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warm, do gaming w Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA"

"Former Battlefield director" meaning, worked on the upcoming Battlefield narrative. Had nothing to do with Battlefield before the franchise's death.

His real accolade was being the fucking Halo Creative Director at Bungie. Who writes these titles?

vikingtons,
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I suppose they wrote battlefield in the headline since it’s an EA franchise, but I totally see where you’re coming from. At least they mention halo directly after.

warm,

They make it sound like he was a big deal with the BF franchise at EA, but he really wasn't.

vikingtons,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, you’re not wrong

Badeendje, do games w Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Its fun! Running, explosions, bugs to squash…

Oddbin,

Ragdoll hilarity every game too. Great fun.

chemical_cutthroat, do gaming w Former Battlefield director doesn't "have anything positive to say about EA"
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The guy has been with EA less than ten years. We’ve all known EA is a garbage company for 20 or more years. If you lay down with dogs…

amzd, do gaming w Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls Valve "assholes" over Steam fees in dug up email thread

Article is paywalled

BruceTwarzen, do gaming w Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls Valve "assholes" over Steam fees in dug up email thread

Shut the fuck up Tim.

p03locke, do gaming w Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May
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Good, they’ve been on a tear of classic remakes here lately, and I hope the new engine System Shock was built from can be used to remake System Shock 2.

clay_pidgin, do games w Nintendo emulator Pizza Emulators pulls its apps from Google Play store

Anyone recommend a Bluetooth controller for Android? I just tried emulating a GB game for the first time, and remembered that I hate soft keys.

Chee_Koala,

The Xbox controller?

Bubs,

I second this. If you already have one (or even a ps5 controller) then they are a perfect choice. I imagine a switch pro controller would work too, and you get the bonus of having a nice controller for your switch.

If you don’t have one then 8bitdo is a safe choice

clay_pidgin,

I’ve got an xbox360 and a PS4 - nothing newer. I’ll have to buy SOMETHING, sadly. I do appreciate the suggestion ,though.

caseofthematts,

I’ve not tried it, but I’m sure if you can connect a PS5 controller, you can use your PS4 controller. Look it up and give it a shot!

clay_pidgin,

It seems that I can! Most excellent. Thank you.

Stovetop,

PS4 controllers use Bluetooth and can be paired with a phone.

clay_pidgin,

I assumed they were a proprietary 2.4ghz like the Xbox 360! Hot dog. Thank you.

deafboy,
@deafboy@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t support for them dropped basically everywhere recently due to an unfixable security bug in it’s bluetooth implementation?

SirAtomic,

I use an 8bitdo pro 2. Over kill, probably but it works with lots of devices. Phone, switch, computer.

clay_pidgin,

That looks like a good choice, thank you. I’ll see if I can sneak it past the wife.

yamanii,
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But there’s no support for the phone, how will you use it? Satelite controllers are the best for this.

kronarbob,

shop.8bitdo.com/…/8bitdo-mobile-clip-for-pro-2-bl…

There is a support for the pro 2.

Mango,

It’s not Bluetooth, but the Razer Kishi pro v2 is just absolutely wonderful! It even gives you a 3.5mm headphone port with a very capable amp!

clay_pidgin,

Huh, that’s neat!

Krrygon, (edited ) do gaming w Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May

Very cool! I had a blast playing it. Nice that it will be available to a broader audience soon

Schadrach, do games w Nintendo emulator Pizza Emulators pulls its apps from Google Play store

I suppose this just means that piracy of the Pizza Emulators themselves is going to pick up, unless there are better GB/GBA emulators for android out currently.

yamanii, do games w Nintendo emulator Pizza Emulators pulls its apps from Google Play store
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the DMCA and it’s anti-circumvention clause has been a blight on consumers, can’t even fix trains without getting sued.

Blizzard, do gaming w 600 Activision QA staff have become gaming's biggest union to date

Wait, Actiblizzion has quality assurance?!

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Coulda foolt me

ImplyingImplications,

They mostly test the breastmilk in the office fridges

cooljacob204,

💀

ArmoredThirteen,

As someone currently working in QA, they might have a bunch of high priority tasks related to monetization or partnerships with legal obligations. QA for things the consumer sees only needs to be prioritized enough to keep the profits vs. outrage ratio in the green

NoneYa, do games w Nintendo emulator Pizza Emulators pulls its apps from Google Play store

Exactly what Nintendo was hoping for. I can’t blame the developers, though. But this sucks.

Old ass game systems where it’s practically impossible or expensive to get the physical games anymore, let alone the console, with some titles locked to those systems, never to be enjoyed again except through emulation.

mesamunefire,

Yep. If anyone is using emulators, I would suggest keeping a copy just in case this spills over to all emulators.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Old ass game systems where it’s practically impossible or expensive to get the physical games anymore, let alone the console, with some titles locked to those systems

And if you do manage to acquire a physical copy Nintendo isn’t go to see any of the money you spent on it anyway

echo, do gaming w With gaming's internet usage climbing, how do internet providers keep up?

Gaming uses extremely little bandwidth.

tabris,

Software updates can take quite a bit of bandwidth though. Call of Duty updates are significant events on the network, at the scale of streaming major sporting events.

bjorney,

Read the 2nd sentence of the article. They are talking about 120gb CoD patches

echo,

Still not a big deal. Literally why CDNs and bitorrent tech exist. Ads, spam, and crawlers totally eclipse this traffic. This is just the ISPs posturing to raise rates.

bjorney,

Literally why CDNs and bitorrent tech exist

Neither of these reduces the amount of bandwidth an end user requires to download a 120gb file. If anything torrenting makes it more problematic because the upload is spread amongst a dozen low density residential users rather than a single high throughput datacenter

This is just the ISPs posturing to raise rates.

Ya absolutely. Doesn’t change the fact that ‘gaming uses very little bandwidth’ is only considering the UDP packets sent during an online gaming session and ignoring all the other sources of usage.

I literally have 5-10gb of updates queued up the first time I open steam nowadays

echo,

That’s still not that much data. Advertisements and crawlers constantly use up far more bandwidth. Fight the real problems instead of blaming the users.

bjorney,

That’s still not that much data

Gaming is 10-20% of the ISPs total network load, and the MW3 launch constituted like a 110% increase over base network load, so yes it’s a lot of data.

Advertisements and crawlers constantly use up far more bandwidth.

Crawlers rely on private connections between datacenters, very little of that traffic touches residential ISPs

Fight the real problems instead of blaming the users.

Literally no one is blaming users - There are plenty enough reasons to hate most ISPs, we don’t have to make up facts to find new ways to be mad.

Midnitte, do gaming w PlayStation studio Deviation Games has closed down

It really sucks for the hard-working employees with so many layoffs happening in the industry, but I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise since they haven’t released a game yet.

Deviation Games was formed by ex-Treyarch and Call of Duty developers in 2020, led by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony. Eighteen months later, however, Blundell departed Deviation. It then laid off around 90 employees back in May 2023, citing a “difficult situation” that “forced” the layoffs.

echo64, do games w PlayStation studio Deviation Games has closed down

Deviation games is not a playstation studio.

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