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Neverwinter Nights 2 Remaster out on July 15 on Steam and GOG. Did we know it's happening? It's news to me. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-remaster-of-classic-d-and-d-rpg-neverwinter-nights-2-is-finally-real-and-releasing-next-month/

I wanted to ask if an update for the Nintendo Switch version of Outer Worlds would be available for the new Switch 2?

'The Outer Worlds' supports 11 languages, and 'The Outer Worlds 2' currently states that it only supports 5 languages. Will The Outer Worlds 2 have more languages to support? Many Korean gamers hope to add Korean.

To focus down on this, yes I do support ICE doing their job legally. It's the legal aspect that makes this all a bit dodgy (under DJT). When you push the boundaries of what is legal, more mistakes get made, rights are violated, and people here legally get deported.

Resident Evil has effectively been a corporate mascot, a brand name, a branding under which a corporation gathers and sells whatever it sees as the most profitable. Zombies, werewolves, presidential daughters, 10 feet booby women, explosions, cheesy dialogue, quick time events and pushing rocks — under this corporate Umbrella, anything goes. Because as long as all that nonsense is being sold with a Resident Evil™ tag on it, someone's gonna bite. The only really legitly good entries from my end were 1+2 and 7. I can accept 4 though, although it was a really big departure from the rest until that point and all its tonal cheese. Still, if Capcom would be in the Hollywood business rather than gaming, half of those games+spin-offs would have been trashed the same way as a Michael Bay movie -- or the dumb sequels to Jaws or The Terminator. They aren't in Hollywood though, but gaming. And in gaming, professional critics like or at least tolerate everything, for as long as it's not bugged to crap (proof: count the major releases with a Metascore below 50 or even 60). Still curious for the 9th entry, as every once in a while, Capcom still seems to find something (see RE7, first half of it anyway). PS: I quite liked The Evil Within also, if that counts.

Looks pretty awesome: Edit: also, let's not forget about this little gem:

Missing out on UT3 is not that big of a loss, I'd argue. Though I see they added achievements at some point, so maybe I'll play through the campaign again eventually. I bought that game on DVD unless I'm very mistaken, though I think it was one of those "have disc, need Steam anyway"-releases that were so popular at the time. But there may be some new-old-stock out there still if you really, really want to complete the collection...

Tried Fallout London mod. Londoners turned out to be excellent looters because the city was barren, or at least those very few places I could access were, because majority of everything seemed to be just for decor and whole city looked kinda like those photodrapes cities hang on historical buildings that are being renovated. Water gives you gazillion rads, I think this is game's equivalent of deathclaw conga line in Vegas, something to prevent you from going somewhere too early, but this + narrow walkways over said water everywhere + companion dog's propensity for pushing you from those walkways + looooong loading time = The last straw before scrubbing the mod from HD were invincible enemies who run at you and self-destruct very early on main quest, but that left me wanting to play Fallout 4. Turns out it's fun if you ignore main quest and just be a garbage collector who, along with his trusty dog, travels the place endlessly searching for more glue. I mean, it's easy to imagine my guy checks the logs of freeze-refreeze-unfreeze before leaving, sighs "RIP Shaun" and gives wide berth to Sanctuary because of bad memories. Concord too, because of proximity.

Seems like the local cops did deal with it though, 4 pm on Saturday. I am sure the DHS commandos were scared but they managed.

The two million (or hopefully 20) bucks question: Did they fix the camera? Or rather: cameras? Thief is also back... again. This time, it's VR. Thing is: VR would be actually one possible sensible evolution of Thief. Looking Glass tried to approach VR way back right with Ultima Underworld -- just not via clunky headgear of that time. But via the software. The minimalist HUD by the time of Thief. The zero cutscenes during gameplay policy. The incomplete in-universe maps Garrett would aquire from associates rather than blindly following markers gameloop. The mostly open sandbox type of levels, with AI and players able to roam. The quite advanced physics and sound for that era. And the movement, including being able to freely lean, to crouch, to jump, to swim -- that wasn't a mistake. That was by design. "We were trying to build the holodeck". https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/system-shock-the-oral-history-of-a-forward-thinking-pc-classic However, as the reboot missed literally *all* of that before, consider me doubtful for now. I'd be more confident if this gig went to Wolfeye Studios or Arkane -- studios that "get" the basics, as they're partly consisting of Looking Glass, Origin and Ion Storm alumni.

From what I understand (might be wrong though) is that it should be part of the game mechanics. How deep that mechanics is, is anyone's guess. EDIT: Oh and Outer Worlds 2 will be released at the end of October. Price tag will be 80USD. No mention, if it will be released on GOG as well.

It’s not a question of “need” as much as an opportunity to create violence , fear and chaos. Desirable effects for Trump when trying to dismantle the state and retain power indefinitely

NWN2 remaster has been known about for a while unofficially eg it was found via steamdb back in February.

russia? bad hong kong? bad. united states? ... according to stephen miller, the above linked protest necessitates the involvement o' military troops? they lie. the terrible part is that maga knows trump and his minions lie. there was never $2 trillion in waste, fraud and abuse... wasn't even hundreds of billions. how many fired fed workers, maga faithful, learned they were perpetrating waste, fraud and abuse? there is no white genocide happening in south africa. tariffs won't make americans rich. that hurricane were never predicted to reach alabama. rubio and musk said nobody has died 'cause o' usaid cuts. lies. etc. maga knows they lie, but 'cause is a polarized tribal thing where you gotta defend us from them, maga types willingly and beyond all reason, believe and promote the next lie. as a rando example, a person who perhaps knows trump is lying about tariffs and white genocide in south africa, nevertheless contorts themselves into knots trying to convince the rest o' us that trump and stephen miller is telling the truth about los angeles. and again, “Indeed we can think of no better example of the police power, which the Founders denied the national government and reposed in the states, than the suppression of violent crime and vindication of its victims.”-- J. Rehnquist, us v morrison (2000) in 2020, numerous states asked for help from the national guard. converse, the federal government cannot send troops to california, oregon, washington or illinois to do ordinary law enforcement. however, those states is gonna need go through the courts to get relief, which is gonna take time... and perhaps when the Court final addresses the issue, some catastrophe sparked by the presence o' national guard troops will have already occurred, at which point trump will invoke the insurrection act. regardless, even if there were chaos happening in los angeles, real widespread l007ing and property destruction, the fed couldn't send troops unless the states asked for aid. it's a law thing. it's the freaking Constitution. repeat: "ordinarily it is up to the states to decide whether to request fed troop assistance. is extreme few recent examples o' the fed not responding to state requests and sending in troops and the only post ww 2 examples we can think o' off hand is when Presidents sent troops to the south to protect school kids post brown v. board o' education, or when they ordered military to protect protesters from state governments related to mlk assassination, the aforementioned brown v. board and the civil rights act legislation." another repeat for those curious refusing to pay attention... what trump is doing is unconstitutional, but illegal, immoral or unthinkable don't prevent him from doing it. why is this not penetrating? HA! Good Fun!

Another interesting turn of events today. There are reports (including russian one), that UA infiltrated a train In Zaporrizhzhia with drones, in a similar way, that they infiltrated the trucks few days ago. The results again from Russian sources are dozens of destroyed tanks and other armored vehicles, which were en route to supply the frontline. UA sources are saying 13 tanks and 100+ armored vehicles of various types.

They removed it from everywhere. Thankfully I bought all of the games on GOG, before they pulled this stunt. Unfortunatelly U3 was never released there, so I am missing that one in my collection

Ruh-roh

That looks excellent, " Day 1 watch " for sure

Ah, cops. I am sure they'll argue they were legally permitted to do it though.

Don't forget the BLM protests also happened under Trump. Part of a pattern. In this instance it's not widespread violence; it's in one city and the LAPD and state governor were already handling it. The latter has the ability to deploy the National Guard as needed. There was no need for the Executive branch to step into the foray.

For me, the premise and the artstyle were appealing, but the combination of no highlighting for the interactive items, the lack of settings, the "gather X of Y items to proceed" aspect, and the protagonist was not. --- Desta: The Memories Between It seems to be a turn-based sports-like game with rogue-like elements. The graphics and visual style are nice, the controls consist of the mouse buttons, though the gameplay is not exactly my genre (I did like Pyre, though). Virtue's Heaven Demo

Chicago Sun-Times prints a summer reading list full of books that don't exist