Todd. Fucking. Howard.

“Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines” would like to have a word.

I gotta be honest though. Neither of those names strike as particularly bad. JRPGs are way worse (not even mentioning mobile games).

Your experience with Vampire Survivors matches mine really well. It did hook me, but soon after, I started to feel like I was in this “ooh, piece of candy” gag on Family Guy. Almost like a gambling-induced dopamine rush, which is when I noticed that I wasn’t actually having fun.

I also ran it on the deck before but did not enjoy how stuttery it became in Act 3. Streaming is more smooth, in my experience, and allows you to play the game at higher settings. At the deck’s native resolution, I can basically max everything.

I showed my girlfriend how to stream Baldur’s Gate 3 from the PC three weeks ago. Haven’t been able to play anything since, but I guess this is what’s being played on the deck currently.

Cool! What model did you get? Despite the high prices right now, I’m also considering a new one right now, because my old one, which I love, does start to show its age a bit.

I think this is really where it’s at. If this article was supposed to criticize Steam, the criticism should be that they will need to do better QA to fend off the waves of crappy AI (or otherwise low-quality) games in the future that are beginning to inflate the catalog, and not an economic one that makes this sound like some uneven distribution of wealth (which it really is not).

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake

Don’t care about the rest, but this one stings a little. Thankfully, the originals are still fun to play.

IDK if anyone there has history that goes back that far, but imagine having worked on the original Baldur’s Gate, and now your company (BioWare) belongs to Jared fucking Kushner.

Didn’t play The Last of Us until a few months before Part 2 came out. I went into them pretty much blind, and I’m really glad I got to experience them like that. Real masterpieces these games.

Regarding the oxygen supply: I usually tunnel towards a colder area and build a self-powering oxygen machine there. It’s basically a room with electroylzers and gas pumps at the top and bottom (or a gas filter) to separate the oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen then goes to hydrogen generators, the oxygen is pumped into the base. Another important bit is to make sure the CO2 has a place to go (downward) before you can deal with it.

I don’t know a thing about IP laws, so I can’t judge what shape of plastic is required to provide a basis for an IP rights violation. The reason I linked this was that I would take this entire story with a huge grain of salt, considering this company did this before and has apparently not learned all that much from that experience.

Someone pointed this out in another thread, and I think it’s worth repeating: dbrand has a history of doing this and has had the same thing happen before when they produced unlicensed faceplates for the PS5.

The Milgram Experiment 2: Electric (Shock) Boogaloo

“Over a month ago” for a product that took 6+ years to develop basically means “we had 72 opportunities to clarify this and decided to forego 71 of those”.

Also, not a marketing expert, but learning that my console or other players won’t be able to play this game doesn’t seem like a “fun surprise for gamers” to me. But then again, I don’t get paid six figures for a marketing job, so what do I know.

As much as I love Larian and BG3, you’d have to have a really narrow definition of “major” if Larian isn’t a major studio since at least DOS2.

Kudos to granny for being so positive about it and acknowledging that the cops have to follow up on the calls they receive, but if some anonymous tipster can bring down a SWAT team on some grandma’s house without any kind of check being triggered, that might indicate that there are some problems about how these issues are being handled. Other people may get out of this with much worse than a funny story to tell when two dozen cops decide to visit their house at night.

Bro over here body-shaming the fucking Linux mascot.

Yeah, but is it really that much more expensive than other controllers? PS5 Dual Sense is 79€. Xbox Series X/S is 65€ with the Elite 2 at 200€. Considering the additional features of the Steam controller and current development of hardware prices, the pricing seems reasonable.

Edit: I should add, those are recommended retail prices (UVP), and the actual prices from individual stores can be lower.