Not sure it was already mentioned in this thread, but Bioware allows Anthem demo only if you preorder or subscribe on some EA's services. Additionally there is a spammail lootbox chance.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-12-09-heres-how-to-play-anthems-upcoming-open-and-vip-demos
a separate "VIP" demo will be available from 25th - 27th January, 2019, for pre-orderers, EA Access subscribers, and Origin Access subscribers. Alternatively, you can sign up for the Anthem newsletter for a chance to secure a VIP code, too.
Here's hope paid demos will die miserably and CEO who blessed such idiocy gets fired.
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-bans-visual-novels-underage-characters
Steam bans erotic games with young-looking characters
First, it's games with no actual people.
Second, there is PEGi, ESRB or whatever warning on games, not to mention some countries ban anything and everything for no reason.
Third, if Saint Gabe looks like a 1000 years old, other people don't have to. Here's an example - no these are not 3 underaged sisters but a mother and two daughters not photoshopped, guess how old are they (no they're not under 18):
https://www.boredpanda.com/youthful...oogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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Microsoft's milking scheme has a name - Xbox Pass. Luckily for us here, we don't play games on Xbox so we shouldn't care about it at all. Or?
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/07/spencer-wants-xbox-game-pass-on-every-device/
Xbox boss Phil Spencer said during the San Francisco’s Barclays conference this week Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Game Pass to “every device.”
“We need to make sure that we’re world-class at free-to-play content, but we also look at subscription as a much lower barrier way for a customer to build a library of content,” said Spencer at the Barclays conference. “So we built Xbox Game Pass. It started on console, it will come to PC, and eventually it will come to every device.
I'm waiting for a day where all countries will add inside the constitution a right on not to be scammed, especially not to be scammed continuously. I'm saying a sentence needs to be added as international human rights by UN or something.
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Chien's paradise is not always peachy:
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/09/au...egedly-taken-custody-hitting-wife-livestream/
Australian Twitch streamer allegedly taken into custody for hitting his wife during a livestream
Imagine you're stalling a game to earn for living and wife bugs you over and over about trash that needs to be taken outside. Well I don't know what your reaction would be, extreme as above or just piling up more stress.
A solution to unhealthy behavior? Shut down live streams. Noone will cry except parasitic stallers.
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Ark: Survival Evolved devs are releasing a new game soon.
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/07/atlas-pirate-mmo-massive-scale-by-ark-survival-evolved-devs/
Atlas is a 40,000 players pirate MMO from the creators of Ark: Survival Evolved
When I say something is mmo then some people here are explaining to me it's not because only a few players play it. I wonder if this is mmo because it can't service more than 40K people at the same time compared to billions in WoW.
/sarcasm off
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Some Metro game was supposed to be turned to movie, but the project got cancelled.
https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/10/metro-2033-film-cancelled/
Production on the Metro 2033 film has halted because it didn’t work with an Americanised script
This is plain bullshit of course - the actual reason was they failed to hire Uwe Boll.
/sarcasm off again
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A sort of tutorial/guide on mods appeared at PC Gamer:
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-beginners-guide-to-mods/
How to get started with the single best aspect of PC games: mods.
Links links everywhere yet nowhere a guide/tutorial or something about reshade malware - a pinnacle of gaming journalism.