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  • As The Division 3 development continues, Ubisoft announces layoffs at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm as part of 'a proposed organizational restructure'

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  • I never had any regrets about going into game design / development. Gaming industry has been ass for decades and big studios have been built on the exploitation of passion where devs get treated like shit because their passion for working on games keeps them there.

    When that became apparent to me along with the understanding that game development is significantly harder than standard software development I had no problems not choosing game development. Ontop of doing harder work I get less pay and I get treated like shit? No thanks, I'd rather have a comfy job that I still find fulfilling and I can take game projects on the side.

    Though I'd probably have a different opinion if I had to make a career choice today due to the tools becoming so good you can be a one-man studio (and contracting out work you might not be good at, like art assets or such) making the game you want to make. For example the person I'm really envious about is the Road to Vostok dev who is just one Finnish guy making a pretty huge game.

  • Hytale is OUT NOW in early access!

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  • I wouldn't be excited. The reason Hytale exists in the first place is because Mojang blocked server microtransactions which effectively killed the income of the Hypixel server. They're also planning paid mods, paid cosmetics and minigame MTX (whatever the fuck that means). I think there's a legitimate concern that the game is going to end up heavily monetized and it's going to turn into a meta-game platform like Roblox.

    But if your want to be excited about Minecraft "clones" there are other choices. If you're looking for something more action related there's Allumeria which is aiming to be like a 3D Terraria. It's not out yet but there's early access planned for 2026. And if you're looking for more a more survival experience there's Vintage Story. I will 100% recommend Vintage Story to anyone wanting an actual survival game and not just survival elements that turn into mindless busywork 1 hour into the game. There's so much work that goes into almost everything you do in Vintage Story but you'll feel so rewarded for putting in the effort. You can spend a whole year in game and every in game day have a goal for the day.

  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • Steam doesn't even fit the criteria of the FTC definition. It wasn't Steam that raised the price of games to $70, it was actually done by Take-Two followed by Sony, Activision and Nintendo. And it was Microslop who first tried to normalize the $80 price tag before Nintendo swooped in and made it a reality. And Steam didn't tell Team Cherry to raise the price of Hollow Knight which is why it released with a $20 price tag. In fact during it's entire "monopolistic" stage Steam has never set the price of any game except their own (which they priced a market price). Even the 30% cut wasn't pioneered by Steam, 30% was roughly what retailers used to take. Valve simply rolled with what was a reasonable cut back in the day because they were effectively replacing retailers.

    As for the rest, I don't know you've been living under a rock but some the most successful games today are not on Steam. Minecraft is not on Steam, Roblox is not on Steam, Fortnite will never be on Steam, Blizzard games (except Diablo IV and OW2) are not on Steam, Riot games are not on Steam. But maybe you meant indie games that haven't made a name for themselves? We don't know if those games would've been more successful had they released on Steam but Vintage Story seems to be doing just fine without being on Steam and the same could be said about Starsector. The upcoming Hytale game doesn't seem to be releasing on Steam either. Steam is not a requirement for success. And of course you can always try to partner up with Sony or Nintendo and release PS or Switch exclusives.

    Steam has a market dominant position on PC because Valve understands the market they're in while their competitors in the PC space don't. However in the wider gaming space Steam is hardly a monopoly. Steam Deck has sold about 4 millions units (numbers from Feb 2025) and people talk like it's going to change the gaming landscape, meanwhile Microslop has sold almost 30 million units (numbers from the end of 2024) of Xbox series S and X and this gen of Xbox is considered a failure. The scale at which Microslop, Sony and Nintendo operate is completely different. In the wider gaming space Valve is in no position to set prices or exclude competitors because Valve has extremely low market penetration outside the PC landscape. Steam can't even influence the PC market because it's an open platform. Hypothetically if games on Steam started costing $100 then developers could just release games on their own and set their own price. Furthermore Steam is in competition on the PC marketplace and also in competition with consoles because at the end of the day people have a limited time to play games and they're going to play games on whatever platform is most comfortable to them. If Steam stops being comfortable and Sony or Nintendo pull their sticks out of their asses (I think is Microslop beyond saving) why wouldn't people slowly transition away from Steam and into console gaming the same way we're seeing a trend of console players very slowly transitioning into console + PC gamers.

    You have to put magnifiers on so the only thing you see is Steam and then add blinders to narrow view of the wider gaming space down to PC to be able to make some a statement about Steam being an monopoly. And if I just look into the horizon then the earth also seems flat. Just because I ignore all other evidence and focus solely on the perception that the earth is flat, it doesn't mean the earth is flat. The same way just because you ignore everything else and perceive Steam as monopoly it doesn't mean Steam is a monopoly.

    EDIT: mentioned exceptions to the Blizzard example and cleared up some wording.

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    Shalom Yaacov Trump!

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  • And it's their prerogative if they choose to do so. That's not the same as Trump pushing his policies onto other countries.

    And it's not other countries. It's right-wing parties who are using Trump for inspiration, it doesn't automatically mean those parties are in power. In a parliamentary system, if they have any power then in most cases they're in a coalition with center-right parties who will act as a stop-gap to their most extremist ideas. Even if they wanted to do like Trump does they have a much harder time doing that.

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    Shalom Yaacov Trump!

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  • Let's say you and me are neighbors. If I don't listen to my wife, kids, extended family and set up stupid rules in my house, does that affect you? No. If I set up a stupid rule where guests can't flush the toilet does that affect you? Not really unless you come and visit. If I decide to walk around in my house with a loaded gun, does that affect you? No.

    But if I come to you house, punch you in the face and tell you "Your wife now runs the house and I will be checking that she is the one running the house" does that affect you? Absolutely. That's a simplified version of what happened in Venezuela. If kick your door in, shove a gun in your face and tell you "This house is now mine. Either deal with it or fuck off" does that affect you? Absolutely. That's a simplified version of what Trump would in Greenland.

    What you've described are domestic issues that don't violate the sovereignty of another country. What I've described as a bad precedent is an international issue where there actions directly violate the sovereignty of another country. They're two different things.

  • Pet Peeves with Games?

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  • I would add to this in game "cutscenes" where the game is doing exposition and the only thing you're doing is pressing move forward because you need to follow the character who is doing the exposition dump. It's fine and immersive the first time around but on subsequent playthroughs it gets annoying. It's essentially a cutscene that you can't even skip because technically you're playing the game, but really you're just holding down a button

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  • I agree, he's absolutely making the statement only from the perspective of his own interests. But just because he himself doesn't think beyond his own interest it doesn't mean it's not setting (if actually followed through) a precedent where taking land by force is acceptable.

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  • Sadly he's saying something far more sinister. He's basically saying that it doesn't matter if you've lived somewhere for 500 years, someone else can come and say "This is mine now, fuck off". Basically he's stating that Russia has claim to whatever land they've conquered from Ukraine or that Israel has claim to all the lands they're taking from Palestine.

  • ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

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  • Or course they don't. The only consistency in their narrative is their incessant need to be right. They say she tried to run ICE over, you show that's not true. They pivot to she shouldn't have been running away from the scene of the crime. You tell them there was no crime, they pivot to ICE had a right to detain her. Tell them ICE actually has no right to detain citizens they'll say how they don't actually know the law, they can only give their opinion and then loop back around to "she tried to run them over" so she's in the wrong.

    They're not interested in getting to the truth, they're only interested in being right. Since they only care about being right they also don't care about being internally consistent. They will accept whatever contradictory bullshit as long as it means they're right.

  • Germans have lost faith in the US, survey reveals

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  • Russia.

  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • Setting up a local model was specifically about people who take privacy and security seriously because that often requires sacrificing convenience, which in this case would be having to build a suitable server and learning the necessary know-how of setting up your own local model. Casual consumers don't really think about privacy so they're going to go with the most convenient option, which is whatever service the major players will provide.

    As for Dell keeping the NPUs I forgot they're going to be bundled with processors.

  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • I'm not that concerned with the hardware limitations. Nobody is going to run a full-blown LLM on their laptop, running one on a desktop would already require building a PC with AI in mind. What you're going to see being used locally are going smaller models (something like 7B using INT8 or INT4). Factor in the efficiency of an NPU and you could get by with 16GB of memory (especially if the models are used in INT4) with little extra power draw and heat. The only hardware concern would be the technological advancement speed of NPUs, but just don't be an early adopter and you'll probably be fine.

    But this is where Dells point comes in. Why should the consumer care? What benefits do consumers get by running a model locally? Outside of privacy and security reasons you're simply going to get a better result by using one of the online AI services because you'd be using a proper model instead of the cheap one that runs with limited hardware. And even for the privacy and security minded people you can just build your own AI server (maybe not today but when hardware prices get back to normal) that you run from home and then expose that to your laptop or smartphone. For consumers to desire running a local model (actually locally and not in a selfhosting kind of way) there would have to be some problem that the local model solve that the over the internet solution can't solve. So far such a problem doesn't exist today and there doesn't seem to be a suitable problem on the horizon either.

    Dell is keeping their foot in the door by still implementing NPUs into their laptops, so if by some miracle some magical problem is found that AI solves they're ready, but they realize that NPUs are not something they can actually use as a selling point because as it stands, NPUs solve no problems because there's no benefit to running small models locally.

  • Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

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  • They don't give a shit because nobody is holding them accountable. The rest of the western world is waiting for the American people to start holding their government accountable and it's just not happening.

  • Kelly fires back at Hegseth over demotion threat: ‘I will fight this with everything I’ve got’

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  • The problem isn't that one party is doing what it wants. The problem is that rules that are not enforced are not rules. Those rules get broken because nobody is enforcing them. Captain Kelly it seems is at least trying to get the rules enforced, which is why the administration is trying to get rid of him. I think it's more optimistic to have someone fight back instead of letting the administration break whatever rules it wants.

  • Donald Trump issues Greenland deadline

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  • Yeah. I've been saying it for some time that Trumps base was more worried about him possibly blowing Clinton than him fucking kids. Trump could make a press statement saying he fucked kids and he loves fucking kids and he wants to continue fucking kids and the only thing that would happen (apart from the fake outrage) is conservatives would normalize fucking kids.

  • The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War

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  • Do you think the EU is going to take it on the chin when Trump occupies Greenland?

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • You want to explain? Because the last time I checked getting HDR to work with games is a huge hassle.

  • Fake Video of Epstein's Suicide Released by DOJ Then Taken Down

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  • Considering they can't even properly redact I think you're giving them too much credit.

  • Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

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  • You can't even see the most outlandish prices because the shop has a hidden shop. If you want to see the most expensive ships you have to have spent something like 12k on the game.

    I'm not sure if my entire steam library is worth 12k and my library is pretty big.