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pulido, do games w Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet

Why exactly do these companies exist in the first place?

Can’t anyone make their own reviews and publish them to the internet?

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Alright. Let’s see you get started. Come along now, chop chop we need reviews for the top 5 games that came out this week

celeste, do games w Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet
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It rarely works out, but it'd be great if some of the fired staff tried going independent. A couple of my favorite groups managed it after they were fired in similar circumstances.

Twinklebreeze,
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Second Wind comes to mind.

commander, do games w Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet

Says bought by parent company of thegamer and gamerant. I associate those with click/rage bait

It’s the cycle most gaming publications go through. I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

Become games media big and then become more and more a game guide completionist blogspam website and milking a single interview into like 30 articles. Then terminate out as an AI generated articles Google SEO advertising revenue farm putting out articles like, “Has Persona 6 been Announced Yet?” that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

p03locke,
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I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

IGN, the EA of games “journalism”.

that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

That we’ll later summarize with another LLM.

ChapulinColorado,

Forgot the top 5/6/10/25 things you didn’t know about game XYZ pulled directly from some YouTube video. Also applies to Tech news websites.

CosmoNova,

Quite often they openly refer to Xitter posts as a source for simple game mechanics when the game has come out already. They don‘t even play the games they report on anymore.

smeg,

Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their customer base.

noobdoomguy8658,
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Genuinely, is there a good outlet that’s easily available in text that is not like that? Preferably with proper full-body RSS.

Difficult to read about my beloved hobby in this hyper-monetized culture.

Gryficowa, do news w Białoruś zaprasza 150 tysięcy pracowników z Pakistanu. Łukaszenka: "Przyjeżdżajcie z rodzinami"

Patrząc na to co się stało jak zaproponował ludziom z Afganistanu “Szybszą ucieczkę” to brzmi jak czerwona flaga

Hadriscus, do gaming w Viktor Antonov, art director for Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died, according to colleagues

That struck me somewhat. His art direction permeates HL2 and Dishonored so much, I almost felt like I knew the guy.

Wyrak, do wolnyinternet w Zemsta Facebooka za nowe przepisy. „Nie wie” jak pokazywać polskie artykuły
slavistapl, do wolnyinternet w Zemsta Facebooka za nowe przepisy. „Nie wie” jak pokazywać polskie artykuły

Ale mi zemsta. Już się boję.

harcesz,
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Dla mediów owszem; obniża im klikalność ich treści.

lysy, do wolnyinternet w Zemsta Facebooka za nowe przepisy. „Nie wie” jak pokazywać polskie artykuły

firma Meta zmieniła sposób wyświetlania linków do artykułów z wiadomościami na Facebooku tak, aby wyświetlany był tylko nagłówek i hiperłącze, bez obrazów i tekstu z artykułu” – informuje Facebook.

Czyli w zasadzie polepszyli swoją usługę dla Polski.

Ludrol,
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Czyli to co Cory Doctorow pisał na swoim blogu faktycznie działa.

jordanlund, do gaming w Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration
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X = Old and Busted
Discord = New Hotness

uberdroog, do gaming w Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration
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If I can’t type in Twitter.com, the site is dead.

Beaver, do gaming w Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration
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Twitter is gonna be like truth social small and insignificant

INeedMana, do wolnyinternet w Polskie wojsko używa Matrixa
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bezpieczną alternatywę dla komercyjnie dostępnych narzędzi do komunikacji i w znacznym stopniu ogranicza ich użycie przez personel

Sensowne podejście. Zamiast się bawić w kotka i myszkę jak większość organizacji

ThePowerOfGeek, do games w The full source code for GTA 5 has apparently been publicly leaked
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Grand Theft Video (Game)

dylanTheDeveloper, do games w The full source code for GTA 5 has apparently been publicly leaked
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But does it compile?

PeachMan, do games w The full source code for GTA 5 has apparently been publicly leaked
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Does this mean the hackers and cheaters will only get worse from here?

ipkpjersi, (edited )

If support has been discontinued for GTA 5 and it no longer receives any updates then yes that’s likely.

edit: depending on what is actually included in the “full source code”, of course.

aluminium,

yes

d3Xt3r, (edited )

Unlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and the server have been leaked as well.

The source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. Cheat makers typically don’t care about the code, they’d look at either altering the game files, and/or the memory space where the game variables are stored. Having access to the source doesn’t really help with that (well it may help them understand the compiled binaries a bit better, assuming they don’t know them inside-out already - we’re talking about a 10 year old game here).

But it may help modders for making mods and stuff. These mods may or may not be detected by the anti-cheat system though.

If Rockstar coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified, or if the anti-cheat system is spooked/borked. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.

TL;DR: There’s nothing the worry about, online gaming (against randoms) will continue to suck as usual, best to stick to offline play or playing with/against a trusted friend circle.

lapommedeterre,

I agree. Most points of entry are usually via injection, and you need to maneuver around the anti-cheat defense. Once the game code isn’t in parity with the server, it’s also likely to be rejected; this leak is likely older anyway, so probably a non-issue since it’s not feature complete at this point.

It may help identify new points of entry for injection, but that’ll likely get patched once exploited.

Got_Bent,

Wow. I used to use a sector editor on floppy disks to cheat on games way back in the eighties by looking for player stats and abilities and whatnot. I had no idea that modern day cheating would be so similar to the rudimentary stuff I was doing nearly forty years ago.

ilinamorato,

Yeah, computers have a lot more bells and whistles now, but the basics of how the system and the OS work haven’t really changed that much, until you get out of native apps and into Electron and stuff. It’s honestly remarkable how similar they are. Microsoft has a bunch of documentation about weird and quirky behavior they keep available for backwards compatibility, and most modern software developers take them up on that offer.

ipkpjersi,

Well, software is software after all :P

It all becomes 1s and 0s at the end of the day lol

d3Xt3r,

The core ideas remained the same, only difference is that they’ve got more roadblocks now which makes it considerably tricker (security measures in the OS + anti-cheat + encryption/DRM + server-side checks etc).

But modern day cheating goes beyond memory editing, for instance there are things like aimbots which can work at the GPU/driver level, or input automation/macros which work completely ouside of the game so normal anticheat measures may not prevent it.

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