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LambdaRX, do games w Flappy Bird Returns but now with microtransactions
@LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works avatar

You can always download original apk file, without mtx and bloat.

TwinTusks,
@TwinTusks@bitforged.space avatar

Also without banner ads? If I recalled correctly the original game has ads which Nguyen had said generated some 10K USD per week for him.

Caligvla, do games w [F4 Mod] Fallout London - Official Release Announcement
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I had completely forgotten about this. Such an interesting idea, especially considering Fallout is so “American”, I wonder if it’ll work out and still feel like Fallout or just a derivative.

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

The few glimpses at technology (future bike for example) and ads gives me hope for a neat spin on the classic elements of the setting. That’s all we can do for now, I guess.

100_percent_a_bot,

Would be funny if people try to stab you with unloicensed butterknoifes instead of shooting

simple, do games w [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga
@simple@piefed.social avatar

According to articles I can find, this has nothing to do with recent censorships?

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/25/07/46593164/visa-hit-by-japans-first-ever-antitrust-action-against-credit-card-industry

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has taken its first administrative action against the credit card industry, targeting Visa Worldwide Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Visa Inc.‘s Singapore operations, over suspected monopolistic practices in the authorization system market.

[...]

The investigation centered on Visa’s November 2021 terms changes that rendered credit card companies managing merchant outlets ineligible for commission discounts in certain industries unless they adopted Visa’s authorization system.

Quacksalber, do games w [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga

The video makes mention of a change.org petition calling on Visa, Mastercard and the like to ignore that sect trying to create moral outrage. I know Change.org petitions are pretty worthless, but this one already has over 100k signatures: change.org/…/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups…

ByteJunk,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

To this day, I don’t understand why Visa or MasterCard (or even a “physical” or even virtual card) are necessary. If the banks can’t create a global, shared way of processing payments, then the governments should step in and do it for them.

toothpaste_ostrich,

I imagine that’s because that would be against the interests of the owners of those companies. Which presumably have some power in the world, being practically internationally successful banks.

Tldr; money.

Maestro,

Generally the world has that. There's SWIFT and EPI in Europe, EPAA in Asia and Pix is South America. The biggest credit card market is North America.

ByteJunk,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

I’m in Europe, and my debit card says visa. That’s the part that confuses me…

Maestro,

Mine too, but it's not a visa card. Just compatible with visa terminals. Mine also says cirrus, maestro and a few other payment systems.

burgerpocalyse,

it was barely thirty years ago when small businesses didnt always accept every credit card. i remember one time as a kid i used my little bank card at a gift shop and the lady used that ancient scrubby thing to mark that weird multilayer receipt paper

tacosanonymous, do gaming w Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck]
@tacosanonymous@lemm.ee avatar

Meh. They are their own worst enemy. If you’re going to make a console, you have to give people reasons to buy it. Their lack of console selling games isn’t the steam deck’s fault.

I thought the ps3 might kill Sony’s console dreams but they buckled down and delivered with the ps4.

M$ can salvage this, if they genuinely reflect and start delivering.

thingsiplay,

The video content isn’t talking about the current market or the past, but how Steam Deck is the biggest threat to Xbox in the future. Xbox has a lot of potential. The leadership changed (which is addressed in this video too). When Microsoft was at its worse, Steve Ballmer was the boss of Microsoft and Don Mattrick was ruining Xbox in the ground with XBox One. Now we have Satya Nadella and have Spencer, who did bring back the Xbox brand and seem to understand their stuff better.

narc0tic_bird,

Sony also built up momentum during the second half of the PS3’s lifespan by focusing on what’s most important for a games console: games. And they made the PS3 more affordable and therefore accessible with a great, focused PS3 redesign in form of the PS3 Slim, saving costs while only cutting features that weren’t really important to most potential customers (PS2 backwards compatibility).

They took that momentum, watched Microsoft fail and made a home run with the PS4 based on the perfect storm that was created.

The PS5 was simply a continuation of their good form, and Microsoft has just been going along with their Xbox brand and consoles, seemingly not knowing where to go, buying studios left and right which then proceed to release mediocre titles. They also tried something with their subscription service, but it turns out most people just buy the games they want to play instead of picking from a selection of games of which they wouldn’t have chosen most of them if they weren’t included in a subscription.

warm,

After being away from consoles for a long time now, they really have little appeal beyond their easy setup and cheaper hardware. The exclusives on any console are not worth buying a whole new console to play. There's so much more value in PC gaming, the intial barrier of entry and possible technical problems just put people off.

I really think Steam Machines could make a major comeback now, the deck has proved the software side, SteamOS is much more mature.

DebatableRaccoon,

I couldn’t agree more. Back during the initial pitches of the Steam Machines, I was a supporter of the concept and was looking forward to the release. In my market, they took a long time to release and ended up being stupidly expensive. To give an idea, in my market an i3-powered unit was expensive as an i7-powered one in the US despite not having that problem with PC components or even prebuilts. Eventually I spent the money on a parts to build my own rig that was significantly more capable than what the Steam Machine of equal cost would have been. I found little ways to make being a couch PC gamer viable without breaking the bank on horribly expensive niche products like lapboards and it’s enabled me to become a PC gamer despite having been a console boy for so long. It’s a shame because I think Steam Machines would make PC gaming so much more approachable to the average consumer (which I was at the time) and I hope they still manage to in the future.

narc0tic_bird,

Oh I agree with that and I’m a PC gamer 99 % of the time (well, like 95 % desktop PC, 4.5 % Steam Deck, 0.5 % consoles). I mainly use my PS5 for playing BluRay nowadays. I don’t fancy paying more for games, a subscription for online gaming and getting a worse experience (in terms of graphics/performance and things like modding but also voice chat options etc.).

simple, do games w Starfield, is it getting review bombed?

From Metacritic

Metacritic user ratings have literally never mattered and never been an indicator for anything. I’m pretty sure every relatively popular game on it gets “review bombed”, because anyone who actually wanted to review it wouldn’t review it there. This is non-news.

Astroturfed,

Doesn’t metacritic aggregate reviews from other sources on their review scores as well? I havent really considered any of the big name review places a reasonable source for a long time anyway…

Everyone expects the next big game every game. How often can a studio really live up to the hype people create?

emptyother,
@emptyother@programming.dev avatar

Everytime if they just listened to a guy on the internet who has no clue what it takes to create a game.

Defaced, do games w Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0

Anyone with half a brain could see this coming from a mile away. My conspiracy brain almost thinks this is some concerted and calculated effort by Microsoft to artificially lock games to Windows through anti cheat. It’s disgusting, isn’t needed, and just plain isn’t effective. They can spew all the metrics out of their ass, we all know that it’s just not effective.

wizzim, (edited )

I am not sure about this conspiracy theory of yours: Microsoft does not want third party applications in the kernel space anymore.

theverge.com/…/microsoft-windows-kernel-antivirus…

Natanael,

Not entirely;

github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows

Microsoft just want that 3rd party code to interact in a more predictable way with the kernel

rozodru,

a year ago on Mastodon when EA started locking out games like Apex Legends, BF1, V, 2042, etc from Linux I said “I bet you Microsoft is about to launch a handheld and since they have a deal with EA and Gamepass they want EA Exclusivity on their handheld and to lockout Steamdeck/Valve” sure enough a few months later Microsoft announces their Xbox handheld with Asus.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

And what’s the one thing they are getting fucking torched over even by Xbox loyalists? The price (Steam Deck has a cheaper SKU)

outhouseperilous, do games w [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga

Hepl yes, based japan, defenders of freedom?

That felt totally normal to say.

EncryptKeeper,

How is Japan anti-censorship? What a time to be alive

XTL,

I don’t think they are. Protectionist and interested in their exports, seem more likely.

IzzyJ,
@IzzyJ@lemmy.world avatar

While this is probably true. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say countries like Japan and South Korea are probably better at democracy than the “west” atp

Fredthefishlord,

Let’s maybe not include a straight up oligarchy corpo state like south korea in that statement. Better than the usa? Maybe, but they’d even give that a run for the money, and just barely win out.

FartMaster69,

Japan isn’t much better for oligarchy.

burgerpocalyse,

japan exists in a superstate of being pro censorship and anti censorship

pycorax,

This is a country that has porn mags being sold in convenience stores and plenty of stores where you can find content for all sorts of fetishes both online and offline. They also have 2 huge indie artist markets every year where at least 50% of the content being sold is porn. Each event gets about 300k people. Only thing I can think of regarding censorship here are the mosaics and those are only really there due to a very old law that no lawmakers are gonna bother with expending political capital to reverse.

Adalast,

Seriously. I was so surpeiced when I learned that porn in Japan is serialized and you only need to know the serial number of a porn to find the exact one piece you are looking for.

pycorax,

Porn is serious business man

tigeruppercut,

What’s the indie artist market called?

pycorax,

Comiket

tiredofsametab,

defenders of freedom?

We're going through a bit of a far-right thing at the moment, so you may want to hold off on that assessment.

outhouseperilous,

Aren’t we all?

And like i said; felt like a totally normal thing to say.

MeatsOfRage, do games w Fallout: London | Trailer

If you’re unaware of the recent history of this project, the big Fallout 4 update that came out a few months ago broke this project. GOG worked with them to build an installer that would downgrade Fallout 4 to the required version to run this (hence the GOG logo at the start). Good guy GOG to the rescue.

Cobrachicken,

Plus, they needed a place to host that big a mod with connections to Bethesda to prevent a probable takedown order…

MeatsOfRage,

Any reason to think this would be a probable takedown? Mods on Bethesda games have historically been a thriving community unless they directly infringe on another company’s copyright.

Cobrachicken, (edited )

It was mentioned in one of their previous interviews as reason to parner with gog. I’ve unfortunately not bookmarked it, though, and I’m too lazy to search for it, sry.

edit: found it: “At the very least, GOG is sure that its support for Fallout: London won’t upset Bethesda,“They’re also our partners so we wouldn’t want to do anything to harm our relationship.””

in https://www.thegamer.com/fallout-london-gog-release-delay-fallout-4-update-interview/

Renacles,

That says that GOG is sure that Bethesda won’t have a problem with the mod, not that they will do anything to prevent it.

It’s literally the opposite.

we_avoid_temptation,

The more relevant section is here

“It’s not uncommon for larger game companies like Bethesda to have mixed reactions to fan-made projects of this scale, we saw this with things such as Fallout: The Frontier,” says Carter, referencing the game-sized mod for Fallout: New Vegas that launched in 2021. “They often tolerate projects’ like ours’ existence as long as they don’t infringe on their intellectual property or negatively impact their brand.”

That said, I agree with you. The Frontier had issues because they put problematic shit in their mod. Bethesda has explicitly given shoutouts to Sim Settlements (I’m pretty sure there’s others) in the recent past.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

It’s a shame the writers and directors of The Frontier were so shit. The programmers did stellar job within the confines of that crappy engine and I’m still salty Xilandros fantastic vehicle implementation isn’t made available as a standalone (officially).

PushButton, do games w Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0

So you got the spyware without the benefits, that’s a hell of a surprise isn’t it?

But thank you for your money suckers!

ExtraMedicated, do games w 15 More Free to Play Overwhelmingly Positive Steam Games

The Looker was a funny parody of The Witness. Made me laugh.

RudeGryphon,

The ending had me rolling. I didn’t realize what was going on until just right before the reveal. Great game to check out because you can beat it in a couple hours

evilgiraffe666,

Do you have to have played the witness to get the jokes, or does it stand alone?

RudeGryphon,

I’ve never played it. So I’d say no. I still thought it was great.

addie,
@addie@feddit.uk avatar

It would still be a fun little puzzler, but it’s very much a single-note satire, and a lot of it would come off as “lol random” rather than taking the piss out of The Witness. Which is also brilliant, love them both.

Lev_Astov,
@Lev_Astov@lemmy.world avatar

I just love the review of it that states, “if you like The Witness, you’ll like The Looker, but if you hated The Witness, you’ll love The Looker.”

elouboub, do games w Unity ...It Just Keeps Get Worse
@elouboub@kbin.social avatar

If the studios don't switch to Godot and contribute back, they'll be setting themselves up for another Unity a few years down the line.

ExtraMedicated,

I’m also interested in checking out Stride tomorrow. Hopefully I can find a good alternative to Mirror for multiplayer networking and the FinalIk package I had in Unity.

elouboub,
@elouboub@kbin.social avatar

I'm curious why they chose C#. Maybe to be a Unity alternative without requiring to invest in a new language?

ExtraMedicated,

I don’t know, but I like C#. It’s got a lot of features that I like such as extension methods and custom attributes. And I feel comfortable with it.

zik,

Godot has C# as an option.

bighi,

If we don’t get together and destroy capitalism itself, we WILL get another Unity every few years.

elouboub,
@elouboub@kbin.social avatar

The easier path is opensource. You can use it today, no need to wish the fall capitalism and do nothing until then

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w Every Video Game Is Woke Apparently... [The Act Man, YouTube]

Woke = mostly anything not supporting Aryan White Supremacy

See; Nazi

Sunshine, do gaming w The PirateSoftware Unraveling (ft. a Game Developer)
@Sunshine@lemmy.ca avatar

Support Stop Killing Games that Jason attempted to stop.

EU Petition

UK Petition

SweetCitrusBuzz,
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

Yes! Do so!

ceenote, (edited ) do games w Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated - Gamers Nexus

Well shit, wish they’d posted it before black Friday. It was only an AIO.

Edit: Cancelled. It was the wrong size, anyway. Sad I’m not gonna have a small LCD on the right one, though. NZXT was by far the cheapest in that respect.

stardust,

I like my arctic liquid freezer aio. Wanted a simple one.

ghostsinthephotograph,

Same boat - just ordered an AIO directly from them and see the “we’re building your pc” emails. Hoping there’s not shenanigans with this.

AceTKen, (edited )
@AceTKen@lemmy.ca avatar

Just FYI, as per their own terms you can cancel up until it ships.

ScreamingFirehawk,

If you live somewhere with consumer rights, by law you can return it no questions asked within 14 days of receipt (actual length of time may vary, UK is 14 days)

Wooki,

So is Australia, and these contracts will end them in court here real quick with potentially two Government departments: ACCC and ASIC. Feel sorry for Americans.

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