Well you’ve got me imagining fitting a woman into a project like a Tetris piece.

I’ve been skipping the PS5 versions because the games will run better on my PC, but then the sale prices on the PC versions are so much higher than on PS5 I still haven’t bought any of them.

So much of the Verge is paywalled these days it’s completely understandable for someone not to bother clicking through.

Canada’s GameStop stores went back to being EB Games last year after GameStop sold them.

Now, third-party games can offer premium in-game items and effects, with developers pocketing 37% of the proceeds — temporarily doubled to 74% for 12 months.

Epic, the company that has been fighting Apple over app store commissions, intends to leave developers who create games inside Fortnite with just 37% of the money they bring in.

This bit from the IGN report linked in the article highlights the bullshit of microtransaction pricing:

Steal the Brainrot’s 4,900 V-Buck “Present Rot” bundle has also come under fire — not only for its price, but for it being advertised as a limited-time discount on its usual 5,400 V-Buck cost. One of the constraints Epic Games has placed on third-party microtransactions is a 5,000 V-Buck upper limit for any individual item — meaning this item’s saving is discounted from a price that couldn’t actually be sold.

It’s too hard to tell real CSAM from AI-generated CSAM. Safest to treat it all as CSAM.

Their justification is basically that the RAM shortage is going to drive up prices and drive down consumer demand, which is probably right. The companies building data centers don’t seem to be so price sensitive

You can disable that

• On the Xbox home screen, go to “My Games and Apps.”
• Then, go to “Apps,” “Settings,” “General,” and “Personalization.”
• Go to “Games and Apps,” then scroll to the right until the three boxes below “Choose whether game hubs open automatically from the following places.”
• Uncheck the boxes on all three options: “Recently Played List,” “Groups,” and “Installed Games.”–

Including Fortnite Crew in Game Pass Ultimate is a terrible justification for the 50% price increase. How many people who play Fortnite enough for Crew to be useful also play other games enough for Game Pass Ultimate to be worthwhile?

His people didn’t make their own engine; Borderlands 4 is built with UE5, and based on the performance complaints it sounds like they’re using wrong (not that UE5 is super performant when used right).

The supply of 4000-series cards started to dry up when they shifted production to prepare for the 5000-series launch, then the 5000s launched with low stock anyway, and now they’re going to reduce production of those. I wonder they’ve done the math on how much gaming’s low share of the company’s revenue is due to there not being cards for people to buy.

He said most people are playing at 1080p, and last month’s Steam survey had 55% of users with that as their primary display resolution, so he’s right about that. Ignore what’s needed for the 4K monitor only 4.5% of users have as their primary display; is 8GB VRAM really a problem at 1080p?

Microsoft owns id’s parent company these days, and Microsoft provides services to the Israeli military.

Last month’s Steam survey had 1080p as the most common primary display resolution at about 55%, while 4k was at 4.57%.

The full tweet:

Majority of gamers are still playing at 1080p and have no use for more than 8GB of memory. Most played games WW are mostly esports games. We wouldn’t build it if there wasn’t a market for it. If 8GB isn’t right for you then there’s 16GB. Same GPU, no compromise, just memory options.

I don’t think he’s that far off; eSports games don’t have the same requirements as AAA single-player games.

The numbers seem to come from SteamDB’s instant search.

There’s about a thousand more Verified and Playable games than two months ago.

Coincidentally(?), today Humble launched a bundle that includes both Pillars of Eternity games.

I was going to start PoE on Game Pass soon, but I think real-time with pause was what turned me off of Baldur’s Gate 1 back in the day, so I guess I’ll wait for the patch.

The reason why those two new PSUs only have one 8-pin connector is because they both sport two 12V-2x6 sockets instead. The company does offer PSUs with up to three 8-pin and one 16-pin power slots.

The only reason why anyone would want to use two 12V-2x6 cables is to have a PC with two Nvidia graphics cards but given that SLI is dead and long gone on the latest generation of GeForce GPUs, dual setups are purely for AI, to let you do your own training and inference.

I’m not sure about the AI angle. The product pages for the PSUs don’t mention AI, and no company is going to make a product for AI and not mention AI.

The headline is misleading. The full quote from the CEO is

My first message would be, if you’re not comfortable, don’t let your kids be on Roblox.

That should just be common sense.

My father is retired and still needs to use PowerPoint. He is very bad at retirement.

DOJ is controlled by the fascists, so investigating nvidia would really only be a minor distraction from investigating and intimidating Trump’s many, many enemies.

I swear nvidia heard about AMD’s release plans and decided they needed to be first, regardless of supply.

The Enterprise LTSC versions will be supported for a few more years, regular support for Pro is ending in October same as Home. Some of the worst stuff like Co-Pilot hasn’t made it in to LTSC (yet).

massgrave.dev has .isos and instructions

Reminder that Bethesda is owned by Microsoft, the company that insists it’s going to end support for Windows 10 in October and wants everyone to move to Windows 11, which doesn’t officially support perfectly functional but somewhat old CPUs. So of course they don’t care about GPUs too old to support ray tracing.

There’s also Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, which has all that plus pole dancing scenes and VR support.

They publish games that focus heavily on getting new swimsuits for their “daughters”. What did they expect to happen?

They’ll be pricing it against the 5070, not the 4080.

Point is the gains are mostly from the new frame generation. The difference between a 4070 and a 4090 is much more than gains they’re showing without the new FG.

PC Gamer left out the charts that really show it; everything to the right of A Plague Tale: Requiem has extra generated frames on the 5070:

But the dev’s reason for the account requirement will just be “the boss said so”…

The update is pretty important:

Update, July 5, 1:50 p.m. PT: Apple has told IGN that it has now approved the Epic Sweden AB Marketplace app, and that it’s asked Epic to fix the appearance similarity issue in a future submission. Epic Games confirmed this with an update on its X/Twitter account, which you can see below.

A good reason would have been potential “synergies” with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.

They’re also increasing the price of V-Bucks to try to get even more money out of Fortnite players.

I remember driving around with the crew, singing “What I Got.” Good times.

I think Interplay still owns Freespace. They still exist, apparently.

In this case, sites could make content unavailable to everyone to make sure Americans using VPNs don’t see it.