Take-Two has been a shitty company for a long time now.
The only reason I kept buying the Rockstar Games is that they make some really good games, and they have been pretty cool with the community. Though with the reports of abuse of their workers coming out, I'm not so sure anymore.
It is Take-Two that re-released Red Dead for too much. It was Take-Two that released the trilogy in its broken form. Rockstar Games were not involved in those, to my knowledge. They were sourced out to other companies.
Rockstar in the past has praised mods, where Take-Two hunts them down and squishes them.
With how much crap Take-Two has been doing lately, I can't give them another cent anymore.
I'm sure GTA6 will be a great game, but I don't think out of good consciousness I can buy it.
I haven't spent another cent on GTA Online for a while because they just don't seem to give a damn about all the cheating.

It isn't so much that Windows 10 is popular, it is more than Windows 11 released without support for computer more than 3 years old. Even some computers 3 years old wouldn't have worked because they were using last gen CPUs and didn't support TPM 2.0.
Go into the pandemic, you have computer shortages and people losing their jobs. You have even more tech people losing their jobs lately, and people just can't get, or afford new computers. Meaning the majority of computers just can't run Windows 11.
Microsoft have given most people no upgrade route. Windows 10 is the end of line for Microsoft OSes for most people's computers.
The other problem is that most people I know don't like Windows 11. Microsoft keeps making decisions that their customers don't like, so some people, like myself, have decided on our computers that support Windows 11, not to downgrade to it.

Sad to see the end of Cpunter Strike.
We all know Valve never goes past 2, or sometimes never finishes 2.

Just to think, with rampant cheating on PC, basically at least 1 modder in every session, it just took Rockstar a threat of people being permanently banned and not able to pay them microtransations to finally start trying to do something about the problem. Break the TOS, no problem. Threaten their income and they finally start to care.

I'll admit to being wrong! I totally thought Stadia had 5 years until is shutdown. Turns out I was optimistic by 2 years. Surprised it is shutting down? Nope. The writing was on the wall since the first rumours of it. Heck, its a Google product and almost nothing Google lasts without major breaking changes. Heck, if you integrate with Google Maps you are constantly having to keep on top of their ever changing APIs.

Really Brandon Hill, senior editor from Tom' Hardware?
"And if Best Buy is confident enough to throw GPUs behind its $200 Totaltech paywall, nothing's stopping the company from doing the same with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X during future stock drops."
I'm pretty sure a simple search would have shown him that this started with the PlayStation 5. You cannot buy a PlayStation 5 without Totaltech.

I miss the old days were tech news was done by tech people who would do their research before posting things.

It is very rare that I login to GTA Online PC and there isn't a cheater on the server. Fortunately they aren't always griefers anymore.
It has been a long time since I saw UFOs all over the place, or random vehicles dropping down from above my head. It is still fairly common to have it raining money bags.
Now randomly blowing up, or someone using a unlimited, no cool down orbital cannon is still very common. I find the cheat that forces you out of any vehicle especially annoying, but the most common one I see used is the invulnerable vehicle.
It is annoying when someone comes and kills you, then keeps killing you and there is nothing you can do about it. This one guys killed me, kept coming after me, I went and got my jet and hit his vehicle with at least 12 direct missile hits. There were a few other misses, but this was a vehicle which may have taken max 3 hits to blow up. Or the guy coming after me in his jet, slams into the ground, skids along it almost complete nose down, runs into a building, getting stuck in it for a while, then manages to wiggle out and fly away.
Sometimes it is hard to tell if someone is using a cheat, because there are some really good griefers that aren't cheating, they are just really good at the game. I have run into some of those too, but those are few and far between.

In the presentation they also talked about reworking water generation. Before you would just get rivers above land. Now you can get underground rivers and waterfalls. Or even flooded caves.

Wolfen wrote on Oct 3, 2020, 23:09:

jdreyer wrote on Oct 3, 2020, 20:43:
Hmm, there are already caves. And the Extreme Hills environment is pretty mountainous. I guess it will be interesting to see what they add.

Says it right in the second sentence. Improved generation and new features like lush caves and dripstone caves. Admittedly the caves were pretty boring over time so it's nice to see they may add something new to that.

I think it would have been better to call them spyglasses. The Telescopes allow you to see things in the distance without having to actually go there.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 4, 2020, 15:25:
Telescopes? Which do what...?

There is actually a very valid case here against Apple.
My worry is that if Epic fails, it will make it harder for someone else to win the case.
I don't know if Tim Sweeney is doing this for the people, like he says he is. Maybe he is just doing it for the profit of his own company. He may even be doing it for Epic Games Store IOS.
What ever the reason, he has been going about this the wrong way.
Fortunately Apple has as big an ego as Sweeney does. While some of the false representations may not be directly relevant to the case, you don't ever tick off a judge by making false representations.
Either way, this probably isn't going to have an outcome for at least a couple of years.

The case against Google on the other hand is on shattered thin ice. Samsung is one of the major Android phone sellers, and they have their Galaxy Store on every device they ship, no extra clicks. Installing other app stores isn't that hard either. That being said, this will probably drag out for years as well.

I don't think Descendant Studios were very good in negotiating dates.
I haven't read all the court documents, but it sounds like like they entered into a contract with Little Orbit LLC that they would release Decent in 2019.
When it became apparent that Decent was not going to be released in 2019 Little Orbit LLC put pressure on them to get it done. This lead to to member of Descendant Studios to, according to Little Orbit LLC, make disparaging remarks about Little Orbit LLC. Thus the defamation part of the lawsuit.
Descendant Studios claims that Little Orbit LLC signed the contract late, delaying their ability to get it completed on time.
In the court filings, Little Orbit LLC was late in filing some required paperwork, which has held up the case.
Part of Descendant Studio's defense is that the CEO did not know the some of the terms in the agreement with Little Orbit LLC.

I don't know the validity of these claims, but from partial quick reading of the court filings, it sounds like both companies lack proper organization. If you are going to launch a lawsuit, you think you'd have everything in order first. If you are going to sign an agreement for help from another company, your CEO should know what is in that contract.

I'm not sure why people are worried about the longevity of their drives with it "defragging" every startup.
According to Microsoft, when disk optimizer runs on an SSD, it just executes a trim command. It isn't supposed to move data around on a SSD. Moving data around on a SSD doesn't really help performance.
Now it might be that people don't trust Microsoft to be telling the truth. It might be that people don't trust Microsoft to properly detect their drive is a SSD, or maybe they don't understand how Windows 10 is supposed to work with drives.

"Apple has a well-earned reputation for security"
Starting with a flat out lie isn't a good start to the story.
Then I go to read that you have to use Safari. Who uses Safari unless they are on iOS, and thus have no choice?

OSX/MacOS has a long history of extreme poor security. Mostly stemming from using out of date third party tools. We aren't talking partially out of date either. One third party tool hadn't had its version updated for 8 years. The group maintaining the tool were constantly updating it and making security fixes, but Apple didn't consume them.

There have been times that reporters have asked hacking groups about if they go after Macs. The general consensus was there aren't enough Macs, and they don't pose enough of a challenge.

It is sad to hear you are shutting down in 12 months, but that is kind of expected when you get bought by EA.
Hopefully the 2 ex Bioware employees now at Wizards of the Coast will come out with the good games you used to make.

Lucky and stupid are not the same thing. Apple has survived in spite of constant stupid decisions. We aren't talking about slightly stupid decisions, we are talking completely stupid.
We are talking about being the market leader in computers and loosing it.
We are talking about being able to become tge market leaders again and squandering it.
We are tslking about being the market leader in music devices and squandering it.
We are talking about the ability to be the world leader in cellphones and squandering it.
We are talking about being the world leader in music and squandering it.

.This isn't stumbling, this is showing a level of incompetence that most companies couldn't afford to do once. Just look at Nokia. Apple has done this at least 8 times.

They are going from an unimaginable stupid development cycle, to an extremely stupid one!
Sure that is an improvement, but not much of one.
How do inept people keep ending up as team leads at large companies?

Is that Overwatch 2 for mobile?

And here I thought it was actually, "People using Two-factor Authentication are putting their security at risk."
Honestly, both Facebook snd Twitter have been found exposing the second factor contact information to external entities risking our security in the process. This secondary factor already being bypassed by finding the phone number of people and intercepting the time limited codes.

Epic Games: Please use our store, we know it sucks, but we will give you more of the money.
Gearbox: More of the money! YES!!!
Epic Games: *looks at Borderlands 2 sales* We can't preload that to that many people our store sucks too much.
Customers: Screw EGS, I'll wait for the sale on Steam
Epic Games: Wait, pre-sales of this game are sucking so badly that we can handle that load. Hood news everyone!
Epic Games: Everyone?

Creston wrote on Jul 31, 2019, 11:19:
Can't fault his math, but I find it curious that he says he can stay on the front page of the EGS for a longer time than with Steam (Certainly a possibility), but then he releases around the same time as BL3.

No offense, buddy, but which of these two games do you think is going to be front and center?

Maybe thats the plan. Release with BL3 and hope that both bring enough people with money to actually buy the games. After all, isn't EGS just filled with poor steamers, 13 yo with no money and people waiting on the next free game?