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Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes (arstechnica.com)
Oh, to be able to justify spending $25 on this … having a one-week window is rather cruel....
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
need retro game recommendations
So, I want to use my handheld for more than a music player. Need recommendations for systems to to gen 4 + GBA...
Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
In the letter, Democrat senator Mark Warner argues that Valve’s content moderation doesn’t meet industry standards, and says he wants Valve to “crack down on the rampant proliferation of hate-based content”....
Adding Horses to your Game: Tips, Resources, Do’s and Don’ts — The Mane Quest (www.themanequest.com)
Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game?
I have such a love/hate relationship with Stardew Valley, slightly less so with My Time At Portia (the developers seem to have at least considered wrist strain in the button layout and mechanics). I long for a moneyless, classless game in this genre where the incentives are community thriving, trust, pleasure, and all the other...
Silent Hill 2's remake dares to modernise a classic, and is largely succeeding (www.eurogamer.net)
The previews so far are more positive than I imagined… Sh2 is one of my all time favorites. I will eat my words if bloober actually pulls this off!
Bungie veterans Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy have reportedly left [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)
What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to?
I was going to say replaying but I feel like that limits the question to games like Prey or Fallout New Vegas that have endings and games like The Sims 2 or Cities Skylines where you can play indefinitely end up excluded....
New study suggests kids are now experiencing social pressures to buy in-game items (patrickklepek.substack.com)
Once you hit middle school, the pressure to “fit in” hits. Naturally, this includes games now.
Phil Spencer has reportedly reassured employees Microsoft ‘won’t stop making Xbox consoles’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?
When talking about the best games of all time people generally mention Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario 64, Halo 3, The Last of Us, Nier Automata, etc. , but dismiss other great games....
Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs (www.eurogamer.net)
NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.
Players who don't like survival games as a genre: Which survival games are your personal exceptions, which ones have you enjoyed nonetheless and why?
Personally, I really don’t like most of these games due to the tedium and frustration that comes with hunger/thirst mechanics. Most of the exceptions that I do actually like either make up for it through something else that elevates the experience enough - or they either don’t have these mechanics or allow for players to...
New single planet fantasy game from Hello Games (www.youtube.com)
What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people’s experiences were like!...
Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.
In case you’re out of the loop, the old Steam Deck had Philips screws that screwed into self-tapping plastic holes. This lead to occasional stripped threads and often stripped screwheads....
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 29th
Whatcha all been playing?...
It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK (news.xbox.com)
Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week (www.eurogamer.net)
Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game (www.theguardian.com)
Climate activists condemn oil giant for paying influencers to showcase marketing game from new gasoline campaign
After decades of climate deception, Shell uses Fortnite to court demographic most concerned about climate change (www.mediamatters.org)
Cancelled Hyenas was ‘Sega’s biggest budget game ever’, it’s claimed | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
What was the formative horror game of your childhood?
For me it was Dead Space 2 when I was 12-ish. For reference, at this point the most gruesome/gorey/violent media I was exposed to was the Halo 3 Flood levels and the original 2 Alien movies....
Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/gaming/t/471480...
The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026 (www.theverge.com)
Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB Into a Handheld Gaming PC (www.tomshardware.com)
What if the modular computing evangelists at Framework decided to make a handheld? YouTuber Pitstoptech has largely answered this question by building a “fully upgradeable gaming handheld” around one of Framework’s upgradable motherboards....
I am looking into setting up a home mediaserver. Any good guides?
The aim is to have a qbittorrent setup combined with a service like plex (or jellyfin?) to easily stream music, movies and TV shows to my mobile devices....
Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume (www.axios.com)
archive...
Sennheiser Exits Gaming Headphone Business (www.anandtech.com)
Technically the successor owner of the gaming brand....
Need some local coop recommendations
Hello! I’ve come here to ask you lovely people from Lemmy if you guys know of some fun local coop games for at least 2 player....
Videogamedunkey - Bigmode Memo 2023 (www.youtube.com)
A one-year update after game-critic/full-time jokester started his publishing company Bigmode....
What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
Either it didn’t teach you anything at all, or it taught you the most irrelevant parts of the game.
Destiny 2’s Zavala Recasting Was A Tough, Correct Choice (www.forbes.com)
Bungie makes the right call with a tough situation, as they have recast Lance Reddick's Zavala with a new actor.
Thats my contribution, and still going (lemmy.ml)
So near, yet, so far... (media.kbin.social)