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Phanatik, (edited ) w EA's BioWare will lay off 50 and cut ties with unionized Keywords playtesting group

Wait, when was Baldur's Gate a BioWare series? That's the first time I'm hearing about this.

Edit: Well how about that...

ampersandrew,
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The previous two games, 20 years ago. It's what gave them the reputation of being a studio that made great RPGs. Then they went on to make Neverwinter Nights (another D&D game), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Star Wars with rules very close to D&D), Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

Lunyan,
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BioWare actually made Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 lol

geosoco,

1 & 2 were both bioware developed games - including their original expansions.

Poggervania,
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BioWare made BG 1 & 2 back in the day, and they started Dragon Age as a spiritual successor to their DnD games as I would imagine (and assume) that EA didn’t want to deal with WoTC with getting the license to a DnD game.

So it’s kind of ironic that arguably one of the best games to come out this year is a Baldur’s Gate game as the new Dragon Age game sounds like it might be languishing in development.

ExcessivelySalty, w Epic is now offering 100% of the revenue to exclusive games for the first 6 months, up from 88%
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@ampersandrew Just use Heroic Launcher, you get to enjoy whatever Epic games you have, without having to use their launcher. Plus it works with GOG games as well.

ampersandrew,
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I'll use that for things I already have in my library, either from my Windows days or from giveaways, but I'm not going to spend money in their stores when they don't officially support me as a customer. Unofficial launchers like this could be broken by those storefronts at any time, and they were never guaranteed to work for me. GOG fares better than Epic in this regard, since they do sell Linux games, but I want official cloud saves and automatic updates as well.

TwilightVulpine, w Epic is now offering 100% of the revenue to exclusive games for the first 6 months, up from 88%

Good for the devs who need the money but as a customer Steam just provides more, and if not Steam, GOG is DRM-free and ItchIO enables smallers indies to get their games out there. Epic isn't even on my list of places to buy. The only thing I bought in Epic, funny enough, was Fortnite Save the World, and I didn't get much out of that.

LineNoise, w Epic is now offering 100% of the revenue to exclusive games for the first 6 months, up from 88%

My experience of Epic exclusives is that most become things that are never on my radar again, even after the exclusive period.

I take it from this increase in rates that I’m far from alone in that regard.

ampersandrew,
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All signs point to that program being a failure for them, which is why the exclusivity offers and announcements started drying up, but I guess this is them trying a revised strategy.

xNIBx, w Epic is now offering 100% of the revenue to exclusive games for the first 6 months, up from 88%

Exclusives are a cancer. At least if you made them, i could somewhat understand. But paying third party developers to not sell their game on certain platforms is stupid.

FfaerieOxide, w Epic is now offering 100% of the revenue to exclusive games for the first 6 months, up from 88%
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They gonna pull this sort of anti-competitive shit with BandCamp?

Psychonaut1969,
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I haven't seen anything yet.. they already got some exclusives not on Spotify, but I believe the artists are deciding what platforms they release on. As an end user, all I have noticed so far are improvements to thier android app (Playlists finally, and bringing back the shuffle all feature).

mrbubblesort, w Thank Goodness You're Here! - Reveal Trailer
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I have no clue what this is about but I'm here for it

spizzat2, w Thank Goodness You're Here! - Reveal Trailer

I assume "slapformer" is a portmanteau of "slap stick" and "platformer". I'm intrigued, and I can't wait to check out Barnsworth.

Andjhostet, w Starfield Official Live Action Trailer

If a trailer doesn't have gameplay you can throw it straight in the garbage. Thanks.

Eggyhead, w Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered – Official Announcement Trailer
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Okay, so every time I decide I'm going to play a retro game through emulation, a remaster is announced, giving me access and an opportunity to enjoy a better version of the game instead. It happened with Metroid Prime, Link's Awakening, Baten Kaitos, Trails from Zero/to Azure, FF pixel remasters, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, and now this I guess... So for the sake of everyone else, what retro games are worth adding to my list?

GeekFTW,
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Look I'm just saying if you have the ability to conjure into our reality remasters and remakes of old games, I'm going to suck your fucking dick if we can get an Illusion of Gaia (snes) remaster sometime soon.

Or ya know whatever the bits may be.

blackbird, w Thank Goodness You're Here! - Reveal Trailer
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Looks great fun!

claycle, w Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered – Official Announcement Trailer
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Nostalgia is a disease

GeekFTW,
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I am terminal lmao.

twistedtxb, w Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered – Official Announcement Trailer
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I hope I’m proven wrong, but I’m not sure this is the best title to receive the Nightdive treatment.

Apart for the dated visual, gameplay and overall game mechanics wise the game is very awkward by 2023 standards.

wolfshadowheart,
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I'd rather them do this one really well than have them do the both of them at the same time. I love Dark Forces 2, it's the Star Wars game I grew up with. I haven't looked but I'm assuming Disney has some involvement due to the ownership and honestly, it makes sense they want to give it a shot at remastering these titles since canon tied in the Dark Troopers, both white and black versions from what I can tell.

Mostly what I'm excited for? Dark Forces 2 multiplayer... oh man, those were the days.

__v, w Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered – Official Announcement Trailer

What a bizarre “remaster”. They’ve barely touched the actual game and instead focused on… making the cutscenes look worse?

vashti, w Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered – Official Announcement Trailer

Not anxious to see those brown things in the water remastered to 4k tbh. I somehow failed out of the game every time at that point even in SVGA.

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