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UKFilmNerd, do scifi w A Disturbance in the Force finally reveals how The Star Wars Holiday Special went so wrong
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A great documentary that explains the whole era of musical television entertainment at the time and what happened behind the scenes of the show.

Once you know the details, you’ll understand why it appears so bad when seen decades later.

Highly recommended. 👍

BoiLudens, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

I’d already left a couple of reviews on re5 and re revelations expressing my discontent. But otherwise there are more older collections that actually have that drm applied.

belated_frog_pants, do gaming w Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods

Welp, this will only make people yar harder

eldritch_lich, do games w Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs

Ahh Kongregate. Haven’t heard that name in a long time. I’m surprised they’re still around.

gk99, do gaming w Baldur’s Gate 3 just made the future of Xbox Series S a bit more uncertain

All other game developers in the history of games have understood the concept of making the lowest-powered device you’re launching on the baseline for development. We’ve dealt with crippled titles on more powerful consoles for ages, I’m sure Larian’ll figure it out for their next game.

deegeese,

Cyberpunk 2077 was a far bigger mess on Xbox-S.

Not the first time a game fell flat on an underpowered console.

TauriWarrior,

Why should they compromise because Microsoft demanded feature parity between their two consoles? They even had Microsoft engineers try and couldn’t get it to work with splitscreen on the S. If Microsoft wanted the S treated the same as the X they should have included more RAM. Games shouldn’t be held back because Microsoft released a console that’s between generations.

Jessvj93, do games w After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'
Jessvj93,
BlameTheAntifa,

I played the game very shortly after release and I read all the newspapers. There was a lot of storytelling going on in them and they definitely weren’t this. Was some prerelease build or placeholder texture? Because if so, this controversy is pedantic, puritanical, witch-hunting garbage, and I say that as someone who is violently anti-AI.

sukhmel,

Afaik, they patched it 5 days after release, so depends on how shortly after release you played.

Jessvj93,

Placeholder textures that got taken out a few days after release. Also I agree with you as well.

Essence_of_Meh, do games w Timesplitters Remake
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Jose Pavli, composer for Project Wingman, (re)created music for this project. It’s available on his Bandcamp page.

Dariusmiles2123, do games w 'The PS5 is only in the middle of [it's lifespan],' says Sony CFO

Good as developpers should optimize instead of just counting on more powerful hardware.

derin, do games w Monster Hunter Wilds is getting outsold by its 4-year-old predecessor
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And they were posting the same articles while Rise was out.

Like, just pick one of the following titles for a pre-DLC monster hunter game and there’ll be low effort reporting written about it:

  • Monster Hunter game too easy!
  • Monster Hunter game too short!
  • Monster Hunter game need more monster!
  • Food videos were better in the last game!
  • Last game had better mechanics, where is xxx

I love Wilds, think it’s the best MH game I’ve played since GU. Can’t wait for its expansion to drop. I’m ready for master rank.

reluctant_squidd, do games w Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy

How hard would it be to do direct bank withdrawal? Like governments and taxation firms often do?

There has to be something else relatively easy to use that customers can use to electronically pay stream without these knuckleheads in the middle.

mlg,
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Welcome to the bank owned oligopoly lol.

Debit cards use the same PCI DSS backend, which is owned by Visa and Mastercard, both of which were created by banks (I think BofA made Visa)

“ePayment” systems like PayPal, Cashapp, Zelle, etc rely on the same backend, or also publicly owned by several major banks.

Direct bank wire transfers still have a useless transfer fee for literally no reason. I think maybe echecks don’t, but they expose your full bank account numbers (for no good reason), and they’re still controlled by the bank, and they don’t offer it as a solution for rapid payments.

Bitcoin technically solved this problem except the supply system wasn’t designed for stability, so the value is way too volatile. Even though there are better crypto currencies that have solved this problem like XRP, the blockchain hype train crashed so a ton of vendors don’t accept crypto anymore even though they used to (including Steam).

This entire system is nothing but a highly organized and legalized fraudulent scam to ensure banks can rip off vendors and consumers with transaction fees and debt.

The only thing that bypasses this system at the moment is using physical cash, which doesn’t work online.

Katana314,

FedNow is an option within the USA that uses a government-provided system to cheaply transfer money, and a number of banks have signed on. It’s not in use because it’s not as universally available yet.

EncryptKeeper,

I mean, besides personal checks or money orders? Crypto. About the only thing Crypto is good for really.

weissbinder,

Even Amazon does this, since decades

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

Were entering the video game dark ages.

ech,

AAA devs are finding out there’s no such thing as infinite money doesn’t mean there are no good games. Look around and you might just realize they’re actually the least interesting content out there. There are more games coming out per/day than at any other point in history. Take some initiative and you’ll find something great.

Tikiporch, do games w Baldur’s Gate 4 may happen eventually, but not with Larian Studios

I’m fine with a different studio doing every Baldur’s Gate iteration. Bioware, Beamdog, Black Isle, and others have done Baldurs Gate games and I enjoyed them. I see no reason to tether the franchise to a single developer, particularly one whose heart isn’t in it anymore.

Darkcoffee, do games w Prince of Persia remake apparently still on track for 2026, per Ubisoft

So coming in 2032 with 7 DLC and a Battlepass. Got it.

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

Am I wrong or do the 8BitDo controllers almost all have inbuilt batteries of unusual capacities? They could just build them to use standard AAA or AA rechargeables, but instead they do proprietary batteries which 8BitDo happily sell replacements for - sure seems like a path to more e-waste.

Dumbkid,
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That’s why the last one I bought was the 8bitdo pro 2. I love my rechargeable AA batteries

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

I literally got my Ultimate 2 two weeks ago after a month delay. Great controller, glad I got in before this crap.

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