Games

Waiting for the “Whoops, we ‘forgot’ to remove it”.

It’s truly interesting how differently we see things when we are children; how our lack of understanding, whilst often causing problems, can likewise create wonders, and let our imagination run free in ways that we, as adults, can only ever dream of. In that respect, you could say that there is a genuine sense of…

Today’s game is some more Halo: Reach. With our new friend joining us we did some more games. Namely starting off with Capture the Flag on Blood Gulch. Me and one of my friends on my team managed to sneak in the back of the enemy base with the teleporter and grab the flag while they were distracted. We snuck around the top of the ridge and he covered me with the Sniper Rifle. It was a really profound moment of teamwork for me which is what makes me love this game so much. It felt like we were on the same wavelength for that brief time.

It’s a grittier take than the recent Like a Dragon games, but I’m sure it’ll still have bonkers mini-games.

So when the news circulated recently that the Lutris developer was using Claude to help write the code (and the angry posts/articles appeared) I figured I’d reach out to Mathieu to hear the other side of things.

Full post: Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I’ve heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think helps explain the current state of the industry

Today’s game is Halo Reach. I bought a friend a copy of the game while it’s on sale so he could join us for the campaign. So now we have a full 8 person roster for the campaign to pick from.

What an utter dick.

Sintopia is a god sim parked on top of a management game - cleanse the souls of mortals so that they can resurrect on Earth without sparking a demon invasion.

Wild that folks are having to make up conspiracy theories to hate on a game. They can just hate on it for having kernel level anti-cheat and preventing linux players from giving it a go.

Today’s game is The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark (which I’ll just be shortening to The Darkside Detective). I played the first one back in January after me and my friend did a game exchange. I gifted him Oneshot (which I absolutely fucking loved) and in return he gifted me this. I loved the original and he ended up gifting me the sequel (unfortunately there’s Oneshot 2 I could gift him).

…in being the industry’s vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers.

Nintendo’s Switch 2 got off to a roaring start but demand has started to sag, particularly in the US. Where are the big games to reverse this?

Cozy mystery set in modern India. Evidence boards, 50+ NPCs, Bollywood dance-offs, street cricket. Very Positive on Steam (84%). ~4-6 hours.

Today’s game is Final Fantasy VIII (technically the Remaster). I picked this, IX, XIII, XV all up recently with a sale. What’s with the sudden interest in final fantasy? I’m a big fan of Symphony’s. I think they’re a highly under appreciated and really important form of Public Art that’s slowly vanishing (Seriously, if it’s in your budget go check out your local Symphony. They might have something that interests you). Earlier this year I took my friend to see Distant Worlds at our local Symphony for his birthday. He’s a big Final Fantasy fan. Especially XIV.

So today’s article I wrote is just me plodding along wondering out loud why the Sony PSP has become so popular again all of a sudden.

I have a ridiculously long list of games that I want to play so I finally got a copy of this game.

Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid 3. And specifically the last entry. I spent all day playing a Fox Hound run today. Got up at 9 and just spent 12 hours perfecting the entire run. Whole thing came out around 2 hours and 40 minutes. Because of how I tried to perfect it. With 9/20 injuries and 4 health segments lost.

Absolutely perfect :’)

Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I finished my second play through (The No Kill One) and finished up the last few collectibles. The last thing left for me is to do a Fox Hound Run. This run served to get me all the camo i’ll need. Hopefully with these tools at my disposal i’ll only struggle with the bosses, but we’ll see.

Pocketpair aren’t “trying to turn Palworld into this big, big, big, big, big, big thing”

“To say that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are into live-service games is only half the story. These games offer a social space for players to hang out and be creative. For them, it’s not about winning in a competitive online shooting match but about expressing themselves and exploring in a virtual sandbox.”

Today is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I beat the end peacefully tonight (as in I didn’t unload a sniper round into his forehead while he was conked out in a wheelchair), and I even got his camo, which by the way is super fucking handy. Whoever it was that was surprised I skipped his boss fight, you were so god damn right.

Lawyers representing Unknown Worlds’ reinstated CEO have accused Krafton of intentionally leaking Subnautica 2’s early access release date.

NVIDIA had earlier described DLSS 5 in a way that suggested a deeper understanding of the scene. The follow-up answers paint a narrower picture. When asked whether the model reads PBR (Physically Based Rendering) properties from the engine, NVIDIA said: “DLSS 5 only takes the rendered frame and: “DLSS 5 only takes the rendered frame and motion vectors as inputs. Materials are inferred from the rendered frame.” In other words, the model is not reading metallic, roughness, normal maps, or other underlying material properties directly.

I spent a few days chatting to the RetroDECK team (who are well and truly friends by now!), with the idea that it might be a good chance to focus on their real passion: retro gaming. Too often RetroDECK (*which is all about emulation/retro gaming for the Steam Deck/Linux*) just gets bottled up and mentioned as being less than it is.

Today’s game is Metal Gear Solid Delta. With my second Non-Lethal play through I’ve wanted to look at this through a new lens, since playing it again offers foresight I didn’t have before.

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Sorry about infesting your computer with a trojan. Whoopsies!

Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn’t spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are more

I’m specifically asking about the PvP part of the game.

This one hurts. I loved those early Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games. Even Wildlands was mostly great. Now we’ve got Siege that barely resembles what Rainbow Six used to be, and what the Tom Clancy brand was in video games is all but destroyed.

Today’s game is Stardew Valley. Me and some friends got the idea to play a big lobby with around the 6 of us just to see how it went. So far it’s gone well. I stole someone’s furniture and moved their house to a random corner. Then i sold all my Parsnips just to grow potatoes. I wanted to see how far i could get just growing them.

6 in a row to win. First turn places one hex, all subsequent turns place two hexes.

A judge ruled yesterday that Krafton improperly fired Gill in 2025, and ordered that he be restored as CEO of Unknown Worlds.

This was actually the sub-headline of the article but I thought was the more important party of the article.

In this update, I’m going to make Starfish ROOM open-source available for anyone to tinker with.