You might be onto something, I Believe Godus also launched on Android (and maybe iOS) simultaneously, so maybe they did develop the game with a mobile first approach.
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
Winning Game of the year is a great honor and I want to first thank everyone that voted for us and I want to congratulate all the other nominees. This has been an incredibly competitive year and you each would have deserved to win this award @CapcomUSA_@remedygames@insomniacgames@NintendoAmerica
I want to thank @geoffkeighley and the people that organized the #gameawards for creating an award show so big that it gets mainstream attention. While 30 secs is a bit short , there’s nothing like the game awards and it’s an incredible achievement
I wore armor at the #gameawards because BG3 is a game that couldn’t exist without its our player community and I wanted to pay tribute to how important they’ve been for the development. You rock community BG3
Making a game like this only works if you have an incredible passionate and talented team and in that regard I am incredibly lucky with the @larianstudios – they are some of the finest and they did a truly amazing job
Over 2000 people are listed in the credits and since I can’t call out everyone, I want to focus on a group of people that don’t always get the credit they deserve
Team QA, team localisation, team customer support, team operations, team publishing, team play testers, and every other developer at Larian, BG3 wouldn’t exist without you and you all deserve to be very proud of this
I want to dedicate this award to the friends and family members we lost during development including Jim, our lead cinematic animator who passed away last month and personally to my father who passed away the week before we launched our early access campaign
You don’t get to make something like BG3 if you don’t have the support from the people around you. Personally, I really want to thank 5 special people, a crazy dog and a one-eyed cat for sticking with me
Big shout out also to our localization partners and @PitStopTweets who had to use every corner of their building to record and performance capture what was an insane number of lines
To our actors – you did great. I hope our paths will cross again in the future and your agents will remain their usual reasonable selves :)
I also want to thank @Wizards_DnD and specifically the DnD team for giving us carte blanche. I’m really sorry to hear so many of you were let go. It’s a sad thing to realize that of the people who were in the original meeting room, there’s almost nobody left. I hope you all end up well
There are many more partners I want to thank. We asked much of you all, but you delivered and without your efforts, BG3 would not be what it is
I want to end with a story of a conversation I had a long time ago with a publisher. He told me, luckily for them, games are driven by idealism. He meant it in an exploitative way but he was right
Games are a unique art form, as important as books, music or movies. Many developers, myself included, make games because they love seeing others engage with their creations in a way only games can offer
They don’t care that much about the money made beyond it being the fuel they need to create new and better games. It’s worth reminding everyone that fuel is but a means, not a goal. Whereto and how we journey are what matter and what we remember
The European Media Freedom Act is meant to protect the press from government overreach. But behind closed doors, a group of EU member states are threatening to block the new law over their demands for a blank check to use spyware for the purposes of “national security”.
The European Media Freedom Act is meant to protect the press from government overreach. But behind closed doors, a group of EU member states are threatening to block the new law over their demands for a blank check to use spyware for the purposes of “national security”.
When Rosa Moussaoui found out her phone had been targeted by the infamous Pegasus spyware, she felt a sense of violence and intrusion. “It’s like being robbed or just finding that somebody has taken your possessions”, she said.
For Moussaoui, a journalist for French newspaper L’Humanité who investigates human rights abuses by the Moroccan government, the surveillance, though invisible and very hard to trace, created a tangible loss of trust by sources with whom “in most cases I’ve lost contact,” she told members of the European Parliament in March this year. While she continues to work as investigative journalist, being targeted by Pegasus has taken a toll. She felt more on edge during her work, and was worried about the people she spoke with.
But Moussaoui’s testimony, and that of other journalists from across Europe, seems to have done little to move the needle in convincing some EU players that journalists need more protection from abusive authorities.
Instead, EU countries are pushing to weaken rules meant to protect journalists from surveillance, a cross-border investigation shows.
“It’s like being robbed or just finding that somebody has taken your possessions."
Internal documents obtained by Investigate Europe, Disclose and Follow the Money show that a group of governments – those of France, Finland, Greece, Italy, Malta, Sweden and Cyprus – have threatened to block talks with the European Parliament in a bid to justify the use of spyware on their computers and phones if their security authorities declare this to be a measure to "safeguard national security".
The law aims to protect the independence of journalists from interference by governments and media owners – but now, countries and EU lawmakers are fighting over whether the regulation shall limit the use of spyware and other forms of surveillance by intelligence services.
"This is the most difficult part of the fight for this legislative text," said Ramona Strugariu, a lawmaker from the liberal Renew Group and co-lead lawmaker for the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). After 15 months of negotiations between the member states in the Council of the EU, the European Commission, and the Parliament, the institutions must now agree on a joint text in the so-called trilogue negotiations.
Their next crucial meeting is scheduled for Friday, December 15, during which the EU brokers are hoping to strike a deal. Behind closed doors, negotiators for the Parliament and the Council have presented two fundamentally different positions on a central requirement for independent journalism: the protection of whistleblowers and confidential sources. This "is one of the basic conditions for press freedom", the European Court of Human Rights declared in 2022. Without this protection, "the vital public-watchdog role of the press as guardian of the public sphere may be undermined".
The European Media Freedom Act
The European Media Freedom Act was proposed by the Commission following outrage over reports of spying on journalists and members of civil society. In July 2021, the “Pegasus Papers” investigation revealed that the government of Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán had used the Pegasus spyware to hack the phones of journalists who had produced reporting critical of the government. The European Parliament set up a special committee of enquiry into the issue and called for the sale of spyware to be banned until the exceptional cases in which the state is authorised to use it are clearly defined in law.
Subsequently, journalists in Poland, Greece, Spain and Bulgaria were also found to have been targeted by intrusive spyware – in most cases, the protection of “national security” was invoked as reason.
Meanwhile, the Commission’s proposal, published in September 2022, goes beyond addressing surveillance against journalists. It is meant to safeguard editorial independence of public service media, ensure fairness in state advertising and help to safeguard media pluralism. According to negotiators, the Parliament and member states are still struggling to reconcile their positions on most major points. As an investigation by Follow the Money revealed, the publisher’s lobby had a huge influence especially on member states’ positions.
In October, a large majority of EU lawmakers passed a text in Parliament that would set strict limits on the surveillance of journalists. According to Article 4 of the draft law, journalists could only be wire-tapped or investigated using spyware if this
is unrelated to the journalists’ professional activities;
doesn’t affect or disclose access to journalists’ sources;
is justified on a case-by-case basis to prevent or prosecute a serio
alt textProfessor: It looks like you bought the 2019 edition of the textbook. My class requires this year’s version. Student: What’s the difference? Professor: About 200 dollars....
That's the thing, Devs usually don't get a better cut, publishers do. So unless their publisher isn't hoarding all the money (lmao) or they self-publish their games, Devs don't even get to smell that extra cut.
The game was dubbed into Spanish (and probably other languages too) in PAL territory. I wonder if playing in said languages is only possible by playing the PAL version.
Alan Wake 2 is rated 'Mighty' after being reviewed by 41 critics, with an overall average score of 90. It's ranked in the top 1% of games and recommended by 90% of critics.
I'm hopeful they'll release a new Steam Controller sooner rather than later. I didn't get the original, but if they make one based on the Deck's controls, I'd be buying one.
This is an alternative method for xCloud, I tried it last year and it worked well. I'm not subscribed to Gamepass anymore, so I can't comment on how it works nowadays.
At least it's stated in the game's Steam page. Dead Space Remake has Denuvo since day 1 and there was no warning in their Steam page at all for a long time. Last time I checked they had added the warning, though.
Nintendo showed some developers the new console Switch 2 behind closed doors with The Matrix Awakens and a version with improved graphics of The Legend of Zelda
There were similar rumours about the Switch back when it was just NX. It was going to be above the Xbox One and below PS4 in terms of power. Maybe I'll have to eat my words without even peeling them, but this hasn't been Nintendo's strategy since the Gamecube and I doubt it's going to change now, especially after how well the Switch has sold and is still selling.
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023....
I think Inquisition is actually Bioware's second best selling game, and EA only sees money. So I'm afraid that's what we can expect from Dreadwolf: another Inquisition, or even something more watered-down to cater to wider audiences.
This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users....
If you take a look at posts that have 1 or 2 downvotes, there's a big chance you'll find the same account that downvoted this. An account that has no comments, no posts, no reputation, it seems to exist solely for the purpose of downvoting.
I’ve had a great time playing some of the ‘smaller’ games lately: Dredge (adore this game so much), Dave the Diver, Cloudpunk, Stray, Octopath II, Observer....
I'd like to recommend Pentiment. Narrative-driven game set in the Middle Ages, or rather at the end of the Middle Ages. It has an interesting story and according to some historians it's historically accurate. I loved the story, the setting, the art...
Watch a review or something and give it a try if you find it of your liking.
Another new type of phishing I've been seeing in my junk mail uses links to Bing. Not sure what it does because, as you can understand, I haven't clicked any of those.
By the way, if you use Firefox, there's this little add-on called "Redirect AMP to HTML" that might be useful to prevent this (or maybe not, I don't know).
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/9762996
Godus and Godus Wars to be withdrawn from Steam Store (steamcommunity.com)
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
Larian Studios CEO posts speech he didn't get to say at game awards (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/LarAtLarian/…/1735128899984466295
Revealed: EU governments in last-minute push to legitimise surveillance of journalists (www.ftm.eu)
The European Media Freedom Act is meant to protect the press from government overreach. But behind closed doors, a group of EU member states are threatening to block the new law over their demands for a blank check to use spyware for the purposes of “national security”.
Production Begins For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3, ‘Section 31’ Movie Starts In January (trekmovie.com)
A bug with Starfield's item system makes your game more likely to crash the longer you play it (www.techradar.com)
The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price (www.techspot.com)
Low Quality Facts made a comic about textbooks (media.mstdn.social)
alt textProfessor: It looks like you bought the 2019 edition of the textbook. My class requires this year’s version. Student: What’s the difference? Professor: About 200 dollars....
The Silent Hill 2 Remake is definitely not canceled, Bloober Team confirms (www.pcgamesn.com)
Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
learning spanish (lemmy.best)
Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' (www.windowscentral.com)
Archive link: archive.ph/ajgMB...
If you're playing the Metal Gear Solid 1 Master Collection edition, please for the love of god make sure you don't pick the PAL version (www.pcgamer.com)
50 hertz quickly hurts.
Linux user (infosec.pub)
Alan Wake 2 - Opencritic Reviews (opencritic.com)
Alan Wake 2 is rated 'Mighty' after being reviewed by 41 critics, with an overall average score of 90. It's ranked in the top 1% of games and recommended by 90% of critics.
Frank Zappa Muffin Man Live 1977 (youtu.be)
Muffin Man is a song recorded live by Frank Zappa and The Mothers. It appears on his 1975 mostly live album Bongo Fury made with Captain Beefheart
Everybody's either mad or sad about the Alan Wake 2 system requirements (www.pcgamer.com)
Remedy shared the final PC requirements today, and they're pretty steep....
Hey Google, go fuck yourself entirely (sh.itjust.works)
Tempted? 💀 (discuss.tchncs.de)
Everybody Hates This YouTube Channel’s AI-Filtered Video Game Faces (kotaku.com)
Corridor Digital’s hyper-realistic AI renders of gaming icons like Metal Gear Solid’s Big Boss are hard to look at
Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh (www.theverge.com)
Ubisoft just added Denuvo to Assassins Creed Mirage via a day-1 patch a few minutes ago. AFTER all the major reviews went online. (meta.masto.host)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0c095e3d-ac73-49eb-b142-65d0c7d2b8af.webp
Cancelled Hyenas was ‘Sega’s biggest budget game ever’, it’s claimed | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
This is why people use Windows (lemmy.world)
Khaled: Another one...
When social media silences sex workers, we all lose. (joanwestenberg.medium.com)
Just order a Deck! (artemis.camp)
Excited and have been reading a ton here and elsewhere, the sale just pushed me into finally getting one....
Lies of P quietly adds Denuvo DRM to PC version (nichegamer.com)
X attempts to fight impersonation with government ID verification (www.engadget.com)
X has launched government ID verification for paid X Premium subscribers, after clues emerged in August that the feature was coming.
Anti-Evil Operations accidentally revealed a random admin account. (lemmy.world)
I saw this random r/ModSupport post and was surprised that an admin accidentally revealed a random admin account.
Switch 2: Graphics similar to PS5 and Xbox Series at Gamescom (gamerkick.com)
Nintendo showed some developers the new console Switch 2 behind closed doors with The Matrix Awakens and a version with improved graphics of The Legend of Zelda
X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes. (thehackernews.com)
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023....
TIL of RHYTHM 0 : A performance art piece in which Marina Abramović stood still for six hours while the audience could do whatever they wanted to her. (aussie.zone)
👉wiki...
Todd Howard wants Elder Scrolls 6 to be ‘the ultimate fantasy-world simulator’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Dreadwolf's Delays Are Impacting The Next Mass Effect - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
Speaking on a Giant Bomb podcast, Jeff Grubb explored how Dreadwolf's constant delays are also impacting the next Mass Effect game.
[Ian Cutress] The Problem with Tech Media: Ego, Dogmatism, and Cult of Personality (www.youtube.com)
Yes - Yesyears (lemmy.world)
Final Fantasy 16 Producer Naoki Yoshida Wishes There Was Only One Console - IGN (www.ign.com)
Final Fantasy 16 producer and 14 director Naoki Yoshida wishes everyone played games on the same console.
Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update]
This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users....
Sleeping after a long day of hard work (mlem.me)
Hard work includes:...
‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say (www.vice.com)
Let's Just Calm Down About The Nudity In Baldur's Gate 3 (www.dualshockers.com)
Looking at you, streamers and angry defenders of Japanese ‘fanservice’ games.
Suggestions for smaller-y games if I liked _______
I’ve had a great time playing some of the ‘smaller’ games lately: Dredge (adore this game so much), Dave the Diver, Cloudpunk, Stray, Octopath II, Observer....
Phishing campaigns are using Google AMP URLs to avoid detection (www.malwarebytes.com)
Summary...
Linuksu Senpai! (lemmy.ml)