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thingsiplay, w Surprise! Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a 2.1 update in December with 'new and hotly anticipated gameplay elements'
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I recently finished the game for the first time and was thinking about to get Phantom Liberty extension too. Now I have to wait a bit longer. BTW in the article this part:

To ensure everyone knows it's not kidding, it even threw in a little fire emoji.

The fire emoji. It makes everything believable. xD

RickRussell_CA, w Surprise! Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a 2.1 update in December with 'new and hotly anticipated gameplay elements'
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patientgamers checking in

thingsiplay,
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I feel betrayed, as I purchased and played through the game with 2.0 update.

theodewere, w Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 is a whopper of an update with an epilogue, two new modes, and more
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Patch 5 also includes improved inventory access, allowing you to manage the inventory of all companions from one single UI, regardless of whether they’re currently in the active party.

that's a nice one

Fiivemacs, w Payday 3 free Legacy Heists update out now, includes a new skill line, and more
wolfshadowheart,
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The main thing I'm confused about is why they didn't include some of what they'd worked on for Payday 2. Like, it has a genuinely decent VR but it's just not present (I guess they've "hinted" at it).

TwilightVulpine, w Cult of the Lamb pledges to embrace its smutty community with a suitably sultry new update

It's funny that in a game about demonic cults and blood sacrifices this is somehow considered unusually controversial.

Pons_Aelius,

Is it really that surprising?

20 years ago The Hot coffee scandal was massive.

Allowing fully clothed humping in a game where you could beat and rob sex workers (and just kill random people) was seen as a massive scandal.

kayjay,

In the US, extreme violence has always been a lot more accepted than nudity. Which really says a lot about what kind of values the society has when completely natural human biology is shunned and anti-social destructive behavior isn’t.

TwilightVulpine,

That's true, but blasphemous content created a lot more controversy than sheer violence. I remember when D&D books were getting burned because parents thought it was satanist.

Cult of the Lamb is explicitly demonic and yet it's still the possible addition of sex that is creating all this hubbub. Personally I think it's going to be about as explicit as The Sims at most, getting in a sleeping bag and them some shaking and effects.

Thjoth,

Cult of the Lamb was and still is massively controversial among evangelicals and other extremely religious/Christian people since it's so blasphemous. The falling number of Christians in the US combined with the echo chamber effect on the Internet just (ironically) means all the religious rage doesn't leak out and permeate all of society like it used to.

Pratai, w Netflix has landed The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy

No.

Ganondorf, w Sonic Superstars' Sales Were 'Slightly Weaker' Than Sega Had Anticipated
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Kind of seems silly to buy any game developed by Sonic Team these days. They are either half-baked ideas (Sonic with a sword? Sonic as a werewolf?) or glitchy messes with repetitive, cheap gameplay (Frontiers, Lost World). They seem to rarely learn from previous mistakes or grow as a development team, similar to Gamefreak. Both studios are sustained by name recognition.

TwilightVulpine,

As much as I'm very critical of both these studios, that's really downplaying Sonic Frontiers. It was puzzling that they decided to go for a realistic style while having floating platforms everywhere, but that was a competent game that a lot of people enjoyed. I wouldn't even call it glitchy, playing it lately I didn't see a single one. Maybe it had some glitches on release, but unfortunately this is commonplace these days.

Ganondorf,
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Maybe it had some glitches on release

I haven't heard much about it as of late and won't comment on its current state, but when it first came out it was a glitchy mess. Several reviewers mentioned how glitchy it was and docked it points. dunkey made a whole video showcasing glitches and odd design choices. It's a step in the right direction, so they deserve credit, but that doesn't change its shortcomings at launch.

wolfshadowheart, w Lethal Company smashes player record, retains top spot on Steam
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It's a fun game. Part of its strength is the freedom it gives the players, I was playing with friends last night and we were having a blast. It's that mix of Phasmophobia fear and fun exploring.

I personally am not as big of fan of open random lobbies which is why I don't continue to play Phasma or likely this game, but they are great with friends. Excited for a VR version if they can make it work :)

Computerchairgeneral, w Dredge's new DLC is a masterpiece of icy show-don't-tell horror

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Dredge. I was expecting a fishing game with a Lovecraft coat of paint but the fishing elements and the Lovecraftian elements worked together better than I expected. Glad to see the DLC is keeping things weird.

Computerchairgeneral, w Pixel Dive: A new and fun gaming info site!

Always happy to see another worker-owned gaming news outlet pop up. Definitely plan on checking it out.

kaiomai, w Game Review: EA Sports WRC 2023 - Unleashing the Ultimate Rally Racing Experience!

Spam.

sirico, w Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed
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So just stating the obvious, as it’s on a technical platform. So are they running an AI that made this ad and put it into a directory that was accessible by the game services runtimes? Or….did you get caught trying some dodgy shit in a fully paid product. It’s more morally right to have a cracked backup of everything of theirs you own or don’t because in their eyes you clearly don’t own what you paid for.

Nipah,
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Even taken at face value, it means that they purposely built the ability to have an ad pop up not just on the main menu screen, but anywhere... or at least (giving them a strong benefit of the doubt) on the map screen.

The "error" was that someone popped it into the "show up on map" area of their code and not the "show up on the main menu" area of their code... but the bigger, more glaring problem is that it is even allowed to be a thing that exists as an option.

So even with all that allowance, the fact that it can be a thing is absolutely terrible and it doesn't matter that it happened as an accident, but it shouldn't be an option regardless... is the point of my rambling.

espiritu_p, w Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

That's funny how they spell "moral rot".

alabasterhotdog,

Not too tack to hard the devil’s advocate side of things but if you’re expecting morals from a business, that’s a you problem. I can appreciate the point you’re trying to make but still kind of a senseless comment.

espiritu_p,

Thanks mate. I love you too :)

DmMacniel, w Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

How can it be a technical error when there actually is such a function to begin with?

espiritu_p,

Maybe because they inteded to launch later?

dumdum666,

Just MAYBE they had planned to release a free to play Assassins Creed and that’s where the Ads were intended for.

magic_lobster_party,

The intention was to only show it in the main menu. Now it was shown when the game is paused as well.

Nipah,
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But the thing is, you generally don't just magically have the ability to seamlessly plop an ad into a part of the game. That kind of thing needs to be purpose built, to either have the option to plop an ad on the main menu + map, or to (more heinously) plop an ad ANYWHERE in the game.

So worst case scenario (well, not WORST because the game doesn't, like, go back in time to kill your grandfather or something) is that someone higher up said "Hey, what if we could put an ad anywhere in the game? Get the team working on that" and it was done... best case scenario is that I guess their games are coded so well that they can just seamlessly plop in a chunk of code that doesn't break anything else and just works?

But going off of past experience with Ubisoft games, that best case scenario is kind of laughable (insert a screenshot of the guy's face texture not loading for AC Unity here).

TwilightVulpine,

They are just lying. I don't trust this response for a single moment. We have seen how the slope as far as game monetization practices goes is in fact slippery.

Sports games already use in-game ads. They will keep going for as long as players take it.

ArugulaZ, w Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win'
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He probably agonized more about what he'd eat for lunch that day.

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