"I think what you're reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn't necessarily compare the two."...
You stay home and wake up in a nightmare where Trump uses his power to usurp the presidency and end democracy, because that’s exactly what he and his followers want.
Y’all remember Kennedy and how he called for the end of the Vietnam War? Yeah, me neither.
Both parties have always had pretty shitty international policy, but at least one of those parties actually wants to govern and participate in democracy.
Yeah, take Jeremy Soule, for example. He’s talented, experienced, and composing all of these broad symphonic soundtracks for Elder Scrolls, Skyrim, and Harry Potter games.
But, what’s the soundtrack of his that sticks out in my mind? Secret of Evermore. Underrated as fuck soundtrack for an underrated as fuck game. Back when he was forced to compose for a game with limited hardware and instrumentation, where he had to use distinct melodies to achieve a sound that sticks in everybody’s minds.
They already fixed most of the bugs in the first major patch. Are you talking about the lost audio log near the entrance to the elevator on Level 8? They fixed that problem.
Because System Shock 2023 just sounds goofy. I’m not sure how else they could have renamed it. They’ve been doing this with movies for decades, too.
The “Enhanced Edition” was the old version of the game with some mods and tweaks to make it playable for modern audiences. The new one is an actual graphical and gameplay remake.
Good, they’ve been on a tear of classic remakes here lately, and I hope the new engine System Shock was built from can be used to remake System Shock 2.
The fact that they are trying to “bring the FPS combat to AAA standard” when the damn game isn’t even supposed to be an FPS, is exactly why this game will never get finished.
Think of a time in your work life where some project had the worst scope creep you’ve ever seen. Now multiply that by 1000.
Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I’m no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!
This is GREAT news. This means they can focus on making great original games and not be dragged into working on call of duty. Please just give me a new Spyro.
Also, Star Control 2, which recently got a free release on Steam. Though, I’m not sure what happen with the Star Control franchise, since that specific game is now open-source.
Ubisoft has said the recently released Skull and Bones has achieved “record player engagement” since launch, although it has yet to announce how many copies it’s sold or how many players it has.
but saying that Robert Kurvitz was solely responsible for the game is unfair to the dozens of people who also poured their hearts and souls into the game
BG3 took 6 years to develop and because of all of that time spent on enhancing the quality, it was the most-hyped game ever in 2023, winning all of the awards and making a shitton of money. A corporation that is only focused on quarterly profits would never go for long-term planning like that.
Alien Logic: A Skyrealms of Jorune Adventure is an abandonware video game based on the Skyrealms of Jorune role-playing game. It was developed by Ceridus Software for MS-DOS and published by Strategic Simulations in 1994.
I posted a pretty well-reasoned review on the subject. I don’t think Skill Up is being deceptive or anything. There are good things in the game, but there’s also soooo many bad decisions made in the process.
It’s a MASSIVE oversaturation of everything in the gaming industry. Plenty of people play games, but there are far too much product for the consumer to buy. Or, there’s far too little of good products that generate any sort of money to the development teams. 99% of all game projects either die on the vine or don’t make any money at launch.
The same logic goes for music, art, Hollywood, writing, books, pretty much any sort of creative role.
If you’re still getting an education, don’t go into the gaming industry. Don’t be a musician. Don’t be an artist. Don’t be a writer. Don’t be a Twitch streamer or YouTuber.
If you do it as a hobby, and it happens to work out, so be it. Or, if you’re just doing it because you enjoy it in your spare time, that’s fine, too. But, if it’s your goal as the primary means to make money, don’t be disappointed when it doesn’t work out. You can’t reliably work in oversaturated industries.
If you’re trying to be a programmer and don’t find a job in the gaming industry, go find some other development job that is in a more mundane industry. There’s plenty of companies that better respect their employees than the fucking gaming industry.
There are far too many local to mid-size banks that have a shocking lack of security. Logins without HTTPS, banks using ancient transfer protocols, web sites that can recover your full password in plaintext.
My old mortgage company had a bug where if you hit the Login button twice, it would redirect to a GET request with my password on the query string. Good thing I was re-financing away to some other company that actually gave a shit.
Even with all of the security standards out there, like PCI, NIST 800-53, SOX, FedRAMP, etc., there is not enough enforcement to punish these fucking lazy assholes from leaking data like this. Even in the larger sectors, it’s just a constant pattern of buying out more shitty banks with different platforms and policies, until you have this mess of mismatched everything that can’t be unified into sane standards.
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To be fair, taking in Patreon money and creating a paid mod that makes the game look like Pokemon is already a pretty shitty move, and deserves all the flak the author is getting.
Operations like this don’t have a single engineer. The more complex the project, the higher the risk of complications and outages. It’s not a matter of “oh, just think harder about your changes”.
A New York Times reporter was asked why they consistently frame things as bad for Biden but never bad for Trump. (old.reddit.com)
"I think what you're reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn't necessarily compare the two."...
Final Fantasy music legend Nobuo Uematsu thinks modern ‘movie-like’ game music is uninteresting | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Legendary video game music composer Nobuo Uematsu says he doesn’t think some modern video game soundtracks are as interesting as those in older games.
Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May (www.eurogamer.net)
Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)
Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)
Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I’m no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!
EA has suddenly and permanently changed the prices for Command and Conquer (decreased prices, close to historic lows) (www.pcgamesn.com)
Crash Bandicoot 4, Spyro Reignited Trilogy Dev Toys For Bob Is Splitting From Activision (www.gameinformer.com)
This is GREAT news. This means they can focus on making great original games and not be dragged into working on call of duty. Please just give me a new Spyro.
Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales (www.ign.com)
Ubisoft has said the recently released Skull and Bones has achieved “record player engagement” since launch, although it has yet to announce how many copies it’s sold or how many players it has.
"There ain't no gettin' offa this train!" (lemmy.world)
I love how goofy this game can be
Disco Elysium 2 just got cancelled and ZA/UM self-destroyed (www.youtube.com)
Disco Elysium 2 just got cancelled and ZA/UM self-destroyed (www.youtube.com)
Disco Elysium 2 just got cancelled and ZA/UM self-destroyed (www.youtube.com)
Noita - A roguelike for the mentally deranged (www.youtube.com)
Last Disco Elysium writer laid off by ZA/UM speaks out (videogames.si.com)
'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)
Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways (www.businessinsider.com)
Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM (www.eurogamer.net)
EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" (www.gamesradar.com)
Personally I would not call Immortals of Aveum an AAA game. 😅...
The Genius of Disco Elysium's Portraits (www.youtube.com)
A video about the art of Disco Elysium, and the character portraits in particular.
Review: Alien Logic (1994): Human Bewilderment (www.youtube.com)
Alien Logic: A Skyrealms of Jorune Adventure is an abandonware video game based on the Skyrealms of Jorune role-playing game. It was developed by Ceridus Software for MS-DOS and published by Strategic Simulations in 1994.
Positive ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’ User Reviews Split Unusually From Critics (www.forbes.com)
'I've Never Seen It This Bad:' Game Developers Explain the Huge Layoffs Hitting Riot, Epic, and More (www.ign.com)
Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads (startrek.website)
Why is the $180bn games industry shedding thousands of staff? (www.theguardian.com)
US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text (www.hackread.com)
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Microsoft’s recent layoffs contradict what the company promised of its merger, the FTC says. (www.theverge.com)
Disney invests $1.5bn in Epic Games and announces major Fortnite partnership (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Skill Up - I absolutely do not recommend: Suicide Squad - Kill the Justice League (Review) (www.youtube.com)
A well-balanced look at what they did right (graphics and acting), and the dumb decisions that got them at this point.
Palworld Pokemon Mod, which no longer looks anything like Pokemon, is available for download (www.dsogaming.com)
Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)
Suicide Squad’s day one Steam peak less than half of Marvel’s Avengers (www.pcgamesn.com)
The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are (www.pcgamer.com)