I’m starting a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that the embracer group became the “embracer group” to embrace small devs and then kill them off. This company keeps killing perfectly functional studios.
I wonder how many non-nsfw streamers are rejoicing because they no longer have to be paranoid about modded games and nudity. Prior to twitch relaxing rules regarding nudity, you could get banned for a split second of nudity in a modded game, and official nudity/sex scenes in M-rated games were playing with fire (technically allowed, but up to an admin’s discretion if you were trying to “stream porn” or just playing the game as intended). At least I’m assuming these new rules will include further relaxing the game content rules. It wouldn’t make sense to allow full “artistic nudity” if you’re still banning streamers because of a few frames of modded tiddy.
Yeah. Some people watch the awards for the trailers too. Like I’ll be honest, I don’t really care much about who won what at this point. As far as I’m concerned, as long as people like David “I don’t make games for f-ggots” Cage or Quantic Dream (David “I’m so misogynistic I drove Elliot Page out of the closet” Cage’s company) are still eligible to receive awards then the game awards don’t actually mean anything. I just like the trailers and was very excited about Sega’s announcement.
Edit: I’d read somewhere that Elliot Page said that David Cage was one of the contributing factors to him deciding to publicly come out as a trans man, or something along those lines, but I can’t find it now so I might be thinking of someone else?
Iirc Elliott credits David Cage with being such a horrifying misogynist that he decided to come out of the closet (he’s a trans man) so he wouldn’t have to deal with that again. The amount of effort and risk involved with being a public figure who is trans should drive home just how horrible of a person David Cage is.
Edit: I just looked it up and I can’t figure out where I read that. I may have been thinking of someone else? Regardless, David Cage is a massive misogynist and Quantic Dream is known for being an extremely toxic work environment.
They have to bring back Hideki Naganuma. He recently did some music for bomb rush Cyberfunk and based on his Twitter, he seems very much aware that Jet Set Radio is going to be his main legacy. I suspect he’d actually be pissed if they made a jsr game without him.
LISTEN UP ASSHOLES. IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED THIS GODDAMN GAME, GO DO IT. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. EAT SHIT, PLAY CRUELTY SQUAD. I WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.
IT’S MUCH EASIER TO SEE WHEN THINGS ARE IN MOTION. EITHER WAY, IF SOMETHING MOVES, SHOOT IT. NO ONE CARES. EVERYONE IS EVIL. YOU JUST WON’T GET PAID FOR THE BODY. YOU’LL GET THE HANG OF IT IN NO TIME.
No, humble bundle isn’t run by them anymore. They haven’t been run by the wolfire guys since 2017. If I’m wrong and they are then I’m probably not buying anything from humble again.
Suing valve. Like, valve is the only company I’m okay with having the amount of marketshare they currently have. I’m legit worried that if they go too hard on the lawsuit, it could result in the monkey’s paw curling (“I wish valve didn’t have so much marketshare” “granted: steam has been spun off into its own company. Without steam, valve goes under and “steamcorp’s” new management goes public”)
I think the reason why valve is doing this is because people might buy a game at a higher price, either on Steam or another storefront, and then complain that it was cheaper on Steam or another storefront and start demanding refunds or demand that Valve reduce the game’s price on steam.
What do you do then?
If you don’t address it, you’re automatically seen as the asshole even if it was the developer’s choice.
You can give out refunds, which makes you look like the good guy, but that also looks bad to companies like Visa or PayPal (my understanding is that large numbers of refunds tend to look bad to payment processors, even if the refund was initiated from the company and not the consumer). Granted, Valve is a big enough company that they shouldn’t have issues with that kinda thing, especially since they already offer refunds, but my understanding is that it still doesn’t look good to payment processors and can make them upset.
You can ask the developer to reduce the price on steam, but what if the dev says no?
You can force the dev to reduce the price, but now you’re even more of an asshole.
You can lower the cost on your storefront and cover the difference yourself, but now you’re potentially losing money. That, if I’m not mistaken, is actually anti-competative from a legal standpoint.
You’re kinda screwed if you’re trying to be the good guy.
That’s not even getting into how bad it looks if it’s cheaper on steam than somewhere else when you have a marketshare as large as Valve’s.
This truly is a shit post. Confuses everyone because it doesn’t actually confuse anyone.
Tbh I think I understand what the joke is supposed to be (Canadians and bagged milk), but it’s just a pitcher of milk and it would seem that no one’s actually weirded out by it because of that.
Yeah, they look cute but just looking at them makes my feet uncomfortable. They’re probably only comfortable if you walk on tip toes, but human feet aren’t designed for that.
I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky....
It’s great if you liked old Twitter (2016ish) or you’re a furry. It’s very furry-heavy though because the furry community is very tight-knit and so invites got passed around like candy for a while.
OH MAN I GET SO EXCITED WHEN COMPANIES PATENT GAME MECHANICS OH BOY GOD I LOVE THAT SHIT SO MUCH MMMMM I LOVE ME SOME EXCLUSIVITY
fuck you Sony.
Edit: Sony might actually run into some issues with prior art in this case. For one thing, based on the article it sounds vague enough to conflict with game saves in general; however even from the standpoint of being able to load from any point in the game, regardless of saves, even that has been done before. For an example, Factorio’s demo/replay system allows you to load a demo from a save that you’ve enabled it on, scrub through the demo to a specific moment in time, and then save that moment as a new save to continue from.
I mean, honestly? IO could probably just reskin Hitman into a James Bond game and get stellar reviews. Hitman already isn’t all that far off in that regard.
Literally a used Switch game in a big, ridiculous bag with a “New” sticker on it. Imagine going into a GameStop with a game in a bag like this and convincing them to give you credit for it as “New”....
I think there was more to it than that. It seemed more like a situation where they could kill two birds with one stone. They could destroy, or at least severely damage the stock market by ensuring the hedgefunds couldn’t buy back the shorted stock, and even if they didn’t, they had the chance to become extremely wealthy while trying.
It probably would have worked too if it weren’t for those meddling kids stock brokers like Robin Hood working with hedgefunds to claw back stocks and the SEC towering over them with potential charges of market manipulation.
seeing its recent surge in popularity it seems like a lot of people found out about the whole genre of quake-like games!!! and the level design is absolutely the most thought out ive seen in years
Yeah. I mean, have you heard about what Spyro’s creator is doing nowadays? I’ve heard he’s working at subway as a sandwich maker. You can Google “Spyro subway” to find out more about him.
sigh yeah, I’m pretty sure Google specifically tries to filter the image out, even when safe search is disabled. Doesn’t help that imgur’s NSFW purge deleted all the full-res versions that I’m aware of.
Here’s a lower-res version taken from a reddit preview (VERY NSFW/NSFL): Spyro Subway.
Edit: Does anyone know how to keep a link preview from popping up in Sync? Dunno if other clients do it, but the image is NSFW and should be blurred out at the very least
Edit 2: I just realized the original artist signed it. What a Chad move.
Why in gods name would a game remove trading after it’d been around for a while?
I don’t play rocket league, so I don’t know how good psyonix is with the community, but from the article it makes it sound like this was entirely epic’s decision. Sure, every game is going to wax and wane in popularity, so he would have had to find another source of income eventually; but he wasn’t afforded the luxury of having time to pivot when the site’s revenue started dropping too low because the rug got pulled out from under him. He was given the impression by psyonix that they liked his site by giving him an in-game flag and (it sounds like) special API access, and now they’re suddenly cutting ties to him.
VRChat. What does that mean? Do I literally get teleported into vrchat as I am irl? Do I have a little menu that’ll pop up on my wrist to change avatars/bodies? Can I go to new worlds or am I stuck in the last world I was in? Am I by myself in some kinda limbo-vrchat where it’s not actually a game but some kind of other universe that just appears to be vrchat, or can I actually meet up with other people? Can I get hurt or do the same rules of physics, health, food, etc apply? Is vrchat even a game?
If vrchat isn’t considered a game, then Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. It’ll be cool to be in the future I guess? The game itself is fun, but if I show up as the person I am irl, then it’ll be kinda boring. I guess I could always learn how to do sweet tricks and grinds though.
If this can be made compatible with a PC, I’m going to predict that this is going to be way more popular than Microsoft’s adaptive controller. I’m not physically disabled so I can’t really see myself using Microsoft’s controller, but I can absolutely see myself having scenarios where, even as someone able-bodied, I might want this. Combine that with the controller appearing to be way more capable out-of-the-box at a lower price, and I’m thinking most people would want to go with this one over the Microsoft controller.
Honestly, I kinda think this is an okay use of AI. It’s still a bit of a grey area (though it sounds like CDPR reached out to the family to get their approval first, which is very considerate of them) and the voices of dead people shouldn’t be used for new characters, but finding new voice actors for established characters can sometimes change the character’s personality which kinda sucks.
That said, it definitely shouldn’t be used for new characters (with an exception for niche scenarios, like if you’re trying to make a fully proceedurally generated game), and I think using it in situations where the actor is busy or doesn’t want to renew their contract is very questionable.
I find it bizarre that it’s 2023 and not only is chess still gender-segregated but they’re doubling down on it. It makes sense for physical sports, but chess? Really?
Y’all just scared the girls are gonna wipe the board with you.
Yet another reason to avoid Activision Blizzard. It’s amazing to me how their corrupt and broken internal culture is apparently widespread throughout the company and their subsidiarys, and no one stopped to be like, “hol’ up, we can’t act like this” while the culture was taking form. So now you end up with people like the article trying to fight against it and getting doors shut in their face.
Also, it should be pretty easy to prove whether or not she resigned voluntarily. The resignation form would either be missing her signature or have a forged signature. Dunno what Activision Blizzard is doing trying to claim she resigned voluntarily.
Edit: I thought Bungie was still owned by Activision.
I’ve been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio’s Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I’ve played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it’s definitely worth a play....
Hylics 1 & 2. There’s actually a sorta sleeper cult around the games where it seems like a lot of people know of them or have played them, but no one ever talks about them. Pretty standard action-rpg but everything’s claymation. Oh, and the second game changes genre multiple times.
Cruelty Squad. Amazing immersive sim. Looks like trash, best gameplay I’ve encountered in a while. That game goes hard.
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. I thought this was more popular, however considering how many people give me a “what’s that” when I mention it, it makes me think it wasn’t as popular as I thought. It’s a very well made spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future. Even has JSRF’s composer on a few tracks.
QT deserves more eyes on it for being an incredibly cute and wholesome parody of PT. There’s a free “demo” version on Itch.io, and if you like that then I’d highly recommend buying the full version on Steam.
E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. This game is… hm. Basically it started off life as a Warhammer 40k game, but got released as something else due to the studio failing to secure the licenses they needed for WH40K. It’s a much older indie game from back when Valve had standards regarding what made it onto steam. It’s also kinda special because it’s one of the few times the Source engine was used commercially outside Valve. It’s also pretty jank, but overall pretty fun. It’s got some pretty decent RPG mechanics on top of a first person shooter, complete with classes. You can hack basically anything but also anything can hack back. A door can hack you.
I wish we’d get another Left 4 Dead, and while I don’t feel like TF2 really needs a new game, it could probably do with a fresh coat of paint (like PBR materials).
I mean, half-life recently got a new game. It wasn’t Half-Life 3/HL2:EP3, but it was more recent than L4D and TF2; which tend to be forgotten about until people start complaining.
Some researchers did a study several years ago and found that adding a virtual nose decreased motion sickness significantly. However, I don’t think I’ve seen any developers try this. I wonder if it’d help.
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...
In Hylics 1 & 2, dying causes you to wake up in the afterlife where you can take the chunks of meat you get from enemies and put it into a meat grinder to increase your max HP.
In Cruelty Squad dying is just a consequence of living. It happens sometimes. Dying severs your divine light, making the game easier but closing some paths to you. Additionally, if you die too often, you’ll find power in misery, making the game easier again and allowing you to consume bodies to restore 1hp each. This is particularly advantageous because eating bodies dismembers the corpse, allowing you to harvest its organs without having to chase them around (most other ways of gibbing corpses tends to send organs flying). Additionally, you can get death surgery, allowing you to pass through some areas and use a few weapons that were previously too dangerous for you to access. Death surgery also allows you to wall jump.
It’s amazing. It’s horrifying. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. It’s one of the most visually and aurally offensive games I’ve ever seen. It’s an immersive sim with stellar gameplay and a nihilistic narrative wrapped in a shitpost and drizzled with a bad acid trip.
It’s set in an anarcho-captialist future that’s become overrun with hedgefund managers, cryptobros and techbros. Morals don’t exist, biotech is out of control, death is a novelty, and there are no good people. You’re a hitman in a gig economy and there’s no penalty for collateral damage, so feel free to fill a cruise ship with acid gas to get your target because somehow they have the ability to put everyone’s jellied remains back together so it doesn’t really matter if they die. Besides, they have all probably done things that’d make Hitler or Stalin queasy, so don’t feel guilty about the medical bill you effectively forced on them. The only reason why they’re not targets is because you’re not being paid to murder them.
If you get into it, make sure you read the mission briefings, try to talk to NPCs before killing or scaring them. Most of the weapons are real-world cancelled experimental weapon prototypes (like the H&K G11), weapons that’d be considered a war crime (like the acid gas grenade launcher or bolt acr that shits out enough radiation to liquify people in real time) or weapons so horrifically bad that they’re borderline useless (the zipgun). Additionally, both the Unibomber’s shack and bin Laden’s compound exist in game.
A new Nintendo Switch 2 rumor has surfaced claiming that the next-generation hybrid console could actually arrive with more memory than a powerful rival like the Microsoft Xbox Series S. The same source has also offered an update in regard to the Switch 2’s potential DLSS support and ray-tracing capabilities.
Nintendo having hardware with some oomph? Bullshit. Their thing is making cheap consoles that appeal to anyone who isn’t an edgy teenager. Dlss, Ray tracing, etc is still too new for them.
Ram is easy to believe, but imo raytracing and dlss are still too new. That said, something I hadn’t thought about is that with the OG Switch using Nvidia’s tegra, it’s entirely possible that Nvidia pushed them to adopt a next-gen version that includes dlss and rtx support.
Riven on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Another drop of the axe by Embracer Group, this time landing on Danish 3D Realms. A lot of people, including core devs, will be looking for work asap. (twitter.com)
2K Games has removed Denuvo from LEGO 2K Drive (www.dsogaming.com)
Dr(ule)agon (beehaw.org)
Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta (www.dexerto.com)
Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:...
‘The Game Awards’ Was A Full-On Parody Of Itself This Year (www.forbes.com)
Swords into ploughshares rule (pawb.social)
New Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, and More Are In Development (www.ign.com)
SEGA Reveal Teasers (Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi and More) (www.youtube.com)
Dead Space 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1943 and Crysis 3 will have their multiplayer shut down on December 8th (www.ea.com)
Cruelty Squad got awarded by The National Arts Councils of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) (www.taike.fi)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/6273186...
Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit (www.pcgamer.com)
Let's confuse Americans! (lemmy.world)
"The Next Subnautica" aims to deliver underwater survival spooks in early 2025 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Sonic the Hedgehog helped revive 63-year-old Sega. The firm wants a repeat with its other classics (www.cnbc.com)
it's not a want, it's a rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
What can you tell me about Bluesky?
I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky....
New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible (insider-gaming.com)
pspspsps rule (sopuli.xyz)
Before Project 007 was greenlit, the Hitman studio had to convince the James Bond rights-holders to give video game adaptations another shot: "They were not looking for a game" (www.gamesradar.com)
Deltarune Planned To Be Available For Purchase Once Chapter 4 Development Concludes; Substantial Progress Made (noisypixel.net)
GameStop’s definition of “New” (lemmy.world)
Literally a used Switch game in a big, ridiculous bag with a “New” sticker on it. Imagine going into a GameStop with a game in a bag like this and convincing them to give you credit for it as “New”....
what does lemmy think of cruelty squad?
seeing its recent surge in popularity it seems like a lot of people found out about the whole genre of quake-like games!!! and the level design is absolutely the most thought out ive seen in years
Spyro the Dragon creator says Mario and Sonic are now "embedded in our subconscious" (www.gamesradar.com)
Rocket League trading site founder will never 'build a product based on the decisions of another company' again after one decision from Epic puts him out of a job (www.pcgamer.com)
You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?
(Idea taken from a similar post I saw in Reddit a longer time ago)...
Sony Reveals Tons of New Details About the PS5's Adaptive Controller (www.ign.com)
AI Used to Resurrect Video Game Voice Actor in ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Universe (variety.com)
Yugioh Rule (i.imgur.com)
Former Bungie HR Manager Is Suing for Wrongful Termination After She Reported Potential Racial Bias (www.ign.com)
What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?
I’ve been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio’s Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I’ve played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it’s definitely worth a play....
Counter-Strike 2 - Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com)
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
There are worse coping mechanisms (startrek.website)
What are some games that "spin" failure states?
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...
Consumer Nintendo Switch 2 rumored to have more RAM than the Xbox Series S (www.notebookcheck.net)
A new Nintendo Switch 2 rumor has surfaced claiming that the next-generation hybrid console could actually arrive with more memory than a powerful rival like the Microsoft Xbox Series S. The same source has also offered an update in regard to the Switch 2’s potential DLSS support and ray-tracing capabilities.