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frauddogg, do gaming w A handheld Xbox? Microsoft’s gaming chief can’t stop thinking about it
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

What does Xbox even have that I couldn’t already play on my PC? Halo’s dead; there’s no reason to humor Xbox as a console anymore. Microsoft’s still-surviving exclusives are all mid; so really, why would I get one of these when I could just play on my PC, or pick up a Steam Deck to have access to my PC’s library?

BruceTwarzen,

Everyone says to just pick up a steam deck. You know that they are not available worldwide. I couldn't buy one if i wanted to

GBU_28,

Why would an xboxdeck be available in ways a steam deck isn’t?

lupec,

Valve only makes the deck available in a handful of countries while Xbox hardware is available pretty much everywhere, so I’d say it’s natural to assume a hypothetical dexbox would too

Crikeste,

Because Xbox deck wouldn’t be made by a tiny gambling company. It would be made by a massive corporation with footholds for tech already established in practically every country.

frauddogg,
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

NVidia Shields exist too.

Wes_Dev, do gaming w Switch 2 is crunch time for Nintendo and backward compatibility

Nintendo: “Let’s force retro gamers to buy the Switch if they want to play our titles, by pressuring Steam to remove all Nintendo emulators, and by suing Switch emulators into oblivion.”

Also Nintendo: “Why don’t retro gamers want to buy our products anymore?”

redcalcium, do games w Epic only realized it had ‘financial problem’ that led to layoffs 10 weeks ago

What happened 10 weeks ago? Did they run some projections and realized their Fortnite revenue aren’t going to cover the operating expense for the whole company anymore?

thewitchofcalamari, (edited ) do gaming w Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million
@thewitchofcalamari@bookwormstory.social avatar

probably more suited for here !tabletop

thanks bot, updated

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

Ahh, thanks. I’m not in that group so I can’t get to it easily from kbin, so feel free to post it there!

VentraSqwal, (edited )

Is there a way to link it to make it easier to access from Kbin?

Maybe it’s @ sign instead of the “!”? Try this one and let’s see: @tabletop

Otherwise maybe someone else will come in and say if it’s possible lol.

!boardgames / @boardgames is also pretty popular.

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

Yup, the @ sign does it.

curiosityLynx,

Careful: it doesn’t work if there’s a user account with the same name

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

Oh, that’s good to know.

I like kbin, but ur still really rough around the edges.

raptir,

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it’s gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Sentinian, do gaming w It shouldn’t be this hard to play old Armored Core games
@Sentinian@lemmy.one avatar

Its very easy to play the older AC games. Download a rom/iso and emulator

This is exactly why emulation is a needed thing.

eltimablo,

Shortly before launch, I set up AC4A on a PS3 emulator and it literally could not have been easier.

EvaUnit02,
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

Well, except for the fact that all four PS3 AC games are listed as "Ingame" on the RPCS3 compatability list.

eltimablo,

Those ratings are user-reported and most are several years out of date. I played 4A from beginning to end without any issues.

squidsarefriends, do gaming w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

Her videos about women in video games were mind-blowing. And I never forgot her Lego City vs. Lego Friends comparison. Smurfette-syndrome and damsel distress are words I didn‘t know before watching this channel.

ninjaphysics, do gaming w Minecraft streamer completes 14-year journey walking to the Far Lands

Watched the stream linked in the article all the way to the end. Never heard of this before but have been playing Minecraft since the beginning. There were tears shed watching this! Huge thanks to Kurt and all those that donated!

nokturne213, do gaming w Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch

Was reading the article and decided to pick up the game to help out the devs, apparently I bought it when it first came out back in 2016, I thought it sounded familiar.

It was a great game, and one I need to play again.

rowdy, do gaming w Sony sues Tencent over Horizon Zero Dawn ‘rip-off’

Yes, let them fight.

I say unless they’re using the exact same assets, then who cares. People will play the better game.

theangriestbird,
@theangriestbird@beehaw.org avatar
ranandtoldthat,

I agree with your latter paragraph but not the former. I’m really not liking these overbroad IP claims. This is almost worse than the Nintendo/Palworld stuff, which was already pretty bad.

Tencent may also be a villain, but if Sony gets its way here, it will be bad for games and other forms of expression.

mohab,

I agree: fuck Tencent, but Sony winning sets a pretty bad precedent.

Did Capcom sue over God Eater? If not, they should if Sony wins.

And what's next? FromSoftware suing the entire soulslike genre?

who, do gaming w Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all

I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.

It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.

endeavor,

There is basically no good AAA studio left save for maybe bohemia, rockstar and cd project red. Meanwhile indies have risen up and overthrown the corpos by making fun games that set trends.

A big studio hasnt set a single trend in like over a decade now. AAA gaming has been dead for a while.

inclementimmigrant, do games w 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs

I mean I completely understand.

So does that mean we’re going to see Coyotes snuggling equipment over the border now?

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

snuggling

Awww!

inclementimmigrant,

Well it is cramped in that van after all.

NarrativeBear, do games w 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs

This sucks for Canadians as well. I have a feeling 8bit ships all stock to the USA first then ships it by truck North and South from a distribution center. This means import fees are paid at the port of entry.

Not sure if demand is high enough for 8bit to ship directly to Canada or even have a warehouse in Canada TBH.

Bezier,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

I’d think canada is big enough market for that

ipkpjersi,

There are dozens of us!

any1th3r3,

Nope, 8bitdo (via their eshop) ships directly from China to Canada, alongside a number of other countries.
The change is only wrt shipping to US.

Tarquinn2049,

Just bought one in Canada a week ago, it came in through Vancouver, like pretty much everything else does.

NarrativeBear,

Awesome thanks for the confirmation

Coelacanth, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I’ve almost completely stopped keeping up with M:TG these days. I used to be into it but it just feels like it’s completely jumped the shark these days.

dota__2,

so i sold out of mtg around covid and they started committing to “universe beyond”. but all signs point to their stupid shit being profitable for the time being. and the new UB stuff will now be going through standard will help their new player onboarding a bit.

Ashtear,

Lord of the Rings was massively successful, and I’ve been seeing even more buzz for Final Fantasy than there was LotR. Universes Beyond is certainly here to stay.

dota__2,

exactly. but you can’t just keep farming UB forever. you need to onboard them into the ecosystem and keep them hooked in. time will tell if these people only cared about their specific media or if enough latch on to mtg the game.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I enjoyed the early mythos of M:tG, but I already started losing interest when they went all Marvel with their whole Gatewatch thing.

Even though individual sets (like LOTR) have been well made and successful, the whole Universes Beyond thing just further dilutes the identity of Magic too much for me. I’m sick of endless exploitation of existing IPs from all over the entertainment business. I understand why they do it from a financial perspective, but it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Add to that the endless garbage of Secret Lair drops like goddamn Spider-Man and SpongeBob and I think MTG just isn’t for me anymore.

kittenzrulz123, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.

I personally dont get why they went with Nvidia again, they make cheap mobile processors and I doubt this one will be any different. Imo they should have gone with a low end AMD APU based on Ryzen 9000.

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Backwards compatibility

kittenzrulz123,

They could have implemented a simple compatibility layer to play Switch 1 games

Petter1,

And rewrite the whole OS from scratch instead of using a battle-tested codebase existing since GBA?

Petter1,

Who would switch from arm to x86 when the whole market is moving into arm direction?

Pika, (edited ) do games w Remedy replacing Bowie song from Alan Wake over 'licensing'
@Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yet another reason that copyright really needs to be revamped hardcore. You should not be able to retroactively revoke a license in that way and the entire idea of yeah I license you to be able to use this for x amount of years is ridiculous to me either you can use the Media or you can’t.

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