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- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 6 days ago:
I guess this November is no longer a big red X on every publisher’s release calendar
- Comment on Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures 6 days ago:
Giant Bomb deserves more than a thread hanging off the Polygon story post. I don’t think it’s ever looked nearly this dire.
I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled across GB, but I think it came up randomly during TheSpeedGamers Final Fantasy marathon in 2009 (which was the inspiration for the first GDQ marathon in 2010). They weren’t necessarily the first to do the very personality-focused, video heavy, gaming coverage, but they definitely went at it the hardest and with the fewest fucks given about doing anything the “right” way. I’ve spent over 16 years now following the site and the people that have come through it, the Giant Bomb Extended Universe. I couldn’t possibly quantify the impact they’ve had on me over the years. It may not technically be the end but I don’t see a path forward from here.
Just gonna go be sad for a bit and watch the best content GB ever put out. That would be, obviously, Thursday Night Throwdown: Fortune Street (and part 2). <>
- Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departureswww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
Here we are, 17 years after a bunch of clueless suits fucked with GameSpot and led to the creation of Giant Bomb. Now it’s a whole new set of clueless suits fucking with Giant Bomb. It’s the circle of capitalism.
I was in deep for GB until the Nextlander split and slowly trailed off since then. I still have mad respect for that group and follow most of them in one way or another. This is a new level of dire for them.
The Giant Bomb Preservation Project still appears to be active so… at least there’s that I guess.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
Awesome. Yet another reason to donate to the IA!
- Comment on The Mandalorian & Grogu (Teaser - Bootleg) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
For anyone wondering, the game is Silent Hills. It was cancelled 10 years ago and you can still find people on eBay selling PS4s with the P.T. demo loaded on it for way too much money.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 4 weeks ago:
They’re still a thing. You can still find them at banks with drive thru tellers. My local department of motor vehicles has a drive thru for vehicle registration so you can do your inspection and registration without leaving your car. You send the registration documents back/forth via pneumatic tubes.
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 5 weeks ago:
You’re telling me I can now comfortably play Satisfactory from my couch? This is going to have a profoundly negative effect on my health
- Comment on Donkey Kong Bananza - Announce Trailer [Nintendo Switch 2] 5 weeks ago:
Red Faction: Gorilla
- Comment on Game Informer Is Back and the Entire Team Has Returned 1 month ago:
Oh man. If you think game dev has been having a rough go of it lately, games media was already a smoking crater before all the waves of dev layoffs began. Now GI wants to dive back in and restart their print offering too? There are a bunch of good people over there and I’m happy there getting another chance unshackled from GameStop, but woof. Good luck!
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 1 month ago:
Scavengers Reign was fantastic and its cancellation was a travesty.
Raised by Wolves was very good too but man… Scavengers Reign…
- Comment on Where to find help for a game name 1 month ago:
Nice. I’m putting that one right next to
https://nohello.net/ - Comment on Assetto Corsa Evo devs quietly changed Steam description, paving the way for Early Access price hike 1 month ago:
Kunos has built a lot of good will in the community with the modability of AC and long term support for both AC and ACC. The AC Evo early access has been real clunky but they earned their fans and their understanding.
- Comment on Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon 1 month ago:
The whole video is interesting but let’s be real. You want 6:12, where the magic happens
- Comment on Rise of the Ronin - Steam Version Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
I was really enjoying Nioh 2 until I got to a level that was just a boss rush of a bunch of old bosses I had already beaten. No thanks. Never picked it back up.
- Comment on ‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look 2 months ago:
But they covered her left eye! Every Anna fan knows that’s the juiciest part! 🙄
- Katamari creator's new game about a teenager stuck in a T-pose gets a release date (May 28th)www.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on ‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look 2 months ago:
“While 98% of the fans are welcoming this, there will always be people like you,” Harada replied. “I understand and sympathize that it may not suit your personal taste, but if you prefer the old design, past works already exist. I am not taking those away from you.
“Also, you refer to yourself as ‘Anna fans’, as if you represent all Anna fans, but you should express your opinion as an individual.”
“You threaten to quit if she isn’t brought back, you complain the moment she is brought back,” he explained. “You demand that she be reverted after she has been completely redesigned from scratch, including her model and framework. And if she actually were reverted, you’d just say, ‘that’s recycling’.
“Either way, your method of expressing your opinion and the content of your argument are entirely unconstructive, utterly pointless, and, above all, disrespectful to the other Anna fans who are genuinely looking forward to her.”
I appreciate you Harada.
- ‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new lookwww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 2 months ago:
Sure is great that they patented the Nemesis system just to do nothing with it for the better part of a decade then shut down the studio that invented it. Brilliant use of talent and the US patent system there.
- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 2 months ago:
If we’re allowing Trilogy as one game then I’m going to step out a bit and go with AM2R. It’s extremely good and not “for a fan remake”, just straight up good.
If we’re talking single games made/published by Nintendo I’d go with Dread for 2D. I played through that 3-4 times back to back when it came out which was a totally new behavior for me. For 3D it’s Prime 1, still the best 3D example of the genre.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Final Earthblade Update (Earthblade is cancelled) 3 months ago:
That’s unfortunate. It sounds like they recognized the burnout, that their new project was poorly scoped and would not be completed without further damaging personal relationships, so they pulled the plug. A healthy decision IMO. I wonder if any other small developers following up an initial big success need to learn from this? 🍒
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign – Reveal Gameplay Trailer 4 months ago:
I went full Leo pointing meme when Nameless King showed up. Always loved that fight.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 5 months ago:
The X3 games (Reunion/Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude) would be one game with DLC today, combined they’re my only 1000hr+ game. X4 is one game with DLC and is well on it’s way to that record.
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 7 months ago:
Yeah well peaches come from a can, and they were put there by a man.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 7 months ago:
Satisfactory, however, will be 100% totally safe and good for that marriage though. Trust me bro!
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 7 months ago:
Yep.
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. was a 1983 legal case heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by Judge Robert W. Sweet. In their complaint, Universal Studios alleged that Nintendo’s video game Donkey Kong was a trademark infringement of King Kong, the plot and characters of which Universal claimed as their own. Nintendo argued that Universal had themselves proven that King Kong’s plot and characters were in the public domain in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. RKO General, Inc.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 7 months ago:
For online racing, ACC and iRacing are unmatched.
I contracted the iRacing sickness this year. The online is indeed unmatched but I’d argue the single player racing is also best in class.
The iRacing AI is actually fun to race against and nothing else comes close to the level of customization per-racer. You can build whole custom rosters with individual behaviors. If you’re so inclined you can even share all this stuff through communities like Trading Paints and Race Department.
iRacing is a hole with no bottom. Both time-wise and monetarily. Even to do AI-only you’re still paying the subscription and one-time content prices. It really is the best though.
