MrBrown

https://www.ign.com/articles/concord-is-estimated-to-have-sold-only-25000-units-heres-why-analysts-think-its-failing

Vampire Survivors gets more absurd each update.

A year since release, and they've now gone full circle and are making Diablo 4 quite similar to Diablo 3. https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/diablo-4s-next-update-makes-season-of-loot-reborn-look-like-a-hotfix-a-new-level-cap-of-60-new-difficulty-levels-and-the-return-of-runewords-all-in-season-6

https://www.remedygames.com/article/remedy-and-annapurna-announce-a-strategic-cooperation-agreement

Looks like we have a new winner for the biggest failures of games: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/08/24/playstations-concord-did-not-break-700-players-on-steam-on-launch-day/

I'm ok with that. Can't make the same game so many times without switching things around, and they seem to keep a lot of stuff from 5-6 like hex grids, districts, and no stacking of units.

They were busy with Anthem. Also had at least one big redesign.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-and-activision-have-formed-a-new-team-within-blizzard-to-work-on-smaller-aa-games-based-on-existing-ip

https://apnews.com/article/sagaftra-video-game-performers-ai-strike-4f4c7d846040c24553dbc2604e5b6034

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/

MS knows Trump is new god-emperor, can't even hire other than white men from now on. https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-dei-lead-blasts-company-in-internal-email-after-team-is-reportedly-laid-off

I'll have to retract a bit on this, the last few bosses are really tough. So either be good, or grind lots. Turns into more of a diablo-like arpg at that point.

About 80% through V Rising. It's a bit repetitive. Constantly challenging, but it's mostly because everything is gated through the various bosses. So you're always with just about the same gear you fight a boss. There's various difficulties, so depending on how much you like the combat you should find a suitable difficulty. In settings, I checked the options that I keep my weapons and armor if I die, and that metals etc won't prevent teleporting.

Depending on the amount of games you play, that can still be a good deal. But for most, probably not.

Click on my link, it's completely safe.

Manor Lords, early access strategies, toxic expectations https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-hooded-horse_two-clarifying-points-since-this-post-seems-activity-7215509660999503874-0ByG/

Microsoft's plans are getting weirder. Still not sure what happens at ???? before profit. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/06/27/xbox-cloud-gaming-amazon-fire-tv/

Steam Summer sales. Disco Elysium -90%. Your excuses are running out.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is on "free trial" on steam until 18th of July. You can play for 2 hours for free.

AFAIK, you need to login.

Yeah, still require the EA app... They've made it more annoying too, back when Origin games first came to Steam, you could run them with Origin staying in the background nicely, but now it pops-up and reserves some keyboard shortcuts to itself, etc. DA:O steam version doesn't require it, since it came out before EA's Origin app.

All of Dragon age 90% off, in fact.

Death Must Die Nice combination of Hades and Vampire Survivors.

Nah, I want to read, not watch videos.