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  • Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

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  • Not impossible but a colossal pain in the ass such that no one ever thought they'd dip into their pocketbook to fund the work.

  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19)

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  • It's a handful of podcasts, and spoilers abound during GOTY in December.

  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19)

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  • I want to play it, but they made me wait past spoiler season, so I won't be paying full price for it anymore.

  • Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC

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  • The juice may not be worth the squeeze there, but there might be money in buying the IPs for pennies on the dollar and releasing dead games as self hostable with bots to fill out a match.

  • Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition is now available on Steam

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  • Not in multiplayer, at least. LAN was deliberately patched out, and we know from Alanah Pearce's channel that this game in particular could have LAN back extremely easily if they wanted it.

  • Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC

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  • And Peak was made in under a year.

  • Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC

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    Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC

    www.videogameschronicle.com /news/designer-claims-most-of-highguards-dev-team-have-been-laid-off-weeks-after-launch/

  • At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring

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  • This is by far the best use of a rabbid to date.

  • Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

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  • Skullgirls is very much still alive. I play it every week, and there are people still holding beginner brackets and such.

  • Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

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  • Not to try to dissuade you from your stance, because as an American who could not be more divorced from knowing anything about soccer, I only learned about Ronaldo when he was announced as a character for Fatal Fury; but a guy who can do mixups with a soccer ball is among the more interesting character designs in that game. Shame who it had to be attached to, but it wasn't nothing.

  • Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

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  • But doesn’t it speak volumes about the genre of the eighth best selling game of 2023 can’t support three years of service (as in meaningful content updates)?

    Oh, they could have, but this is NetherRealm Studios. This is the first time they went 4 years between fighting games. Ordinarily, they're on a two-year cadence, and each game sells multiple millions of copies. Which do you think makes more money? Selling a game at $60-$70, or selling DLC to people who already bought an old game? The experiment they tried this past game was the big cinematic expansion, because it was successful for MK11, but they were going to do a series of episodes for MK1 that basically meant the story was never-ending; and they replaced the Krypt mode with Invasions, which was also intended to be never-ending. Neither of those things took off, and this big cinematic expansion also cost $50. Their average customer was not thrilled about Kameos, so it makes far more sense for them to just put out the next Injustice game, as long as their parent company can keep from collapsing long enough that DC superheroes are still intellectual property that this studio is allowed to use.

    While there weren’t any Fatal Fury entries, the characters did have presence over the years via King of Fighters, and Mai and Terry were even in SF6.

    King of Fighters games are not multimillion sellers. People being vaguely aware of Mai and Terry does a bit of help, but brand recognition takes longer than that. Fatal Fury didn't get enough production value out of its development budget to do anything like SF6's world tour mode, or NRS's story modes, that would bring in the less sweaty players. Instead, it just got Saudi money thrown into marketing a game that was never going to make that money back.

    SF6, arguably the biggest game in the genre, is currently in 60th place in the steam 24 hour charts. You might argue consoles have a higher share for the genre than games you find on steam, but still, that’s not totally mainstream.

    No, in fact, that's an old way of thinking. Since the pandemic, there have been a few ways where we've been able to measure the share of players on each platform in certain fighting games, and PC is the biggest one every time; I'm sure there are outliers, but PC is the largest platform whether we're talking about fighting games or not. 60th place on Steam's charts is phenomenal and not at all niche! There are so many games on Steam being played by about 140M people per month. Only being beaten by 59 of them is incredibly successful.

  • Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

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  • Except for Fatal Fury, which is a revival of a series that people haven't heard of in decades, all of those games are tremendously successful and could not be counted as niche anymore. MK1 did poorly by Mortal Kombat standards, which still made it the eighth best-selling game of 2023. DBFZ sold over 10 million copies. The genre is not the problem; not even being a tag fighter is the problem. This game just didn't take off, and free-to-play games need volume. If anything, the genre is in a gold rush, and there's still more money to be made, but you'll have to charge for it up front.

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  • It released. They've been juicing fighting game tournaments, and somehow the game made its way to NorthernLion, so I don't know if that was their marketing or not. I don't know what they did differently here than marketing for something like Valorant, but I only really saw ads for Valorant around the time that it came to consoles, which 2XKO has now done.

  • Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

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  • Yeah, it's not the worst deal in the world for them, but it does show how the game definitely didn't take off like a free to play game needs to to survive.

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • If you believe that photo validation lives entirely on your device, you might be surprised by how many times the tech industry straight up lies about this kind of stuff, but I don't trust that for a minute.

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    Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/riot-games-lays-off-roughly-80-employees-from-2xko-team

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • By all means, challenge your government, but I'm not going to upload my ID to a database to use Discord. I can self host a thing that will accomplish the same goals without doing something that stupid.

  • Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

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  • Thanks. I'll have to give it a trial run at some point soon.

  • Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

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  • For me, I think the thing that keeps Bluesky usable is that I can use it as a straight linear feed without an algorithm. It's not truly federated, but the thing I'm always thinking about is that gag in South Park where they burn down the local Walmart and accidentally turn Joe's Drugs into the new Walmart. Bluesky is safe from that as long as I've got the algorithm-less feed. Plus, Mastodon still works, always will, and I still use that too. Even if Discord users migrate to some other closed platform, it gives open alternatives more time to catch up to the most important features before that new platform takes a turn, too.

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  • Migrations like this happen when the other thing sucks. Linux usage even on Steam has tripled in the past four years, and these days if I'm not coming across a PewDiePie or Linus Tech Tips video about switching to Linux, I'm hearing my least tech savvy friends come to me to say I was right for the past 9 years and that their next PC is going to run Linux, if not a Steam Machine. People switch to Bluesky or Mastodon when Twitter becomes all bots due to incentives that Musk put in place, or when his company-sanctioned AI generates CSAM. People will switch off of Discord when enough is enough, and requiring ID uploads to a database that will certainly be hacked one day could be it.

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    Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

    discord.com /press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
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    ANALYSIS: Nintendo Switch 2 sales remain well ahead of Switch 1, despite a softer first Christmas in some markets | VGC

    www.videogameschronicle.com /news/nintendo-switch-2-sales-remain-well-ahead-of-switch-1-despite-a-softer-first-christmas-in-some-markets/
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    Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser

    www.pcgamer.com /games/fps/finally-the-fps-i-keep-asking-for-deep-combat-classic-modes-and-an-honest-to-god-server-browser/
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    Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC

    www.videogameschronicle.com /news/ubisoft-has-cancelled-6-games-including-the-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time-remake/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Help getting started with self hosting Jellyfin via NAS?

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    Life is Strange: Reunion officially announced, will conclude the Max and Chloe saga | VGC

    www.videogameschronicle.com /news/life-is-strange-reunion-officially-announced-will-conclude-the-max-and-chloe-saga/
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    The Latest Monster Hunter Wilds PC Perf Drama Explained | Digital Foundry

    www.digitalfoundry.net /news/2026/01/the-latest-monster-hunter-wilds-pc-perf-drama-explained
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    Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore'

    www.pcgamer.com /games/survival-crafting/valheim-player-keeps-building-dollar-generals-despite-friend-begging-them-to-stop-i-do-not-want-to-play-valheim-with-greg-anymore/
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    Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html
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    The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System

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    Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic? | NYT

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/22/arts/outer-worlds-avowed-grounded-obsidian.html
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    The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast

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    Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash

    www.nbclosangeles.com /news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/
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    Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN

    www.ign.com /articles/video-game-physical-software-and-hardware-sales-just-had-the-worst-november-in-the-us-since-1995
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    ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’

    www.bloomberg.com /news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level
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    A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/11/arts/clair-obscur-expedition-33-sandfall.html
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    Evo Japan and Las Vegas 2026 lineups announced

    evo.gg /events/evo2026
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    from Cellar Door Games makers of Rogue Legacy

    Neath - Announcement Trailer