I have my issues with the mobile version *cough*no controller support*cough* but doesn't its mere existence suggest that they should have the source code? It didn't come out *that* long ago.

I replayed Magic Carpet 2 last year, and aside from needing to turn it to low resolution mode in underground levels to prevent crashing, and the map screen scrolling way too fast, it worked pretty well.

Magic Carpet 1, on the other hand, has massive problems. I started up a game of that right after MC2, but couldn't get through it. FPS that varies wildly and is also tied to game speed, so it'll go at a snails pace in heavy action and turbo mode if looking at the sky, and lots of bugs with enemy castles and wizards becoming invincible for no reason, which will also mean that a level is unfinishable, because most levels require getting most of a level's available mana.

Not that I'd say no to a better running MC2, but of the Magic Carpet games, MC2 is in a much better state on modern hardware.

If they just said that the stolen assets were "made by AI" then they'd instantly get a legion of defenders.

How ever will people find other live service extraction shooters to play in the mean time?

Probably not Dark and Darker from Epic.

I really liked Borderlands 1 at the time, and had a good-enough time with 2, but it was just a couple of hours into The Pre-Sequel, which I only picked up on a deep-deep discount, that I had simply had enough, and haven't even opened 3, even with it getting added to my library as a freebie.

Need it. Need it. Need it. Need it.

Alright, I'm not *that* hyped about a Gex rerelease, but I enjoyed Gex 1/3* back in the day enough that I'm planning on getting this sometime.


* Fairly sure I skipped Gex 2.

I've increasingly come to the opinion that the availability of games and other art shouldn't end due to corporate interests deciding that availability isn't profitable, nor paying exorbitant fees due to it being treated like jewelry, of which none reaches anyone involved in its creation.

I was asking around to see if anyone found Spaceballs: The Flamethrower on store shelves, but I keep getting told 'we ain't found shit'
I guess that I'm going to have to comb the desert. Right after Snotty beams me down. I heard that he's wonderful.

Prez wrote on Jun 11, 2025, 09:14:
Are you guys never not angry?

I wanted to stay apolitical for most of my life, but after a racist jerk successfully got me evicted from where I was living on a technicality because I wasn't 100% white (I'm like 15/16s, I know exactly one person with both that information (which he seemed very interested in) as well as the technicality they used, plus the actual owner, who was as upset as I was once the sheriff showed up) it kind of gets hard to ignore.
Then it gets even more difficult to ignore when legislation is pushed down on a regular basis that directly harms myself, my friends, and my family.

Believe me, I'd *love* to not have a need to be angry about those in charge trying to harm me and the people I care about.

I'm fairly sure that the strategy is to turn poor people against each other to slash any protections that they might have, by convincing them that the cuts don't apply to them, in service of tax cuts to the people on top. Stirring hate in the lower classes seems to be the main way they even garner support, since much of the platform requires people to endorse policies that hurt themselves. It's all divide-and-conquer, going after marginal groups to keep a base. Which groups are marginal at the moment can vary, and I don't think that it's even arguing what the current target is when it's clearly a scapegoat for the overall plan, especially in this case, where they're pushing massive cuts to the general population over a theoretical population that they won't even prove exists.

In this case, direct attacks on Medicaid expansion, under the guise that it's only for able-bodied workers choosing not to work, ignoring that medicaid disability has a strict $2000 asset limit in addition to the income requirements, so many disabled people are dependent on expansion to get the health coverage that they cannot otherwise afford. This also impacts the wider population, including workers out of work due to no fault of their own.

And beyond all that... no individual is cashing checks from having health care coverage. It's letting people see a doctor so that they don't get sick and die. Only the truly heartless are opposed to that.

Sounds similar to the Sinden gun, but with internal hardware instead of running on a host
The Sinden isn't too bad, but it's very heavy compared to something like the NES Zapper and slower to update since it basically moves around a cursor. This may be even heavier if it needs more internal hardware.
The Sinden still needs the host to cooperate by drawing a border. I wonder if they'll get around that.

Doom is before PC gaming. Got it.

I'm old enough to remember playing PC Hack back in the 80s on a PC, and it sure felt like PC gaming at the time.
I'll even open Nethack every once in a while these days.

I consider myself reasonably computer literate, but I recently tried setting up a Linux PC (I don't recall the flavor) and saw it freeze while idle, and after that, the bootloader was broken in such a way that even many hours spent trying to diagnose and fix the issue wasn't enough to get it to boot normally again. I could get it to boot as a one-time thing through a recovery process, but nothing I did would get it to just boot normally again.

If I can't figure it out, with an extensive history of using/building/etc computers, I don't think that it's anywhere near ready for the average person, even before getting into compatibility issues, or some absolutely baffling things, like common actions treated as modal windows by the OS that prevented me from doing *anything* else until they were closed.

I probably could have gotten it back up and running right away by reformatting/reinstalling, but that would also suggest that I'd need to be doing that every few months, as this was a recent install that I didn't even install too many things into.

I hate Microsoft, but I hate an OS that just doesn't consistently work right more.

No Rest for the Wicket has about 35k Steam reviews, which as an outsider, seems like a lot. That's more than half of Hades 2, which seems to be their closest competition (Another 'early access' 3rd person action RPG) and even nearly as many as the new Elder Scrolls: Oblivion remake.

It's also labeled "Early access" so categorically, I have no interest in it at the moment.
I know that not personally wanting to spend time/money on an unfinished product doesn't mean that no one does, as some "Early access" games are some of the biggest ones out there, but it's enough for me to just not look at it.

And it's kind of sad if this game kills the studio, because the Ori games were something special.

jdreyer wrote on May 11, 2025, 18:04:
Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb

Comments are overwhelmingly positive for this move. I wonder what prompted it. Hopefully they get the support they need for viability.

Basically new owners wanting overly-strict guidelines on what they were allowed to say.
The staff of Giant Bomb said no, and basically walked out.
That would have been the end of Giant Bomb, but it looks like the new owners were willing to sell it to the staff instead of taking a total loss.

But financially crushing anyone who says something they don't like *is* what they consider "free speech" these days.

I am a weak gamer with slow response times, so while I could beat Doom 2016, I couldn't beat Eternal even on the lowest difficulty and wouldn't buy this in case I run into the same issue...

...But it's on Game Pass and I like FPS games, so it's just a (sizable) download. I can leave my PC on overnight a night or two.

I'm definitely planning to try this soon. The first Savage Planet game felt like a more satirical take on Metroid Prime, and anything that reminds me of Metroid Prime is a good thing.

It might be a while before I play this, as MW5 was a Gamepass game for me, and I'll wait for a package deal on the base game + DLC on a different store, but I am looking forward to this.
I played through most of the Mechwarrior games last year and had a really good time.
MW5 could have been better, especially in the level design, but I'm happy enough that they made a new linear campaign MW game.

Not clicking the link, but just from the summary, I can already see that the author is attributing it to the wrong problem.

The issue is that ongoing support of old games, in GTA's case, GTA Online, has a way of consuming a large amount of company resources. So long as a monolithic ongoing project remains profitable, the company behind it has little incentive to make anything new.

Look at Epic. When do I expect the next big game from them?
...About the time that Fortnite stops making a massive profit.

Of course, the consequences of betting big on an ongoing game can backfire. Look at Concord, and, well, Sony basically declaring that their entire release slate was "Live Service" stuff. Sony may have pivoted away from that, but there's no question that the PS5 library has been slim, and a lot of it was due to resources being poured into live service stuff.

Not saying GTA 6 isn't big, and almost definitely too big, but GTA's own success is kind of to blame.
...I've been feeling that this was a problem since the Ultima Online days. There were other factors, but UO's success had a large part in the franchise ending, and a lot of other studios have followed a similar route in the years since.

But also... why, really, does AAA really matter? The gameplay isn't necessarily better than anything out of the smaller studios, so what we're really paying for is graphics that requires hardware that costs too much with dev cycles that take too long.