I know LazerPig and his whole persona might be a bit of an acquired taste, but he's making some excellent points here, especially near the end, when he goes on a bit of a deep dive into the corporate culture of gaming's favorite punching bag right now.

It couldn't happen to a better publisher!

This is what happens when you continually release unfinished buggy games that are just copy paste jobs from years prior.

Random trivia; VR is so 90s 🤪 - this is a photo of an offer for a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFX1_Headgear for ~500USD in 1997. Apparently it was compatible with games like Mech Warrior 2 and did already feature stuff like head tracking for compatible games.

Game Information

Game Title: Silent Hill 2

Platforms:

• PlayStation 5 (Oct 8, 2024)
• PC (Oct 8, 2024)

Trailers:

• SILENT HILL 2 | Release Date Trailer (4K:EN/ESRB) | KONAMI
• SILENT HILL 2 | Gameplay Trailer (4K:EN/ESRB) | KONAMI
• SILENT HILL 2 - Combat Reveal Trailer (4K:EN/ESRB) | KONAMI

Developer: Bloober Team

Publisher: Konami

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 88 average - 91% recommended - 34 reviews

Critic Reviews

Arabhardware - Ahmed Yousry - Arabic - 9 / 10

Areajugones - Urko Miguel Galparsoro - Spanish - 9 / 10

Atomix - Alberto Desfassiaux - Spanish - 95 / 100

CGMagazine - 9 / 10

Checkpoint Gaming - Luke Mitchell - 9 / 10

Eurogamer - Vikki Blake - 5 / 5

Everyeye.it - Riccardo Cantù - Italian - 8.2 / 10

GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 90%

GRYOnline.pl - Sebastian Kasparek - Polish - 6 / 10

Game Rant - Dalton Cooper - 9 / 10

GamePro - Samara Summer - German - 87 / 100

GameSpot - Mark Delaney - 9 / 10

Gameblog - French - 9 / 10

Gamepressure - Zbigniew Woźnicki - 6.5 / 10

GamesRadar+ - Leon Hurley - 3.5 / 5

GamingTrend - Henry Viola - 90 / 100

Hardcore Gamer - Chris Shive - 4 / 5

Hobby Consolas - Daniel Quesada - Spanish - 89 / 100

IGN - Tristan Ogilvie - 8 / 10

IGN Italy - Alessandra Borgonovo - Italian - 9.5 / 10

Metro GameCentral - GameCentral - 9 / 10

One More Game - Chris Garcia - 9 / 10

PPE.pl - Roger Żochowski - Polish - 9 / 10

PSX Brasil - Eric Oliveira - Portuguese - 100 / 100

Press Start - James Mitchell - 9 / 10

Push Square - Liam Croft - 9 / 10

Sirus Gaming - Jarren Navarrete - 10 / 10

Spaziogames - Domenico Musicò - Italian - 9.4 / 10

The Games Machine - Daniele Cucchiarelli - Italian - 8.3 / 10

TheGamer - James Kennedy - 3.5 / 5

Tom's Hardware Italia - Andrea Maiellano - Italian - 9 / 10

VG247 - Kelsey Raynor - 5 / 5

VGC - Chris Scullion - 4 / 5

Wccftech - Chris Wray - 9 / 10

I really don't care about MMOs, especially not Korean MMOs, but this is a very entertaining read.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/19005703

Artist Links

• Tumblr
• Official Website

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/mZH8Fh29Wxc

Invidious link to YouTube video without YouTube: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=mZH8Fh29Wxc or https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=mZH8Fh29Wxc

Video description:

I recently found a list of "Woke" Video Games on Steam and I thought it'd be pretty funny to check out it and I was not disappointed. This list of over 1,400 games contains some of the most insane takes I've ever heard.

Hey folks, looking for something that scratches an itch. I love the Tales series, but dislike the active combat system. So I'm looking for something in the vein that is low combat or turn based tactical combat.

For comparison, I also enjoy Fire Emblem but wish it was more of an RPG. And have recently replayed Dragon Age: Origins (and wished it was turn based like BG3). In DaO I preferred exploring the Dwarven city over combat by a huge margin.

Graphics don't matter. Depth of story matters. Ideas?

Now you can play DOOM on your GPU. You are confused? Well this means the CPU is no longer used for the logic of the game, it runs basically entirely on GPU. So the graphics card is not only used for graphics, but the main logic of the game. It just needs a little bit help from CPU to start the process I think.

• News Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DOOM-ROCm-LLVM-Port
• Project Source: https://github.com/jhuber6/doomgeneric/tree/amdgpu

It's a fork from a fork of a fork of a fork:

id-Software/DOOM > insane-adding-machines/DOOM > maximevince/fbDOOM > ozkl/doomgeneric > jhuber6/doomgeneric/tree/amdgpu

I quote the developer (from README):

why

Because I can.

So excited for this!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20783261

Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on the distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables them to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

Seems to me like this studio never actually closed. Either way, this is at least as funny as Ubisoft's and Sony's dreadful live-service games flopping hard.

The limited-time demo (link for the lazy) has no DRM, so all you need to do to preserve it beyond its expiration date is copy the folder it's installed to somewhere else. This works with most limited-time demos on Steam.

You can also copy the large number of DRM-free games on the platform to other systems or create backups of them using the same method. Here's a (likely ver incomplete) list:

https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games