It's also "free" on Game Pass.

The legislative background to this is the classification rules are harsh on games that include stuff like sex or drugs as 'rewards' for actions. The rules state that anything 'interactive' has a higher 'impact' than the same content would have when non-interactive. That's been the case since the 90s. These rules are based on zero evidence

It's real easy for those of us in comfortable chairs at our computers to insist that we starve millions of people to give them a kick up the ass so they'll go put their lives on the line to overthrow a government that will imprison and murder them before giving up any power. Easy to say, easy to treat human lives as pawns, easy to disregard the obscene consequences.

Aren't they supposed to be making System Shock 3?

Mooncrash is brilliant. I agree with the Skillup review, it's a much better timeloop game than Deathloop. Also worth pointing out that despite the timeloop similarity, Deathloop and Mooncrash were made by different developers in different studios, Deathloop in Lyon, Mooncrash in Austin. Unfortunately there are some good things in Mooncrash that the Deathloop devs apparently didn't learn from. Mooncrash has more variety and more freedom in completing the game, whereas Deathloop is a more tightly controlled puzzle with only one solution.

Timmeh wrote on Sep 7, 2021, 17:49:
if only the center-right would start playing this ruthless about important issues like the left does.

I honestly think its time for a peaceful divorce. let all the red counties in America join together and reform the USA and let the blue mega cities continue down the toilet spiral. maybe china will sell them all food.

When the right starts "playing ruthless" you end up with overt fascism, so let's hope not. This isn't a flippant statement by the way, it's historical fact.

Quinn wrote on Aug 13, 2021, 14:48:
Hmm a "remaster" is stretching it. Even for remaster standards. This is basically a "it will work on current generation hardware" remaster.

Yeah a bit disappointing. Still, as long as this means it remains playable into the future it'll be worth it.

GothicWizard wrote on Jun 28, 2021, 22:33:
As a whole, I am a believe the women claims kind of man by default in most every case I read about, as they in the vast amount of cases do seem genuine. However in a few cases something does not add up to me and is the statistical 1 in 20 sexual assault allegations are false category. This in teetering on that to me. Some of the facts he presented give me pause such as; her going on a twitter delete storm after the fact, trying to remove any positive mentions of chris, several photos of them together clearly hanging out again after the alleged assault, the jealousy/bitterness of her friend with a guy she passed on and then acting out irrationally isn't unheard of, her seemingly dropped her 'bombshell' late fri as a tactic to cause the most damage, chaos for him and then egging and congratulating those companies on the socials who dropped him. Comes off as very pretty and immature at best.

I find it less about a assault and more a sloppy organized petty hit job when looking at all these bits of data combined. I could be wrong, and he could have done everything that is claimed, I am not closing to that as a potential valid truth. But for now, looking at everything as a whole, something just isn't adding up to me on her end. I WANT to believe her but having difficulty at this point doing so.

Totally understand this perspective. At the same time, deleting old tweets doesn't necessarily mean anything. If you had a small army of gamers throwing your old tweets at you as she presumably did, you might be inclined to delete them just to shut people up. Happy photos don't prove absence of abuse, etc. Basically it seems impossible for any of us to know the truth right now.

Best to play Bethesda games on PC for the mods anyway.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 16, 2021, 23:46:
And the retained law firm came to the conclusion that the Riot Games CEO did no wrong.

Doesn't sound like it, just that there was no evidence. It's hard to provide evidence of conversations had in private unless you covertly record those conversations - which in some places is conveniently illegal to do!

The video's all from the perspective of coalition troops, nevermind that many more civilians were killed than coalition troops. Will the game show the criminal use of white phosphorus and the birth defects later caused by enriched uranium? That should be the story, not the "uncertainty and tactics of modern combat".

Releasing Squadrons 2 for another $40 is probably a better money maker for EA.

People insist sexual harassment and assault just don't happen and women make it up, and you think wow that person must be pretty sheltered, and then you see someone literally writing scripts to remove any mention of it from their life... Deliberate ignorance.

Strider83 wrote on Jun 26, 2020, 22:28:
Wonderful! Let the modern day witch hunt commence! Let the anonymous accusations fly and let's ruin some lives and careers! I love 2020!

Many of the accusers in this recent flurry are not anonymous at all. Not sure how that affects your narrative.

The Eurogamer story is pretty vague. A Polygon article says he was accused of cheating on his wife with fans which is the kind of thing Ubisoft would not be happy about.

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 18, 2020, 23:25:

fakespyder wrote on Jun 18, 2020, 23:13:
I wonder if you'll be able to manage and transfer energy to shields, weapons etc. Somehow I doubt they'll get that detailed.

Read the blurb? You can also see on the dashboard the indicators for power levels.

A Polygon interview made it sound just like the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games, you can redirect power to engines/lasers/shields (for faster recharge, faster speed, or more damage), redirect shields front and rear etc.

jdreyer wrote on May 2, 2020, 18:41:
Would this have been banned outright in Australia in the past?

Possibly. Australia's always been fairly lenient with straightforward violence in the past. The main reason why stuff gets banned is if there's sexual violence or drug use related to "rewards". (E.g GTA3 was banned back in the day because you could have sex with a hooker, then run her over and collect money (a "reward") from her body after.)

So there could be drug use and sexual violence, or "references to" it, in this game, but if the player doesn't get rewarded for doing those things it might still have been OK in the past. And even today, if the player were rewarded for those things it might have still been banned. That's what's written in the guidelines, i.e. "Implied sexual violence related to incentives and rewards" results in "Refused classification" (banned).

The president of the company making CoD games is named Coddy?

Kotick's phone number was in Epstein's little black book. Doesn't mean anything of course. Just sayin.

Now that Bethesda's in charge of it all, it would be a funny turn of events if these devs ended up working on ... Prey 2.