Microsoft keeps adding CoPilot and I just keep uninstalling it.

Such a wordy title... let's see if we can't shorten that a bit.

TikTok Misinformation Is Warping Young People's Understanding of ADHD
TikTok Misinformation Is Warping Young People's Understanding
TikTok Misinformation Is Warping Young People
TikTok Misinformation Is Warping People
TikTok Misinformation Is Warping
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All this news about the games being added to GeForce NOW would be interesting if anyone could get an account, but since they've put a freeze on adding new memberships (nominally because they changing payment processors) it's all sort of pointless...

Beamer wrote on Dec 5, 2024, 11:21:
Trump isn't the one pulling those strings, though. It's his strings being pulled. He has a lot of close advisors that are heavily pumping crypto and crypto companies, most notably Peter Thiel and JD Vance.

And Russia. With the ruble not being welcome as a method of currency in many places anymore, Russia has been investing more in crypto as a way to bypass these restrictions.

"Early adopter product" for those of you too lazy to click on the link to the Apple story but not too lazy to click on the link to these comments ;-)

Oh for gog's sake. Does every game have to start adding RPG features? What's next, adding crafting? The original Control worked well enough as a shooter. It didn't need added complexity. I didn't get to the end of it and say, "this was a fun and trippy adventure, but if only I'd been able to max out my shooting stat!" I just wanted to explore more of the world. Keep the gameplay the same and just give me more freaky stuff.

Better get it out onto the market before the US blocks all funding to anything Ukraine related...

New Half-Life 2 Steam updates hint at something special for 20th anniversary

Half Life 3 confirmed?

(C'mon, somebody had to say it)

Blockenstein wrote on Oct 21, 2024, 18:30:
I was really hoping the 1-year anniversary update would be the Steam version. Oh well, maybe next year.

I forgot the game was even released because I never see mention of it on Steam. I'm certainly not going out of my way to buy it on Epic.

Well, maybe one day Remedy will get my money. But obviously it isn't going to be today.

DarkCntry wrote on Oct 16, 2024, 22:53:

jdreyer wrote on Oct 16, 2024, 20:35:
It's almost as if ISPs are regional monopolies that abuse that situation and should be heavily regulated or nationalized.

But how do we (the companies) make money without all that!?

It's not that they can't make money, they just can't make OBSCENE amounts of money.

Which is un-American! Down with regulations!

/s

Well, I'm sure that if Ubisoft does decide it's not financially responsible for them to keep running the servers, they'll do the right thing and release the server code so that the few people who are still interested in the game and have paid for the various battlepasses and MTX will be able to keep playing it, right? Right?



(Are those crickets?)

Unigine; now there's a name I haven't heard for a long, long time. Mostly I remember it for their free benchmarks (I still use their 2015 'Valley' benchmark as an initial stress-test for new PCs, just because it's so lightweight and easy to install). I know it's still used in the business arena for virtualization and simulation, but it's pretty much dead in the gaming market. From what I've heard, it's not really competitive with Unity, much less Unreal these days, and its pricing is pretty high.

But the demos are nice.

chickenboo wrote on Aug 20, 2024, 14:42:
A STEAM listing! Very interesting. So when Epic doesn't offer them money up front, they decide to release on both platforms at the same time. I wonder why that is. Maybe because the gaming mass tends to congregate on Steam... no, it couldn't be that...

There was an article about how the exclusivity program wasn't working out that well for Epic; it wasn't bringing in as many new customers as they'd hoped. It's likely that the amount of money Gearbox was asking for Borderlands 4 was far more than Epic was willing to pay.

Either way, it's good for gamers. Nobody really liked Epic locking games up as exclusives.

Is the date when Ubisoft shuts down the servers and prevents you from playing the game anymore on that timeline?

Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Jul 29, 2024, 08:54:

aka_STEVE wrote on Jul 29, 2024, 08:01:
Borderlands 1 & 2 were great. After that , they were all uninspired misses for me.
Maybe they could try to do another Aliens game...

Aliens: Colonial Marines.... tsk tsk.. I read this article that years later someone found one tiny error in the code for the xenomorphs' AI behavior, and that after it was fixed, the game actually worked. Did anyone try after that fix?

I did. Even with the patch, Aliens: Colonial Marines is still not a very good game. After all, it wasn't just the AI people took issue with.

The game isn't absolutely terrible; I'll say that much. Despite all the complaints, I didn't really have much issue with the visuals. It wasn't a high-end game, but it was okay. A few parts even looked pretty neat (I rather liked exploring the Hadleys Hope base from Aliens). But at best the game was a B-tier title; sometimes achieving competent design, often not, but never exceeding that low bar.

The improved AI patch helped... a little. But the game still suffered from poor level design, unexciting weapons, an awful story, worse voice acting, and generally lackluster mechanics overall. Except for diehard Aliens fans, it's not worth playing.

(the multiplayer was sometimes fun though... but it was still pretty poor compared to anything else. And it's pretty much dead nowadays).

Came to say the exact same thing.

And given the number of similar responses, it appears there is a real desire for the IP's return. Given the success of "Control" (which played on many of the same ideas) I'm surprised the franchise has been ignored for so long.

Are you listening, publishers? Don't let that "Blairs Witch" game be the last we saw of Spook House and the Stranger!

I really wonder how EA's new strategy will play out.

On the one hand, sportsball fans are fanatic about their video-games. There's a reason that FIFA and Madden are some of the biggest sources of revenue for EA. The people who play those games really love those games, and are not only happy to keep buying it year-after-year, but will pay through the nose for all the micro-transactions EA sells alongside those games.

On the other hand, for all that it's a scummy, immoral organization, the FIFA brand is very powerful, and being able to play with actual teams and players is a huge part of fantasy footie. Lacking the association with FIFA (even if EA does manage to wrangle a few teams, stadiums and players) is going to greatly diminish the value of the game.

Freeing themselves from the expense of licensing the FIFA brand will save EA a bundle, sure. But will it outweigh the revenue lost by disappointed players? And when FIFA finally licenses their name to some other publisher, will EA be able to compete? It will be interesting to see.

There are two things I take away from this update:

Gaming Journalism Website: Sorry for not checking up on the facts before we posted our story, everyone, but thanks for all the ad-imprints you sent our way.

Rockstar: Everyone is excited about a potential sequel to LA Noir, so let's definitely not do it!

Sorry Capcom, but your shenanigans with DRM, your over-reliance on MTX and rehashing old games, and your 'mods=piracy' stance have cost you any future sales from me. There are better developers who make better games on which I can spend my cash.

Capcom: because we've never owned a franchise that we won't milk for all its worth.