Gaming BS of the week

PC gamers in China are getting free porn games to encourage them to stay inside

As the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China continues to make headlines, residents in affected areas have been advised to avoid travel, avoid contact with others, and stay home. If there’s one thing that can encourage videogame fans to stay inside, it’s pornography, so one Steam developer is giving away its racy, flagship title to Chinese players.
In a post titled ‘Wuhan, We’re With You,’ Mirror developer Kagami Works says “the year has just started and we’re all facing challenging situations. To avoid the nCov, it’s better to stay at home. So we decide to give away 45,000 copies of Mirror to keep you company. Please accept our gift and stay strong!”

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This game really is all that and more. It helps to play it when my wife's son is asleep and she is out with her boyfriend. It takes my mind off of the fact that she only stays with me for my bank account.
Aside from that it really is a good game, 9/10 big ol' bouncin anime ♥♥♥♥♥♥s. got a little bit of a loli thing going for one of the DLC fights, but that's whatever as long as my wife or her boyfriend don't find out.
You can in fact use only one hand while playing. This helps as my wife's son often opens the bedroom door when he cannot find her, and I like the ease of access this affords me when it comes to turning the monitor off as fast as possible.
The only problem I have with it, is its lack of soy based consumable and mods to replace consumables with soy product.

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Final Fantasy 7 was important because it let its men be vulnerable

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EA’s long-running conflict with European governments over its loot box mechanics look set to continue, with two separate lawsuits filed in France accusing the company’s flagship FIFA series of containing a game mode that’s essentially unregulated gambling.
As L’Équipe report (via GFFN), two lawyers from Paris are filing on behalf of players who claim that the only way to “win” at the game’s Ultimate Team mode is to spend real money on packs of players that are generated randomly.

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VMware's New Licensing Fees are Going to Hurt AMD's 64-core EPYC Rome

You'll pay twice as much for VMware if you have more than 32 cores in a single CPU

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Sony files patent which encourages stuck players to spend money on DLC
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This is not the first patent from a major game company which uses artificial intelligence to drive in-game in an unusual way.
In 2017, Activision Blizzard was granted a patent that uses multiplayer matchmaking as a kind of covert marketing tool to push in-game items.

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Unlike Steam’s store recommendations, which tell you what you should buy next, this is going through your existing purchases and trying to say, hey, you already own this, maybe this is what you’ll be into next. There’ll be three picks shown at a time, and if you don’t dig any of them, you can try again (how many suggestions you’ll ultimately get depends on the size of your library).

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When Cyberpunk 2077 asked the GPU giant what it thinks about a limited edition Cyberpunk 2077 GPU, Nvidia eventually responded with a sly smile and a “stay tuned…”, along with a picture of a GPU behind a mass of filters to keep us from seeing exactly what’s going on. Through the filter fog, you can just about make out the Cyberpunk 2077’s neon yellow lining the GPU’s shroud.

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you can win one for yourself and a friend. There are only 77 of the limited edition GPU available, and to enter you’ll need to RT the tweet below from Nvidia GeForce, and then tag a friend with the hashtag #RTXOn. Who said shilling for a brand never got you anywhere?

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Our Verdict
Solidly built and finished to a very high standard for the price, the new Scimitar Elite RGB offers a comfortable MOBA/MMO mouse with a lot of macro buttons. It won’t translate well to other genres, though.

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Great construction materials
Adjustable macro bank position
New 18,000 DPI sensor
Comfortable over long periods of usage

Against
Doesn’t suit claw grips
Macro buttons are close together
No polling rate adjustment in software
Tricky to use for shooters

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joxer said:

Price cca 90 pounds sterling for something that looks like Nokia3310 redesigned without a display.
moba friendly? not sure how, I don't see qwerdfg keys on it.

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Hasbro is Bringing Back Those Awful '90s LCD Handheld Games

Yup, Hasbro is bringing back those handheld Tiger Electronics LCD games from the '90s so you can relive those halcyon days when you'd play it for 15 minutes, call it a piece of shit, and then throw it in a drawer to never be thought of again.

The handhelds will include throwback games and properties including Sonic the Hedgehog, The Little Mermaid, Transformers, and X-Men.
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The price to relive this disappointment will be $14.99. No, seriously.

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joxer said:

https://www.cracked.com/article_27146_hasbro-bringing-back-those-awful-90s-lcd-handheld-games.html

Plastic garbage renaissance.

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you can relive those halcyon days when you'd play it for 15 minutes, call it a piece of shit, and then throw it in a drawer to never be thought of again.

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Since 2003 the infamous photo of a Counter-Strike player duct-taped into a cocoon—hanging from the ceiling but still scoring frags or whatever we called them back in the day—has been going around the internet.
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But apparently there's more to the story left to be told, because as the trailer above shows, there's an entire documentary about this duct-taped phenomenon.

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This Is An Excellent Gaming...Bed

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