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Technically singleplayer is still in. It's just forced online. But this make Elite look more and more like a glorified tech-demo.

Are you sure he would actually want it? Seems to me he would prefer to get away from witch-hunts rather than invite more.

That's also a 50k$ crowd surfing project mired in memes. And that's for something that may not even get off the ground. It be nice to see gamergate do something constructive for once but honestly I doubt this will get far.

But gamergate has accomplished much. Aside from ridiculous polarization it has also justified the means used to defeat it. All those tactics of colluding, censoring and label-attaching have been sanctified and cleared for use in the future.

I imagine that's because those people sadly shape gaming media and thus the future of gaming industry. That and they are getting desperate as gamergate peaked some two weeks ago and is losing steam fast. Right now it's looking like this movement won't be doing any long-term good and people are upset.

Shadowrun returns dev announces action roguelike necropolis. Guess that's it for shadowrun. But why rogue-like? Terrible waste of a good writer.

So what's the background to this backstabbing and conspiracy theorizing?

That's just begs the question of why do you bother? You won't break the 'misogyny' narrative. Might as well have GG embrace harassment.

Need to check your own link. Looks like Gamasutra has dropped, not increased. On monthly scale it has but it's only back to the level of one year ago.

Can you provide links to this? Polygon. Kotaku. Gamasutra. IIRC one of those sites was celebrating record views recently.

Those sites have been steadily increasing their views since gamergate began. Either gamergate is not big enough to boycott anything or exposure brought in more readers. Gaming site? Perhaps not. News site? Absolutely. I expect journalists to report and discuss important topics relating to gaming industry.

Not really, they were getting consistently (though incompetently) DDOSed such that some people could not access the site for some time, and that will have cost them money. I imagine it's worse than that. Their whole brand might be irrevocably damaged. I wouldn't be surprised if they shut-down or rename before gamergate does.

It doesn't matter what the non-gaming public gets because this doesn't concern them. This isn't an attempt to get the public to support us. It matters a great deal for the business side of gaming as investing is driven by public perception.Both sides poisoning the well does us no favors.

It's exactly the same as gamergate. There simply isn't any. People are fighting for the sake of identity.

I wouldn't believe anything Lockheed-Martin has to say about fusion. The whole reactor project has almost all appearances of a scam. While I do believe fusion reactors have a future, I sometimes wonder if the safety of their operation isn't idealised a bit? Last time I checked, plasma is usually something hot and unpleasant that you don't want to lose control of, say one of the supermagnetic containment fields breaks? It may not leave a legacy with a generation spanning halflife, but I'm sure it's still unpleasant to experience up close Fusion reactors contain just a few grams of fuel at any given time. That's not enough to irradiate much of anything.

Because it wouldn't change anything. Gamergate is only concerned by corruption and ethics when it comes to pushing specific agendas. In fact most journalistic organizations have some form of working guidelines and it didn't stop them from ignoring this whole mess. Anita is being at least somewhat moderate (at least she keeps her mouth closed) but I bet this guy puts into plain words what she really thinks. That's just a sad sign of the times. People become so radicalized that even Anita can appear a moderate.

Escapist finally posted second part of "Developers on #gamergate".

But isn't half of gamergate opposition exactly against this? It seems to me that since journalists chose solidarity over competition then they would naturally reject any attempts of outside control.

You make it sound as if they boycotted the official trailer of the game. This is just update number 8. I doubt they covered previous 7 so why should anything be different this time?

That's because warrior players take much bigger risks than mages do. They may not run out of spells but healing items get used up much more quickly.

They are adding a playable female character for the prologue. At least that's what one of the achieved stretch-goals said.

It's odd that Intel would change their policy just now. Sponsor mailing has been going on for weeks. I wonder if they will stand by this when the backlash hits.

Is WL2 doing well? Wasteland is one of the best games I've played in a long time. I hope it's selling well enough to make it worth it. There were early reports that it made 1.5 million $ in four days. But it lasted only about a week in top 10 bestsellers on steam. Chances are it will just break even.

That's the price you pay for having magic be actually usable for boss-fights. You can't expect a strong ranged attack without a drawback. Kiting is just way too easy.

Dark Souls games are the embodiment of Japanese-grind approach to design. Just get yourself a trainer. It's not worth it otherwise.