"To say that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are into live-service games is only half the story. These games offer a social space for players to hang out and be creative. For them, it's not about winning in a competitive online shooting match but about expressing themselves and exploring in a virtual sandbox."

"Plus, just because Gen Z and Gen Alpha not playing those $70 titles now doesn't mean they won't in the future. Yguado believes that those players will "graduate" from Roblox and other sandbox titles, although they probably won't be leaving Roblox forever. Games won't be going away just because Roblox is around. You just have to meet new players where they are and on their own terms."

and will it run on my laptop? i expect 1080p low stable 40 to 50fps.

gtx 1650 i5-10500h 16gb ram sata ssd

Today is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I beat the end peacefully tonight (as in I didn’t unload a sniper round into his forehead while he was conked out in a wheelchair), and I even got his camo, which by the way is super fucking handy. Whoever it was that was surprised I skipped his boss fight, you were so god damn right.

His sniper made the fight against the fury (which I forgot to get a picture of) so much easier. Literally, I just pinned him to the wall by firing bolts and unloaded into his forehead until he dropped unconscious.

After that it’s been an easy steam roll through everything. I accidentally unlocked Snake’s “nightmare” which I need to do. I did it once but had to prepare for a photo shoot I’m doing tomorrow and accidentally closed game before a save point. So now I need to do it all over again. Shouldn’t be too hard though. Just tedious.

Last year I was trying to find something to play daily, since I ditched Destiny a few years ago. Then I decided to try Warframe, I got 90h on it, even tho I know it's very little I think I can have an opinion already.

I got overwhelmed by how hard the game tries to make me spend money, I might be exaggerating but I think literally everything has a way to be boosted or achieved by paying. This kind of completely kills that friendly competitive aspect of the game like you achieve something and you just can't tell if it was legit or someone paid for it.

For example I remember there was this double resources boost and other kind of boosts that double many things you do in the game, and I kind of felt bad thinking "fuck man... look how much I farmed here, if I had paid for it, it'd be double", which often was letting me down.

Then suddenly they show that daily offer, I got a 75% OFF offer on game currency and FOMO syndrome just hit, I bought it. I asked on Reddit sub if it's worth it and everybody was just saying they pray to get offers like that, then I thought: well, it seems good I'll do it.

And I did it, now I see how manipulated I got by this game. I didn't spend too much, a 75% OFF was like an old game price, I thought it was fair to pay a game price for playing the game, at least once.

But then I realized if I kept doing it I'd lost myself and always want more. Then I just decided to ditch this game as well before it was too late. The game looks good overall but man... What an aggressive monetization, it's definitely not just cosmetics, you pay to speed up things and way more stuff than cosmetic.

I know that late game you'll eventually farm cosmetics and earn many stuff that at first is bought only by real money, but that's a massive almost inhuman grind to achieve we're talking like 1000-5000h. And then at the end you think again "fuck... I should've payed for a few stuff, I'd have double of everything now".

I mean I don't get it, this game isn't all of this, it feels everything you do in the game there's a part on the screen screaming "LOOK AT HERE IF YOU PAY YOU CAN GET IT EASIER AND WITH EXTRA STUFF WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?".

I fell for it once and now I see how I was manipulated, Warframe somehow helped me on my decision to not spend a cent on extra content anymore. Btw I didn't spend any of my game currency I bought with real money, I just I made a mistake and cut it right away.

Lawyers representing Unknown Worlds' reinstated CEO have accused Krafton of intentionally leaking Subnautica 2's early access release date.

NVIDIA had earlier described DLSS 5 in a way that suggested a deeper understanding of the scene. The follow-up answers paint a narrower picture. When asked whether the model reads PBR (Physically Based Rendering) properties from the engine, NVIDIA said: “DLSS 5 only takes the rendered frame and: “DLSS 5 only takes the rendered frame and motion vectors as inputs. Materials are inferred from the rendered frame.” In other words, the model is not reading metallic, roughness, normal maps, or other underlying material properties directly.

That may explain why some preview images raised concerns. In one example, a character appears to gain hair detail in an area where it was not visible before. In another, facial details appear altered enough (like the nose) to raise questions about whether the model is changing the look of the character rather than only improving lighting. NVIDIA’s response was that “the underlying geometry is unchanged,”

I spent a few days chatting to the RetroDECK team (who are well and truly friends by now!), with the idea that it might be a good chance to focus on their real passion: retro gaming. Too often RetroDECK (which is all about emulation/retro gaming for the Steam Deck/Linux) just gets bottled up and mentioned as being less than it is.

Sure you get the typical emulation projects in there: PS2, PS3, Wii U, SNES and so on, but it really has so much more to offer to users. From odd little projects and engines to things like MUDs, pinball and more.

This was a nice chat with the team, it shows them all sharing what they're so passionate about. Retro gaming in all its forms.

From my friend Lazorne in the interview:

What I hope to do is simply provide people with an easy way to experience those memories again, provided they still have access to their old games. For one person retro might mean the PlayStation 3, while for others it could be systems like the TRS-80 or the BBC Micro.Both viewpoints are valid and that is how we approach the components included in RetroDECK as well.

You can find my article and the whole interview here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/retrodeck-is-more-than-emulation-an-interview-with-the-devs/

Played this a few years ago during Steam Next Fest. It's a 2D platformer collectathon with physics and nonsense humour.

TLDR excerpts:

“I think [DLSS 5] is the perfect example of the disconnect between what we as developers and gamers want and what the nasty freaks who are destroying the world and consolidating all wealth into the hands of the few using GPUs think we want,”

“This is so disrespectful to the intentional art direction of devs,” said Ortiz. “If devs wanted to lean in to hyper realism, they would.”

Every dev I talked to, even those who didn’t want to be included in this feature, all told me they hated DLSS 5 and were offended by Nvidia’s announcement and how it seemingly overwrote the work of talented artists, modelers, and other game devs.

“People debate if video games are ‘art,’ but I prefer to see video games as galleries. Every game has many different forms of art within. Animation and sound design are separate yet complementary pieces of art. Although separate, every piece works together to create a full, cohesive product. [DLSS 5] deconstructs the gallery. It breaks away one piece of the full experience and returns a game into segmented elements. It won’t ruin a game, but it does destroy its purest expression, and to that, all I have to ask is, what is the point?”

“It’s not an over exaggeration to say what DLSS 5 represents has taken a serious toll on my mental health. Most tech feels like the pursuit of knowledge by passionate and obsessive individuals…This feels like an artless desecration of the medium itself by a company with a stranglehold on the global economy,”

Today’s game is Metal Gear Solid Delta. With my second Non-Lethal play through I’ve wanted to look at this through a new lens, since playing it again offers foresight I didn’t have before.

My first observation has been I’ve gotten a lot better. Before where I struggled I’m now crawling through areas without so much as a sound. I’m sure part of that can be lent to all the camo at my disposal. But it really is an interesting observation.

I made my way all the way to the pain this time. He was way easier. Just headshot him with the Mk. 22 a bunch and he goes down. I even got the missable food item I didn’t have before which is nice.

I’ve found a few ways to cheese the stealth too. Mainly there’s this board here I can hide under and get a 90% Camo Index. I’ll just stay under there and no one even notices me. It’s great.

I’ve stuck to normal mode for this as I think it provides a balanced challenge for a no kill run and plus it will serve as I nice practice for when I work my way up to Fox Hound.

I want to try and clear all the way to The Fury tomorrow. I think if I could do that, it would be a great landmark to make it too.

Sorry about infesting your computer with a trojan. Whoopsies!

Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn't spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are more

I'm specifically asking about the PvP part of the game.

This kind of game is my kid's favorite; we frequently play Towerfall, Duck Game, Rounds, and Hyper Contender (from UFO50).

It's so hard to find other games in this genre, because I don't know the standardized name, if it even has one, so I figured I'd ask here. What do you call low TTK platformer PvP shooting games? Do you have a favorite?

Today's game is Stardew Valley. Me and some friends got the idea to play a big lobby with around the 6 of us just to see how it went. So far it's gone well. I stole someone's furniture and moved their house to a random corner. Then i sold all my Parsnips just to grow potatoes. I wanted to see how far i could get just growing them.

I've been mostly making a living fishing all day. So far we're on the 13th and i've got enough for a Chicken Coop. Next time we play i plan to have it built. Maybe even pick up a few chickens if we go that long.

The game is interesting as in all my saves, i feel like it becomes a social game in multiplayer. Like, just run your chores and chat in voice call. It's really fun. Plus when you interact you can have some fun experiences. Like fishing next to each other or helping to meet the coop goal.

Single player it's fun too. I can't help but feel it doesn't have a lot of replay ability to me personally once i get out of the early game. By summer it just becomes the standard checklist for me.

We ended just on the egg hunt. It was tired and none of us wanted to tackle it. On retrospect i'm thinking i should have picked a different game though to write about today because this game is definitely proving a challenge to talk about.

I've been playing it over the last few days. Cozy games aren't my thing, and not for lack of trying. I played Stardew Valley with friends and I couldn't stay interested. Pokemon largely hasn't excited me since gen 2.

Minecraft, however, is something I really enjoyed, especially back when it was in beta, so I thought a "pokemon plus minecraft" type game might interest me. I'm not sure yet, but clearly a lot of people like it.

This one hurts. I loved those early Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games. Even Wildlands was mostly great. Now we've got Siege that barely resembles what Rainbow Six used to be, and what the Tom Clancy brand was in video games is all but destroyed.

Nah, this is my original meme collection, hope you enjoy it and have a good laugh! And also let's chat about the topic in question.

What is your take on DLSS 5 ?

Personally, I believe in almost every genre there's artistic value that should be protected and DLSS 5 should stay the f*ck out

But there are a few genres where it could help, for example sports games where everyone is famous IRL and the AI can reproduce their likeness perfectly. Also, I believe adult games could benefit too.

What's your take? Is it black & white or do you have a more intermediate opinion?