MrBrown

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250929186526/en/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-%2455-Billion

https://kotaku.com/report-saudi-arabia-and-other-investors-nearing-50-billion-deal-to-buy-ea-2000629291

Played a bit off Endless Legend 2 early access. Looks really good. Thematics are on point (Amplitude are generally good on that), graphics looks pretty, it runs smooth (smoother than Endless Legend 1 does for me, wtf). Mechanics don't know about yet, haven't played enough. Only thing so far I really didn't like is no governor heroes. Those were quite fun in EL1 and ES2.

Hmm, what to play, Endless Legend 2 early access, or new Stellaris DLC? Ended up playing Deep Rock Galactic Survivor instead.

Looks like that has finally started getting net positive reviews on Steam. I haven't played it, but supposedly it's the same as the developer's other games, which would mean that production is the best resource so take any early boosts to that ASAP.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-patents-in-game-characters-summoning-others-to-battle

In time for the sequel. Though I actually have other stuff to play, so will probably wait a bit.

Looks like people are not into day-0 DLCs anymore: https://www.eurogamer.net/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-to-refund-all-premium-editions-following-backlash-over-paywalled-clans

For some reason started replaying New Vegas. Not sure why.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3843520/The_Temple_of_Elemental_Evil/

But basically, NWN2 EE has mixed reviews on steam. Two reasons: - it adds very little to the non-EE - it has problems with the fan made content, so anyone with their Ozymandian constructions of mods and persistant worlds and stuff will leave a thumbs down.

In the character creator, if you clicked next or previous, it would play the voice file you were moving away from instead of to. I had no problem with that fight. I didn't find a quick save button in the key mapping, I'll take another look when I have time.

Played the prologue of NWN2 EE. Seems the same as the original, maybe they changed the menus a bit? Didn't find a quicksave function, what year is this.

https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-makes-significant-layoffs-across-gaming-division-xbox-boss-phil-spencer-confirms-in-memo-to-staff

You could always go the subtitle route. Instead of "BG4", do "BG: Lower your expectations".