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Tosti, do gaming w 10 Days Into 2024 And 2300+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced
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Unity is firing people as a result of a failed monetization attempt by the chief executive. I would argue the employees should have a case against the company and the chief executive. As this was so poorly implemented, fault could be argued.

Clbull, (edited ) do games w Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod

I used to have a lot of respect for Az from HeelVsBabyface as a content creator back when he did WoW videos. Many of the fanboys who play Blizzard games dismissed him as a whiny bitch when he complained about issues with the game long before other more respected creators (i.e. Bellular, Asmongold, Sodapoppin, Preach) jumped on the very same ‘fuck Blizzard’ bandwagon.

Watched him a lot less after he branched away from WoW stuff because his content was more anti-woke and not really of my interest.

His two minute anti-pronoun rant made him look like a clown and was the last straw that made me unsub to his YouTube and unfollow him on X.

What people like Az seem to forget is that Starfield is set hundreds of years in the future. I can understand why a pronoun selection menu would look out of place in a medieval setting like The Elder Scrolls, but not in a game set 300 years in the future.

Also, nobody is forcing you to play as a trans or non-binary character. This is not discrimination against white men as Az pointed out in his nonsensical rant. You can make a white male character that identifies with he/him pronouns and not be placed at a disadvantage in the game.

samson,

The crazy thing is that in TES, people don’t know what a UI element is and we can hide it from the NPCs. Everyone wins. Most games don’t directly feature bigotry in their content, certainly not TES, so there’s no real reason not to include such ab thing.

mindbleach,

Most games don’t directly feature bigotry in their content, certainly not TES

Well. Not real-world bigotry.

Gamey,

Yea, if you create a male looking caracter it will even default to he/him, that rant is just reducles and silly af!

qarbone,

reducles -> ridiculous

emeraldheart,

I kind of like the way “reducles” sounds in my head. “Rih-duck-uls”

reducles reducles reducles

qarbone,

Had a hell of a time trying to sound out what that word was trying to be

Schadrach,

His two minute anti-pronoun rant made him look like a clown and was the last straw that made me unsub to his YouTube and unfollow him on X.

Part of me wants to have a “NO PRONOUNS” option. Just replace all uses of he/she/they/you/etc with the characters name, no matter how awkward that makes it read. Give Az exactly what Az wishes for.

No one will ever refer to Az by a pronoun again, Az will simply be Az regardless of if referring to Az in that fashion sounds weird as fuck and not like the way anyone would ever actually talk. But then Az will have to find another issue for Az to complain about, likely that other people are allowed to play as they see fit, even though Az is also allowed to play as Az sees fit.

AmbleHamble,

This calls for everyone else to be aware of this social convention.

Kinda like someone asking about preferred pronouns.

proper, do xbox w Studio Behind EA's Magical FPS (Immortals of Aveum) Has Layoffs After Low Sales
@proper@lemmy.world avatar

I hadn’t even heard of this game til now. maybe that lack of marketing was a factor.

lolzy_mcroflmao,

Obviously different marketing preferences, but I hadn’t stopped hearing about this game for months

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

I don’t know if it’s the same game, but I saw a guy on YT make a little model glove thing as a sponsored prop for a game and I think it was this.

The talking points sounded like it was a cheap mobile game, and I only heard about it like a week before this.

Katana314,

The marketing really seemed to focus on the story, which definitely seemed like a bad idea.

“We came here to stop Sandrak from winning the Everwar.”

That line got blasted at me a thousand times. Who’s Sandrak, and who cares? Why are teen fiction writers taking charge of the war’s name?

CluckN,

I think releasing right between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Armored Core 6 was a bad idea.

LeylaLove, do gaming w Hideo Kojima Says Death Stranding 2 Will Redefine 'Strand'

Morbius 2 is going to recontextualize what “Morbin” is fr

kittenzrulz123, do games w How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/61c416a7-4b91-4d06-9a5b-a9c05efeacc4.webp

Gaymers are the most oppressed group, literally 1984

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer, The Longest-Running Gaming Magazine In The US
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I LOVED the print version back in the day. It was a quality publication.

GammaGames,

I read the digital edition in high school, the covers were a lot more fun in print!

theangriestbird,

big same. i don’t even know if i’d be here commenting on gaming forums if i hadn’t had Game Informer back in the day. Introduced me to the whole “scene” around gaming!

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Space Marine 2 Devs Cancel Beta To Focus On 'Best' Possible Launch

This is not a good sign.

leave_it_blank, do games w The First Borderlands Movie Clip Looks Like An SNL Skit

Rated PG. It can work (The old Mortal Kombat movie), but this looks like crap.

ryathal,

The casting alone is a reason to be skeptical.

Resol, do gaming w Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

PS3 lets me play online for free. Later consoles don’t.

PS3 plays CDs and stores media files on its internal hard drive. Later consoles are limited to external storage solutions for media playback (and no, streaming doesn’t count).

PS3 has a snazzy user interface. Later consoles have… a user interface, I guess.

PS3 plays PS1 disks. Some models even play PS2 disks. None of the later consoles do that, having a strong reliance on digital downloads for PS1 and PS2 compatibility, meaning some games are straight up limited to the earlier consoles.

PS3 even lets me transfer games and media to a PSP or PS Vita through a USB connection. Guess what, the later consoles straight up don’t do that.

Don’t have an HDTV? PS3 works with composite, component, and even S-Video in addition to working with HDMI. It even downscales Blu-ray Disks to fit on your super small screen. Got an HDTV? PS3 upscales your DVDs to fit your super big screen. Later consoles only work with HDMI, and I’m not sure if the upscaling/downscaling thing with DVDs and Blu-ray even works or not.

The choice is yours.

VanHalbgott,

Pretty cool!

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Someone else mentioned the lack of a browser on the PS5 too. This doesn’t apply to PS4 so I didn’t mention it in my comment.

Rageagainstbelief, do gaming w Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5

If they would make them backwards compatible I would be more likely to upgrade it still bugs me that they stopped doing that. I miss my old PS3. That thing was awesome I even installed Linux on it and had emulators working… the good old days.

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

I have appreciated the backwards compatibility of my Xbox. The studio closures and dearth of games, less so

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Get a PS5 and become less than appreciative about bad backwards compatibility AND studio closures.

Bartsbigbugbag,

It is backwards compatible, though?

Rageagainstbelief,

Yeah my mistake. It is with ps3 games. My default is to think everything is terrible now. It wouldn’t be that hard to support back to ps1 I’d pay extra for the option.

thejml,

You can (and I have) play PS4 games on PS5.

First thing I did when I got the PS5 was buy a bunch of cheap used PS4 games for it.

Rageagainstbelief,

I didn’t realize I was assuming that was over. Well good on them. Long live the used game market!

ViscloReader, do games w Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking

I’m biased but I really think Nintendo might be the last one standing in the system market in 2/3 gens

bighatchester,

I think PlayStation will still be around for the more high end games since Nintendo consoles are usually underpowered. And exclusive games

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

I also can’t imagine Nintendo’s next console not being a mobile one so I think there’s definitely a market for a traditional stationary console.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Well, they’ve already announce that they’re just doing a slightly upgraded switch for their next console

smeg,

They have??

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

No, they haven’t. lemmy.world/post/14770183

First off, that’s not Nintendo. That’s a third party controller manufacturer. Secondly, they’re basing that entirely off the specs they got for new controllers and docks. All that’s really confirmed by the article is that the next system will have a similar form factor with iteratively improved controllers and docks. Which is in the ‘fucking obvious’ category. Their speculation about the actual internal hardware specs was pulled straight from their ass.

smeg,

Yeah I had a read up and there’s been almost nothing from Nintendo, so everything is educated guesses at best

dlpkl,

Goes to show what a few good IPs and an all-star legal team can do for you lol

t_berium, do gaming w Ex-Blizzard Exec Dragged For Suggesting Gamers Start Tipping
@t_berium@lemmy.world avatar

If there’s a need for tips, your business model sucks and you should be ashamed of yourself.

If there’s no need for tips, you could just take some of your perverted bonuses or some of that ridiculous amount of money you take out of children’s pockets with micro transactions and show those people some love who did the actual work, you prick. They make millions and millions for you.

What a world we live in where asshats like that step forward and ejaculate their greed into the world and expect applause!

Disgusting.

menemen, do gaming w Ex-Blizzard Exec Dragged For Suggesting Gamers Start Tipping
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

I’d tip the developers any day, but not the shareholders or execs who treat the developers like slaves…

intensely_human,

Nah man. Tipping has its place and it’s not to take the place of regular payment for goods. Developer makes a product, I’ll buy it like a product.

Expanding the scope of tipping is not good.

thirteene,

Tipping is a exploitive behavior used to underpay staff with a high variance system. Employers need to pay a living wage.

lowleveldata, do gaming w Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game

Don’t buy Roku TVs?

ConstableJelly,

Home entertainment is such a closed system that all these companies are just beta testing shitty ideas for each other. Eventually they all do the same thing as long as any backlash was neither too destructive to revenue nor sustained. See endless streaming services price hikes, account sharing lockdowns, or the fact that you just can’t buy dumb TVs anymore.

lowleveldata,

That’s why you buy the less shitty ones to reinforce the backlash

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

This particular idea probbaly has technical limitations.

A device can only monitor and analyze and modify what a user is viewing if it’s being used as a pass-through device in a daisy chain of devices.

As long as there is any device out there that can take multiple video signals from different inputs, let the user choose which they want to use, they can just not daisy-chain them, have them connected in parallel to different inputs. And even if one could try to get manufacturers colluding on creating a world where daisy-chaining is the only option, they have no incentive to do so on this point – in doing this, they’re trying to steal eyeball time from each other.

Now, that being said, I suppose that device manufacturers may not care, if 95% of users are going to just daisy-chain their devices. If it’s only a few privacy nuts out there who are constantly keeping on top of the latest shennanigans and figuring out how to avoid them, if the Roku manual says “daisy chain” and most users just follow the pictures there…shrugs

Telorand, do gaming w 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows

Fortnite is okay in my book, because while it may not be a game I’ll ever play, it subsidizes all the freebies from Epic. I have a library of well over 200 games, most being excellent indies with a few AAA titles, and I’ve never given Epic a single cent.

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