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MacedWindow, do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

I had fun with Go when it launched, but haven’t played in years. What I love about it though is how many"non- traditional" gamers play it. I’ve had more than one 50+ coworker I’ve known tell me they play it often, and do no other gaming besides it. Two of my sisters also play, and they don’t play any other games. I think that’s awesome.

inclementimmigrant, do games w Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days

And while it’s a good thing that this asshat is gone, I’m sure he’ll be running another company soon enough and spreading his cancer and bad practices elsewhere very soon as a CEO at some other company.

Plus you know that he’s not the only cause of this at the company and his underlings that are just as cancerous with their bullshit are still there.

Thalestr, do gaming w Meta Quest 3 review impressions - one of VR gaming's best options
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I cannot trust any publication that “reviews” a product like this without taking at least a little time to go over the legitimately harmful business practices against the customer.

JasSmith, do games w Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community

Are they trying to lose to Unreal?

vrojak,

At this point you've got to wonder if they're trying to lose to Gamebryo.

Kolanaki, (edited )
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GameBryo Execs: “Finally, we can deal with someone besides Todd Howard!”

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

The real threat is Godot. It’s getting better and better. Why pay for a commercial game engine, when you can use one that comes with a literally no strings attached FOSS license? And you have full access to the source code, so you can fiddle with any line of code, if need be.

eldritch_lich, do games w Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community

I looked through the announcement post and all I can say is that this is beyond absurd. Can they even legally apply these changes retroactively? All these relatively large indie games used Unity. They can’t exactly tear everything down and use another engine. They didn’t even accept such terms at the time, so how can they suddenly be expected to pay for every download they get?

And I was so excited to finally start learning Unity too… damn. I probably should have seen something like this coming way back when they announced their IPO. I was going to learn Unreal at some point as well but I guess I’ll just uninstall Unity and skip right to UE5.

There’s definitely going to be huge action taken from every studio that used Unity in their games. I have a hard time believing that they’ll get away with the retroactive part at least.

Donjuanme,

It isn’t going into effect until January 2024, and it isn’t retroactive. And I don’t think you need to worry too much about breaking 200k paid installs if you haven’t even learned the language yet, but I admire your drive if you do.

hedgehog,

It isn’t retroactive in the sense that it applies to installs before that date, but rather in the sense that it applies to games made with Unity before the announcement.

Veraxus, (edited )
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

UE5 is great. Honestly, it would have been the better choice even before Unity decided to curb-stomp their entire community and customer base.

But then, what did we expect after Unity merged with a company known for malware. Predatory practices are their whole business model.

green_witch, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
@green_witch@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah, right.

I don’t think any American was like “wow I want a shittier version of the Witcher to watch, that’d be sooo great!”

masterspace,

American test audiences literally said that for I Am Legend which combined with studios unopinionated cowardice caused them to ruin the ending, amongst many, many, many other times that test audiences have given bad artistic feedback.

His anger should probably be focused at the showrunner / studio, but I’m guessing he’s not risking burning those bridges so is instead blaming the only other party in the decision making process, the test audiences.

green_witch,
@green_witch@beehaw.org avatar

Judging by your other claim in this thread that Americans have a 20% illiteracy rate, as an American here’s a 20% effort response:

Hurpdurp what’s i am legend gotta do with witchermans durrr

masterspace,

You do have a 20% illiteracy rate, and the response is that American test audiences have ruined very obviously good plots with their stupidity many times before.

green_witch,
@green_witch@beehaw.org avatar

Help, my literacy rate goes down every time I read your comments. Now, I can only communicate this way:

❔️🤔📖

LennethAegis, do gaming w Dark Souls reportedly being turned into Netflix anime
@LennethAegis@kbin.social avatar

Dark Souls is kind of a lonely game, I wonder if they'll recruit some ally npc characters like the Solaire, Siegmeyer and that funny little guy named Patches. Or will they go the Samurai Jack style and revel in the loneliness of the journey.

Holodeck_Moriarty,

Maybe it’ll take place back in the day of Gwen, Artorias, and all the knights.

itkovian, do games w AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare

Eurogamer is shit. You can serve ads without tracking. But, they don’t care.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3b63b7b6-f6d9-444f-abad-c34a65dbae84.png

echodot,

Yeah I hate this trend of you have to subscribe in order to not be tracked. I just agree to the cookies and then block them at the OS level. Get to have my cake and eat it too.

acosmichippo, do games w Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

no worries guys, we can just go buy the american-made competitor with no tariffs.

NONE_dc,
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

If you mean Microsoft, I think they will also raise prices just because. They did it recently.

We’re cooked no matter what.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Even the American competitor sources all of their components from outside the US.

NONE_dc,
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

As I said, Cooked.

thermal_shock,

Fried even

NONE_dc,
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

Deep fried, I argue.

thesohoriots,

Broasted

thermal_shock,

Lmao

SolidShake,

Xboxs’s aren’t made in America

NONE_dc,
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

And that’s why we’re cooked.

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

yeah that was my point.

BlameTheAntifa, do games w Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

Oh, you thought you owned that thing you bought? No. This is 2025. You own nothing. It doesn’t matter how much money you gave them. Yeah, gave them. Because you didn’t buy that stuff. You’re just borrowing it.

Coelacanth, do gaming w GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

We had Balatro last year. Blue Prince released a month ago and is a bona fide GOTY contender from a tiny studio and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is possibly the best AA game of all time but sure, the games industry is dead. I’m convinced, back it up boys.

QuentinCallaghan, do gaming w GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead
@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz avatar

The bigger your backlog of games is right now, the better. No need to buy new games for a looooong time.

Anissem,
@Anissem@lemmy.ml avatar

Fucking epic backlog here, maybe I can actually get to playing some of them now

uninvitedguest, do games w Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca avatar

Still not enough a reason to connect my TV to the internet.

caut_R,

My LG OLED autoupdated through the internet last year and now VRR is broken (flickers no matter what or how stable the FPS is), only way to „fix“ it is to set the refresh rate to whatever my FPS is gonna be (most of the time) and then lock my FPS to that and hope it doesn’t dip below that too much (or it‘ll flicker). Support is as helpful as you might imagine.

So yeah, don‘t connect your TV to the internet or you‘re at the mercy of the manufacturer. Lesson learned.

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

I setup rules on my router to block outgoing traffic from my LG OLED but I still have it on the network so I can use wake-on-LAN.

SidewaysHighways,

care to share those rules?

Toribor, (edited )
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

This would vary based on what router you use, but this is the way I handled it on my Ubiquity EdgeRouter.


  • I added a DHCP reservation for my TV so it’s IP address on my local network doesn’t change.
  • I added a new firewall policy (with the highest priority) that accepts all traffic by default between my internal LAN network and the WAN interface of my router.
  • Then I added a rule to that policy to drop traffic from the IP address I assigned to my TV.

https://corndog.social/pictrs/image/1a2955a0-9c54-46a9-8c26-9eb0422b421c.png

Now the TV can no longer phone home to send obnoxious notifications or issue surprise firmware updates but I can still turn on the TV and adjust the volume over the local network. I use Home Assistant for this, but I think the LG remote android app would still work as well.

SidewaysHighways,

thank you so much! pumped to get rid of those pesky notifications but the home assistant Notifications are awesome

overload, do games w Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow

I was going to buy braid, but the original was delisted and the anniversary edition is 10x the price on sale. Will have to wait a few years for it to fall into 80% territory again.

Angry_Autist,

Or you can just pirate it and choose not to support an anti-vaxxer

overload,

I didn’t know that about the creator. I’m fairly anti piracy when it comes to indie games, even if I don’t agree with the devs views. I still hope he gets it and has a bad time with COVID if that is the case though.

breadsmasher, do games w Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

DOTASHOOTER

Zerfallen,

shoota

Axiochus,

Shota

ChippiChappa,

Still a better than LoLi

aeronmelon,

Dooter.

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