Evil EA at it again.
Any Destiny news is bs of course, this is just a reminder that there is a product that should be crowned as a bs game of the year.Destiny 2 is going free-to-play, moving to Steam
Well excuse me, but you can't open an online store that doesn't operate outside of EU (with certain exceptions), a store that has like about a dozen pieces max of all CP related items listed so everything is sold out, then alert fans not to buy stuff from ebay because eventually, no date specified, Godot will arrive with normal prices.CD Projekt warns against buying Cyberpunk 2077 E3 jackets on eBay after listings pop up for over $400
"Its just, as with any kind of sexualization, there’s a fine line between empowerment and objectification. It’s not at all apparent from the image itself that we are supposed to be disgusted by the exploitation. Instead, it looks like an image you’re supposed to laugh at, with trans people the victim of the joke."
A CEO can't imagine something.Take-Two CEO can’t imagine why game developers would unionise
Luckily for the world, Square Enix isn't the only japanese company and all the best things (M rated dating sims with exotic perversions) come from Japan.Square Enix has an ethics department and it told the Final Fantasy 7 remake developers to "restrict" Tifa's chest
They’re not loot boxes, they’re “surprise mechanics,” and they’re “quite ethical”
Of course CP isn't nothing. Nothing is that nothing.Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t quite an immersive sim
During one particularly fractious exchange, committee chair Damian Collins MP said: "If I was a parent who was concerned about my child's use of Fortnite, I think listening to your testimony would not give me any encouragement at all that this was an issue that you cared about."
His comments were echoed by Ian Lucas MP who took to Twitter after the hearing.
"Quite extraordinary session of @CommonsCMS with Epic and EA games companies who appear to think they have no obligation at all to those who are addicted to games," he said. "They do not appear even to have considered it."
What's next? Adding "slavery" and "sexism" for games that don't contain scammy microtransactions, Raven's Cry for example?Valve has added an official LGBTQ+ tag and hub page to Steam, allowing developers and users to sort games into it for easier discovery.
Still remember the outrage earlier this year that got a community manager fired over a few tame tweets.
joxer said:RockPaperShotgun goes sjw clickbait mode and actually succeeds to generate enormous amount of clicks:
Escalating tensions between the United States and Iran have now led to League of Legends being effectively blocked for players in both Iran and Syria. As of June 22, players trying to log in to League of Legends from either nation were greeted with a message informing them that U.S. laws and regulations prevent Riot from running the game in their countries.
And what does Valve do about this? Nothing. It's not piracy where Valve wouldn't be silent, it's scams and Valve doesn't care if their customers are scammed - if it cared, lootboxes would be disabled in that store.Indeed, an activity that appears to have taken root on the platform over the past few months shows that accounts don’t have to be limited to just one type of the above suspicious activity. Steam is the last place one might expect to find links to pirate movies, but that’s part of the trap.
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This bait-and-switch subscription trap is repeated on dozens of Steam pages too numerous to outline here. However, if readers want to see more of them (not recommended), typing site:steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ “full movie” into Google will bring up pages and pages of results.
The craze started with PUBG. Not a new idea but was made somewhat different, a plain buggy trash that sometimes ended with winner winner chicken dinner and a reward. A reward you can auction for real $. And while we were wasting time on Candy Crush Saga or usual timewasting mmos recommended by the very same PC Gamer that should rename itself into MMO/phone gamer, people earned their pension with PUBG.The battle royale gold rush is over
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So there are many more BR games to come, and the genre is still a massive one with lots of games fighting for a piece of it. But if E3 is any indication, developers and publishers are being much more cautious about diving headlong into battle royale than they were a year ago.
Yes, I feel the spectacularly positive effect of not being able to play HZD on my PC with scifi hardware inside, a game held hostage by some company on inferior hardware.Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says exclusives “ultimately benefit gamers”
No, that's not bs.You can now spend two years in jail for account boosting in South Korea
Subtitles don't really matter to everyone, I mean, who needs those for Tetris, Candy Crush Saga or nostory grinders like Dark Souls?Ubisoft sees high acceptance for opt-out subtitles
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Even in games that ship with subtitles off by default, publisher sees more than half of players turn them on
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"Subtitles matter to _everyone_," Tisserand said. "We hope it helps spreading best practices throughout the industry."