We’ve been an Xbox household forever, but recently I stopped paying for Game Pass due to the price increases. Last night my daughter was complaining that there was “nothing to play”....
Arc Raiders has only been out a day, but it has already surpassed a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve’s platform.
I mean the best thing they could do is to acknowledge that the game could use some optimization and promise to continue working on it. Even if they have no intention of doing so. But that might get them in trouble with Nvidia since they slapped an “Nvidia optimized” badge on it.
The worst thing they could do is say “buy a better PC”.
I’m pretty much a Xbox gamer. Rarely play PC. I’m interested in a handheld, would you go with the upcoming ally for Xbox or whatever the Lenovo one is called? I’m not very techy, just want something that’s going to play games for at least the next 5 years. Something with great battery life.
Cheaper/better value than anything else on the market
excellent customer support
trackpads for games that need them
OLED available
configurable rear buttons
no other handheld competes on power efficiency or battery life
All repair components readily available.
Runner up would be Legion Go. If you want the SteamOS experience you can easily install it on any other handheld (although I would recommend Bazzite or similar instead). Other handhelds will deliver better performance at the expense of battery life.
Imagine being so careful that you leave the FBI completely clueless and then getting caught because you bragged about it online and to your family members…
Same reason any other politician is on the news. Because unfortunately they dictate our collective plight as Americans. And really outside the US as well.
I watched it the first time. Too long. Pretty boring. Great that he made it for people who need evidence that Nvidia was smuggling GPUs. I kinda just assumed that’s what was happening. You’d have to be naive not to.
I don’t even like the game…or really any of this style of games where you run back and forth over the same terrain over and over and over again for hours looking for a hole you haven’t been through yet.
But I do appreciate what is essentially a relic of the past: A game that is simple, beautiful (especially on OLED), inexpensive, can run on anything, runs completely offline, and doesn’t contain any ads or microtransactions or rootkits or accounts or spyware or invasive DRM. You literally just pay for the game and get the game, which is so insanely uncommon these days for games of this caliber.
I have been considering livestreaming gaming (mostly Retroachievements, and maybe some noncompetitive speed running), but I cannot find/decide a good service. I am not considering it as a source of income, or wanting a huge number of viewers....
Probably invaluable if you’re intent on pumping out slop.
Video games are an art. If you outsource your art to shitty robots…what service is it that you’re providing? What are you doing that I can’t do my fucking self.
10/10 story-driven FPS game from the creators of Rick and Morty. Not excessively complicated or difficult. Your house is teleported to another planet. You have defend yourself with guns that are also talking aliens (gatlians). Not graphically intensive either so would be good for mobile gaming.
I want to get some recommendations on hardware (controllers) and games. Here’s my lunch time idea. Right now I got a high power 1080p projector that we watch movies on every night. Let’s say I got 8 players and a run of the mill computer. It does have a midrange nvidia card and AMD processor but let’s ignore that. What...
TL;DW: Journalists played Elden Ring on Switch 2 on gamescom. They weren't allowed to record gameplay but performance is really bad. Tons of stuttering and reportedly dips to
Updated: 8/1/2025 4:18 p.m. ET: In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries. They said payment processors rejected Valve’s current guidelines for moderating illegal content on Steam,...
In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries
We need to stop making this about sex work and porn and start making it about the fact that payment processors should not be allowed to control how we legally spend our money.
YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds
I’m so tired of these titles “Person arrested for perfectly legal thing”. He wasn’t arrested for reviewing gaming handhelds, he was arrested for copyright infringement.
It’s not pedantic. The title not only intentionally misrepresents the situation but it explains absolutely nothing. Reviewing hardware on YouTube is not a crime in any country to my knowledge, so how could he be arrested for it?
He can be arrested for anything. If you want to argue that it wasn’t copyright infringement, you’ll have to take it up with the author. That’s what they said.
Gov can’t really do anything about it. Bitcoin was designed to be gov agnostic. They can tell you it’s illegal but there’s also really no way for them to know (if you’re not dumb).
Hell there are entire unregulated black markets on the dark web.
Also with the orangutan in chief being something of a crypto grifter himself, it’s not likely to be regulated at all.
They literally don't know they were born angielski
We’ve been an Xbox household forever, but recently I stopped paying for Game Pass due to the price increases. Last night my daughter was complaining that there was “nothing to play”....
Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam (www.ign.com) angielski
Arc Raiders has only been out a day, but it has already surpassed a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve’s platform.
Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch (www.polygon.com)
GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago angielski
Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
Which handheld should I get?
I’m pretty much a Xbox gamer. Rarely play PC. I’m interested in a handheld, would you go with the upcoming ally for Xbox or whatever the Lenovo one is called? I’m not very techy, just want something that’s going to play games for at least the next 5 years. Something with great battery life.
Kirk assassin inscribed bullets with Helldivers strategem code for 500kg bomb (www.mediaite.com) angielski
RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. (www.thedailybeast.com) angielski
Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.
Gamers Nexus's 3-hour GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction! (www.youtube.com) angielski
Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Picture of isSteamDown showing that Steam is indeed experiencing issues...
Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD (bsky.app)
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Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming? angielski
I have been considering livestreaming gaming (mostly Retroachievements, and maybe some noncompetitive speed running), but I cannot find/decide a good service. I am not considering it as a source of income, or wanting a huge number of viewers....
AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Have fun angielski
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? angielski
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44554525
Game recommendations angielski
I want to get some recommendations on hardware (controllers) and games. Here’s my lunch time idea. Right now I got a high power 1080p projector that we watch movies on every night. Let’s say I got 8 players and a run of the mill computer. It does have a midrange nvidia card and AMD processor but let’s ignore that. What...
Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN (www.youtube.com) angielski
TL;DW: Journalists played Elden Ring on Switch 2 on gamescom. They weren't allowed to record gameplay but performance is really bad. Tons of stuttering and reportedly dips to
Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy (www.polygon.com) angielski
To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed (insider-gaming.com) angielski
This is going to be goood
A whole bunch of racing games were cheap recently, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What do you recommend looking out for in future? angielski
Title edited as it has been pointed out to me that the sale has actually ended...
So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. angielski
Here’s a link to buy Devotion, shop.redcandlegames.com/app/devotion
[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games (kotaku.com) angielski
Updated: 8/1/2025 4:18 p.m. ET: In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries. They said payment processors rejected Valve’s current guidelines for moderating illegal content on Steam,...
Robocop: Rouge City angielski
Literally unplayable
Phone call campaign to tell Payment Processors to stop censoring adult content | Details inside (lemmy.blahaj.zone) angielski
One-tap dial phone numbers:...
Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA (en.as.com) angielski
YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds (www.androidauthority.com) angielski
Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam....