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PlayStation won't launch any "major" games in existing franchises this year in c/gaming@kbin.social
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director wants series vets and newbies alike to be surprised by its twist and turns, seeing the remake as more than 'just a callback' in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It should have been called Reimagination to set expectations for existing fans. FF7 original is probably my favorite game of all time (tie with FF6) and I still did not play Remake (lost interest waiting too long and then asking price on Steam is 80 Euros, fuck you SquareEnix!).

But you know, I am not entirely opposed to changes in story and character handling, if its done well. They even changed up the battle system. To me this is an opportunity to re-live the game, to experience it with new perspective and see details I could not before. If it was exactly the same game with better graphics, that's just playing the same game again. But the Remake... ahem, I meant Reimagination, is different. And you know what, I kinda like this idea. But off course, I still did not play and don't know how bad it is. And oh god, I hope they don't change the important story line in part 2... this would be a huge fuck.

MSI's new Claw handheld goes head to head with Lenovo and Asus at $700 in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I don't know what you mean. It even has a screen. Not an OLED, but at that price point we can't nitpick, right? The only thing I really like on this device are the builtin Hall effect thumbsticks.

Komac, the Kotlin program for creating Winget packages, has now been rewritten in Rust in c/foss@beehaw.org
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Comes To PC This March in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I think Bloodborne will be one of the first, if not the first, games ever to be emulated on a PS4 emulator. There are multiple projects, but they are not ready yet (plus it would require a monster pc).

The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So does Rockstar, Valve and Microsoft investigate for any unlicensed commercial usage of the Intellectual Property they own and copyright violations by others. Some are less aggressive, that's for true. If it's not, then Pokemon Company or Nintendo simply don't care.

Edit: Did the reply I was replying to disappeared? I am sure I was replying to someone who said Nintendo would go to investigate the game for any IP infringement.

Valve likely earned over $1bn in Counter-Strike 2 loot boxes last year in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Loot boxes should not be in computer games.

As much as I like Valve, Valve is one of the major player bringing and normalizing Lootboxes into games. Even before the Lootboxes was a thing on smartphones, let alone before they arrived on other AAA games as well. I think this is the worst contribution of Valve to videogames. And this statement comes from someone who usually defends this company.

Valve likely earned over $1bn in Counter-Strike 2 loot boxes last year in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Last year after I showed off my brother the Steam Deck, he decided to sell most of his CS:GO skins and purchase with the money the Steam Deck (but 64gb model). It was one of his best decisions, because he was thinking of getting a cheap laptop to play simple games and do simple web browsing.

Now he is a Linux user. :> Gott'em!

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Palworld beat Counter Strike 2's alltime peak of concurrent player count (media.kbin.social)
 

And the impressive thing is, Palworld isn't even free to play, it's a (relative cheap) priced games. So this number is not just people trying it out for free. Also have in mind the game is on Game Pass on Xbox and on PC. So there are actually people not buying and playing on Steam.

The only game with more concurrent player record is still held by PUBG, which is at 3.2 million.

Monster Hunter Rise update adds Enigma DRM, breaks Steam Deck compatibility in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

I'm glad to not have invested into the Capcom games. The article talks about Steam Deck only, but I assume its broken on Linux as well ("Linux" as a word isn't found on the article).

Palworld Sells Over 1 Million Copies in Just 8 Hours as Steam Servers Struggle to Cope With Launch - IGN in c/gaming@kbin.social
Palworld Sells Over 1 Million Copies in Just 8 Hours as Steam Servers Struggle to Cope With Launch - IGN in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Doesn't come out of nowhere to my knowledge. It is quite anticipated game by many, as it was shown with trailers before on big shows. Everyone was wondering what kind of game this will be and everyone just knew it as "Pokemon with guns" where you can catch and slave other Pokemon like creatures. I'm actually surprised that so many didn't heard of the game before.

Take-Two Interactive and Remedy Entertainment are in a dispute over the letter R in c/gaming@kbin.social
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

For reference

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Crysis Remastered for only 1,49 Euros in Steam (kbin.social)
 

I just purchased Crysis Remastered for only 1,49 Euros in Steam.

Payment Method: Steam Wallet
Purchased: Dec 21 @ 7:42pm
Crysis Remastered - 1,49€
Subtotal 	1,25€ 	
Discount 	-28,50€ 	( -95%)
Tax 	0,24€ 	
Total 	1,49€

Opening the store page, shows its 10,49 Euros now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1715130/Crysis_Remastered/

But searching for the game shows its for the lower price:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=_ASC&term=crysis&force_infinite=1&supportedlang=english%2Cgerman%2Cturkish&snr=1_7_7_151_7&page=1

Is this a special promotion, because I already own the original version of the game? Or was this sort of a bug maybe?

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GNOME Developers Suffer Constant Harassment (yewtu.be)
 

GNOME is by far the biggest target of harassment in the FOSS space but it's by no means unique to GNOME this happens to basically every project with any noticiable level of usage Full Episode: https://youtu.be/kO0V7BE1bEo

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Genesis Mods and Romhacks Collection (thingsiplay.game.blog)
 

Modding isn’t specific to PC Gaming only. There are entire communities and specialists dedicated to the development of Romhacks for old console games. Today we are looking at the Genesis / Mega Drive system.

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This Is A Very Serious Situation... (By SomeOrdinaryGamers) ~ NFT Party fail, eyes and skin burned (odysee.com)
 

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at a situation where one of the biggest brands in the world of NFTs, Bored Apes Yacht Club hosted an event in Hong Kong that left it's attendees potentially blind for the rest of their lives.

Note from me the poster: I added a bit title, because the original title is not descriptive.

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EXCLUSIVE W/ HALF-LIFE DEV - NEVER SEEN CUT CONTENT @Tyler McVicker (yewtu.be)
 

Play the mod we are playing here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/812440/HalfLife_Absolute_Zero/

Watch the (nearly) unedited stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4H-jq4DLw

We're playing a Half-Life Cut content recreation mod, Half-Life: Absolute Zero, with one of the original level designers from Valve Software, Brett Johnson. Mr. Johnson worked at Valve from 1996 until 1999, and was responsible for most of the design of Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, Surface Tension, the multiplayer map Stalkyard, among many other things. We play through his sections of this recreation mod, judging it's accuracy, and telling stories of what Valve was like back in the 90s. This one is special, thank you Brett.

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EXCLUSIVE W/ HALF-LIFE DEV - NEVER SEEN CUT CONTENT @Tyler McVicker (yewtu.be)
 

Play the mod we are playing here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/812440/HalfLife_Absolute_Zero/

Watch the (nearly) unedited stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4H-jq4DLw

We're playing a Half-Life Cut content recreation mod, Half-Life: Absolute Zero, with one of the original level designers from Valve Software, Brett Johnson. Mr. Johnson worked at Valve from 1996 until 1999, and was responsible for most of the design of Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, Surface Tension, the multiplayer map Stalkyard, among many other things. We play through his sections of this recreation mod, judging it's accuracy, and telling stories of what Valve was like back in the 90s. This one is special, thank you Brett.

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Space sim Squadron 42 is "feature-complete" and gunning for Starfield's lunch with massive new video (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
 

Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.

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Steam Visibility: How Games Get Surfaced to Players (Official Valve Steamworks channel) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thingsiplay@kbin.social to c/PCGaming@kbin.social
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This video focuses on how Steam works to connect players with games they are likely to enjoy. Learn about the discovery mechanisms at work behind the scenes ...

You can download an English PDF of the presentation here: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/steamworks_docs/english/SteamVisibility102023.pdf

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Counter-Strike 2 - Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com)
 

Counter-Strike 2 is here!A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter and the largest technical leap in Counter-S...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_2/

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RetroArch 1.16.0 release (www.libretro.com)
 

Lot of improvements on every front. The link has a list of all changes.

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I have two old Mass Effect 2 Editions in my Steam and don't know the difference (kbin.social)
 

I have two different versions of original Mass Effect 2 in my Steam library and don't know what the differences are. They have unique ids and even the space for installation differs. Notice: This is not about the Remasters. Have a look at the links please. Can you tell me what's going on?

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