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- Comment on Molyneux’s God Game Masters of Albion Opens Closed Beta Playtest Signups Ahead of April 22 Launch 4 days ago:
When is Godus coming out of early access, Peter
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 1 week ago:
The God of War reboot released on the PS4, where it also “didn’t need” loading screens.
The PS5 does still need some time to load anything, it’s not magic. You can expand a PS5 with M.2 NVMe storage, which is also used in many PCs.
The benefits of the PS5/NVMe storage are greatly reduced loading times and faster data streaming (which enables, for example, the ability to move faster through a higher fidelity NYC in Spiderman without buildings visibly popping in).
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 2 weeks ago:
It’s better, yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Ideal would be them simply paying for a voice actor to record all the lines, which in the case of Arc Raiders they now thankfully appear to be doing.
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 2 weeks ago:
In a vacuum, in this instance, I’m mostly inclined to agree.
It normalising the practice is what I dislike. - Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 2 weeks ago:
No-one else, or at least as high profile, was doing AI voicework in their games. Embark were essentially the first with The Finals.
One successful game/studio doing it opens the door for other studios to start doing it. - Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 2 weeks ago:
They don’t seem to have gone about it in a bad way, but it still further opens the door to more icky practices.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
It can be useful for generating switch cases and other such not-quite copy-paste work too. There are reasonable use cases… if you ignore how the training data was sourced.
- Comment on Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education 3 weeks ago:
Furthermore Roblox “taxes” their “developers” at various points.
It’s been a while, but I believe there’s a percentage fee on the premium currency spent on the game, then there’s another percentage fee when you cash the premium currency out for real money.
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 3 weeks ago:
Same. Waiting for it to get a bit more stable before I start pushing my less savvy friends to make the jump.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 5 weeks ago:
They removed the clown reaction, as well as the ability to get points for receiving reactions.
If that ever was an excuse, it no longer is. - Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 month ago:
Consoles, though I suppose those aren’t what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 months ago:
And Playground Games is a subsidiary of microsoft? I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove here.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 months ago:
Don’t buy Microslop products
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 3 months ago:
Completely from scratch?
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 4 months ago:
Especially with microsoft seemingly giving up on (gaming) hardware
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 months ago:
Valve has only made mention of streaming bandwidth, nothing about the game being rendered (like how PSVR2 does it). Maybe there’s some sort of API games will be able to hook into, I seriously hope so.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
Not necessarily.
Ubisoft might argue that it will open up another attack vector, with isn’t entirely unreasonable. But they could support it.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
I can’t say having to fiddle around with Proton versions is exactly intuitive, though it has gotten better since last I tried it a year or so ago.
It is still not quite as smooth as it is on Windows, and I have tech-normie friends who want to do nothing more than download and press play.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
BattlEye supports Linux, Ubisoft doesn’t.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 months ago:
EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye both support Linux/Proton, though not all devs have enabled/updated it.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 10 months ago:
That’s not what he said??
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 1 year ago:
The current Switch still selling as much as it does proves that performance doesn’t really matter.
- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 1 year ago:
GPD has been in the handheld PC game for quite some time. But, unlike Valve who can sell their deck with little revenue thanks to their storefront, they actually need to make a profit on the individual units.
- Comment on Video game journalist Jason Schreier's top 10 games of 2024 list 1 year ago:
It’s a gift link?
Maybe your add-ins ‘cleaned’ the link somehow, but if you use the full one you can read the article.
- Comment on 2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced 1 year ago:
It’s going to be based on user votes, and given just how popular that game was I don’t think it unlikely to win.
- Comment on Balatro Dev Calls Out PEGI For "Real Gambling" Rating Hypocrisy Vs. EA Sports FC 1 year ago:
Correct. Just like the ESRB
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 1 year ago:
Black Myth Wukong had one of the highest concurrent player counts of Steam of all time. The game was very popular in China.
Meanwhile Astrobot’s sales figures were lacklustre, according to some reports.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 1 year ago:
I largely agree, but the interests have gotten misaligned. Back then it was the threat of regulation which changed things up, I think the governments should do a little more of that.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 1 year ago:
but… Looks like they don’t audit so good, if this article is evidence
That’s the whole issue with it being a lobby group. It makes them a ton of money, so they are incentivised against making a rating for it because that would draw more attention/limit sales.
And that’s where the whole government lobbying part comes in.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 1 year ago:
Not entirely sure about the European PEGI, but the American ESRB is funded by the same companies that it regulates. It was created after the outcry about violent games and was the industry self-regulating to avoid the government getting more involved.
It is a lobby group for the industry, for better and in this case very much for worse.
I assume PEGI is little different.