AlaskanBeard - Zack

What if they manage to get extensions long enough to release Blade and it sells enough for them to go indie. It probably won't happen, but it would be really cool if it did. And then they could reopen Arkane Austin and rehire people and we'd all (briefly) be happy again.

It's actually cheaper, as little as $6.66 for two games. If you can, but don't buy Prey for $3.33, we aren't friends.

Anyone up for crowdfunding buying Arkane?

fuck me

I'm excited for this. It'll obviously be per-developer, but if it were used to show maybe missable achievements, or ones that require multiple playthrough's, or even difficulty based things separately, that would be a big qol improvement.

Do people forget what goes into them, or do people lament how many good studios have been send to the CoD mines to the point where they'd just rather not think about it lest they realize how many good games could have been made by those devs instead? RIP Raven software (and Sledgehammer/ Treyatch)

Valor Mortis absolutely has the sauce. If other Souls-likes don't borrow from it going forward I'll be shocked.

I have an appointment when I get off work at 3, and a concert at 6 but @valormortis.bsky.social is out today so I guess I'm streaming between the two? Being an adult and having a day job blows.

3 weeks until my birthday, but much more importantly, trying to beat all the Soulsborne games in one sitting. And I'm a speed-walker at best, far from a speed runner. How Long to Beat has it taking 240 hours. It obviously won't take *that* long, but it definitely puts it into perspective.

If the person/people talented enough to crack Denuvo consistently isn't well versed in online anonymity I'll be shocked. Hopefully they aren't using windows, though, or maybe Microslop will help out again.

lmao

"$36,000 - Home Grown Textures (get me a colonoscopy from which the images will be used to texture the various gibs and meat moss scattered throughout the game)" Go check out the PIG IRON Kickstarter so one of the weirdest stretch goals I've ever seen gets met. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

Happy Halo 3 release day to those who celebrate.

Control Resonant does excellent job of showing off Remedy's unique brand of storytelling. Alan Wake, AW2, and Control all felt like they had similar gameplay but Resonant is far removed from all of them, yet it still feels distinctly Remedy. Doesn't hurt that it's been a blast to play so far.

"When they call it like the [Houses] of Lamentation or whatever, maybe they just threw Gollum in the sphincter door, and he’s just there getting choked by the sphincter, and he’s all like ‘Shire! Baggins!’. You never know."

Ah yes, just what Halo needs, to be more like Call of Duty.

Go support Darren OR ELSE (there aren't any consequences and I hope you have a nice day)

Ah yes, just what I wanted, culture being taught by a bot. One of the worst parts of AI is how it homogenizes everything it touches. Letting it run rampant in creative spaces is going to be a disaster for any/all internet culture.

So make smaller games. I know it's not that simple, but there's a ton of room for AA games right now. Not every one will pop off, but if your investment isn't tens (or hundreds) of millions it's a lot more palatable and the opportunity for success is the same (just look at E33, or Dawnwalker).

I finally got around to making a guide to set up my Infamous UGC replacement server. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Gn...

The Blood of Dawnwalker is good.

I think we could all use a pork bun right now.

There's a replacement Infamous 2/Festival of Blood UGC server at 152.5(three).194.56. You can point your PS3 or RPCS3 DNS at it, or make local a-records for infamous2-release.ps3.online.scea.com and dbhhpqias9rrc.cloudfront.net pointing to the same IP.

Twisted Tower was a blast. I can't recommend it enough as a fun, 8-hour FPS. It absolutely pays homage to Bioshock while feeling wholly distinct. It also had a good story. Unique, entertaining enough, and more importantly, not entirely predictable.

I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak. I don't need to preserve every leak.

Good Charlotte was great. Avenged Sevenfold was good. Statica is one of the worst things I've heard in my life.

I'm going to an outdoor concert today 🫠

It is once again "too many games" season.

Just told my dogs to ready up when they weren't sitting for breakfast. At least I'm not using scrum terms, I guess.

Bethesda Game Studios workers and union members planted hundreds of red flags and a giant inflatable rat outside of the developer’s Rockville, Maryland office in protest of a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma this week. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/bethesd...

100%'d Dinoblade. Pretty fun game with a fantastic origin story. Boss rush mode was the last thing I did and it was surprisingly fun. Definitely recommend if you want a Sekiro-like, but dinosaurs.

The Limited Run's Star Wars Zero Company collectors edition is *$300* and it comes with a bunch of junk, a desk mat, some patches, and a replica detonator that you can just buy for $43. I'm no stranger to overpriced games, but what the fuck are we doing? The game on Steam is only $50 btw.

Some random Steam keys. Should be obvious which characters to replace. Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga - HolyCowDDW-7PFGC-PWHD9 Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn - 4A4CK-Women'sBasketball2ZA-Z3ITN Disco Elysium - 43V52-G6JimBobM-KN8GB

Sony's killing Infamous 2's servers so I archived all* of it's online content, over 200,000 user-made missions. Infamous 2: archive.org/details/infa... Festival of Blood: archive.org/details/infa... * because you have to search the missions, downloading all is impossible, but I downloaded ~most~.

Dinoblade has a few rough edges, but it's fantastic.

First concert: Underoath Last Concert: Nic D. & Connor Price Next Concert: Next week, Silverstein/Story of the Year, Motionless in White the day after. Favorite Concert: First time seeing A Day to Remember or Bring Me the Horizon or When We Were Young 2025. Seen Most: A Day to Remember (4).

See, you can win the rat race but you're still nothing but a fucking rat.