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shiveyarbles, do gaming w Starfield leaker arrested for felony theft after attempting to sell early copies

The biggest crimes are not murder or stealing from regular people, it’s threatening corporate profits.

brcl,

But corporations are people.

Laws for thee and not for me…

Hadriscus,

Corporations are people ?

FilthyShrooms, do games w $250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year
@FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world avatar

I know it’s more expensive, but I’d rather get a steam deck and just emulate the games

barnaclebutt, do games w $250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year

Meh, get a mister. It’s much more fun.

aluminium, do games w Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

Imagine if both epic and the devs made an agreement to make all games 10% cheaper and share the costs.

Tamo240,

How does that benefit devs? Epic should swallow the cost if it wants to do that

thorbot, do games w Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less

Or just do what I do. Sign up for game pass once in a blue moon when friend wants to play games. Cancel it after 1-2 months once friend eclipses into non gaming mode for a while. Dispute the charge on card and say MSFT didn’t cancel trial. Get money back every time. Rinse and repeat as needed.

CatZoomies,
@CatZoomies@lemmy.world avatar

Regardless of how you feel about Game Pass, shouldn’t Microsoft (and the game’s publisher and dev) get paid for a game rental service you fully used and benefited from?

With my morals, that’s not something I could do. Definitely doesn’t sit right with me.

MindTraveller,

Megacorps can eat my ass

CatZoomies,
@CatZoomies@lemmy.world avatar

Fair enough, megacorps certainly are amoral in their decisions, which generally leads to evil outcomes.

Have you considered what happens to indie game devs, which aren’t megacorps? They list games on Gamepass to increase exposure. Microsoft takes a cut of the monthly fee and the rest is dispersed to the publishers and then all the way down to the game devs getting a small slice of the monthly fee.

When OP issues a charge back, the game devs aren’t getting paid. Is that fair to indie game devs? They don’t get paid if Microsoft and the various publishers don’t get paid.

Granted, I’m not justifying subscriptions. I personally dislike Games-as-a-Service as I prefer to own my games. But using a paid service, and then charging back against the company? Especially when it’s smaller game devs on that platform, too, hoping to make it big one day.

I don’t think indie devs should eat your ass, or the original commenter’s ass. Frankly, they need money to eat and pay their bills just like us plebs.

MindTraveller,

When OP issues a charge back, the game devs aren’t getting paid

Not sure that’s true.

skulbuny,
@skulbuny@sh.itjust.works avatar

😂😂 it definitely isn’t, msft has shit like $20 chargebacks covered

thorbot,

With your morals, I could wipe my ass. Who gives a shit if Microsoft loses a few bucks? Fuck them. It doesn’t hurt the game devs.

CatZoomies,
@CatZoomies@lemmy.world avatar

Cool

thorbot,

Neat

sturmblast,

Yay fraud

thorbot,

Gigantic corporations can get fucked for a few bucks here and there. Fuck em.

Yokozuna, do games w 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5

I’m over here in the corner enjoying the metal gear collection on my PS3

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

Why oh why is MGS4 the only one not on any other system? It can’t even be streamed on PS4 or 5. 😩

iagomago,
@iagomago@feddit.it avatar

iirc it’s a “fault” of the PS3 architecture which makes it practically impossible to emulate. We’ll have to see if the second part of the remastered MSG collection will eventually port it.

Dariusmiles2123,

Well I don’t see why you couldn’t emulate it on a ps5. People are doing it on pc so I guess it’s more that Sony doesn’t care and don’t want to invest in it.

It’s one side where Microsoft is better than Sony, retrocompatinility.

I’m still playing a lot of ps4 and ps3 games, so I hope my ps3 is gonna stay fit for purpose in the long term 🤞

Potatisen, do astronomy w Daily Telescope: The initial results from Europe’s Euclid telescope are dazzling

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e859ec46-d3f9-4aa8-8655-83794eaa8ed7.jpeg

According to the European scientists, “Euclid peered deep into this nursery using its infrared camera, exposing hidden regions of star formation for the first time, mapping its complex filaments of gas and dust in unprecedented detail, and uncovering newly formed stars and planets. Euclid’s instruments can detect objects just a few times the mass of Jupiter, and its infrared ‘eyes’ reveal over 300,000 new objects in this field of view alone.”

edgemaster72, do gaming w Game dev says contract barring “subjective negative reviews” was a mistake
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

“We’re still learning how to best control the narrative”

Gork, do astronomy w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

Well some effort is required. You can’t just look up at the eclipsed sun with your bare eyes.

thessnake03,

I mean there’s that 4 minute widow it’s cool

ChaoticNeutralCzech,

It will be shorter unless you are in the center of the eclipse path.

Yarra,

Not with that attitude anyway

sin_free_for_00_days,

The last person I saw try to look at an eclipse was some idiot, I can’t remember his name.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/b94921e2-48a4-4c0b-bb72-0f71e5c11db5.webp

JimVanDeventer,

During totality you can.

Gabu,

If you want to burn a halo on your eyes, sure.

JimVanDeventer,

Noticing a bit of misinformation here so let’s clear this up: take off your eye protection during totality. The corona is so faint you won’t see anything at all through eclipse glasses.

ShepherdPie,

When it’s completely covered you can. I did it in 2017. This is like saying looking at the moon will burn your eyes out.

Kaldo, do gaming w “It‘s kind of depressing”: WB Discovery pulls indie game for “business changes”
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

Sounds like the original creators of these games should get the rights back for chump change.

When you’re working with purely digital products nothing is going to stay around for very long

Illuminating and very worrying statement in this context

RedditRefugee69, do games w F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI

So they found some VHS tapes of the missing levels but not the levels themselves?

clubb,
@clubb@lemmy.world avatar

The whole game was broadcasted through satellite, the only copies would either be in Japanese satellaviews (If those had storage), or at Nintendo themselves (If they kept a copy), so it’s not surprising that a vhs was the only way

Cypher,

Nintendo had a stake in the company doing the broadcasts but is extremely unlikely to have retained copies of the levels.

The only way to have retained the levels is by having received them by satellaview and then disconnecting the device, for 25 years, and hoping the memory isn’t too volatile to recover.

It’s extremely fortunate that some people recorded levels on VHs and that those VHS weren’t damaged or lost.

thisbenzingring, do astronomy w The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more

Respect 07

Kajo, do gaming w Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam

I understand the statement is about in-game stuff, but I’m guessing a lot of game developers have been using GitHub Copilot and this kind of “AI tools” for months.

ExLisper, do games w AI-powered drawing app stuns developers by turning sketches into functional games

Tried it and it was the first time I was truly impressed by AI coding. It’s still not useful for me professionally but it’s getting close fast.

jmcs, do gaming w Report: Unity considering revenue-based fee caps, self-reported install numbers

This still requires games to track all the devices they are installed in and phone home.

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