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Continue to post video game news and report outrage porn.

Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Interactive: 'We will not be integrating any social or political agencies' in published games
>DEI, or diversity,  equity and inclusion organizational frameworks, is largely referred to in processes like recruitment that look to promote the fair treatment all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination.
>In recent years the term has become a catch-all for a marginal section of the video game audience to rally behind when a game attempts to broach subjects that are perceived to be “too political.”
<it's afraid
https://gyo.tc/1gGMm
Nintendo's lawyers approached the maker of CES Switch 2 mockup: report
https://gyo.tc/1gGMe
Capcom teases Mai Shiranui in Street Fighter 6, she has tits
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=bRAl7SwSJ9w
Before the usual suspects start screeching, this Mai seems to be based on her Fatal Fury 2 design which was smaller than the mammoth fucking calcium cannons Mai typically has in KOF. You can tell from the stage (also from FF2) and the fact that she actually has visible muscle tone, something KOF Mai typically doesn't have.
Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed: Shadows again
https://gyo.tc/1gGNn
March 20 this time, which I'm sure has nothing to do with trying to critic-proof by launching during nigger month.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor reportedly outsold Star Wars Outlaws in Europe despite being a year older
https://gyo.tc/1gGNs
Valve will allegedly release SteamOS for the desktop in the first quarter of the year. It's pretty much based on some rather vague words from an interview with an employee, so there isn't even an announcement to link. Still, normalfags who are still stuck on Wangblows despite hating it  because their brains get overloaded from the hard task of choosing between Linux distro that is mimicks Windows 7 with an app store from a goyphone A and Linux distro that mimicks Windows 7 with an app store from a goyphone B seem to be pretty hyped.
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>>265913 (OP) 
>report outrage porn
>Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Interactive: 'We will not be integrating any social or political agencies' in published games
You're retarded.
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>>265916
They've already announced an official SteamOS beta for Lenovo's new Steam Deck knockoff, and IIRC repo autists found references to a "Steambox" in the SteamOS github. I'm sure there's a phoronix article for it somewhere.
>>265922
That's not trying to deliberately be inflammatory to get reflexive clicks from migapedes or twitter trannies though. It's reporting what actually happened (it was a bait question in an earnings call that the CEO answered appropriately) with a frankly minimal level of wanking by journo standards. An example of outrage porn would be all those op-eds blaming gamers for Concord being a disgusting pile of garbage, anything posted by nichegamer after 2016, or anything posted by sankaku period.
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>>265923
>An example of outrage porn would be all those op-eds blaming gamers for Concord being a disgusting pile of garbage, anything posted by nichegamer after 2016, or anything posted by sankaku period.
<both sides are just as le bad
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>>265924
Its embarrassing that there are still people who unironically believe in that fencesitter bullshit.
Year of the Linux desktop soon.
>>265913 (OP) 
What is up with the nigger?
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>>265924
>le
no argument
>>265927
Never
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>>265930
Forever
>>265923
>Steambox
Pretty sure that was the name they used for the failed Steam Machines at some point, which also ran SteamOS. Although with the current absolute state of hardware and proton running most things out of the box now would be perfect the time for a relaunch.
>>265927
You missed it, ran linux on my gayman desktop all of 2024.
>>265916
>>265927
Nothing says "failed desktop OS" like a gorillion distros promising a Windows experience and not a single one delivering it. The "bazaar" doesn't work and it's never going to work without a single governing body with a vision, that body being Valve. They already had a great effect on Wine, which has been a buggy mess for years, thanks to Proton. I'm hopeful that they can make Linux usable.
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>>265913 (OP) 
>delayed to march 20.
LOL someone really hates Japan at Ubishit.
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>>265951
>a Windows experience and not a single one delivering it
So you would like a bloated piece of spyware and something equivalent to the Registry that constantly gets filled up with bullshit until to have to reinstall to fix it.  We better ask Red Hat to work harder to give us the Windows experience.
>>265963
No, he wants an intuitive, convenient and compatible OS to use, dumbfuck.
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>>265964
>intuitive, convenient and compatible
Anytime anyone says this when complaining about Linux it means "I don't know how to use a computer and I'm not white enough to learn, so I think computers are the Windows bullshit I've been conditioned to use from birth." The beauty of Linux is (was) that you can try different UI designs and find what's truly intuitive or efficient for you, and either your programs will adapt or you can adapt them yourself. Taskbar-based WIMP is the default, not just because of windowsniggers but because it actually works pretty well for most people, but alternatives like ratpoison can help some people get work done faster depending on what they have to do.
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>>265966
My problem with shit like linux isn't even linux itself it's program compatibility. Fags pretend shit like wine and proton work perfectly for nearly everything but in my experience it either fails to run ~30% of the time or runs like total shit through them. If you don't play games I don't see why you wouldn't use something like linux but if the main thing you do is play video games it's a pretty shitty OS. 
Also before you sperg I'm not defending windows. In an ideal world retards who only have the brain capacity to use windows wouldn't even be allowed to use a computer in the first place.
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>>265963
>a bloated piece of spyware
Windows 95-XP were just fine and Linux still can't catch up to them 20+ years later.
>something equivalent to the Registry
You mean like dconf and gconf?
>that constantly gets filled up with bullshit
Like 3 different versions of GTK, and 3 different versions of Qt, and 2 different versions of Python...etc?
>have to reinstall to fix it
Like with every Linux kernel / GLIBC / GCC update?

>>265966
>I don't know how to use a computer
I've been using Linux for years now so I pretty much mastered the terminal, and with that said the terminal interface is a major fucking PITA. No one should type commands to do tasks that take 2 clicks on Windows.
>you can adapt them yourself
Just like how you can "adapt" your car, fridge, AC...etc to suit your needs.
>alternatives like ratpoison can help some people get work done faster
See that's exactly how loonies think; if a certain workflow works for me for some loose definition of "work" then it must work for everybody else!

>>265972
Linux gaming in general is not a thing unless you only play emulated vidya on FOSS emulators, and even then these emulators run on Windows anyway so there's no point. Same thing with FOSS "games".
Wine's greatest (and possibly only) strength is that it can run ancient Windows software from the 90s that doesn't work on modern Windows, since such software has had the lion's share of testing due to its age. Although I think Wine might get better in the (far) future now that Valve is throwing money at it, after all it did go from "notepad emulator and nothing else" to "50% chance a game works out of the box" since Proton.
>>265977
Proton already runs 81.03% of tested games (across all of Steam, ) without serious issue according to ProtonDB, and that's with
>many of the games listed as broken haven't been checked in years and may actually work
>many of the games listed as broken are broken on Windows
>people are far more likely to report "this doesn't work" or "this needs you to do X, Y, and Z to fix the music not playing" than "game works"
>most of the big games that don't work are because of third party DRM/anti-cheat
>>265963
>So you would like a bloated piece of spyware and something equivalent to the Registry that constantly gets filled up with bullshit until to have to reinstall to fix it
I'll never understand how you fags constantly manage to break Windows so hard you think you need to reinstall. I was running the same install of win7 for over a decade with no such issues.
>>265972
>>265977
I've yet to find a game that doesn't run about as well as on win7, new or old. Don't know how you managed to fuck that up when proton does 90% of the set up for you. Your experiences sound like mine but over a decade ago.
>>265977
>Windows 95-XP were just fine and Linux still can't catch up to them 20+ years later.
Is this bait?
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>>265952
Isn't that day associated with a cult releasing nerve gas into a major subway system, killing about a dozen people and injuring hundreds?
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I daily drive Linux and play pretty much everything on it.
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>>266001
It's also a holiday for the start of spring and also the same day I put my plants outside
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>>266002
Where did you get this picture of me?
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>>266006
I'm your cat, that's how I took it. I demand more of the funny little plastic tabs you get off the milk to play with or there will be consequences. You have been warned.
>>265952
>>266001
>>266004
Worry not, I'm sure they'll listen to their ESG consultants and delay the game to the more appropriate date of August 6.
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Report: The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Is Real; First Gameplay Improvement Details Revealed
https://mp1st.com/news/the-elder-scrolls-oblivion-remake-real-gameplay-improvement-details
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/WCqyI
>Back in September 2023, a Bethesda release schedule was leaked, mentioning Dishonored 3, a new DOOM game, and even a remake/remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. [...]
>Today, we can confirm the project is indeed real. A mistake made by a former Virtuos employee has provided us with not just confirmation of its existence, but also insights into gameplay improvements set to be implemented to the original game.
>A description of the project provided on the site confirms that the title is being developed using Unreal Engine 5 and will be “fully remade,” hinting at significant changes in this reimagining compared to the original game. Brief descriptions of six gameplay systems that will be reworked are also provided: Stamina, Sneak, Blocking, Archery, Hit Reaction, and HUD.
>For the Blocking system, ideas to improve it were taken from Souls-like and “ACT” games ([...] ACT is short for action game.), as the original system was considered too “boring” and “frustrating.”

Hatsune Miku and local multiplayer are coming to Fortnite Festival Season 7
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hatsune-miku-and-local-multiplayer-are-coming-to-fortnite-festival-season-7/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/TmCu7
>During that time players will gain access to a new Music Pass, which consists of free and premium rewards. The premium pass costs 1400 V-Bucks [around 12 USD] or can be obtained as part of the Fortnite Crew subscription service.
>Players who buy the premium pass will immediately get access to the Neko Hatusne Miku Outfit, which comes with a Lego style for Lego experiences in Fortnite.
>[...]
>Fortnite Festival was released in December 2023 and adds a rhythm action mode to Fortnite. It’s a free-to-play game with a rotating selection of music to play either with a controller or a compatible guitar peripheral.
>>266092
>remaking the worst entry in the series instead of releasing the new game
>skyrim was 14 years ago already
wew
>>266092
also 
>what the fuck is that garbage vocaloid song 
>those mixed race normalfag mutts that would never listen to vocaloid music
thats the worst shit i've seen all day, thanks and fuck you
>>266092
Fortnite Miku looks like a tranny and the spats look like shit.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Reportedly Revealed by Accident as Accessory Maker Spills Nintendo’s Biggest Secrets
https://archive.ph/20250114222651/https://thatparkplace.com/nintendo-switch-2-reveal/
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>>266098
That archive does not contain the pollresults, however it was archived too recently to allow another archive with that service.
>>265922
<report outrage porn
<Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Interactive: 'We will not be integrating any social or political agencies' in published games
>You're retarded.
He's not, but you are.
A company saying that they won't put globohomo DEI shit in their games is not outrage porn.
Outrage porn would be: 
<"Some fucking nobody from kotaku/The gamer/IGN says that gamers that don't want DEI in their games are all incel nazis!!!"
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>>266101
It could be interpreted as outrage bait aimed at the other side.
<Look how politically incorrect we are!
>>266101
>A company saying that they won't put globohomo DEI shit in their games is not outrage porn.
Appeasement porn is no better than outrage porn. I would rather not be told bullshit.
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There has been a huge push back against woke stuff even since Elon got twitter and Trump won, do you think this will make any difference to gaming? Because as I remember, the Jews are still in control of everything. The feeling has been on the back of mind, saying this is all just a ploy from ((( them ))), nothing is really changed. If you go to Twitter these days, anti semitism and pro nazi stuff are everywhere. But all in all, nothing is really changed, since the party in hold of power are still ((( them ))). What about 5 years from now? 10 years? If we keep living in this state of peace and nothing ever really happens but shit talking, the core problem will never be resolved.
Video games?
>>266121
It might get pushed back to the point where every game doesn't push a gay fat nigger in your face, but don't expect much more then that. Jews still run everything, telling truths about WWII will still get you banned, nothing will get better in any meaningful way.
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>>266125
At some point the enemy will try to walk things back to maximum gay, so the true indicator will be the backlash when that happens.

To bring this back to video games, look at that nasty ass Chinese overwatch clone. Only out outside of chinkland for a few months and it's already wiping the floor with the rest of the genre just because it's got fat asses and everyone else has gone out of their way to be as ugly as possible. Even a normalfag will stop being fooled by brand recognition after getting burned enough times.
>>266125
>telling truths about WWII will still get you banned
Not on Twitter though, I have seen an ungodly amount of pro Hitler, anti jew stuff on that site lately, ever since Elon bought it. It's like I'm walking into the past 4chan or something. People here often wonder where all the anons went to after the 8chan Exodus, well I think I found the answer.
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>>266092
>those apelike swings from side to side
>those manlike proportions
>that face
>the mulattoes playing the instruments
>official song is named "miku" by those amanamaguchi faggots wonder if any nip was approached to make one of those meecoo songs for Fortnite
>lyrics are "miku miku oo ooee oo"
At times like this I can only giggle like a retard. Retardation is getting out of hand.
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Nintendo’s attorney weighs in on what makes emulators illegal
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nintendos-attorney-weighs-in-on-what-makes-emulators-illegal/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0G7CM
>Speaking on behalf of Nintendo on the topic of “The Importance of Intellectual Property Rights in the Game Industry” was Koji Nishiura, patent attorney and deputy general manager of Nintendo’s intellectual property department.
>“To begin with, are emulators illegal or not? This is a point often debated. While you can’t immediately claim that an emulator is illegal in itself, it can become illegal depending on how it’s used,” Nishiura says.
>If an emulator copies a program belonging to the game device it’s imitating, that can constitute copyright infringement. If the emulator has a function that disables security mechanisms such as encryption (legally referred to as “technical protection measures”), it may be considered a violation of Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act, according to Nishiura (he mentions that outside of Japan, the latter is likely to be stipulated in copyright law). 
>Citing another example of illegal use, Nintendo’s attorney explains that if an emulator contains links to sources where you can download pirated games, it may be considered a so-called “reach app” in Japanese law, and thus constitute copyright law infringement. 
>Nishiura mentions that Nintendo filed lawsuits and issued warnings in the US and other countries over several Switch emulators because of the second point mentioned here – they contained mechanisms that disabled Nintendo’s technical protection measures.

Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Mull Ubisoft Asset Venture
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-15/tencent-guillemot-family-are-said-to-mull-ubisoft-asset-venture
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xe7ii
>Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s founding Guillemot family are considering creating a new venture that would include certain Ubisoft assets as they seek to boost the French video-game company’s value, people familiar with the situation said.
>[...] A potential deal would allow Tencent to own a stake in the venture and gain more control over some of Ubisoft’s intellectual properties, while boosting its video game business outside of China, the people said.
>Deliberations are ongoing and no final decisions have been made, the people said. A representative for Tencent declined to comment. A spokesperson for Ubisoft referred to the company’s Jan. 9 announcement, when it said it had appointed advisors to review and pursue various options to boost value, declining to comment until that process has been completed.

Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-hit-security-devices-sales-gaming-2025-1
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/RsDDa
>Microsoft is laying off employees across organizations including security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming, according to two people familiar with the matter.
>A Microsoft spokesperson said the layoffs were small but didn't specify a figure. They also said the layoffs were unrelated to the job cuts Business Insider recently reported, which were targeting underperforming employees across the company.
>>266132
>lyrics are "miku miku oo ooee oo"
To my ears it sounds like she's singing something along the lines of ”I'm thinkin' nigu, nigu, niguuu”.
>>266121
>do you think this will make any difference to gaming? 
No.
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>>266092
>Oblivion Remake Is Real
But why? Oblivion's writing and quests were beyond terrible. What's a graphics and gameplay overhaul going to do to a game that's flawed in its most basic fundamentals?
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>>266132
>official song is named "miku" by those amanamaguchi faggots
Out of all the songs they could have used, they had to use that one. Also why does the video look like its a bunch of Californian normalniggers from college.
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>>266132
>lyrics are "miku miku oo ooee oo"
Do you not like that one for some reason like it being English, or are you ripping on them for not doing an original song?
>>266121
I don't expect to see significant changes immediately. You might see a rollback of things like the body type stuff in character creators, but that was meaningless cost-free signaling anyway. 
The key thing a Trumpian movement could do is make it legal to run a corporation without giving political commissars authority over hiring (HR departments). This would require repealing or heavily amending the civil rights act, which doesn't appear to be a current priority for congress, and wouldn't bear fruit for a while. Existing organizations would still be run by people who are of the old shitlib culture, all this would do is make it possible to build something else at the scale of institutions rather than just individual independent devs and small teams.
>>266139
The engine switch also seems like a disaster in the making, though I suppose there might be less risk involved trying it with a remake rather than a new mainline game. I'm very curious to see what they intend to do for mod support, and whether anyone will even give a shit. Starfield was bad enough for modders that people didn't really bother with it.
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>>266152
>though I suppose there might be less risk involved trying it with a remake rather than a new mainline game

The thing is, Elder Scrolls actually has two options to have its cake and eat it too on the remake v. new game choice. Battlespire is known to be a fantastically atmospheric and fun concept let down by meh gameplay and massive bugs that are even worse on modern systems. Shadowkey is just a few key features short of being a full on TES game in its own right, and is widely popular among the TES nerds that have played it, but it's locked to the N-Gage. As Trials of Mana showed, you can remake a game in a series that most fans of the IP haven't played but those that have played praise you get the sales of a new game, but also get the already decided good parts to rip of  and familiarity of a remake.
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>>266092
>oblivion remake
In theory, I actually like this. Of all the TES games Oblivion is the only one that needs a remake. I love the atmosphere of the game but the level scaling and retarded character building mechanics totally kill it for me.
Of course, I am sceptical on whether they can manage the execution.
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>>266155
>I am sceptical
Do you need to see a doctor?
>>266092
The only thing I'm interested in is whether they'll try to sell horse armor DLC again or try to make "we're giving the money grab that destroyed the industry to you for free this time" into a marketing gimmick.
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>>266098
>Switch 2 leaks
Nintendo have only themselves to blame for it, and they deserve it.
It's been years that they are teasing that shit and people asked them for a reveal but they kept going "maybe this month maybe next, maybe next year" instead of showing that fucking thing already.
Now those faggots must be like: "B-but, muh fiscal year, muh shareholders!"
Just show that shit and stop treating it as some kind of military national security secret, you morons.
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>>266164
I feels like it's been too long since they released Odyssey. It's nearing an 8 year gap since the last big 3D Mario, larger than the gap between Galaxy 2 and Odyssey, and Galaxy 2 was a relatively quick buck that re-used a bunch of Galaxy 1. After Odyssey's moveset and size, the next game will have to give people spontaneous orgasms as they play in order to not disappoint the normalfag masses. Has Odyssey hacking taken off yet?
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>>266166
The latest Smash entry has also fallen completely out of relevancy, Ultimate didn't leave the cultural footprint that Brawl did and the remaining online players claim that Steve absolutely butchered the meta and the game overall (since every single stage had to be re-arranged to fit autism blocks.
It's been even longer since the last mainline Mario Kart title, MK8 is 11 years old.
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>>266167
>MK8 is 11 years old.
They effectively rereleased it with "double" the tracks, but only a tiny fraction of those tracks are truly original, while the rest modifications to tracks from older games.
>>266133
>his is a point often debated. While you can’t immediately claim that an emulator is illegal in itself, it can become illegal depending on how it’s used,” Nishiura says.
Fuck off I'm not going to sell my fucking kidney and an arm getting a gamecube just to play mario sunshine asshole.
>>266170
But anon, you are stealing from all those people who worked on that game more than 2 decades ago! Imagine all the money they are losing because people use emulators instead of buying second-hand consoles and cartridges!
>>266170
Sunshine is small time. Try Pokemon Colosseum and Gale of Darkness being something like $150-200+ each, despite likewise not even being uncommon.
>>266133
>To begin with, are emulators illegal or not?
What does it matter since you have the right to create one copy of a game you own, a fact that nintendo wishes nobody ever knew about. Whether you choose to play that on your Switch (tm) or computer is none of their business.
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>>266170
oy vey
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Nintendo Switch 2 Officially Revealed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE
More info coming in a Direct on April 2nd
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>>266188
I hope it's another wii-u because I hate nintendo
>>266193
Usually when people hope for something, they don't get it. Always hope for the opposite of what you want.
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>>266193
Not going to happen, the normalfags will buy it like good gayings.
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>>266199
This, we are in a doomed pause and everything new will be relatively successful if it was before due to name only. Nintendo at least releases thinly-veiled rehashes for a loyal, if dumb, userbase so no doubt it will sell.
>>266194
What I really want is for video games to be fun again and for companies to not be gay or jew their customers. What do I hope for?
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>>266133
I'll keep on emulating their games on my chink handheld as much as i please and Jewtendo can only kiss the tip of my cock.
>>266174
>What does it matter since you have the right to create one copy of a game you own, a fact that nintendo wishes nobody ever knew about. Whether you choose to play that on your Switch (tm) or computer is none of their business.
True, but still, copyright and patent laws need to be changed asap so pieces of shit like them can't sue and bully the average joe for downloading a rom of a game they released 40 years ago, after they already got their money already back then, or for developing a fan game, as long as he doesn't charge people for it (AM2R)
I think the new law should make games automatically "abandonware" after a certain number of years have passed.
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>>266221
>automatically abandonware
What about ongoing games like MMOs?
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>>266222
There is not a single MMO that didn't coast on its fame after five years. If anything giving them a certain death date would make them better games by not attempting to keep what players they've caught hopelessly addicted for years on end.
I think the new law should give every good little girl a free pony.

Hideki Kamiya: Switch 2 leakers 'should be covered in sh*t
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/T05A7
>“He should be covered in shit and thrown out of the atmosphere, and then stop thinking and wander around forever.”
Daaaaamn.
58-year-old man first to be arrested for selling modded Switch consoles in Japan
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YWKcR
Bioware Edmonton director leaves after Veilguard disaster, rumors claim studio to close ahead of EA earnings call
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/yCJNb
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>>266244
>58-year-old man first to be arrested for selling modded Switch consoles in Japan
OLD MEN, WARNING WARNING
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>>266245
I'm glad I don't live in that shithole.
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Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects in Broader Retreat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/sony-cancels-two-more-playstation-projects
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/LY24y
>Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation has canceled previously unannounced games at two of its top subsidiaries, the company said Thursday.
>The games, at Oregon-based Bend Studio and Texas-based Bluepoint Games, were both “live service” projects designed to draw recurring revenue from players.
>A company spokesperson confirmed the cancellations. In a statement, the spokesperson said the two games were canceled “following a recent review” and that PlayStation will continue making both online and single-player games.
>Neither studio will be shuttered. “Bend and Bluepoint are highly accomplished teams who are valued members of the PlayStation Studios family, and we are working closely with each studio to determine what are the next projects,” the spokesperson said.

Shuhei Yoshida's own personal theory on why PlayStation haven't done anything with Bloodborne
https://xcancel.com/Genki_JPN/status/1879718481882652918
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/szBE6
>"People wonder why we haven't really done anything...
>My theory is, because I remember Miyazaki really loved Bloodborne, what he created. So I think he is interested but he is so successful and he is so busy, so he cannot do it himself. But he doesn't want anyone else to touch it. So that's my theory.
>And the PlayStation team respect his wish. So that is my guess. I am not revealing any secret information"

Video game patents are not a way to monopolize game mechanics, but to recover development costs, say Sega, Capcom and Konami legal experts
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/video-game-patents-are-not-a-way-to-monopolize-game-mechanics-but-to-recover-development-costs-say-sega-capcom-and-konami-legal-experts/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CxwuL
>Kikuo Matsumoto, head of Sega’s Corporate Development HQ (in charge of legal, HR and IP affairs) started off by establishing that the game industry has evolved through creators “imitating” and building upon each other’s ideas, and that there is nothing wrong with taking inspiration from the works of another company. 
>On the other hand, Matsumoto mentions that there is a limit to how much you can “imitate” before it becomes a problem (however, he notes that cases of “malicious” infringement have drastically decreased in recent years). Sega takes action only when this limit is exceeded. 
>As for patents specifically, Matsumoto explained that Sega is actively filing patent applications for new technological solutions that arise during game development, and this has a lot to do with how expensive it’s become to make games. Sega does not register patents so that it can monopolize technology and use it exclusively, but rather with the policy that other parties can use Sega’s solutions as long as they apply for a license and pay an appropriate price for it.  
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>Shunsuke Murase, the general manager of Konami’s legal department, spells this out more clearly, commenting that with development costs ballooning to billions of yen per title, licensing out new technology and game mechanics to other companies is an important means of recouping investment. He also suggested that if Konami didn’t adequately protect the inventions born from their developers’ research, the developers would lose their incentive, negatively impacting innovation in future games and creating a “vicious cycle.” 
>Capcom offers another angle. Motoki Okuyama, general manager of Capcom’s legal division, suggested that patents indirectly play an important role in protecting the brand. According to Okuyama, the damage bootleg products and copies can do to one’s brand is serious enough to “jeopardize the survival of the company.” But as copyright laws can’t be used to protect game ideas themselves, Capcom uses a “mixed intellectual property strategy,” actively pursuing patent registrations as well as trademarks.
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>>266244
>Hideki Kamiya
That faggot still defends Crapcom to this day like a battered housewife, his opinion has zero valure.
<Oh no! That poor multibillion corporation's new product got shown before muh fiscal year! What a tragedy!!! What about those poor shareholders!?
What a fucking cocksucker.
>>266193
>I hope it's another wii-u because I hate nintendo
>>266199
>Not going to happen, the normalfags will buy it like good gayings.
I wish for it to fail, so that Nintendo will get humble, and maybe drop the price and make games for it like they did for the 3DS.
But, since Soyny and Microshaft are doing so shit, the only thing Nintendo needs to do with the Switch 2, is simply not being as shit as them.
Just being "not as shit" will be enough for Nintendo to dominate, they are in the same position Soyny was with PS4 last gen.
>>266249
>Video game patents are not a way to monopolize game mechanics
Sure they are not!  ;^) 
Like they weren't a way for Nintendo to 'punish' a company who dared making a better game than they did. (PalWorld)
>>266253
>make games for it like they did for the 3DS
Good joke, you're retarded.
The Switch had its issues but it blows the 3DS/Wii U era out of the water.
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>>266253
Good attempt, you almost fit in that time.
>That faggot still defends Crapcom to this day like a battered housewife
Doesn't change the fact that he just delivered the sickest burn I've seen from a gamedev since that slav from the Kingdom of Amalur team BTFO everything west of the Donbass over multiculturalism.
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>>266249
>Video game patents are not a way to monopolize game mechanics, but to recover development costs
>>266253
>who dared making a better game than they did. (PalWorld)
>better
I wouldn't go as far to say it was better than pokemon, because it wasn't even pokemon with guns, but a crafting survival game with pokemon.
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>>266260
Palworld is mediocre by any metric and yet it's still leagues above any of the slop gamefreak has shat out of their fatass in the last decade.
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>>266193
It will succeed because ((( the powers that be ))) plan to declare global martial law again in a few months so the masses will sit on their asses at home and consoom product again like they did in 2020.

>>266256
Nice bait, (1) and done shill. How's Jewtendo's boot taste?
>declare global martial law again in a few months
Two more weeks bro
>2 posts from nigger pill in ~10 minutes
Someone got him double semen rations today.
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>>266265
Trump inauguration soon so he's on unpaid overtime
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Since the thread is totally fucking fucked, let's play "what anti-globalist thing happened to trigger Will Michaels (@phzos64) this time"
>leftist yuppies getting their mcmansions incinerated
>ICE already preparing to purge fag capitals of illegals
>hamas ceasefire deal (not a good thing at first blush, but reduces your odds of being forced to die for israel by good chunk)
>corpos scrambling to drop their ESG shit and kowtow to orange man before he (ab)uses his position to fuck their shit up for annoying him
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>>266139
The quests are alright, it's the world and gameplay systems that are terrible. 

The dungeons and overworld are copypasta'd to the extreme. 
The level scaling completely ruins exploration and makes the enemies damage sponges unless you make an unintuitive class. 
There are no paid fast travel options so you are forced to use the immersion breaking map fast travel.

They could probably fix those in a remake, though I doubt modern Bethesda is skilled enough to do so.
>>266274
>The quests are alright
No they're not because they're all based around the fucking fast travel and quest marker system so it all just boils down to a glorified checklist. You also can never deviate from the intended quest path adding to the problem and removing the RPG from the equation.
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>>266274
>The quests are alright
The only fun quests were the assassination ones.
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>>266283
>>266298
There's a few interesting quests outside TG and DB
>A Brush with Death
>Through A Nightmare, Darkly
>Sanguine's quest
>a few other Daedric quests

That's all I remember, and it is absolutely the minority of quests though.
>>266269
Ever heard of 'Don't feed the troll', you mongoloid
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Marvel's hearthstone copy was apparently owned by Bytedance hence it's banned in the US.
But I don't think anyone cares.
>>266274
>fix it in a remake
Its fixed on all those points with mods.

Just a shame you pretty much need a mod to fix every sytem from character creation to leveling/skills to NPC interactions and quest solutions/options.

Even vanilla vampirism sucks in oblivion, and the oblivion gate spawning system is broken with multiple gates spawning overlapped over time.

Oblivion was broken on every level but it was still loved because the next-best fantasy RPG when it came to choice and open world was fucking Fable.
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ATTENTION!
>Thank you for your attention
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>>266349
And another game bites the dust
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>>266349
He's not wrong at all in terms of historicity, let's see what happens in the story tho, Mansa Musa is known for being the richest person ever and having a certain amount of royal education due to being a trader king but was also known for being somewhat retarded due to his ludicrous decisions and also leaving a trail of silly shenanigans due to his delusional ideas, for example his trip to Mecca and the entire fact Mali was relatively poor as fuck under and after his reign despite massive income.
He has all the tools to be the KCD equivalent of a Yusuf Amir from GTA IV
>>266349
>then
>no there weren't niggers in 14th century bohemia i don't care what your gender studies teacher said

>now
>there were totally niggers and LGPTQ+ "people" all over the place in 14th century bohemia
>oh and niggers had modern ((( western ))) sensibilities when it comes to wymin and their countries were totally safer then those evil huwite societies
I can't wait for the gayme to release, them expecting ((( the usual suspects ))) to praise it for including niggers and pedophiles and not attack them this time, just to have the ((( people ))) they're trying to please bitch that there aren't enough niggers and pedophiles or that the women's jaws aren't square enough.
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>>266352
>there were totally niggers and LGPTQ+ "people" all over the place in 14th century bohemia
None of the text says that, there was a singular nigger who was also an invader, he was delusional enough to think his kingdom had better rights for people aka you are retarded enough to believe the words of a muslim groid and there were fags in the first game, they were treated by characters and/or seen by the narrative as deranged outcasts. If the second game is in the capital, and it is when it was one of the richest places on Earth then expect the obvious consequence of it having a degeneracy level higher than normal, even the first game implies that with the usurping of the throne amidst the weak retarded lavish elites.
Have you even played the first game, if anything all of these distracts from the fact on how is Henry going to be played after he canonically became a juggernaut by the end of the game.
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Huniepop is free on GOG (and steam but that is drm so who cares) for 11 more hours.
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Teamspeak is getting a new update which makes it look like discord.
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>>266366
The west is better than Japan. This is a fact.
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>>266366
From what I remember, it's more of a parody of how shit IRL women are. Some people certainly had fun with it during the gamergay days, with Broteam playing it and getting banned from twitch for it or some shit.
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>>266369
Japanese media is largely a copycat of western media. The west is superior. You are a pathetic self hating race traitor who worships an inferior race of bugs. This is a fact.
>>266369
>it's more of a parody of how shit IRL women are.
Each character has (at least) one major flaw that would make them irredeemable to most, on purpose, and it's not a fixable trait. Might as well date 3DPD.
>>266222 (checked, nice trips)
What if it is possible to solve this issue by stating that instead of requiring amount of time, being two or three generations old is required to be counted as "abandonware"? This way anything PC exclusive would probably be untouched and emulators can exist.
>>266366
What if I like hags? Is it worth it then?
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>>266361
Was kinda curious about this one. Maybe I'll check it out now.
>>266361
Wow free garbage!
>>266362
>turning a decent GUI into yet another screen space disrespecting abomination
Fuck discord and its Idiocracy effect on other software. I can already see normalfags praising it while calling TS3 confusing.
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Report: Unannounced Warhammer RPG Cancelled by Games Workshop
https://mp1st.com/news/unannounced-warhammer-rpg-cancelled-games-workshop
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xIztz
>The canceled game in question was being developed by Thought Pennies, a studio founded in 2020 by Tim Erns, who previously worked on franchises like Star Wars and Final Fantasy. This studio, described on its website as an RPG games developer, was affected by rounds of layoffs in both 2023 and late 2024. The latter round was particularly devastating, as it followed a “change of strategic direction” by an unnamed publisher, leaving the studio’s current project without funding.
>The project was described as a “multiplatform, social role-playing game.” Although it was never officially revealed, resumes from a few employees claim it was set in the Warhammer universe and ultimately canceled due to a lack of funding. The game was being developed in Unreal Engine 5 and had been in development since at least 2022, although it’s unclear if it started earlier.
>One particular resume describes the game as a third person “Co-Op PvE Action RPG with a cast of unique heroes and playstyles,” featuring a mix of melee and ranged combat, and monstrous enemies set in a dark fantasy world. Although it doesn’t mention Warhammer, it’s evident that it refers to this franchise if we connect the dark fantasy description with the previous mentions. Other details mentioned are more technical, like the inclusion of enhanced combat feels with hit-pause and camera shake and immersive wall squeeze-through animations.

Palworld: Future Roadmap
https://xcancel.com/Palworld_EN/status/1880970972422951384
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CK2dz
>We've been updating the game since the start of Early Access, and we'll continue to update Palworld as we prepare for the official release!
>The future roadmap includes the following:
>-CO-OP Crossplay
>-World Transfers for Pals
>-Final Boss / Ending Scenario
>-Further ways to strengthen and improve Pals
>-Various new content such as new Pals and technologies
>-Game Collaborations (Including Terraria)
>-Improvements to world object placement
>-Improvements to base Pals
>-Improvements to optimization
>-Improvements to UX

Video Game Maker Paying $20 Million in FTC Kid-Privacy Case
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-17/genshin-impact-video-game-maker-to-pay-20-million-in-ftc-case
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/816R8
>The maker of the popular video game Genshin Impact will pay $20 million to settle claims it violated kids’ privacy and deceived players about the cost of winning sought-after prizes, the US Federal Trade Commission said Friday.
>Singapore-based Cognosphere mishandled data it collected on children who played the game by improperly sharing it with others, including advertisers, in violation of US law, the FTC alleged. The company, which does business in the US under the name HoYoverse, also used a convoluted and chance-based system to obscure the true cost of prizes in so-called loot boxes, the agency said.
>“Genshin Impact deceived children, teens, and other players into spending hundreds of dollars on prizes they could never win,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s bureau of consumer protection. “Companies that deploy these dark-pattern tactics will be held accountable if they deceive players, particularly kids and teens, about the true costs of in-game transactions.”
>The company didn’t admit wrongdoing. “Genshin Impact is a popular free-to-play game designed for older teens and adults,” Cognosphere said in a statement. “While we believe many of the FTC’s allegations are inaccurate, we agreed to this settlement because we value the trust of our community and share a commitment to transparency for our players.”
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>>266390
>The chink/poo shovelware game that destroyed the last shred of credibility that GayFreak had with normalfags is still in early access
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>>266390
>Genshit getting sued over lootboxes
<Just today talked with a 50 year old construction QC who had a lot of trouble pretending he wasn't a furry weeaboo faggot, and he said it didn't have lootboxes when I brought it up
How the fuck do these autists manage to keep these high position jobs while surrounded by the most stereotypical construction workers and managers?
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>>266390
>>266394
>Samuel Levine
It's pretty obviously a kike taking a cut from Hoyo (who have fusion reactor money), Genshit doesn't do anything different from thousands of other gachas and isn't even marketed to kids.
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>>266392
>The chink/poo shovelware game that destroyed the last shred of credibility that GayFreak had with normalfags is still in early access
what are you even talking about
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>>266396
Nigger that post makes perfect sense to anyone with a brain. The quoted post even has a single article about an early access game, making it completely obvious if you're at least smarter than a nigger.
>>266396
Palworld's development is largely outsourced to a third party company that is entirely Chinese/Indian. It's about a third of the game's credits, and that's with all the non-development credits thrown in like translation and marketing. Game Freak has basically been phoning in Pokémon for over a decade at least, and it became especially bad when they transitioned to 3D.  Palworld, being literally just another standard "base building survival sim" made by chinks and poos, but with pokemon thrown in, managing to revitalize interest in monster c a t c h a n to normalniggers outside of pokeshit speaks volumes to how bad Game Freak is at making games.
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>>266392
>a game made by a small team being legally sieged is still in early access a year later xDDD
>>266400
Did you spell "catching" (as in "monster catching") on purpose to be the same as the name of a pedo imageboard that used to raid us?
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>>266403
No I spelled it that way because I felt like it, just like fightan games, and grindan games. Which apparently catches an unappealable global wordfilter. I already bitched about it on /meta/.
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>>266405
>pic
I'm really curious of what the Japanese line is like.
>>266260
Saying that PalWorld is a better game than the broken PokeMon crap Nintendo shat out recently doesn't mean praising PalWorld.
>>266256
Way to miss the obvious point, faggot.
The point was that Nintendo does better when their consoles are NOT selling well, and when that is the case, they usually go:
<"No! please, come back! Look, we are cool again!"
Only in those cases they start acting a bit less jewish than usual.
>>266349
>Daniel Vavra
He'd deserve his own thread on /just/.
Anyway, those kike genes keep resurfacing no matter how "based" he wants people to believe he is.
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>>266410
>Saying that PalWorld is a better game than the broken PokeMon crap Nintendo shat out recently doesn't mean praising PalWorld.
I don't think that's his intent. What I think he means, is that they're not actually in the same genre, so it's really apples and oranges.
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>>266401
>I know a few men who had family, children, and then fallen in love with a man.
The absolute state of Western gayming. So now we have the strawgrabbing of extremely rare and extremely degenerate examples that should most definitely not be used to validate an unnecessary choice in a game. If you still play modern games, nonetheless games from the West, you are cucked.

Also the claim makes me wonder if this guy is in the closet. How do you know a FEW men like that and why would you associate with them?
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>>266412
He said 'I know few men', and in that context it's just an euphemism meaning 'Nobody does this'.

That being said he's still a jewish fag trying to cover up that he probably took ESG money
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I know a guy, his name is Hitler, an American. The guy is absolutely passionate about gassing the jews.
>>266410
>Nintendo does better when their consoles are NOT selling well
Nintendo was often at their best when their consoles were doing well. The DS era blows the 3DS out of the water.
The 3DS and Wii U era were fucking terrible. Barely any third party games (implying poor relationships with devs), first party games were generally not great on top of being sparse, loads of censorship as well, just all around a poor showing.
Nintendo's console high points in terms of sales success were the NES, SNES, Wii, GBC, DS, and Switch eras.
Their low points were the Gamecube, Wii U, and 3DS eras. (GBA and N64 are arguable here, imo they're midpoints)
You really want to argue that the latter examples were better than the former?
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>>266423
>You really want to argue that the latter examples were better than the former?
Not him but Gamecube era blows the Wii out of the water in terms of good games. In terms of first party the N64 is at the level of the Wii U if not for the radical change that was Super Mario 64.
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>>266427
I'll concede Gamecube was better than Wii era, if only because they focused too much on wagglan shit instead of just making quality games.
>>266423
>Nintendo's console high points in terms of sales success were the...SNES
You mean the era that Nintendo had to get off their ass and invote because a blue rodent was eating their lunch?
>>266367
>>266369
>>266376
EXTRA EXTRA DICK SUCKING MOD IS BACK I REPEAT
<DICK SUCKING MOD IS BACK
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>>266394
>he said it didn't have lootboxes
Gacha is just another name for lootbox. They are the same thing.
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>>266418
>That being said he's still a jewish fag trying to cover up that he probably took ESG money
This.Even if he didn't take those ESG money himself, his parent company (Plaion/Embracer) definitely did.
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>>266440
Not even eden is this petty
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Analyst claims industry 'hope' GTA 6 will cost as much as $100
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ejwvB
Dino Crisis successor will not release on PC due to fear of 'sexualized mods'
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/SO50P
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_erotica
Sony cancels two more live service games, including a new God of War title
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Ghsiu
An unannounced Warhammer RPG has reportedly been canceled
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/PS7tD
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>Writing on X, TeamKill Media said that concerns it had about players making pornographic mods meant it currently has no plans to bring the game to PC.
>“For those asking us about a PC version of Code Violet… the reason we are not bringing it to PC is we do not want anyone modding vulgar versions of the main character as well as other characters in the game,” it wrote.
Why are they lying?
>>266450
I don't know, but I suspect this will lead to a PS5 version modding scene purely out of white hot spite.
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>>266467
>but I suspect this will lead to a PS5 version modding scene purely out of white hot spite.
I doubt it. Maybe if the PS5 had exclusives that weren't boring movie games but otherwise no.
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>>266447
>GTA 6 will cost as much as $100
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>>266467
>I suspect this will lead to a PS5 version modding scene
Since the game will likely require a very recent firmware, a new jailbreak exploit would be needed in order to mod it.
The latest public kernel exploit code was published on September of last year and it supports firmwares up to version 5.50, which was released in June 2022. (And the vulnerability exploited originated from FreeBSD.)
As an aside it will be interesting to see what Nintendo will bring to the security table with the Switch 2, and how long they'll be able to deter their fandom from breaking into it.
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>>266450
It sounds like whatever snowflake they got to play the main character only agreed to do so if they prevented modders from making her naked. She's not even attractive so I doubt anyone would make a nude mod anyway.

This wouldn't even be a problem if game designers actually made unique characters instead of just using real people as models like a fucking movie.
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>>266349
People here actually trusted this Jew?
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>>266496
Maybe kikechanners did but he always seemed like yet another loud "alt-right" grifter to me. Also the first Kingdom Cum wasn't very good, to my memory, so it's not surprising he chose to go for ESG money.
>>266498
>another loud "alt-right" grifter to me.
I don't think he ever tried to grift as an alt-righter, but just wanted to defend his direction with his game historical authenticity and saw a way of using those who didn't approve of the "SJW" or cancel culture shit back as a source of income.

>Kingdom Cum wasn't very good, to my memory
It was indeed mediocre.
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>>266496
>People here
I don't even know who the fuck that guy is?
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>>266482
Those devs are just attention whores.
>>266498
>Also the first Kingdom Cum wasn't very good, to my memory
Eh, he got popular because of his opinions, the game came out, the game didn't look fun enough to pirate, and only got some shitpost videos in here and later got forgotten until 2 came along.
>>266502
Kingdom Come 1 got popular during GamerGate for being "anti-woke" (aiming for historical accuracy). Fatass is known for being the director and lead writer of that game, as well as having said favorable things regarding the GamerGate movement to which his game subsequently owes much of its fame.
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>>266450
post the other half anon, I know instant_loss when I see it
>>266447
>Analyst claims industry 'hope' GTA 6 will cost as much as $100
Sometimes I believe they push articles out to test the waters. Especially since even $70 is still just becoming a thing. But unless they go full OG Dead Rising in terms of attention to detail and ability to interact with things and fully fleshed out buildings, which I know isn't going to happen, then it simply isn't worth even close to $100.
>>266498
>>266501
>Mediocre
Quite badly implemented combat system but the rest was pretty decent, map was dense as fuck and there were tons of things to do with everything open from the start aside from a crucial battle mechanic lock behind a mission. Playing as a thief or trader was very viable.
I am cautious as hell for the new one but play your damn games before opening yer faggot pie holes to speak about the first one.
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>>266518
I didn't get into the game personally due to performance issues. 
It constantly crashed on me and after it just kept doing it causing me to lose shittons of progress over and over due to the only manual save being a consumable item which I'd be fine with if it weren't for my game being so unstable. After losing my save due to corruption twice I may add I uninstalled and never touched it. That was a more recent build of the damn thing on a different PC I had but still. I never cared about the dev but the instability in the game just killed any motivation I had to play.
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>>266516
>But unless they go full OG Dead Rising in terms of attention to detail and ability to interact with things and fully fleshed out buildings, which I know isn't going to happen, then it simply isn't worth even close to $100.
Anon, you forget that even GTA4 rivaled having that level of detail, and it was removed in GTA5.
>>266518
>the rest was pretty decent,
Umm, no it wasn't? Are we forgetting the dialogue system, leveling and perks mechanics that were also poorly implemented as well? Along with the game being fairly janky and suffering from graphical issues such as armor clipping through Henry's body, and optimization issues, such as having a CPU and GPU above the game's recommended settings and yet still suffering from performance issues. It was even worse at launch when the game was so buggy that the main quest had become unbeatable. The world being yuge doesn't mean there's plenty of things to do, considering there wasn't much besides doing tedious and dull quests, fighting in a tournament, gambling, getting ambushed by bandits, and fighting duels.
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>>266516
>unless they go full OG Dead Rising in terms of attention to detail and ability to interact with things and
>fully fleshed out buildings
gta trailers typically only show things that will actually be featured in the game, and then tend to deliver that or sometimes even better in terms of graphics/detail. if they actually had a bunch of enterable and interactable (w/out loading screens) interiors they would've showed them off in the first trailer already. so far they only showed convenience stores and apartments, and the leaks showed some night club and some more stores, all things that already were both in IV and V. unless trailer 2 brings a lot more to the table so far this is just looking like V on a different map, with revamped graphics, and some giant latina jiggly ass, no less, no more.
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>>266531
>>266539
Had no crashes, played on below recommended hardware on pretty high settings with solid 60+ FPS. The only thing I recall turning down a lot was particles and shadows were on medium probably. Couldn't finish it though because it was only game that ever fully utilized my piece of shit Piledriver CPU, which ironically sometimes caused the mobo to overheat and shut down processor was initially listed as supported by the mobo but was silently removed at some point, this was the only time it was an issue.
Too bad, I was enjoying it. Never got back to it after getting new hardware.
>>266546
Even the leaked prototype had only a handful of buildings
>>266539
>the dialogue system, leveling and perks mechanics that were also poorly implemented as well?
Dialogue was absurdly difficult to level but the rest was easy and worked, if a tad unrealistic but that's video games, better to not be a full-on sim
>the game being fairly janky
For a RPG it wasn't, never had problems on my PC until i put mods on it but i do recall tons of jank in horse hijacking
>The world being yuge doesn't mean there's plenty of things to do
>Aside from dueling, bandits, gamblinb, tournaments, quests
Are you reading yourself

>>266546
>gta trailers typically only show things that will actually be featured in the game, and then tend to deliver that or sometimes even better in terms of graphics/detail.
IV and V featured stuff that wasn't on the games and with graphics well under the mark
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>>266568
>Dialogue was absurdly difficult to level
The dialogue system wasn't absurdly difficult to level, it was a pointless and broken grindfest.

>but the rest was easy and worked, if a tad unrealistic but that's video games, better to not be a full-on sim
I wasn't making the argument that it should have been realistic, but that it should have been properly designed.

>For a RPG it wasn't
Large-scale combat or fighting like 3 guys was in-fact very janky.

>Aside from dueling, bandits, gamblinb, tournaments, quests
In what way or form were the fetch and, le "immersion" quest fun? Also, gambling was RNG and cheatable if you obtained Alfonso's dice, and yet rolling dice wasn't the best way to earn money within the game. And getting ambushed by bandits got repetitive mid-game.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Had 1.5 Million Players in First Two Months, EA Expected 3 Million
https://archive.ph/20250123233156/https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-had-15-million-players-in-first-two-months-ea-expected-3-million
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>>266630
Would 3 million even be enough to break even? I thought this game was in development for like 7 years.
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>Nintendo Bags GLAAD Nomination For Paper Mario's Trans Representation
https://archive.ph/C5TLl
<Nintendo has received a nomination for the upcoming 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards for its trans representation in 2024's Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Switch remake (thanks, Eurogamer).
<The game, launched on 23rd May 2024, featured the inclusion of dialogue from the 2004 GameCube version that had originally been altered for its release in the West. Focused on Mario's ghost companion Vivian, the change effectively restored the character's trans identity.
<The Thousand-Year Door joins nine other nominees in the 'Outstanding Video Game' catagory, alongside Blumhouse Games' wonderful horror title Fear the Spotlight, which explored the relationship between the title's two protagonists, Amy and Vivian.

Reminder that Nintendo altered the script for the TTYD remake on the Switch even further to cement Vivian as being a tranny as opposed to a trap like in the original.
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>>266637
Was the gay porn really necessary for your post?
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>>266121
>  Because as I remember, the Jews are still in control
They are in decline. This is why some of them are whining that they are losing the fight against anti semitism and why you can criticize Israel on twatter all day long. 

Concerning the wider effect on the industry; It will correct itself faster than most people would think, because Grummz ebin campaign is still underway and there are so many more trash fires to admire soon. Many corporations are also covering their asses since it was clear that there won't be any leftist administration in America until at least 2036. Maybe even not before some of us reach retirement age.
>>266640
>futa isn't gay
>loli isn't pedo
>niggers aren't human
>>266637
>Implying there's a difference between a trap and a tranny
>>266637
>game where a guy in a dress who feels more like a girl gets brutally bullied verbally and physically by everyone around him 
I'm happy to see that GLAAD encourages and rewards that kind of representation in video games.
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>>266650
>I'm happy to see
you could say you're glaad
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>>266646
A trap is usually a cute boy who wears a skirt and wants to suck penis. A tranny is either a Thai prostitute or a discord moderator who seeks attention by pretending to be a woman. Traps are generally easy going people. Western trannies are evil or extremely delusional people and will get very offended if you use the term trap. There are many more differences, but you get the point.
>>266665
>your strain of sodomy is bad, my strain of sodomy is good
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>>266666
Quints cannot be untrue
>>266665
>A trap is usually a cute boy who wears a skirt and wants to suck penis
>cute boy
>Western trannies
<implying trannies from anywhere are better
Go return to smuglo.li
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>>266665
Haram is haram.
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>>266665
hang yourself faggot join your kin
>>266646
A trap is just "boy who looks like a girl". It's usually played for laughs, and has been a part of Japanese culture for decades. A tranny is politically charged concept added for "inclusion" to make freaks in real life feel better about themselves.

You don't even have to like traps to recognize that replacing a Japanese concept with a western one or adding politics is a bad thing, so I can only assume you are retarded or a tranny yourself.
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>>266672
>You don't even have to like traps to recognize that replacing a Japanese concept with a western one or adding politics is a bad thing
Ah of course, yellow troonery is based, redpilled, cultured and kino but white troonery is le cringe. Truly enlightening.
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>>266673
The difference between Nipponese Traps and/or Gays is that both are always portrayed as obviously non-normal weirdos, with neither games nor mango/animu doing the whole kike spiel about >>266674 .
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>>266676
>>266678
>>>/pol/4175
Go back to your neetsoc wignat shithole faggot.
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>>266679
Thank you for opening my eyes to white nationalism.
>>266672
>A trap is just "boy who looks like a girl". It's usually played for laughs, and has been a part of Japanese culture for decades
They're called otokonoko, and the ones that are usually laughed at are dudes who don't even come close to passing, such as ojisans wearing dresses. Japan has had a fair amount of issues with effeminate and effeminate-looking men being total faggots and psychopaths as the ones are within the West.
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Daily reminder that the gender binary and abarahamistic gender roles do not apply to japan or our Aryan cultures. Trying to impose abrahamic gender roles is a gross error and a telltale sign of a poster being brown(a shitskin).

>>266646
see >>266672 and >>266681, shitskin. Stop shitting this thread with your gender-conformist abrahamic cancer.
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>>266684
Just admit you want to suck cock you fucking fag holy shit
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>>266684
Please have some of this bacon I made especially for you, it would be rude to not at least have a bite.
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>The /news/ thread
</pol/ hates anime
<somebody let the gay community in
< >>266450 refuses to post the ending
More news at 5
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>>266689
>>266690
Don't respond to this nigger, he's the same retard who's been spamming the same retarded posts within the /fascist/ thread.
>>266694
>thread
*Board*
>>266692
I'm sorry anon there is no second part
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>>266694
>he's the same retard who's been spamming the same retarded posts within the /fascist/ thread
I already knew that.
>don't respond to this nigger
No, fuck you. I'm having fun.
>>266447
>>266516
Game development has increased in cost, meanwhile prices have remained stagnant(60-70). An increase in cost may not be welcomed at first, but the goyish cattle will eventually get accustomed to it. Hopefully the increase across the industry as a whole is incremental and not as sudden as GTA 6's.
>>266637
Vivian being a tranny or tranny-esque(trap) is still faggotry. Nothing changed. Retards should stop obssessing over nothingburgers. It reminds me of the Bridget situation(Guilty gear), like niggers it's still cross-dressing faggotry the other way around.
>>266694
Weebs and vidya nerds will always be degenerates, rightwing or left, as the source of their identity is inherently degenerate and homosexual.
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>>266696
That means we get to make our own, then.
>>266646
It's the difference between crossdressing and trans. You can crossdress without mutilating your genitals and buying into the good goy gender studies crap.
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Retailer Leak Reveals New 3D Super Mario and Zelda Remake for Nintendo Switch 2
https://mp1st.com/news/leak-reveals-new-3d-super-mario-zelda-remake-nintendo-switch-2
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kFY0W
>According to a recent leak, a new 3D Super Mario game and a remake of The Legend of Zelda are set to release this year.
>The leak comes from NewEgg, a retailer that is selling gift cards for the Nintendo Switch eShop. Their listing revealed several upcoming games from Nintendo, including Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Most notably, it mentioned a new 3D Super Mario game and a remake or remaster of The Legend of Zelda.
>There isn’t much information about these two games yet. [...]

EA shares slump after soccer game misses goal
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ea-shares-slump-after-annual-forecast-cut-fans-fears-over-soccer-franchise-2025-01-23/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/21FeQ
>Electronic Arts shares (EA.O), opens new tab sank more than 15% on Thursday, tripped up by a surprise slowdown in spending on the soccer franchise that has shaped its gaming empire.
>"FC 25" was hit with mixed reviews as players bemoaned the lack of new features and innovation, including in-game physics and goal-scoring mechanisms, Jefferies analysts said.
>As a result of the early underperformance, however, EA lowered its annual revenue forecast on Wednesday. It also projected a mid-single-digit decline in annual live-service bookings.
>Weak spending on its "Dragon Age: The Veilguard" role-playing game, launched in October, also contributed to the cut as players stick with proven titles in an uncertain economy.
>EA was on Thursday set to lose nearly $6 billion from its market value of $37.3 billion, if the losses hold. 

Nippon Ichi Software president Tetsuhisa Seko dies at age 54
https://www.gematsu.com/2025/01/nippon-ichi-software-president-tetsuhisa-seko-dies-at-age-54
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CH9NX
>Nippon Ichi Software president Tetsuhisa Seko has passed away at the age of 54, the company announced. 
>Seko joined Nippon Ichi Software in March 2002 after working at SNK and Toshin, and after moving through various management positions, was appointed president and representative director of Nippon Ichi Software in July 2023.
>According to Jiji, Seko passed away in the hospital. A funeral will be held at Memoire Kakamigahara on January 29 at 11:00 JST.

Call of Duty was the US’s best-selling video game for the 16th year running
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/call-of-duty-was-the-uss-best-selling-series-for-the-16th-year-running/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/fKY8X
>According to new data published by Circana for December 2024 and the entire year, Black Ops 6 was the best-selling game in the US in terms of dollar sales.
>As such, according to Circana, “Call of Duty remains the best-selling video game franchise in US full game dollar sales for a record 16th consecutive year”.
>The top 10 best-selling games in the US in 2024 are as follows (based on physical sales as well as sales on Nintendo eShop, Steam and the Xbox and PlayStation digital stores):
>1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Microsoft)
>2. EA Sports College Football 25 (EA)
>3. Helldivers II (Sony)
>4. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Bandai Namco)
>5. NBA 2K25 (Take-Two)
>6. Madden NFL 25 (EA)
>7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2025) (Microsoft)
>8. EA Sports FC 25 (EA)
>9. Elden Ring (Bandai Namco)
>10. EA Sports MVP Bundle (EA)
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>>266724
>Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Microsoft)
microsoft published carl on duty now? since when?
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>>266725
Since they bought Activision Bizzard in 2023.
They now own these franchises, according to https://www.denofgeek.com/games/activision-blizzard-microsoft-xbox-deal-figure-games-list/ (which is referenced by >Wikipedia):
>Blur
>Blackthorn
>Bubble Witch Saga
>Call of Duty
>Candy Crush
>Crash Bandicoot
>Diablo
>DJ Hero
>Empire Earth
>Farm Heroes Saga
>Gabriel Knight
>Geometry Wars
>Guitar Hero
>Gun
>Hearthstone
>Heretic
>Hexen
>Interstate 76
>King’s Quest
>The Lost Vikings
>Overwatch
>Pitfall
>Police Quest
>Prototype
>Rock N’ Roll Racing
>Skylanders
>Soldier of Fortune
>Space Quest
>Spyro the Dragon
>Starcraft
>SWAT
>Tenchu
>The Lost Vikings
>Timeshift
>Tony Hawk
>True Crime
>Warcraft
>Zork
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>>266726
>That list
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>>266726
Why do they have Sierra and Infocom?
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>>266726
This list can actually make GamePass work but they’re retarded.
>>266646
In real life? Yeah they’re all fags and should be killed. But anime? No I will definitely fuck Astolfo.
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>>266728
Sierra seems to have been acquired/merged/rebranded/whatever by a bunch of companies over the years, timeline looks something like: Sierra -> CUC International (1996) -> Vivendi (2006) -> Activision Blizzard (2008).
Infocom was plainly acquired by Activision in 1986.
>>266726
Most of the franchises on this list are long dead. Do you fear they might be ineptly revived and sold as nostalgia bait?
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>>266727
The sad part is that a lot of them have a better chance under microshit than they do under nu-Blizzard.
>>266734
The theme of corporations nowadays seems to be brand recognition so they probably will resurrect their bloated corpses as tribute to mammon.
>>266728
Tim Cain thinks they do, since he was optimistic the acquisition could lead to him being allowed to release the source code to Arcanum (only reason he can't is his contract with Sierra prevented him from releasing info on how to bypass the DRM, which the game has been sold without for a decade, and all he needs is MS to agree to cancel that obsolete clause of the contract)
2025 State of the Game Industry Report | Key Data & Insights
https://www.digit.fyi/game-indutry-trends-2025-gdc/
https://archive.ph/2ayMG

>As the gaming world marks the 13th year of GDC’s State of the Game Industry report, its latest iteration paints a mixed picture of progress and setbacks, optimism and frustration.
>The report surveyed over 3,000 developers from 86 countries across six continents, offering a global view of the industry. Below, we’ll roundup some of the report’s key findings.

<2025 | A Year of Layoffs
>The gaming industry saw widespread layoffs in 2025, affecting 41% of developers. This marks a sharp increase from 2024, when 35% of respondents reported being impacted by layoffs, compared to 41% this year. Alarmingly, only 43% of developers now say their companies have avoided layoffs, down from 53% last year.
>The reasons cited for these job cuts range from restructuring and declining revenue to market shifts. However, 19% of developers reported that no reason was given at all. Developers’ frustrations are palpable, with blame attributed to factors like post-COVID overexpansion, rising production costs, and poor leadership. As one respondent noted, “The question isn’t if layoffs will happen—it’s when.”
>Layoffs have particularly impacted certain roles, such as game narrative jobs, which saw their workforce shrink significantly despite growing demand for storytelling in games.
>Beyond this, 58% of developers remain concerned about potential future layoffs, mirroring sentiments from last year’s report. For some, however, the concern has already become reality, with many “N/A” responses reflecting developers who are currently unemployed.

<Diversity Gains Momentum
>A bright spot in this year’s report is the growing diversity among game developers.
>Women and non-binary individuals now make up 32% of the workforce, compared to 29% last year and 24% in 2022. Similarly, LGBTQ+ representation continues to rise, with 25% of developers identifying as LGBTQ+, up from 21% in 2024. Among developers aged 18-24, 43% identify as LGBTQ+, highlighting an impressive leap for representation.
>Racial and ethnic diversity has also improved, albeit incrementally. Developers identifying as East, South, or Southeast Asian now make up 16% of the workforce, while Hispanic or Latino developers represent 10%, and Black, African, or Caribbean developers account for 3%. These shifts contributed to a decrease in the number of respondents identifying as White or Caucasian, from 64% in 2024 to 59% this year.

<Changing Workplace Dynamics
>The structure of the game development workforce is evolving. Solo developers now account for 21% of respondents, up from 18% last year. This marks a significant trend: there are now more solo developers than those working at studios with over 500 employees. Meanwhile, the share of developers at AAA studios has decreased from 18% in 2024 to 15% today, reflecting broader shifts in the industry’s landscape.
>Newer developers are more likely to work in game design, while experienced professionals gravitate toward production and team management roles. The percentage of developers with 10 years or less of experience rose to 60%, up from 56% last year, further highlighting the industry’s influx of fresh talent.

<Generative AI: Adoption vs. Resistance
>Generative AI has become a prominent yet polarising force in game development – as it has in most industries.
>While 52% of developers report that their companies use generative AI tools – up from 31% last year – enthusiasm for the technology appears to be waning. Only 9% of developers believe their companies are interested in generative AI, down from 15% last year.
>Meanwhile, 27% say their companies have no interest in using it, a notable increase from 18% in 2024.
>Developers cite coding assistance, concept art, and 3D model generation as the most common uses for AI tools. However, skepticism is growing. The percentage of developers who view generative AI as having a positive impact has dropped to 13%, down from 21% last year, while those seeing a negative impact have risen to 30%.
>Concerns about generative AI include ethical issues like intellectual property theft, energy consumption, content quality, and biases. Job displacement remains a significant worry, with 51% of developers expressing serious concerns about the technology’s implications.
>Interestingly, older developers are more likely to use generative AI tools than their younger counterparts, underscoring a divide in adoption trends.
>“Game development is supposed to be art and an expression of one’s imagination, not an AI generated concept with no real thought process,” said one anonymous developer in the survey.
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Unknown 9 franchise cancelled as developer admits game "didn't come near" expectations, series "didn't warrant any further exploration"
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>The studio behind bold Assassin's Creed-meets-Tomb Raider transmedia attempt Unknown 9 has signalled an end to the franchise, following the poor performance of last year's initial video game.
>Unknown 9: Awakening, a generic globe-trotting adventure starring The Witcher TV series' Anya Chalotra, "didn't come near the company's expectations," the boss of developer Reflector Entertainment Herve Hoerdt said in a statement today, "and didn't warrant any further exploration in this universe". Ouch.
>One of the Reflector's two future projects - presumably another Unknown 9 game which had been in the "conceptualisation phase" - has now been cancelled, Hoerdt added. This therefore means the studio was "terminating this development line".
>"This decision correlates directly with the failure of the studio's ambitious and courageous first project, a new IP with a rich transmedia universe," Hoerdt continued.
>Reflector had ambitious plans for Unknown 9 as an ongoing series, supported by podcasts, comics, novels, and several web series. While many of these have now been released, some ahead of Awakening itself, following a lengthy delay to the video game, none appear to have made any real impression.
Reflector will now go through a second round of redundancies, following previous job losses reported back in November 2024, as the company shrinks to a "single project approach the studio will adopt for the imminent future".
>This project is an "existing Bandai Namco IP" and is "shaping up well", Hoerdt concluded.
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>>266795
>41% of developers
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>>266795
You forgot the most important part:
>80% of developers are developing for PC
>8% of developers are developing for Switch 2
Don't know if this was sent out before the reveal but either way that's bad news for the early game library. Unless Prime 4 is actually good and runs substantially better on Switch 2 they might have a problem with system sales.
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Bamco is putting out a survey asking for your feedback on the Freedom Wars remaster
This is probably because the remaster was absolutely trashed upon release (Performance issues, body types replacing sex, kenerl level EAC, etc.), in addition to the recent falures of Unknown 9, Blue Protocol, and Synduality. The link is broken so as to not has it automatically dismissed based on "where" the feedback is coming from: https://survey.bandainamcoent(.)co.jp/jfe/form/SV_egKVXA4LzOke2HQ
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>>266846
Thanks, I told them I won't ever buy a game that uses body types in place of sex.
>>266692
>refuses to post the ending
It's a meme, not a 2-koma.
>>266795
>this writing style
AI generated article.
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Ubisoft confirms 185 layoffs as it closes former DJ Hero studio and downsizes others
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-confirms-185-layoffs-as-it-closes-former-dj-hero-studio-and-downsizes-others/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aVniR
>The move will see the company close Ubisoft Leamington, which is based in Leamington Spa, England, and make cuts at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections.
>Ubisoft Leamington was previously known as FreeStyleGames – the studio behind the DJ Hero series – before it was acquired by Ubisoft from Activision in 2017. It has since worked mainly as a support studio on games such as Far Cry 5, Avatar, and Star Wars Outlaws.
>Ubisoft said in a statement provided to VGC: “As part of our ongoing efforts to prioritize projects and reduce costs that ensure long-term stability at Ubisoft, we have announced targeted restructurings at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections and the permanent closure of Ubisoft Leamington site.
>“Unfortunately, this should impact 185 employees overall. We are deeply grateful for their contributions and are committed to supporting them through this transition”

>>266795
>The percentage of developers with 10 years or less of experience rose to 60%, up from 56% last year, further highlighting the industry’s influx of fresh talent.
If you pair this with layoffs, then this could mean that the veterans in studios are leaving without any replacement.
It would be interesting to see the actual number of devs and their actual experience, but the report's download is gated behind a form requiring your real name and e-mail address, and I couldn't find it elsewhere.
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>>266997
I wanted to give Vavra the benefit of the doubt but this is getting ridiculous.
Post an archive though. Screenshots are easily faked.
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>>266999
>I wanted to give Vavra the benefit of the doubt
>self-professed jew who gets triggered by 'Nazi' avatars at sensitive moments after word gets out that he niggerfaggoted his own game for no apparent reason
Anon how many strikes do you need
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>>266969
lol they are making jokes about it being Yasuke's fault over on the Japanese boards.
https://itest.5ch.net/krsw/test/read.cgi/ghard/1738031092
>>266999
I can't archive it, have the original link
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1771300/discussions/0/507318484016912609/?ctp=10#c507318617823525657
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>>266997
>no our precious pedophile NPCs are too important to the story to kill
Still holding out hope kingdom cum fags?
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>>267003
>the player can not kill plot relevant characters.
This is supposed to be an RPG?
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PlayStation names new sole president and CEO, as Hermen Hulst takes studios role
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playstation-names-new-sole-president-and-ceo-as-hermen-hulst-takes-studios-role/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8UOIl
>Now Sony has announced that, as of April 1, Nishino will become president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment as a whole, as well as his continued role as CEO of the Platform Business Group.
>Hulst will continue to serve as CEO of the Studio Business Group, but will now report to Nishino.
>Sony Group president, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki, who had been serving as chairman of SIE with Nishino and Hulst reporting to him, will now step down from the role to become president and CEO of Sony Group, allowing Nishino to lead SIE.
>“I am truly honored to take the helm at Sony Interactive Entertainment,” Nishino said in a statement. “Technology and creativity are two of our biggest strengths as we continue to focus on developing experiences that deliver entertainment for everyone.

Sony stocks hit new record high in Japan following corporate restructuring announcement
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/sony-stocks-hit-new-record-high-in-japan-following-corporate-restructuring-announcement/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0MMQr
>Sony Group has been rising on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for three consecutive days. On January 29, it began trading on a continuous upward trend, rising by 5% to 3,512 yen (+155 yen), updating its highest price since listing. 
>GameBiz reports that buying was stimulated by investors’ high expectations for Sony’s new management structure. Earlier in the day, it was announced that President Hiroki Totoki will double as the company’s CEO starting from April 1. In addition, Sony Interactive Entertainment will appoint Hideaki Nishino as its President and sole CEO.  
>According to the Nikkei Shimbun, another contributing factor to Sony’s rising stock price is that buyers consider Sony to be at lower risk of being affected by so-called Trump Tariffs. This is because the company largely does business in content-related fields, such as video games. 

Assassin's Creed Shadows: Story Trailer is released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUcBviEBFk
>Shared January 22, 2025

Update on PS4 Games for PlayStation Plus
https://blog.playstation.com/2025/01/29/playstation-plus-monthly-games-for-february-payday-3-high-on-life-pac-man-world-re-pac/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rPicF
>As many of our players are currently playing on PS5 and have shifted toward redeeming and accessing PS5 titles from the Monthly Games and Game Catalog benefit, PlayStation Plus is also evolving with this trend and will focus on offering PS5 titles through the Monthly Games and Game Catalog benefit starting January 2026.
>As we shift to PS5, PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit and will only be occasionally offered for PlayStation Plus Monthly Games and Game Catalog starting January 2026.
>We may still provide titles that can be playable on both PS4 and PS5 consoles after this date.
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>>267079
based GOGGERS
>>267122
Name three games where you can permakill an NPC important to the main quest and not get a bad ending almost immediately.
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From PlayStation to Drone Operation: Why EU Is Moving to Ban Game Consoles in Russia
https://archive.ph/20250128150931/https://united24media.com/latest-news/from-playstation-to-drone-operation-why-eu-is-moving-to-ban-game-consoles-in-russia-5418
>The European Union is planning to ban video game console sales to Russia to prevent their use in controlling drones deployed in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported, citing EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on January 28.
>Kallas stated that the ban would target products like Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox as part of a new sanctions package timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
>“We are really looking into all the types of things that help Russia to wage this war to put them on the sanctions list,” Kallas told reporters. “Even the consoles for video games, because apparently these are the ones that they operate drones with.”
>Since the imposition of Western sanctions, Russia has had to improvise, turning to unconventional sources for military technology. According to Western and Ukrainian intelligence, Moscow used basic semiconductors from refrigerators and home appliances in its missiles and drones.
>Although the world’s three largest gaming console manufacturers — Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo — suspended sales in Russia in early March 2022, the proposed EU ban aims to cut off supplies from traders within the bloc, including those dealing in second-hand devices.
>Earlier, reports emerged that Belarusian enterprise ‘Integral’ manufactures microchips for Russian missiles while circumventing Western sanctions by using equipment and chemical materials sourced from Europe.
Its over.
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>>267141
>as of April 1
Hopefully not an April fools joke and it will only be a matter of time until the likes of Hulst are forced out. Make Sony Japanese again!
>>267149
Fire Emblem, Alpha Protocol, and Silent Hill
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>>267152
>video game consoles
>for controlling military drones
This is either the usual globohomo masquerade for instant racial hatred or a curious implication about NATO-PS5 scalper relations.
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>>267171
>him
>>267149
Dark Souls, Chrono Trigger, Morrowind
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>>266244
Now there are stealth layoff. They are pruning the writing room.
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Note how the entire leftist gaming industry fled to Bluesky after they figured that public square  belongs MUHGUH now.
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>>267209
>folx
Is that like latinx?
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>>267209
>>267210
>begging for a job on nu-twitter
Has it never occurred to these pedophiles to actually apply for a job?

>>267211
Probably suppose to be 'folks.' But who really knows with these "people." Could just as easily be some code word for some sort of sexual degeneracy or new gender.
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>>267212
>Has it never occurred to these pedophiles to actually apply for a job?
No, this is how they get their jobs. Remember that their kind controls who gets hired, that's how they've captured these companies in the first place. It's one big incestuous clique.
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>>267212
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>>267157
>Fire Emblem
If they're plot essential they don't get killed, they get "wounded".
>Alpha Protocol
Never played it but I guess I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
>Silent Hill
Shit, I meant to say "RPGs". Still, give me an example.
>>267184
>Dark Souls
Oh really? When?
>Chrono Trigger
But you're not the one killing Goku, and if you don't revive him Chi-Chi does it for you after the credits.
>Morrowind
Yeah, killing Vivec early is the gimme.
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>>267149
Pretty sure you can kill everyone in Arx Fatalis.
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>>267215
The fuck am I reading?
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>>267218
>oh really when
Lmao, the goalpost moving on this nigger.
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>>267222
End stage kike infestation.
>>267224
Asking for proof isn't moving the goalposts, you dumb nigger.
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>>267226
It's already apparent the situations that apply in Dark Souls, so I already know what you'll say when someone gives examples. Just admit you were wrong and move on faggot.
>>267222
Hopefully this explains it: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folks/
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Japanese government to investigate payment processors after withholding revenue from adult games on Steam
https://web.archive.org/web/20250130192135/https://nichegamer.com/japanese-government-to-investigate-payment-processors-after-withholding-revenue-from-adult-games-on-steam/
>Yamada Taro, a member of the Japanese National Diet has announced his intent to investigate payment processors who are refusing to provide service to Japanese artists.
>For years, payment processors have been throwing their weight around to disenfranchise adult content creators based on nebulous standards regarding fictional content. The decision of these payment processors has had a chilling effect on free speech by denying the ability of artists to receive payment for their commissions and products.
>According to Yamada Taro, the most recent victim of payment processor censorship has been game creators on Steam, who have had their revenue allegedly frozen by payment processors collaborating with Japanese banks.
>Now it’s banks censoring freedom of speech?!
>“Japanese banks ban adult games”
>“Are banks censoring the freedom of expression?”
>We have received multiple comments and questions like this. Specifically, we are aware of the following issues:
>When Japanese people or Japanese companies make profits on Steam, a world-famous game distribution platform operated by the American company Valve Corporation, if the game in question is for adult audiences, their remittances from abroad are rejected by Japanese banks, meaning they are unable to receive the profits.
>First of all, if you deal with adult games, you can’t open an account at a Japanese bank.
>We have checked with the Financial Services Agency, which has jurisdiction over banking, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which has jurisdiction over games, and have begun considering how to respond to this matter.
>Payment processors have not only affected Japanese content creators, but also western ones if their content runs afoul of the opaque decency standards set by Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc.
>According to Automaton-Media, payment processors are claiming that their decision is based on laws such as the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds and the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act.
>Regardless, the actions of payment processors have caused problems for content creators on Patreon, DLSite, Pixiv, DeviantArt, and more.
>>267249
>Second pic
lmao, saved.
>>267249
>Artistic freedom.
Visa doesn't stop you from drawing porn. They stop you from selling it.
Now when are they going to crack down on pornhub and the like.
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>>267249
Holy crap, actual news from niggamer. Somebody take a picture.

The Video Game History Foundation's online library is live
https://library.gamehistory.org/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QnpuC
>According to the VGHF, the early access version of the library has launched with a number of highlights, including:
>“Guidebooks and ephemera” from video game events, including the first 12 years of E3
>An international collection of FromSoftware promotional materials (“with a blessing from FromSoftware to donate them to the library”)
>100 CD-ROMs of artwork and press releases from GamePro magazine’s archives
>More than 100 hours of footage from the making of the Myst series
>The ‘Mark Flitman papers’, a “treasure trove” of documents kept by Flitman from his time working at Konami, Acclaim, Atari and others

AGDQ dodges Crazy Taxi music licensing issues by hiring a live band
http://web.archive.org/web/20250114121301/https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-speedrunner-played-crazy-taxi-with-a-live-band-to-avoid-copyright-issues/
Bioware confirms layoffs after disastrous EA earnings call
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Swdtm
>According to an IGN report, a smaller number of Dragon Age team members are seeing their roles terminated too. It’s unclear how many BioWare staff are facing potential layoffs, but it’s claimed those affected are being offered time to apply to other positions within the company if they want.
Collector claims millions of dollars in prototype Pokemon TCG cards sold at auction were fakes
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dRfBC
Overwatch 2's average player count on Steam has fallen 39% since Marvel Rivals launch
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/LT2cp
>>267249
<It's da Jooos
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>>267255
This time it actually is the jews though. Not many businesses that are more jewish than credit card processing.

Also forgot this story:
PlayStation Studios drops PSN requirement for single-player PC games, will offer cosmetic bonuses instead
https://blog.playstation.com/2025/01/29/new-in-game-content-incentives-coming-to-playstation-games-on-pc/
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>>267253
>Now when are they going to crack down on pornhub and the like.
Never.
Exclusive: Whistleblower says Mastercard, Visa failed to stop payments for child sex-abuse content on OnlyFans
https://archive.ph/20250124122245/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-whistleblower-says-mastercard-visa-failed-stop-payments-child-sex-abuse-2025-01-24/
>The whistleblower, a senior compliance expert in the credit card and banking industries, said the two giant card companies knew their networks were being used to pay for illegal content on the porn-driven site since at least 2021, and accused them of “turning a blind eye to flows of illicit revenue.”
>By continuing to process payments on OnlyFans, Mastercard and Visa had “willfully failed” to maintain effective anti-money laundering programs required by the Bank Secrecy Act, said the complaint, which urged FinCEN and the two other federal agencies to take action against the card companies.
>Reuters could not determine what action, if any, the agencies took in response to the complaint, which was filed under FinCEN's anti-money laundering whistleblower program launched in 2021. Under that program, complaints are confidential and the identity of whistleblowers is protected. However, Reuters reviewed the complaint, interviewed the whistleblower on condition of anonymity, and corroborated his identity and credentials.
>In an interview, the whistleblower said the agencies never contacted him to discuss his complaint. The card companies had “the power to turn off the switch” to stop illicit material from being monetized, he added.
>Mastercard and Visa said they hadn’t heard of the 2023 whistleblower complaint until Reuters contacted them. They disputed the complaint’s allegations and cited their efforts to keep their networks free of illegal activity.
A Visa spokesperson said financial institutions and merchants that don't comply with Visa’s “robust compliance requirements” will be terminated from its network. The company uses “best-in-class controls to deter, detect and remediate illegal activity,” the spokesperson said.
>Mastercard holds all users of its payments system to high standards and, “if illegal activity is identified, we work with partners to act,” its spokesperson said. The three government agencies hadn’t “referred any specific illegal activity for us to investigate or act on,” the spokesperson added. “No evidence of current illegal activity has been provided to us,” despite the whistleblower’s claim, the spokesperson said.
>In July, the news organization reported that hundreds of sexually explicit videos and images of minors, some as young as toddlers, have appeared on the site since 2019, according to allegations in police complaints. In December, a child exploitation investigator told Reuters that he reported 26 OnlyFans accounts to authorities that appeared to contain sexual content featuring underage teen girls. The accounts were quickly taken down, said the investigator. Another story focused on women who said they had been sexually enslaved, sometimes by a fiancé or boyfriend, to make money on the platform.
>The Mastercard spokesperson called Reuters’ findings on child sexual abuse on OnlyFans “alarming” but said law enforcement or certain child-protection groups would need to provide evidence of illegal activity for the company to act or investigate. Visa didn’t comment on whether the company was investigating Reuters’ findings.
>UK-based OnlyFans didn’t respond to questions about the whistleblower complaint. On its website, the company says it enforces a “zero-tolerance policy” against any content related to child abuse or trafficking, and blocks or takes down material that violates its rules. It said it also reports illegal content to law enforcement and child-protection groups. In a previous statement, OnlyFans told Reuters it works to “aggressively target, report, and support the investigations and prosecutions” of anyone who abuses the platform.
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Video games?
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>267262
>Seething this hard.
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>>267262
Sir, this is /v/.
>>267262
Nice to know  that the biggest cause of  Sex slavery recently is getting problemsm, but where the hell are the video games?
>>267264
>>267265
>Can't even quote
Not real people
Bots or negroids
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>>267215
>expect it to be just someone saving a character for twatter niggery
>ends up as legit mental illness symptom
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>>267262
In defense of the megacorp: How the fuck were the credit card companies supposed to know?
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>>267282
That would only be a defense if they didn't start picking and choosing legal stores to drop. Once they stopped being a neutral party then they are responsible for all the stores they still support.
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>>267283
Agreed
>>267277
most likely shitskins, no White man counter-signals kike-exposing posts like the browns.
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>>267249
Let's see what article did Nichegamer quote...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250130172300/https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-developers-on-steam-cant-receive-revenue-from-adult-games-due-to-japanese-banks-blocking-transfers/

>As reported by Yamada, there have been numerous cases in which Japanese developers of adult-oriented games have been unable to transfer their profits from overseas (i.e. from Steam’s bank in the US) to a Japanese bank account. Both Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), which is responsible for banks, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which oversees games, have confirmed that this issue exists. 
>But what is the reasoning behind this move by Japanese banks? In a hearing with the FSA (reported on by Game*Spark), the banks gave a vague answer, saying that it is not only because the games are intended for adults. Rather, it is apparently a “comprehensive decision” based on laws such as the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds and the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act. 

>source article talks about Japanese banks doing censorship
>the site quoting the article instead talks about payment processor itself
<ITS DA JOOOOSSS

Imagine falling for a red herring this lame.
And before you try to reply, you can't name a single actual Jew in any Japanese banks.
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>>267414
The nips in the bank of japan are jews slaves and should be killed.
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>>267414
>in any Japanese banks
>in
How about "above" and directly influencing them, you retard?
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>>267421
>>267419
>compensating this hard after speaking like an illiterate
Go name them if you can.
The banks already said they're doing it to comply to a set of acts that the Japanese Ministry of Finance made.
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Chinese otome game Love and Deepspace adds period tracker
https://archive.ph/JmhkA
>Love and Deep Space is a Chinese otome game on mobile devices, combining microtransactions and romance
>>267431
Oh great, that's gross.
>>267425
>>267421
the one anons post is true. US companies are forcing everyone to comply with some pretty shitter rules. It's jews eating jews however..
>>267431
Given how obsessed chinks are with collecting data I'm not surprised.
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>>267431
Reminds me of this. https://prolikewoah.com/hgg/res/31154.html#q45678
Holy shit, it's been three years.
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>>267440
>The thread's still up
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Report: BioWare has 'halved in size' since 2023
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/z7ZJl
MultiVersus will shut down after Season 5, becoming offline-only on May 30
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/opTEf
Assassin's Creed: Shadows will be censored for violence in Japan
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Fiwpg
EA is rereleasing The Sims and The Sims 2
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/1HGEO
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City The Next Gen Edition Mod has released
https://archive.is/L8Zqj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpuR3X8S0Yw
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>>267449
>Sims 1 and 2 re-releases
Reading through the news it seems fucking EA simply made an update so they could run in Windows 10 and 11, updated the render aspect so it could scale up to bigger resolutions and that's it, nothing changed, even mods and save files are compatible.
25 bucks for that update, 40 if you buy both.
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>>267469
And apparently the UI doesn't scale with resolution. Since this is originally a 800x600 game a high resolution will give you a UI for ants.

Also wtf is up with this unprofessional post? "Unfortunately you can’t change the aspect ratio directly", as if they aren't the ones selling this game with the capability to fix that. It would be nice to have an easy way to play The Sims 1 and 2 but I don't think this is it.
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>>267472
>Enjoy encountering Bella
Ah yes, the orginal NTR Sim "wife". Sorry Mortimer, fat slob Bob gets the girl in SimCity.
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>>267473
Didn't Bob already have a wife?
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>>267472
>It would be nice to have an easy way to play The Sims 1 and 2
There is, it's called not using Windows 10 or 11, or downloading the patch that was released in 2015 i think. 
I would've liked much more a Sims 3 re-release in x64 because that game is a complete nightmare to run even with the great mods invented to cull all the bugs, sad thing is EA actually did make a fix of sorts but it was Mac only. I think they know if they release a heavily-optimized Sims 3 compatible with its own expansions their Sims 4 business would go down hard.

Hell even a free-camera remake of The Sims 1 with free roam would've been the bomb, and if it only had 2 or 3 expansions it would not matter that much for the novelty of it or if it had updated graphics or engine. Also porting the Sims games from consoles would've been interesting, they were their own thing and the devs got tons of leeway to do their shit, in the very early Minecraft boom i recall they made one cashing in on the original concept of mineycrafta, Castaway, which played like a survival game with the endgoal of making a beacon or a boat i don't recall well, kinda how Notch wanted the game to end with a rescue beacon before adding all the zombie and magic villager shit. 
Companies are just lazy, i remember a modder trying to port the objects from 1 to 3 but stopped because he didn't get that much feedback anyways, still he and a couple more remade half the objects of the game by themselves. Hard to beat pre-rendered graphics but gameplay tweaks from TS3 would be worth it.

>>267478
Everyone wanted to get into the Goth house's mom and the daughter with mods but that's just a reflection of the player, the in-game God. Bob did have a wife and they were the tutorial characters with the Goth as neighbords, hence the common occurrence of Bob getting into Bella. 
Canonically i don't recall anything like that happening but who knows, the canon lore of the games were never my thing but it gets deep fast due to Sims 2 making a story mode of sorts as sequel and Sims 3 being a prequel of 1.
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>>267468
Will I finally be able to control that goddamn plane dropping movie flyers?
>>267483
>Hell even a free-camera remake of The Sims 1 with free roam would've been the bomb
It already exists.
https://github.com/riperiperi/Simitone
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BioWare Fires Every Writer Who Worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard
https://archive.ph/20250130163137/https://www.cbr.com/bioware-fires-dragon-age-the-veilguard-writers/
>BioWare lays off the entirety of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's writing staff amid major internal restructuring.
>Per FictionHorizon, significant changes within BioWare in recent days have led to a whole host of subsequent shifts. Among the most prominent of these is the loss of the entire studio's writing team for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including lead writer Patrick Weekes, who announced his departure from the company after two decades in a post on social media. Weekes wrote, "It's been a privilege to work with so many amazing devs over my 20 years at BioWare, and I will cherish the memories of the wonderful folks in the community I've met along the way."
>The fourth entry in the main series of Dragon Age video games, BioWare's action roleplaying game Dragon Age: The Veilguard released in 2024, serving as a sequel to 2014's Dragon Age: Inquisition. Set ten years after the events of the previous game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard drops players into the shoes of Rook, a heroic adventurer who must stop the elven trickster god Fen'Harel from unleashing the twisted elven gods who have long been sealed away behind the fabled Veil at the heart of the story. Along the way, Rook unwittingly unleashes two of these gods, forcing players to set out across the land in search of the immortal villains.
>Upon its release, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was met with near unanimously favorable reviews from critics and audiences alike. Although the title was the subject of review bombing on various websites thanks to "fans" of the series who lambasted its purportedly "woke" characters and themes, Dragon Age: The Veilguard still managed to amass an average review score of over 80% across all platforms on review aggregator Metacritic. The game also fell short of early sales projections throughout its first three months of release, selling just over 1.5 million units compared to an expected 3 million in the same timeframe.
>In spite of any unexpected hurdles or sales shortcomings, players have continued to journey back into the world of Dragon Age: The Veilguard in the months since its release. In early January, a player on Reddit managed to accomplish what previously seemed like an impossible task by maxing out Rook's reputation with the Shadow Dragons before the game's first act had even concluded.
>As per the Reddit poster in question, the process primarily came down to sinking time into grinding through the game's early areas, which ultimately offered little to no real benefit over going out and exploring further reaches of the map where other items of greater value can be discovered organically.
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>>267516
Are they going to fire the AI replacements as well for not meeting DEI standards?
>>267516
wtf is this article? It's just the guy saying people got laid off and then a bunch of irrelevant information. Faggot clearly does no actual research and just sits on his ass looking through twitter and reddit.
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>>267541
I saw that
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Asscreed has had its artbook leaked on ehentai,exhentai
https://exhentai.org/g/3216773/171ad4c27e/
>there is a literal they/them character in the game
Im not surprised considering all else with the nigger samurai and all.
I downloaded the archive with ehentai downloader on github because i have no fucking gay points.
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>>267542
Well i made multiple errors in my posts so i was forced to delete and fix over and over.
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>>267543
Just for reference, the character having a "deep reverence for poetry, art, and nature" is completely at odds with being a tranny for several reasons. On the one hand, Japan was very stringent about how the traditional arts were practiced for each sex prior to the Edo period. For men, to be considered a "cultured" person, you were required to read and write in traditional Chinese and express an utmost adoration for China in your writings. Women didn't have this restriction placed upon them, and so they tended to write almost exlusively in Japanese. This resulted in a stark contrast where the men would talk about a country they never saw (To the point that almost all Japanese peotry was almost the same) while the women would talk about their petty, simple, and boring lives as maidens of the court (Which is why The Tale of Genji is so revered). Now there were instances of men writing works in Japanese, however these men were required to right those works as if they were from the "female perspective" because it was considered "low form" for proper work by a male author to be written in Japanese. In addition to these contrasts of artistic development before the Edo period, you also have the developments during it. Where Japan became extremely stringent in returning to it's "Chinese roots" of Confucianism, where man and women had exclusive roles, responsibilities, and attitudes. There were "allocations" for things like pubic crossdressing as in the case of the onnagata (Later during the period), but those were theatre performers acting out their craft and were still expected in all other instances to fulfil their duties as men when not in the public eye. That's not to mention, repeating as I just said, that there were strict "rules" as to what you could carry out in each craft. Poetry had to constantly be timeless, puppet drama were constantly dynamic, Nou was all about subtly, etc. There were rules that each art form had to adhere, and failing to do so branded that creator as a "failure" (At worst) or ecclectic (At best).

To put it simply, the existence of a tranny in Adzuchi-Momoyama era Japan does not work, And if you want to see what a "true" rebel" of that era was, then look at Matsunaga Teitoku, the creator of the haiku, who even at first dismissed his artistic contribution as nothing more than bouts of frustrated witticisms for realizing that he could never be a "true" traditional Japanese poet.
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>>267544
Served on buttered bread
I can't wait to be dead
>>267543
exhentai getting destroyed by the kikes in 3,2,1...
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>>267545
What do you expect from jewbisoft? Their "historian" for asscreed niggers is someone who's area of expertise is fictional "intergenerational" gay relationships.
>>267506
>Doesn't support certain careers
>Some objects make certain lots unplayable
>No Free Roam
Nice try buddy but will def try it
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Here's a torrent mirror (different zip but the images should be the same): infohash 789de5c2701001944c30c77f7688ab62a803b75c
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Multiversus Shutting Down in May With No Refund Policy Announced, Game Director Claims Players Have Been Making Threats Since Announcement
https://archive.is/20250203191018/https://thatparkplace.com/multiversus-shutting-down/
>Warner Bros.’ MultiVersus is officially shutting down this May, adding another massive financial loss to the company’s already troubled gaming division. The game’s unexpected closure has left many players feeling betrayed—especially those who spent money on premium content. However, the backlash has escalated beyond frustration, with the game’s director and development team now reportedly facing threats of physical harm.
>MultiVersus Ending—No Refunds Announced
>Last week, Player First Games confirmed that MultiVersus Season 5 would be the game’s last, with servers shutting down on May 30. Despite the game’s failure to maintain its early momentum, players were shocked by the abrupt shutdown—particularly since real-money transactions had been available until recently. While the game will remain playable offline in local and training modes, online functionality will be completely removed.
>To make matters worse, no refund policy has been announced, leaving fans who purchased the $100 Founder’s Pack feeling deceived. Many players still have unused character tokens, now rendered useless as they have already unlocked every fighter. This frustration has led to a swell of negative reviews on Steam (which IGN called review bombing…), with MultiVersus’ rating tanking in response to the news.
>Game Director Addresses Backlash and Threats
>Tony Huynh, co-founder of Player First Games and director of MultiVersus, broke his silence after days of mounting player outrage. In a statement, he expressed sadness over the game’s fate but also gratitude for the opportunity to develop it.
>“I know that this is painful for everyone, and I know every member of [Player First Games] feels it too,” Huynh wrote. “But I have to call this out—you’re entitled to what you say and think, but when there are threats to harm, it’s crossing the line.”
>The studio’s community manager, Angelo Rodriguez Jr., also defended Huynh, revealing that the director had been personally involved in engaging with fans and shaping the game based on community feedback.
>“I’ve legitimately been losing sleep over the past few days watching all of this happen to Tony,” Rodriguez said. “Receiving threats of physical harm against him is not and will never be the way.”
Warner Bros. Faces Massive Gaming Losses
>The shutdown of MultiVersus is just the latest in a series of high-profile failures for Warner Bros. Games. The company reportedly lost $100 million on MultiVersus alone, compounding the staggering $200 million loss from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The latter’s disastrous launch forced WB Games to rethink its strategy, with CEO David Zaslav admitting that the division is “substantially underperforming.”
>Now, Warner Bros. is doubling down on a handful of major franchises, including Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC properties, particularly Batman. Despite this, recent layoffs and the abrupt end of Suicide Squad’s post-launch content suggest the company is still struggling to regain its footing.
>Despite the chaos, MultiVersus players still have until May 30 to enjoy the game’s final season. The team at Player First Games has promised a substantial update, featuring 50 pages worth of improvements. However, for many fans, the damage is already done—MultiVersus is yet another cautionary tale of modern live-service gaming gone wrong.
Ghost of Yotei Fan Concerns Increase, Game’s Writers Also Worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Mass Effect: Andromeda
https://archive.is/20250203191149/https://thatparkplace.com/ghost-of-yotei-writers/
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>>267567
>maybe you shouldn't post anything at all lest someone from your ever-expanding list of boogeymen
Yeah, maybe. Then you and anyone else would also be deprived of anything you or they might have "appreciated" making that image you posted describe you more than me. and don't fuss around about it, you clearly appreciated it in at least a material sense
>find a hobby besides inventing excuses to get butthurt
You're fabricating a fallacy that I live my entire life constantly upset, and before you say some shit like:
<lol of course you do
No, I clearly don't, because then I wouldn't have been able to generate enough mana for you to harvest off of me. and again I'm not saying I actually produced the material in question There is an implicit reason I'm upset at this current situation, instead of internalizing your appreciation of something that I shared, or even just had a casual enjoyment of it, you went to your self-prescribed circlejerk where culture and information is ironically consumed in one of the most shallow ways possible, to gloat about it, attributing it to yourself, adding nothing of value, desecrating it's spirit more than me getting mad at you about it.
>fart-huffing
No, anyone can attempt to make a case here for it to be agreed upon or dismissed which is determined by each individual anon and not by the moderators. Where you go, is where normal niggers pressure each other into conformity.
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>>267575
I've thought it over, and determined that for the most part I'm being a jackass and taking myself too seriously, but I still don't like you, and I despise that place. However the issue did stem from my own rabid inclinations to jump at shadows, but it also stemmed from the fact that there are faggots like yourself who choose to post with an identity on an anonymous part of the internet. I'll never stop obsessing until every last identity whore on the webring gives up on namefaging.
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>>267576
I typically don't identityfag in any shape, but it makes no sense to be this autistic about it. Namefagging has been a thing on imageboards since the beginning. You can find screenshots with plenty of namefags on 4chan in its first couple years. If anything, you should appreciate namefagging as it's a convenient avenue to filter posts from people you don't like.
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Am I brain damaged or is this argument completely incomprehensible?
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>>267577
What makes me mad isn't seeing the name field not be anonymous, it's knowing that the type of people who choose not to be anonymous are viewing my posts, and everyone else's posts as well. And what makes me so upset about the place in question is that I disagree with them on such a key issue which everyone should be in at least some sort of agreement over when presented with the facts and their position on that key issue just shows how far gone they are, which reveals the true nature of every namefag, superficial narcs who idolize other narcs that validate their narchood.
>>267578
I have no idea what's going on either, but it seems like someone trying to defend namefagging. That's against the rules so just report him.
>excessive and repeated use of names, avatars and tripcodes with no practical use will warrant a ban and/or post deletions.
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>>267580
I'm not breaking that rule nor am I promoting it to be broken on this board. The other poster didn't like that I shared a musician he posted here on another board and thought I also posted said musician in this thread.
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>>267574
Is this resell niggers or are there really this many dumb niggers willing to spend 60 dollars on shiny paper?
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>>267583
Both. The guys with cartfuls are scalpers but they only do that because retards will pay them for them.
>>267543
Needs more cunny.
>>267547
100, 99... Something tells me it won't happen since the same uploader got away with uploading the artbooks of every ubisoft game.
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>>267587
The worst that will happen is a C&D letter telling exhentai to remove the infringing images. They won't take down the site for a leak upload.
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>Ghost of Yotei Fan Concerns Increase
>Writers Also Worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Mass Effect: Andromeda
Dead on Arrival.
Concord: Japan Edition.
It wouldn't surprise me if they also shove some niggers in there too
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New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony
https://archive.is/20250203022644/https://www.cbr.com/america-new-piracy-bill-netflix-disney-sony-backing/
>The Motion Pictures Association, comprising Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Sony and more, has backed a new bill bolstering efforts to ban access to anime, live-action, novel, music and other forms of 'piracy' sites in the U.S. and potentially beyond.
>Via Torrent Freak, on Jan. 29, 2025, U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren tabled H.R. 791, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA). If enacted, copyright holders and exclusive licensees (collectively referred to as petitioners) will be able to petition a U.S. District Court to issue a "preliminary" order to certain U.S. service providers, i.e. Google, Cloudflare and broadband providers -- an initial step to forcing them to block customer access to foreign 'piracy' platforms (websites, apps)."
>This preliminary step is to allow the court to conduct a risk assessment into whether the order will "interfere with user access to non-infringing material on another website or online service, significantly burden the service provider, including the operation of the system or network of the service provider or disserve the public interest," as well as to seek testimony from the accused foreign 'piracy' platform. The foreign operator has 30 days to appear in court for a response. Assuming no opposition comes, the court may appoint a "master" to assist the court in verifying the claims of the rightsholder. The court will otherwise render its judgment within 14 days of receiving opposition from the foreign site.
>If the court is satisfied with the petitioner's claims and its risk assessment, it will issue the blocking order, forcing service providers to deny access to the 'piracy' site within 15 days (20, if the court finds good cause). Notably, the court can also issue a blocking order without waiting for the foreign platform's opposition in the case of an imminent or ongoing live event, such as sports or a concert. If the court has issued a blocking order for a live event, the service provider must comply within 7 days. For non-live events and after the blocking order is granted, the petitioner can move at any point to have it extended for another 12 months if the foreign website has not ceased its infringement.
>The bill defined U.S. service providers as broadband providers with over 100,000 subscribers, and DNS resolution providers with over $100 million in annual revenue that don't exclusively provide DNS services through encrypted means. Therefore, the likely recipients of these orders would include major ISPs like Comcast and AT&T, as well as Cloudflare and Google (which operates Google Public DNS). These two companies have been at the center of numerous DMCA takedown requests and U.S. subpoenas related to copyright infringement. Cloudflare was recently subpoenaed on behalf of Weekly Shonen Jump's Shueisha, while Crunchyroll and Funimation have filed over 45 million DMCA takedown requests with Google.
>The bill also defines what a foreign piracy website means in this context. The site must be operated by a foreign person, who in turn is defined as a person physically located outside the U.S. Nevertheless, it also refers to people whose physical location cannot be determined to be within the U.S., potentially broadening its scope. The website must be found to be primarily designed for infringing copyright, intentionally marketed to be used as an infringing website and have "no commercially significant purpose or use other than infringing copyright."
>The bill seems aimed at limiting the less tech-savvy from accessing 'piracy' sites, as it says that the blocking order cannot "require service providers to take actions that would prevent users from using virtual private networks (VPNs)." The order also cannot specify any technical measures for how the service provider should block access, which Lofgren says enables service providers the "best, least intrusive method(s) to comply with court orders, preserving internet stability and security."
>The bill also attempts to assuage service providers by providing certain immunities. A service provider (assuming the order is followed correctly) is exempt from any injury alleged by the foreign site and its users -- irrespective of the damages caused, or if the court finds that the order was improperly served. Additionally, the petitioner cannot later allege copyright infringement against the service provider, as if to argue that being served the court order is proof that they were previously facilitating a crime
>Service providers can also temporarily suspend blocking orders to maintain network integrity or investigate whether access has been denied to a platform other than the one named in the order. The bill also allows a blocking order to be updated if platforms attempt to rebrand to escape legal action. A notable example of rebranding was Aniwatch's switch to HiAnime last year. Lofgren's summary of the bill suggests certain orders may even allow petitioners to instruct the ISPs to update the blocking order directly.
>The bill also has transparency implications. It says that a court must make the order publicly available, highlighting the name of the petitioner, the foreign site, the date the order was issued, the duration of the order and its expiration date, and a summary of the findings that motivated the order. However, if the court determines that disclosure of certain information would "render the order ineffective, pose a significant risk to national security, personal safety, or an ongoing law enforcement investigation, the court may order that such information be redacted from the publicly available documents" -- caveats that are widely open to interpretation. Amendments to the order, as mentioned in the previous paragraph, will also be included on a public website.
>Per Deadline, the bill's supporters include SAG-AFTRA, the Authors Guild, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the MPA; the latter comprises Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery. MPA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said in a statement, "The MPA thanks Rep. Lofgren for introducing FADPA and for her commitment to work with Chairman Issa to enact legislation this Congress to ensure America’s creators have effective enforcement tools to combat offshore piracy targeting the U.S. market."
>>267591
So basically, if it passes, you would HAVE to use a non-US VPN.
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>>267591
>and have "no commercially significant purpose or use other than infringing copyright."
So if they offer day trading on the side, they're exempt?
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>>267594
Kek. You vill sell crypto on de side or you vill be blocked
>>267591
Amerimutts on suicide watch
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>>267596
Really only those who are too lazy or too cheap to set up a VPN/VPS or too stupid to bypass DNS/IP blocks...
So yeah I guess most of them.
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>>267597
Anyone who can't program a basic calculator shouldn't be using a computer in the first place
>>267597
Can't wait to pirate shit for idiots and charge them for it again, to be honest.
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>>267599
Redditors will find it real neat to revisit le Retro 90's activity of buying bootleg media out of a van.
>>267591
Again?!
>>267591
I sometimes jokingly suggests that maybe we should return to usenet, but maybe that would be actually a good solution to some burgers.
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>>267591
Considering what a pain in the ass this has been for ISPs in eurostan, this may not be the slam dunk pedowood thinks it is.
>>267606
Usenet is flooded with DMCA bots now, I had to stop using it because you would try to grab a post from two weeks ago and half the parts would be missing. Really you might as well just go to a public tracker at this point.
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Treyarch developer pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting plane during LA wildfires
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/qJY5F
Civilization 7 review: The king isn't dead, but now's a good time to come at him
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2vJd4
EA launches Battlefield Labs, the public playtest for the next Battlefield title
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YKY3B
>>267591
When are these retarded companies going to understand that piracy helps sales? The anime market in the US would never have even existed without piracy.
>>267591
So DNS level blocking that has been going on in a lot of other countries for a long time without much success or even an opportunity to contest? Garbage words, words, words of no substance burger media article, get the original torrentfreak article next time.
>>267593
Since this seems to require that the whole process is transparent most sites of any note will likely have alternate addresses and 3rd party proxies up before the block even goes into effect. Like I said, this stuff isn't new.
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>New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy
Clickbait/10.
>>The bill defined U.S. service providers as broadband providers with over 100,000 subscribers, and DNS resolution providers with over $100 million in annual revenue that don't exclusively provide DNS services through encrypted means.
Bill that was made to keep the public perception of ((( lawmakers ))) making ((( laws )))/Jews.
If these niggers wanted effective takedowns of muh piracy they'd block anti-semitic IPs at the backbone level and explicitly target small-scale encrypted DNS providers on top of perhaps issuing some gay requirement for AI-assisted copyright infringement scans in consumer modems with hardcoded DNS strings that can't be changed by the user through normal means.
>>267591
This will possibly be the best way to get normalfags to learn more about VPNs and get them to use torrents.
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USAID PROMOTES GENDER EQUALITY AND IMPROVED HEALTH THROUGH HALF THE SKY MOVEMENT MOBILE GAMES
https://archive.is/20250204192704/https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/usaid-promotes-gender-equality-and-improved-health-through-half-sky
>WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched three mobile phone games through its public-private partnership with the Half the Sky Movement(link is external).  As part of the Agency’s continued support of gender and family issues, the games are designed to increase global awareness and bring about social change in the areas of health, gender equality and empowerment.
>The games tackle key issues related to health and gender equity. The Family Choices game aims to increase the perception of girls’ place in and value to families, with a focus on keeping girls in schools; 9-Minutes introduces players to the key do’s and don’ts of having a healthy pregnancy; and in Worm Attack!, players work to rid themselves and their communities of intestinal worms.
“These new mobile games advance two of our most important priorities--the promotion of gender equality and the use of science and innovation to accelerate development," said USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah.  "We are pleased to partner with the Half the Sky Movement in creating innovative, accessible solutions to reach and educate women and girls about critical social, economic, and health issues.”
>The Half the Sky Movement is a multi-donor, multimedia platform based on Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s best-selling book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. 
>The three mobile phone games, executive produced by Games for Change, were developed by Mudlark and published by E-Line Media, with Hindi language solution provided by Reverie Language Technologies. The games will be disseminated for use in India and East Africa by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and more widely through mobile phone company app stores.  The games complement a series of 18 short educational and advocacy videos on health and gender-related topics that were launched in September 2012.
>According to Asi Burak, co-president of Games for Change, “The challenges facing women and girls around the world need new and innovative solutions. We are strong believers in the power of games to engage, motivate, and bring about change.”
>The games will be available for download through in-country app stores (Nokia, Safaricom, GetJar, and Appia). Those interested can also email [email protected](link is external) to gain access to the games. The videos produced under this initiative can be found on C-Hub (http://www.c-hubonline.org/resources/half-sky-movement-multimedia-initiative(link is external)), a global online repository of health and development communication materials, managed by C-Change, as well as through USAID’s website (http://www.usaid.gov/halfthesky).
Call of Duty Developer Activision Blizzard Doubles Down on DEI as U.S. DOD Reverses Course
https://archive.is/20250202184433/https://thatparkplace.com/activision-blizzard-dei/
>While major corporations like Walmart and Amazon have disbanded their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and President Donald Trump has officially ended DEI programs at the federal level, Call of Duty developer Activision Blizzard President Rob Kostich appears determined to buck the trend.
>In a company-wide email, Kostich reinforced the company’s unwavering commitment to DEI, despite growing skepticism among the gaming community and a broader cultural shift against these ideologies in a post to the company’s Slack.
>“Team, given the headlines around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the workplace, it’s no surprise that questions have come up about what the future looks like at Activision and whether our focus and priorities around DEI [will] shift. To be clear, this work continues to be extremely important in everything that we do. It’s important to our games, our culture, and who we are as a company. Our Inclusive Growth team has made great strides in helping us weave inclusivity into all aspects of business. Our strategy here remains focused on enhancing the experiences of all employees, providing exceptional experiences to players globally and providing accessible opportunities to those interacting with our company and brand. I look forward to all the great work we’ll continue to do together.”
DEI pushed by the kikes, the goverment, niggerock, trannies, faggots and it still fucking died.
>>267635
We can only hope it all falls through but the biggest issue is the people that work for these bastards
They'll keep their shitty ideology no matter what they go on to do.
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>>267635
>Those collarbones
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>>267557
>that first image
>>267635
>dei mobile gaymes
lol
>babies first FPS doubles down on dei
lol
Cawadooty babies get what they deserve.
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Rune Factory developer Marvelous announces change in leadership and executive pay cuts due to company’s recent weak performance
https://archive.is/20250203064144/https://automaton-media.com/en/news/rune-factory-developer-marvelous-announces-change-in-leadership-and-executive-pay-cuts-due-to-companys-recent-weak-performance/
>Marvelous, the company behind the Story of Seasons and Rune Factory series, recently published its earnings report for the first three quarters of the fiscal year ending March 2025. During this nine-month period (April to December 2024), Marvelous saw a decline in sales and revenue compared to last year, and its management has announced some measures to take responsibility for the poor performance (as reported by GameBiz). 
>Citing few game releases of core IPs and sluggish sales of new titles, Marvelous reported a 4.8% decline in sales and 12.4% drop in net profit compared to the same period last year. As a result, the company has announced a downward revision of its earnings forecast for the full year, expecting net profit and sales to drop significantly below previously set targets. 
>During this fiscal term, Marvelous launched the farming RPG Farmagia and re-released the Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town remake at a reduced price, the latter of which “performed steadily.” The company also has the release of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma in its future lineup, but as the title is scheduled to launch on May 30, it will not be contributing to Marvelous’s sales for the current fiscal year. 
>As a result of recent weak performance, the company announced that Sato Suminobu, its current CEO, will be stepping down from his position as of March 31 to take responsibility. He will be replaced by Shinichi Terui, who is currently one of Marvelous’s executive directors. Management will also assume responsibility in the form of pay cuts, with two full-time executives of Marvelous receiving monthly salary reductions in February and March. 
So all of those romace candidates are playersexual?
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>>267256
>This time
>Implying its usually not
>>267591
>MPA
Both them and the RIAA need to be fucking dismantled and abolished.
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>>267647
>okay sato how do we get more revenue from our stale and boring game lineups
>let's town down the fan service, add poorly textured niggers to the games and make it open-world wannabe genshin slop
Fuck you Marvelous. You get what you deserve. Fucking faggots.
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>>267654
Didn't they also capitulate to Xseeds demands to add pozzed aspects to their games like like body types and gay marriage, including retroactively adding it into the Japanese versions?
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>>267655
Probably wasn't xseed's fault. Seems more like a clueless japanese game plan.
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>>267656
It absolutely was, they have been pestering the devs for years. Of course it's also Marvelous's fault for bending the knee.
>>267660
And then their demands fucking broke Rune Factory 5 (at least around launch) because the series scripting engine wasn't equipped to handle as many options as they were suddenly trying, or something like that?
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>>267660
I hope Xseed offices get fucking bombed by a sandnigger.
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>>267662
Onimusha 2 was my favourite of the series.
>>267660
Christ I didn't realize they were THAT bad
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>>267647
>reimagining
>niggers
>fags
>shit tier emotionless soy fueled voice acting
I'd buy a hell of a lot more nip games if they didn't all get the same troonslator treatment. I don't care how minor a change it is. I don't care if it's a NPC that 99% of players will never see or even interact with. I'm not paying a cent if a trannyfaggot has shoved his mental illness into the game.
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>>267673
Based. This is the bare minimum attitude to have toward mutant localizers.
>>267668
Xseed has been NISA tier since Tom left in 2018
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>>266349
Here's your historically "authentic" game.
Being gay is optional though, so it's fine!
>>267675
Tom was shit too.
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>>267677
Compared to how shit Xseed is now?
Nah
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>>267678
He'd be 100% behind the gay marriage addition and censoring of games at the source. Tom was only against censoring the localization, which is not a big deal if the original game is left intact.
>>267645
>Cawadooty babies get what they deserve.
People buying that shit religiously are fucking retards.
There's people who bought a Piss5 or ShitBox just to play CoD, Fortshite and Fifa.
>>267676
>jewish quarter
Let me guess: They did the same thing that cuckstar did in RDR2 with the feathernigger reservation and you can't even draw your weapon there.
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>>266427
The N64 demolishes the Wii U just by having Majora's Mask.
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>>267676
>1st and 2nd image
What is with Jews and their obessession with niggers? Not even the so-called #based kikes can't contain their fetish/love for shitted dicks.
>>267676
>Musa is a fictional amalgamation rather than Mansa Musa
Now THAT is retarded, no way to defend that otherwise, although the character does act like Mansa but without the constraints of said figure that chimp will just be a wandering rich perverted african.
>Jewish quarter
That's accurate, come on now, they are famous for missing children and being black plague havens. They got burned all the time for their antics but some major ones became power centers like in Holland, England, Poland and the Baltic countries.
In particular now i know what place i will pillage all the time when i pirate that baby.

>>267682
>RDR2
RDR3* FTFY

>>267683
Wrong.
>>267152
The only console I saw being used for military drones in Ukraine is Steam Deck, which is exactly the one that's not mentioned. I can't imagine how the other consoles can be useful. Not even the controllers really. Even for scrapping chips it's dubious. They can get those from chinkshit much easier.
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>>267171
I don't see the problem with that, they do all the times. One of the characters in this popular cartoon was dubbed by a woman in my language and I never noticed until someone told me.
>>267687
They run the drones using linux running on a PS2.
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This looks awful. Who thought that making a clone of a crappy game (genshit) would be a good idea? And while I love cute girls but these anime games are increasingly normalfag friendly and that pushes my interest away almost as much as the exuberant amount of censorship. Also
>english dub
Absolute vile.
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>>267694
>Who thought that making a clone of a crappy game (genshit) would be a good idea?
Suits that see genshit's number go up.
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UK government rejects calls to prohibit disabling of live service games
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/uk-government-rejects-calls-to-prohibit-disabling-of-live-service-games/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QQf09
>“We are aware of issues relating to the life-span of digital content, including video games, and we appreciate the concerns of players of some games that have been discontinued,” reads the response from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which was issued on February 3.
>“We have no plans to amend existing consumer law on digital obsolescence, but we will monitor this issue and consider the relevant work of the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) on consumer rights and consumer detriment.”
>[...]
>“However, there is no requirement in UK law for software companies to support older versions of their products,” the DCMS said. “Decision-making is for those companies, taking account of commercial and regulatory factors and complying with existing consumer law. There may be occasions where companies make decisions based on the high running costs of maintaining older servers for games with declining user bases.
Ross Scott from Stop Killing Games posted a response an hour ago explaining how most of this new response is re-used from the old one, and how the government and most of media missed the point of the petition.
Video related.

Nintendo is “taking risks” to make sure Nintendo Switch 2 supply is sufficient
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nintendo-is-taking-risks-to-make-sure-nintendo-switch-2-supply-is-sufficient/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8K16v
>This information was revealed in Nintendo’s latest Q&A on February 4, where unsurprisingly, many of the shareholders’ questions focused on the Switch 2. Considering that Nintendo had difficulties meeting the soaring demand for the original Switch when it launched in 2017, the questioner expressed concerns that Nintendo’s plan to produce enough Switch 2s to meet predicted initial demands may fall short.
>In response, Furukawa explains that “At the moment, we are proceeding with production, taking risks to meet the biggest demand possible.” However, he adds that “Like with the Nintendo Switch, we do not think it will be easy to rapidly increase production capacity, but we are making preparations based on our experience [with the original Switch] so that we can respond as quickly as possible [to increases in demand].” 

Nintendo’s restriction on overseas credit cards lauded in Japan as possible anti-scalping measure ahead of Switch 2 launch
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nintendos-restriction-on-overseas-credit-cards-lauded-in-japan-as-possible-anti-scalping-measure-ahead-of-switch-2-launch/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/div09
>Nintendo did not go into detail about the new restrictions, only stating that they are meant to “prevent fraudulent use.” However, with the Japanese yen still so weak against other currencies, chances of the Switch 2 being priced regionally to account for the difference are high, so “it’s easy to imagine that some consumers from overseas will consider making their purchase in Japan,” Kai-You reports. 
>During Nintendo’s 84th annual shareholders meeting (held in June 2024), Nintendo’s CEO Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned that the company would be “taking into account circumstances in each region and considering what measures [against scalping] can be taken within the limits permitted by law.” 
>Given these circumstances (and the approaching release of the Nintendo Switch 2), Japanese users believe that by blocking payment from overseas, Nintendo is trying to prevent scalpers from abroad (China, for example) from comparing prices and importing hardware meant for the Japanese market. 
>On the other hand, there is another potential explanation for why Nintendo is blocking overseas cards and PayPal accounts on its Japanese digital storefronts, and it’s unrelated to consoles and scalping. By the end of March 2025, The Japanese government will require all businesses to implement 3D Secure 2.0 (a personal authentication system to prevent fraud) on their ecommerce sites. This will be mandatory for all credit card payments, but, according to ITmedia, it is anticipated that foreign-issued credits cards will be difficult to handle with this new system, so it’s possible that Nintendo is preemptively discontinuing their use to deal with the requirement.

Bandai Namco Studios staff silently reduced by over 100 people, Japan Pension Service database shows
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/bandai-namco-studios-staff-silently-reduced-by-over-100-people-japan-pension-service-database-shows//
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zzvCb
>The number of staff at Bandai Namco Studios, the developer of Tekken 8, Scarlet Nexus and Blue Protocol, has decreased by 117 between April 2024 and February 2025. This is according to the online database of Japan’s Pension Service, which contains information on the number of people each business establishment has enrolled under their employee social insurance (in other words, the number of insured employees). 
via Japan Pension Service
>Bandai Namco Studios′ company overview states that as of April 1, 2024, the developer counted 1,294 employees. On the other hand, the Japan Pension Service database (which was last updated on February 4, 2025) indicates that the number of employees is now down to 1,177. 

Google asks US appeals court to overturn app store verdict
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-ask-us-appeals-court-overturn-app-store-verdict-2025-02-03/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/qsWmV
>Lawyers for Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google and "Fortnite" maker Epic Games squared off before a U.S. appeals court in California on Monday, as Google tries to undo a jury verdict and a judge's order forcing it to revamp its app store.
>Google's lawyer argued to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly benefited Epic Games.
>Attorney Jessica Ellsworth, representing Google, told the appeals court that the tech company's Play store competes fiercely with Apple's (AAPL.O), opens new tab App Store, and that Donato [the judge] unfairly barred Google from more broadly making that point.
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>>267754
>UK government rejects calls to prohibit disabling of live service games
Not surprised, that is the wrong tactic to take, since you obviously can't force a company to spend money in perpetuity to support a server for a dead game. The correct tactic would be to go after lootboxes and tie them to gambling laws to make live service less profitable to begin with so companies are less likely to make them.
>>267756
Don't try to act like the UK government cares about doing its job correctly...
>>267756
That's not the point of the petition, it's to allow games to work after the live service part of it stops working, a-la Gran Turismo Sport.
I should have picked a better article explaining it better though.
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>>267759
How would you do that though? Those kind of games are designed in a completely different way as normal games, made to prey on FOMO and addiction rather than fun gameplay. You can't just flip and switch and make them a real game. Companies should be encouraged to make real games instead and live service trash should be killed.
>>267756
>>267760
This. I remember there being some movement to take legal action against lootboxes, but unsurprisingly nothing came of it. But end of the day, these games are trash and have nothing redeemable about them.
>>267760
This, is impossible to make a live service game run on your computer without servers.
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>Those kind of games are designed in a completely different way as normal games,
One of the objectives of the campaign is to make sure that games that depend exclusively on their live services for gameplay implement an offline mode when support for it ends.
There's a FAQ with that and other questions on the campaign's website: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq
>Companies should be encouraged to make real games instead and live service trash should be killed.
As long as they're profitable they'll keep doing them.

>>267775
>It takes a different magnitude to disprove a bullshit,
The burden of proof is on him (or any other accuser). Until it's presented there should be nothing to disprove.
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>>267781
>One of the objectives of the campaign is to make sure that games that depend exclusively on their live services for gameplay implement an offline mode when support for it ends.
I'm saying that even if you make them offline they will be something that nobody wants unless you redesign them from the ground up, and at that point you might as well make a new game instead. 

Like the difference between playing a slot machine in a casino and having one in your home set to free play. Obviously a slot machine is not fun to play on its own, the whole reason people play them is for the gambling aspect.
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>>267785
>he's jewish
that's a big surprise
>>267756
>that is the wrong tactic to take, since you obviously can't force a company to spend money in perpetuity to support a server for a dead game.
This vid points out the fact that the UK took your exact stance on the matter ... proving neither you nor they know anything about said petition. 3:45 - 4:00 explains it. You didn't even watch 4 minutes yet vomit out a response. Beautiful irony there. More irony, 7:48 - 8:48 touches on "spend money in perpetuity" but that's not what the petition is about. 9:23 - 9:45 spreading misinformation by online "news" outlets and it's impact. 9:46 - 9:58 One online news outlet (dualshockers) actually properly reported on the matter.
>>267777
So release the server software. It's not harder than that. But you can bet they will pretend it is.
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Goy?
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>>267833
>wit pepo don sezon de food
Most accurate african representation ever.
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Why do these ((( people ))) hate europeans so much?
Im not sure if anyone posted it but theres also a tranny in the game
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>>267836
>Musa of Mali
Isn't that the negro who enslaved everyone in order to become a bling bling proto nigger, only for his country to become poor as shite? What is he doing in this game?
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Lords Of The Fallen removes body type A/B after a twitter poll
Male and Female options were added in update 1.7.73
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>>267871
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Football Manager 25 cancelled as fans call it 'biggest mess in gaming history'
https://archive.is/20250207154939/https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/football-manager-25-cancelled-fans-34632551
‌>The team behind the popular football gaming series Football Manager has announced that the upcoming version, FM25, has been cancelled, in a move most fans had predicted would happen months ago
‌>The latest edition of the Football Manager series, FM25, has been cancelled. After a series of cancellations and awkward silences from makers Sports Interactive and Sega, an announcement was made at 3am this morning to confirm what most fans of the series had already predicted.
It was announced in October that it was being delayed by a few weeks until November 26 due to issues with creating the game using a brand new system – but that was then delayed a further five months.
‌>And now in a move most had predicted, the game has been cancelled entirely, with developers claiming that they want to focus on whatever comes next, presumably Football Manager 26.
Fans who pre-ordered the game have been offered a full refund, but no comment was made on whether or not they would update the current game version's database – something SI had previously ruled out.
>In a lengthy statement, a spokesman said: “Sports Interactive regret to inform that, following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and shift our focus to the next release.
>“We know this will come as a huge disappointment, especially given that the release date has already moved twice, and you have been eagerly anticipating the first gameplay reveal. We can only apologise for the time it has taken to communicate this decision. Due to stakeholder compliance, including legal and financial regulations, today was the earliest date that we could issue this statement.
‌>“We have always prided ourselves on delivering the best value for money games that bring you countless hours of enjoyment, that feel worth every moment and every penny you spend. With the launch of FM25 we set out to create the biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation, laying the building blocks for a new era.“Due to a variety of challenges that we’ve been open about to date, and many more unforeseen, we currently haven’t achieved what we set out to do in enough areas of the game, despite the phenomenal efforts of our team. >Each decision to delay the release was made with the aim of getting the game closer to the desired level but, as we approached critical milestones at the turn of the year, it became unmistakably clear that we would not achieve the standard required, even with the adjusted timeline.”
‌>They went on to claim that after “extensive evaluation” they are “too far away from the standards you deserve” and did not want to release the game in its current state.
Fans took to social media to fume about the decision, with one calling it the “worst mess in gaming history,” while FM streamer and YouTuber Zealand simply replied with “lol”.
>Some fans were more positive about the decision, saying: "Finally, the right decision, take the time to improve the product and just make it FM26". And another wrote: "Correct decision. Everyone take a breath and focus on moving forward."
Sid Meier's Civilization VII Linux Version Cracked Already, No Denuvo Helps
https://archive.is/20250207155110/https://www.techpowerup.com/332206/sid-meiers-civilization-vii-linux-version-cracked-already-no-denuvo-helps
>Hackers successfully cracked the Linux version of Sid Meier's Civilization VII four days before its scheduled February 11 release. The compromise stems from the Linux build's DRM-free architecture, which contrasts its Windows counterpart's Denuvo anti-tampering protection. The cracked version, identified under the signature "Linux-Razor1911," has proliferated across multiple file-sharing networks and torrents, presenting immediate challenges for publisher 2K and developer Firaxis Games. The straightforward exploitation process utilizes standard Linux mounting protocols and executable script deployment. While the crack enables immediate access to the base game, circumventing official distribution channels could compromise essential network features and post-launch stability patches.
>The persistent vulnerability of DRM-free releases on alternative operating systems potentially influences future platform support strategies among major publishers. Widespread pre-release piracy could significantly impact initial sales figures and threaten future native Linux port development. Firaxis Games and 2K, game publishers, are presumably investigating the crack, though the DRM-free nature of the Linux release limits their immediate response options. As the official launch approaches, this incident shows the ongoing challenge of balancing platform-specific security measures with maintaining broad operating system support in modern game development. While the SteamOS and Linux community represent a significantly smaller market than Windows gamers, it still has a noticeable impact on publishers relying on sales from all compatible platforms.
Smite and Paladins are ceasing development
https://archive.is/20250207155148/https://www.neogaf.com/threads/smite-and-paladins-are-ceasing-development.1680537/
>Smite and Paladins have officially ceased development after mass layoffs at Hi-Rez Studios
>Both games will never get a major content update again
”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed”
>Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
>Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books.
>Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
>"The magnitude of Meta’s unlawful torrenting scheme is astonishing," the authors' filing alleged, insisting that "vastly smaller acts of data piracy—just .008 percent of the amount of copyrighted works Meta pirated—have resulted in Judges referring the conduct to the US Attorneys’ office for criminal investigation."
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>>267829
Holy shit, he went full retard.
>>267878
WEW
>>267829
>have a mental breakdown because a guy wore a shirt he didn't like
>claim to be pro-free speech in the next paragraph
>>267880
Why was the greentext failing here?
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>>267894
figured it out
‌>this has a ZWNJ infront of it
and 
>this doesn't
>>267835
>13:04
>1:02:22
Literal nigger cuck shit.
>>267829
Is that last picture translated or is he just that terrible at english?
>>267871
>still calling them body types

They have learned nothing.
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>>267782
While gachas and what not would be affected, they're not the only target. The reason the campaign started in first place was because of The Crew's shutdown, an online-only racing game.
I didn't make it clear, but the campaign also goes after multiplayer-only live-service games and wants them to continue to work without their live-service component when support for them ends.
There's a list with some examples of live-service games and their status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vaNfqOv3rStBQ4_lR-dwGb8DGPhCJpRDF-q7gqtdhGA/edit
You could however argue that all the valuable games have already been resurrected, but even then this would save a lot of work put into restoring them.
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'Kingdom Come: Deliverance II' Creative Director Daniel Vavra Addresses Child Sodomy Scene
https://archive.is/20250207212910/https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-creative-a22
>Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Creative Daniel Vavra addressed the fact that the game includes a graphic scene showing a child engaging in sodomy.
>It’s been uncovered that the graphic scene depicting sodomy in the game actually shows a child (Hans Capon) engaging in it.
>It was revealed by IGN that the scene in question featured Hans Capon with the outlet writing on X, “The medieval world of 1403 Bohemia can be a lonely and dangerous place, so why not make it just that bit more special by romancing everyone’s favourite Lord, Sir Hans Capon.”
>Based on a codex from the first game, Hans is a teenager when this vile act takes place.
>An entry from the Codex for Hans Capon states that he was likely born around 1388 and died in 1419. It also makes it clear he is “underage.”
>It states, “The underage son of Jan Jesek Ptacek and Hedvika of Dauba.”
>Kingdom Come: Deliverance II’s opening scene also makes it clear that the game takes place in 1403. That means Hans would only be 15 if he was born in 1388. It’s possible he could be even younger if he was born after 1388.
>Czech website Jiskra also notes that Hans Capon did not even come of age until 1406.
>A machine translation states, “Ješek Ptáček was already a fifty-year-old man when his son Jan was born. He took refuge in Polná Castle and left the Ratajské dominion to his son Jan, who came of age in 1406.”
>Vavra responded to this discovery when one person on X wrote, “If you decide you want a love scene with Hans in KCD2, you are committing paedophilia because Hans is 15 years old. You cannot even make up stuff like that.”
>He retorted, “Imagine that women at the time were married at the age of 12 and had children. Also they needed witnesses during first sex.”
>The individual retorted, “If you were aiming for historical accuracy, why are there no children in the game? Because they could be killed? Killing them is bad, but having sex with them is fine? Ok bud.”
>Vavra replied, “So there are no children, but Capon is a child and... You seem kinda lost...”
>"The individual then replied, “So Capon is the only child in the game, and coincidentally, it is possible to have sex with him. You were lost when you designed the game.”
>Vavra did not reply to that comment.
<Its OK when ((( we ))) do it
>>267918
>Underage sex is fine as long as it's fags
Just when I thought I couldn't be more disgusted with that dev team.
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What the fuck am I reading?!
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>>267922
You said you wanted historical accuracy, bigots! This is what it looks like! :^)
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>>267918
OK this is getting fucking ridiculous 
>Hans Capon was a homo all along
What the hell man it's all bad
>15yos are now children
But this is retarded too, everyone is a dumbass. Also Hans was getting laid in the first game already
Vavra swallowed too much man mead since the pandemic.
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>>267926
Its obvious ragebait, but I guess Vavra brought it upon himself lmao
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>>267926
what the fuck happened to Vavra, I thought he was cool
now lefties don't like him because he refused to put niggers in a medieval game, and right wingers don't like him because of this crap, is he just trying to piss everyone off?
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>>267933
At least we got KCD1 out of it
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>>267934
wasn't there a quest where you could fuck a horse while high or something in that?
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>>267930
Vavra was always known to spout shit but this is taking it to another level, game didn't really need any marketing so why? Also first game lets you kill almost anyone not in a cutscene, protecting the jews like injuns in RDR3 is asinine.
>>267933
>>267934
We could've gotten a good Mafia-esque spiritual remake or something in a modern/non-medieval setting but if anything the guy would do something like Mafia 3 at this point. But it is interesting that all these new shenanigans do match the buzzword list of DEI's requirements for a project to be supported, as tired as that sounds.
>>267935
The quest is some girls doing a ritual in the forest as a "solution" for their severe PTSD from their original town getting scorched so after rumors spread a priest sends you to investigate, you end up duping them in said forest dressed as a dark priest if you decide to proceed like that and with some psychedelics there's the implication the ritual was legit everyone starts tripping balls and in said process the protag can take advantage of the women, one which famously turns into a mare. You get interrupted when some villagers come to investigate and hunt all of you down for being satanic.
It is all but explicitly shown and doing such thing blocks a stat that shows you finished the story line without doing a love deed so yeah.
the original KCD already had a faggot, i dont know why they are screeching now about it
>>267922
>single mother that cheats on you mith musa
Obviously not true and someones retarded cuck fantasy. If it were true we would have seen screenshots or gameplay of it already.
>>267918
>Child Sodomy Scene
This is just pearl clutching.
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>>267942
look I take things with a grain of salt too but I highly doubt that list is bullshit.
>pearl clutching
Okay. Good to know this /v/ is just filled with retards & ex-cuckchanners.  Lol how pathetic.
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>>267943
>Lets all pretend to be outraged over the video game characters age! GRRRRR!
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>>267918
((( Daniel Vavra's ))) jewish genes are showing.
>>267840
>Clearly any reasonable post is wasted on you, so let this be a warning to every other idiot.
<Just know Japanese dumbass
And you're calling other idiots, retard?

>Look up Article 175 of the Criminal Code from '1907';
Again, you're calling other dumb and prove once again you have no idea on what you're talking about. Article 175 refers how it is illegal to sell UNCENSORED pornographic items. The issue of the subject here is that Japanese ecchi and eroge games are getting censored, despite not violating the article. It is not the Japanese government telling BoJ to censor things that are not illegal. You're splitting hairs like a plebbitor.

>You mean the same UN that can't even restore the civilian government in Myanmar, a literal failed country sitting in between 2 major UN powers? 
What does this have to do with what I said, faggot? The UN is extremely corrupt and you're clearly not aware of the amount rape UN Peacekeepers do in Africa.

>You should stop projecting
<I have no argument

>China is the most powerful in the alliance, it strictly forbids porn
Chinese citizens easily bypass this through snuggling and using VPN to access websites like pornhub.
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>>267950
>Article 175 refers how it is illegal to sell UNCENSORED pornographic items
No it doesn't.
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>>267951
Yes it does.
>A person who distributes, sells, or publicly displays an obscene document, drawing, or any other material shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not more than two years, a fine of not more than 2.5 million yen, or a petty fine. The same shall apply to a person who possesses the same for the purpose of selling or distributing.

Here a couple of cases to prove it.

<Lady Chatterley’s Lover's case changing the court's meaning of obscenity to "stimulate excessive sexual desire and violate public decency".

<Nikkatsu Roman Porno's case, where the Japanese 
Supreme Court ruled that uncensored depictions of genitalia violate Article 175, confirming that erotic content must be censored to be legally sold in Japan.

It prohibits "obscene" materials from being sold or public displayed.
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>>267950
>The UN is extremely corrupt and you're clearly not aware of the amount rape UN Peacekeepers do in Africa.
I get the sneaking suspicious this was primarily caused by them recruiting locally.
>>267952
>Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This is a book with no pictures. That's just proof of how even censored porn is subject to the law if text alone is enough to violate it.

>It prohibits "obscene" materials from being sold or public displayed.
Exactly, that has nothing to do with it being censored or not. The loophole is that censoring one part somehow makes it "not obscene", but that line of reasoning would crumble at the slightest scrutiny. It's illegal on the books but in practice it's entirely up to the police to define what is obscene or not.
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>>267956
>This is a book with no pictures. That's just proof of how even censored porn is subject to the law if text alone is enough to violate it.
You are right that Lady Chatterley’s Lover was involved in a case about obscenity in Japan. However, it’s important to distinguish between literary works and pornographic imagery when discussing Japanese obscenity laws. Lady Chatterley’s Lover case was about a novel, not explicit visual content and Japan's government at the time established that content could be considered obscene even if it didn’t have pictures, it was about how the content violated public decency and the moral standards of the time. Japanese pornography is not automatically illegal. Article 175 only prohibits the distribution and public display of obscene material, but as you pointed out, the key issue is not whether it's pornographic in nature but whether it violates obscenity laws by depicting genitalia or explicit sexual acts without censorship.
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>>267958
The point is that it's more risky for banks to handle than other industries because of the vague nature of defining obscenity. A safe law is not something that changes with the times, it's something with a clearly defined rule. This isn't the first time porn distributors were rejected by banks in Japan, so I don't think it's related to the attack by western payment processors.
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>>267942
>This is just pearl clutching.
The kike missed an opportunity, instead of having a sodomy scene with a 15 year old man, he should had made a scene with a 12 year old virgin woman having sex with the player in the missionary position with the candles off.
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‘GTA 6’ Publisher Pledges Switch 2 Support, But Snubs PC (Again)
https://archive.is/20250208172252/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/02/07/gta-6-publisher-pledges-switch-2-support-but-snubs-pc/
>Take-Two Interactive, the parent publisher behind games like Grand Theft Auto VI, Borderlands 4, and Civilization VII, appears to be developing a more positive opinion about Nintendo’s family of Switch consoles. Recent comments from Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick during the company’s recent earnings even strongly suggest that GTA 6 arrive on Switch 2.
>As heard by Eurogamer, Zelnick was asked directly about Take-Two’s plans to release games on Switch 2. His response indicated strong support for the platform.
>"There was a time when Nintendo platforms are really geared at younger audiences and that was reflected in our release schedule," he says. "And now today with Switch and potentially with Switch 2, the Switch device can support any audience. So while we have nothing specific to report, we actually would fully expect to support Switch 2.”
>Indeed, Nintendo has been actively trying to shake the image of it being the gaming destination for children ever since Sega and Nintendo kicked off the console wars during the 16-bit era. With Gamecube and more mature game releases like Eternal Darkness, Nintendo started the very long journey of trying to appeal to more mature audiences while still retaining its younger demographic.
<Its OK when we do it
>>265928
His blood pressure
>>267972
>inb4 viable Switch 2 emulation within less than 12 months after launch
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>>267944
I didn't mention anyone's age. Absolute retard lmao
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>>268001
Anon called being upset over the gay child buttfucking pearl clutching. You took issue with the whole statement. If you only took issue with part of the statement, you should have said so, fag.
>>267972
but isn't switch 2 marginally better than a ps4? it will run like absolute ass
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>>268005
Nobody knows how shitty the new switch will be.
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>>267972
Lol. First Ubisoft, then EA, now take-two is going to visit the stock valley.
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Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements
https://archive.is/20250210123202/https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-bans-all-steam-games-that-force-players-to-watch-advertisements
PlayStation quietly removes "slop" shovelware PS5 games following investigation
https://archive.is/20250210173231/https://www.eurogamer.net/playstation-quietly-removes-slop-shovelware-ps5-games-following-investigation
Microsoft doesn’t want you to bypass Windows 11 requirements on Windows 10
https://archive.is/20250210111138/https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/02/10/microsoft-doesnt-want-you-to-bypass-windows-11-requirements-on-windows-10/
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>>268084
So FFXV is banned because the cup noodle quest forces a ton of advertising down your throat?
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>>268100
>cup noodle quest
<cross-promotion and product placement are permitted
Falls under this anon-kun
>>268016
>Game takes place in 14th c. Bohemia
>Baghdad sacked by Mongols in 1258
<hur dur you white barbarians had centures of learning wiped out a thousand years ago >:) 
<we wuz kangs btw
Lol the cope. Shame the rest of the game is pretty solid.
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There’s a demo for Nintendo Switch but at an unannounced date later. Also the save will carry over to the full game.
>>267967
With the intent to impregnate.
And it still wouldn't save the game from all the jewish revisionism.
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Influential Dishonored and Half-Life 2 artist Viktor Antonov has died
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/influential-dishonored-and-half-life-2-artist-viktor-antonov-has-died/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/HNvJq
>Viktor Antonov, the influential artist whose credits include Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died, according to his former colleagues.
>Originally born in Bulgaria, Antonov moved to Paris when he was 17. His first video game credit came in 1997 as a map painter on Redneck Rampage. He joined Valve in the early 2000s, serving as the art director on Half-Life 2.
>[...]
>Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw took to Instagram (archived by LambdaGen) to write: "I didn’t want to say much till I felt it was confirmed, but I learned today that Viktor Antonov, our visionary art lead on HL2, has died. I don’t have details. Just sadness. Brilliant and original. Made everything better."

Reports about "Nintendo having 22 out of 23 its anti-Palworld patents rejected in the US" were largely misleading
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/reports-about-nintendo-having-22-out-of-23-its-anti-palworld-patents-rejected-in-the-us-were-largely-misleading/
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/uwKY9
>Recent headlines have sensationalized Nintendo’s patent filings in the US, leading a lot of people following the legal dispute between Palworld and Nintendo to believe that Nintendo filed 23 "anti-Palworld" patents and had 22 of them rejected by the US patent office in some kind of devastating blow. However, as Japanese patent attorney Kiyoshi Kurihara explains for Yahoo Japan, this interpretation is misleading and stems from a misunderstanding of how patent applications work in the first place.
>The controversy originates from a single patent application (No. 18/652,883), which focuses on gameplay mechanics involving a player riding a character (or mounts, more simply put). Within this application, Nintendo submitted 23 claims – individual aspects of the invention they sought to patent. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) initially rejected 22 of these claims, while one remained viable.
>Kurihara clarifies that this is a routine outcome in patent reviews. Patent applications often include a mix of broad and narrow claims. The broader ones are often rejected on the grounds of lacking novelty or inventiveness, while the narrower ones stand a better chance of gaining approval. In this case, despite what the words "final rejection" may sound like, Nintendo has the right to modify its application based on the surviving claim, and it can still attempt to contest the rejections through continued filings or appeals.
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>>268595
>Nintendo having 22 out of 23 its anti-Palworld patents rejected in the US
>Nintendo still butthurt about Palworld
>>268005
>isn't switch 2 marginally better than a ps4? it will run like absolute ass
And they said Nintendo learned the lesson with the first Switch.
If the Switch is indeed going to be only as powerful as a Ps4 it will have the same issues the Switch1 had, with ports from more powerful consoles looking and running like shit.
Nobody was expecting Switch 2 to be AS powerful as the competition, but, at the very least, reduce the gap.
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