I would argue this is an intended play style. They made camping and the natural world extremely detailed on purpose.

IDK, it kinda makes sense. You buy it once and you can play either the original or the remaster. At least they kept the original around.

Most phone games.

That’s… a strange choice. They must have only tested it on Steam Deck hardware… as if Desktop Linux users aren’t seasoned and running on “unsupported” hardware, lol.

Intuitively it always seemed like there was a sweet spot. Too short a period and there’s not enough time to build hype or (more importantly) fix the issues revealed by Early Access. Too long a period and people forget about your game, and EA players got everything they wanted out of it before launch, so have little reason to come back and boost visibility w/ player numbers.

It’s nice to have some hard data to back this up and put an objective measure on where that sweet spot is.

Nintendo in general is actively toxic to intellectual property in video games. They have proven time and time again that they will abuse it whenever possible.

Minor bug fixes and improvements.

K.

It annoys me more than it should how many software projects straight up don’t bother with patch notes. Have you ever looked at the ones for your phone apps? They usually just copy paste the same meaningless sentence(s) every update. Sometimes they’re straight up ads.

If the release date was a secret, they probably aren’t ready to commit to it, which means it has a good chance of changing.

I’m using dark mode with a black background so this just looked like two random white semicircles until I copied the image out.

Probably a remaster.

I really hope more GPU compute workloads would support VAAPI, because these Intel cards are easily the best value for things like self-hosted AI models–especially since they’re offering more VRAM than some high-end Nvidia cards.

It’s so wild that media outlets still talk about video games like they’re some new fad that surprisingly makes a lot of money.

It’s a multi billion dollar industry that’s been around since the 1970s. It’s literally older than the internet. Video games aren’t a disruptor. It’s been traditional media for decades now.

The official VR support for Minecraft Bedrock was garbage anyways. I never got it working with the HTC Vive or the Valve Index, but AFAIK its feature set was limited.

Vivecraft for Minecraft Java has way more features, is incredibly customizable regarding controls and comfort settings, and works with a wide range of headsets. It’s been a bit since I’ve booted it up, but every time I jump back in, I’m delighted at just how well it works.

Just in time to ride the hype wave. Maybe they’ll release a MOBA next.

Cool, I might check it out again come spooky season.

That game is really jank, but it has a kinda special sauce that makes the core game-play really fun. I used to play a lot until they overhauled the inventory system to a confusing mess. It was so opaque I never tried it again. Did they ever fix that?

That reason is so hilariously generic, they could slap it on literally any executive decision.

Nightdive’s remake of the first one was so good, I was hoping the second one got the same treatment.

And I just learned of its existence.

Nvidia would never release intentionally misleading marketing to make them selves seem better, would they?!
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Game about making money in a genre designed to make money makes money.

Shareholders are a poison to innovation in general.

IMO it’s the perfect balance of powerful when you need it, simple when you don’t.

Sure, there are still some compatibility issues, but it’s still by far the largest plug-and-play library of any handheld by an incredible margin.

You should anyway. Upgrading every generation is a huge waste of money.

Title gore.

People will really blame a vague “liberal agenda” for anything , huh?

“My business model no longer makes sense in the current market? Nah, it must be wokeness.”

Is this studio never making another game then?

It’s frustrating how often people need to be reminded of this. Nintendo has repeatedly shown incredible hostility to their greatest fans over the years, and they show no signs of stopping.

They’ve also done immeasurable harm to game preservation, to their own library and others. I cannot ever forgive them for this. Unless you play games in whatever specific way is blessed at the time, they will make every effort to sabotage it. Please do not enable this behavior.

Just get an emulator on PC / Steam Deck. The most likely reason Nintendo went so hard on Switch emulators last year is because they will be able to emulate Switch 2 games with little tweaking (probably just new keys / BIOS). They’ve confirmed it’s backwards compatible with Switch games, which strongly supports this hypothesis.

This is a great idea. While devs could circumvent this by just pushing small, meaningless updates to refresh the timer, truly abandoned projects would still be flagged.

Weren’t these released for free a few years ago? Now they’re trying to sell them again?

EDIT: Apparently that was a temporary promotional deal on Origin with the release of The Sims 4.

I’m pretty sure Mythic Quest did an episode about this.

They’re not good guys, they’re just behind.

You got that right, but at least they aren’t as hostile to the industry as NVIDIA while they are behind.

If you don’t mind throwing money at diminishing returns while financially supporting anti-consumer and anti-board partner behavior, there’s not much else to say.

So glad I ditched Windows last year. I tried dual booting for a bit, but the number of things that broke in Windows was ridiculous.

It’s wild how much the reliability of Windows and Linux has flipped.

AMD or Intel.

It sucks to see they were suffering from success. That kind of pressure can destroy your creative energy.

I wish them both the best and I hope they go on to fulfilling projects.

I assume this means they hired more entry-level positions?

I don’t think Factorio ever goes on sale but imo it’s worth full price.

If you like Satisfactory, there’s an extremely high chance you’ll like Factorio. The main differences are the obvious 2D top-down vs 3D 1st person and Factorio has a robust military/combat system with base defense while Satisfactory is mostly peaceful unless you’re exploring.

Factorio.

Everything—the gameplay, the music, the art style—feels like I hand selected it. There’s not a single decision the devs made that I wouldn’t have made too.