgrade, expand a bit, more of the same, nothing crazy.

At least it’s not quite bafflingly incompetent as their movie division.

But Sony has always been weird.

Exactly, and there again the quality beats the quantity.

Playing a niche old game with old buddies beats high digit player counts with randoms.

Neo Nazis didn’t get The Dead Kennedys (a very left-leaning hardcore punk band). It motivated them to write a song titled “Nazi punks fuck off” (the lyrics just repeat the song’s title aggressively) in an attempt to pass the message into their thick, mostly empty skulls.

Sony hurting itself in confusion as it often does.

Making great games is supposed to be the hard part yep they keep fumbling the delivery.

Because they fumbled it all so badly at every opportunity. Shady studio takeovers, disastrous launch, mismatched price…

What a damn shame

Sony was leading with those and that seemed to have caved in.

Smells like stock-price-driven short-term decisions.

You’ve described the AA/indie scene which took the chunk of the market big publishers abandoned including whole genres of games.

The problem is investors saw the line go way up, passing even Hollywood so to keep it riding forever they apply Hollywood-sized solutions.

Except you can’t just shuffle live services a few weeks around another so you can milk the box office. They want us to spend all our time in their game services so people will pick one game for a time so they are cannibalizing each other and eroding trust as games fail and abandon the players that did buy into them.

Or dinner.

Some people somehow miss the over the top, in your face satire of the Starship Troopers movie so I’m not surprised.

No need for pinpoint accuracy when you are doing half a ton of explosives via close air support or heavy artillery from low orbit. Or worst: a mortar turret with no regard for friendlies.

And good of them to patent such a sleezy move.

Assets are humongous compared to code and their tools probably integrate with more reasonable asset management solutions.

Never pre order.

That is hawt!

Didn’t he try the celebrity YouTube route for a hot minute?

Dodging a bullet on ID2 just to land on Suicide Squad. Ouch.

I have Starship Troopers Extermination as well but I feel it has a long way to go still. I’m really tempted now to get Helldivers 2 and keep Extermination on the side as it progresses in Early Access.

Good to hear. Sounds like a must-have.

The game looks great. I guess they fixed the more glaring issues with their initial release.

People seemed to have issues logging in, matchmaking or CDT randomly. I’ll wait for a few trusted reviews but it looks like something I’ll enjoy.

They’ve been copy/pasting the same games over and over, a typo was bound to happen.

No, fan is correct. We just forget it stands for “fanatic”.

Definitely not in Japan. Outside the army and police, guns in Japan are an extreme rarity. The best you’ll be able to find is airsoft enthusiasts.

Anyway actual shooting and video games are very different things. Counter Strike is tremendously successful but the animations of gun handling are (where?) hilariously wrong.

The wait is over.

The book ran full off 'memberberries as well.

I fully support a good competitor to Steam like GOG. It may be less convenient than Steam but it has one key feature that no other shop has: no DRM.

Next in my bingo card, I have “it’s Skyrim with guns”.

That’s why the likes of STALKER and Subnautica stand up in my mind in terms of survival, exploration, and adventure. Hand-crafted worlds and quests are hard to beat.