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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!
Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
If I’m honest, I don’t disagree....
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. 😅...
Squabblr now officially a "free speech" cesspool, admins removed or forced out by owner (squabblr.co)
So I mean, most of us knew this beforehand and being on the fediverse we probably do not really care, but what was always on the horizon has no happened, the owner of Squabblr finally had enough having to be a decent person and has decided that his site is now “free speech purism”, so he gets to continue to insult LGBTQ...
IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell (aftermath.site)
Welp, this didn’t take long....
StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS (www.pcgamer.com)
While Blizzard is very much focussed on its big money-makers like its various Warcraft games, from WoW to Hearthstone to Warcraft Rumble, as well as Diablo and the much-maligned Overwatch 2, he’s still open to StarCraft making a comeback. That said, RTS fans shouldn’t get their hopes up. While the series might return, that...
Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’ (fortune.com)
Better late than never! 🥳
Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes (store.steampowered.com)
Recently there was a thing where VAC would erroneously flag AMD’s antilag+ feature as cheating, and issue a ban....
Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code) (www.ign.com)
In a bad-vibes moment, they’re denying a huge outlet like IGN a review code. No matter what I think of IGN in particular (nothing good tbh), that’s not something I can find a real explanation for other than “We made DC’s Gollum and want to avoid bad press as long as we can”.
Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)
Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged...
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook (www.pcgamer.com)
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Bethesda Quietly Removes Denuvo DRM from Ghostwire: Tokyo (www.ign.com)
Talk about having essentially forgotten about it. I bet!...
Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
The report comes from Cyber Daily, who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games. The site claims that new ransomware group Mogilevich are the culprits, as per the screencap of a darkweb posting above, and that the hackers are now trying to get Epic or another party to pay up for the return of...
Armored Core VI Review Thread (85/100) (opencritic.com)
Game Information...
Let's talk regrets! Specifically where games ended up too complex, too overloaded with gimmicks or too blinged out for your enjoyment
I frequently read that people at the time said the plastic minis in Nemesis can detract as much as they can add to the atmosphere, hiding important parts of the board space owing to their sheer size....
'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' (www.pcgamesn.com)
“Our trademark is the freedom given to the player, but always with limits,” Kalemba tells Lega Nerd...
Horizon Forbidden West is now available on PC (store.steampowered.com)
Releases for €60 in my local currency, so far it seems on a technical level it’s done well enough, FPS seems stable except during cutscenes (oddly enough, a lot report dropping to 30 or lower)....
Sea of Stars has completed development and gone gold! (store.steampowered.com)
Release is on-track for the 29th of August. Huzzah!
An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support (www.dsogaming.com)
You need an original ROM file, and this here, according to the article.
Against The Storm v1.1 update is out, improving early game variety and bringing a lot of QoL features (store.steampowered.com)
In short:...
Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners (www.gamesradar.com)
The big winner is - not entirely unexpected I suppose - Baldur’s Gate 3, scoring 5 categories directly.
Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended] (opencritic.com)
Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) (kotaku.com)
Well, this is hardly unexpected....
A record 14,000+ games were released on Steam in 2023 (www.videogameschronicle.com)
To me, the interesting bit here is less about Steam in particular, but about the industry overall....