gila [any, any]

It’s Microsoft that told them to make weird shit, that upfront profit isn’t a priority because it’ll add value to game pass. I just hope they don’t overcorrect

I would expect a similar rate of violence in games consumed both inside and outside of America.

The preposition was that China would create cigs that are healthy

Lighting something on fire and inhaling the concentrated free radicals resulting from its combustion is fundamentally unhealthy

Mehdi debatelording Boll on Piers Morgan is a brand of delicious libshit I just have to see for myself

For some reason when I watched the trailer for this I got the impression it was like a sensationalized Luigi trope and got semi excited for it. It only took a couple mins of exposition for me to realise that nope, it’s just about murdering brown people. Haven’t noped out of a movie so hard in a long time

I’d assume Sweeney would know that user tags and steam curators are a thing, but then again EGS doesn’t have users

I do it now with the PC I paid market price for, if you subsidise the hardware that’s just more money left in my pocket. If you’re a manufacturer fixing to take a loss on upfront cost, I bet you’d want to have some kind of assurance about the expected later dividend. It’s to Valve’s credit that they won’t lock the device into a particular ecosystem in that way, though I agree the device won’t make a big splash as a result of that higher cost. Overall seems like a weird thing to move forward with given the original steam machines from a decade ago failed for the same reason.

Even Xbox’s failures in the console hardware market stem from the bundling of Kinect with XBone, which meant it cost more than PS4. Not that a laggy camera feature is comparable to steam machine’s advantages over PS5/XSX, but the console with the laggy camera was only $100 more

Vendor lock-in. Nothing preventing you getting games for your Steam machine off GOG etc or simply pirating them.

That’s the whole basis for subsidising consoles… Which is also a thing of the past. Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo are not less greedy than Valve in any way.

I guess the main issue i’d encounter is syncing watched progress metadata with YouTube servers, which Grayjay & Smarttube both optionally do

Kids listen to Korn in 2026 as identity performance, like listening to Bob Dylan in the 90s. That’s how bad things have gotten

Isn’t critiquing it part of the enjoyment? Why else would you even do it?

Yup that’s what they did, article is out of date

Yeah it’s a prequel though, if the rumours about it being a Faye game are true

“goddess of war” isn’t what they’re going for. she’s a regular human

ragnarok at least has some poc representation