Sourced from the island of Tom Scotts.

For anyone else idly wondering, Agent 64 isn’t out yet. “2025.”

Kill the DMCA.

It’s always a shame when a game just disappears instead of sharing all that work.

a free-to-play extraction shooter initially funded by NFT sales

It’s usually a shame when a game just disappears instead of sharing all that work.

The Sixth Day, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s please-take-me-seriously projects, is possibly the wrongest it is possible to be about whether clones are people. Still a fun movie. Just ass-backwards in its motivation. I’m not sure how much of its moral grey area was intended by the script or the direction. The anti-clone “good guys” are pretty terrorist-coded. Arnie’s just caught up in the middle of their guerrilla fight against a generic corporate bad guy. Who solved death. How terrible.

1990s Christian moral panic against cloning was fucking weird.

Aw, I like the gloopy “name any of these games” banner.

Yeah hey was there any reason a slight bubble might’ve started four years ago?

This headline is several kinds of title gore.

Values them to the tune of several million in revenue.

shadPS4

The only emulator that gives every character a big ass.

Cost of doing business, doesn’t even cover all minors, and has a checkbox caveat.

Ban the entire business model.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Making it gambling is a thousand times worse. That fundamental abuse can’t be fixed by tweaking numbers.

Circa 2000 was a weird era for games deciding they just didn’t wanna.

Cost of doing business.

Ban the entire business model.

Jesus, people, they’re not asking ChatGPT to guess who wins.

This is rollback netcode. This is literally just rollback netcode, plus a buzzword.

Neural networks are sixty years old. All that changed recently is how hard we can train them.

And this application is where neural networks should be downright magical: given complex events, you need a simple answer, and approximate guesses work okay. If the network is wrong… you roll back. Just like we already fucking do, with the lag-reducing prediction written by human beings.

The real thing to get worked-up over is - fuck software patents.

Recommendations:

• DKC Tropical Freeze is everything GDQ is about: it looks fast, it’s a little broken, and everyone onstage has a great time.

• Ocarina of Time is a no-logic randomizer, so all the items are shuffled without concern for whether the game is beatable. Sometimes getting to a boss takes three separate glitches, and then hitting them takes five.

• Super Sheffy World is the best of four-ish Kaizo / Mario Maker games this year. Fast-paced and comically difficult. But I’d say Kaizo Mario World 3 was the better run, if only for the final boss.

• Vice City’s hard-mode mod is a delightful trainwreck. The game actively does not want to be in a speedrun.

• Tetris showcases are always fun. This year they did Grandmaster 3 in Shirase and Grandmaster 2 in Death difficulty.

• Elden Ring was a lockout bingo race - two runners trying to check off random goals.

• Super Metroid races are the finale for a reason.

It’s Danny Trejo.

Goldo

Remember me, Eddie?!

Software has won. Every game wants to be on every platform, because platforms are an obstacle to customers. The only exceptions are from studios getting bought off or bought up.

Consoles don’t even have any special sauce left - they are computers, full stop. Do you want the blue AMD laptop, or the green AMD laptop? Or the red Android tablet?

Microsoft saw this coming a mile off, and is still getting walked by Valve. The Xbox brand was invented to computerify the console market. The first one was literally a PC. The second was a generic compiler target. They’ve been breaking down barriers because they expected to own everything.

Sony saw this coming… last year, maybe. Helldivers 2 showed them how much money they could make being a generic publisher, and it scared the shit out of them. That’s why they burned a lot of customers by forcing them into the PSN ecosystem. Force is the only way they have an ecosystem. People say “PS5 has no games” despite that object supporting hundreds of titles and basically the entire PS4 library. What they mean is: having a PS5 is fine. But why should you buy it instead of something else? What’s the difference, anymore?

Genuinely a great idea, in the abstract. Smart watches should be ideal for games you can drop at a moment’s notice and quickly get back into.

No idea why the dev didn’t stack the cards in any way. Y’know. Like when they’re in your hand?