Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.

As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).

“there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.

In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.

Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.

I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

“and you can buy that exact SD card model for the low, low price of $62.99 on Amazon RIGHT. NOW!!!”

That might not be the weirdest, most awkward product placement I ever saw, but close.

EDIT : for those not seeing it, yeah, the article actually mentions that price and has a direct link to Amazon.

Is EA still using the cube-sphere-pyramid thing? Or is that a generative AI somehow scraping and/or remaking an old logo?

Or maybe they retrieved them from Britannia back from when they used them to destroy magic. They definitely still do that.

We have at least one dev from Motion Twin, who explicitely wanted to stay there and work on new games, being told to leave the company after trying to get them to do something for months.

https://deepnight.net/blog/going-rogue/

So yeah, even the part of Motion Twin that wanted to move on seems to have been messy post-Dead Cells.

Friday’s what now?

“A great AI-generated game before the end of next year”

Mark those words, and prepare to have a good laugh.

Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.

The first game ended on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.

BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.

BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.

Personally, I don’t see a lot of reasons to be fair towards Ubisoft executives. They haven’t earned that.

It’s not about the concept of AI, it’s about current developments in generative AI, which is just one approach for it but has largely hijacked the term. This one could burst and disappear, hopefully replaced by something better, but the general field of AI would not.

Also, I’m not sure where you are going with that argument. Despite being the subject of stories for millennia, nobody has invented dragons yet.

Stuff like what? The last good, original Ubisoft game I got was Mario x Rabbids 1, and then they gave it the usual Ubi treatment to make it a bloated, boring mess in Sparks of Hope.

They just can’t help it. You can’t have a game be “just fun”. It has to be designed by a committee of 3,000 people, most of them marketing geniuses with a huge checklist of terrible features a game absolutely “needs”.

There’s that absurd Beat Saber one that is Beat Saber’s titular song with flying goons replacing the blocks. Quite funny

I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as “made for kids” against the creators’ will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it’s not).

So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.

Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you’ve got a new batch of idiots just “contributing” to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn’t even read themselves.

So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn’t ask for a LLM’s opinion, they’re like “what’s the problem? Is any of this wrong?” Because it’s entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.

I have zero interest for Bloomberg in general, but, that’s Jason Schreier.

He’s one of the very few you could reasonably call a videogame journalist non-ironically, and I really don’t think “conservative” describes his views.

Cool, but if they supported it better in general, it’d be great.

I had to downgrade to previous version on Quest 3 because the latest was crashing constantly, and I know many people have had that exact problem for months.

My kindle is from 2011, got it for free from someone getting rid of it. It’s old and dumb as shit and Amazon fortunately doesn’t care about it anymore.

Since I got it, it never had an Amazon DRM-ed e-book loaded on it. I intend to keep it that way.

Wow that’s bullshit. A freaking sports mafia has the power to cripple the internet.

The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.

Even if they went that way (good luck with that), doesn’t that mean farming gold regularly and for profit should still be registered as a professional activity? Or at least the result of it declared as revenue?

I don’t think they want that.