You’re telling me recycling the same game with new skins every 1-2 years is better than what Indie and AA devs are putting out?
That’s all the CoD, Madden, Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed, etc are nowadays. There are obviously exceptions to the rule, but those tend to be from devs that don’t move at blistering yearly…

I think that more competition for Valve is great as it will push Valve, and they’re competitors, to up their game. That said, I think the hate on Steam/Valve lately is overblown and the issues themselves are largely isolated to a handful of incidents. Sure, I despise that hate groups exist on Steam, but the more you…

I think everyone here (including this article) is missing that if Valve loses too many AAA publishers to their stores or other stores, then customers leave too. Until the gaming masses can accept that most Indie games are better than AAA games, indie devs/Steam/etc are reliant on the AAA publishers.

Simply put, most…

I wish those studios well and hope they do well under Microsoft, I just hope that MS doesn’t snuff out the fact that both studios also develop (or port) their games to non-MS platforms such as Linux and the Switch (I’m looking forward to PoE2 on Switch.... and I need to finish PoE1 on my Linux laptop)

I have an SSD as well, and while Windows updates are a lot faster than they used to be, they still take an average of 30 min compared to Linux average of 1-3 minutes. Party of this is because Linux updates come out faster and more incrementally.

As far as I know, blizzard doesn’t announce anything new outside if BlizzCon. I’ve seen enough keynotes and been to enough conferences to know that’s how marketing works. If you do a keynote, then everything big and little gets announced there because it has a huge audience. Since most conferences are also tied to…

It could be experience for one. id software doesn't develop with DirectX and already have extensive experience with the Vulkan gfx API (what the switch uses). Other than that, I don't know

Goodbye Pillars. And goodbye Obsidian in a few years when they make 1 or 2 games for MS that don’t sell 69 million copies and get a 95 on metacritic.

I’ve gotten steam link streaming working well over WiFi, but you HAVE to use a 5GHz band to get that, which limits range and obstacles between the Wireless AP, the Link, and the host PC.

I’m honestly surprised by how much Azure is used. Almost everyone I know using Azure in their business infrastructure complains about it, unless they are a 100% MS shop which isn’t most tech companies. Most of the people I know that use it were forced to use it by their business arm rather than a true comparison being…

While I agree, it takes anywhere from 2-5 years for game dev to complete on a large AAA game. Even if major devs knew about the Switch a year before launch, the failure of the WiiU probably lead to some hesitation on 3rd party dev’s part. So, assuming that was the case, some games probably didn’t even start dev until…

While I agree from my perspective here, this really will depend on how Polish law is interpreted by their courts. Not every country treats such contracts the same way.

For me the big game I need it for is Rocket League. No online would make that game useless on my switch

If music rights were an issue, don’t you think they would’ve had issues re-releasing the Digital PS1 classic and PC versions?

FF8 has, AFAIK, only been re-released on PC and PS platforms - the two platforms it was originally on. My guess is that for them to port it to other platforms would require hefty work to get the game to run on those platforms (note that there are FF7 and FF9 ports to android, but no FF8). With PS4/PSP/PS3 it’s easy to…

I have no don’t will be getting new games for the switch in the coming years. It’s important to keep in mind that:

Klein was completely right, and calling someone a “manbaby” is by itself not a fire-able offense.

A core problem here is that if they don’t enforce their rules for everyone, it implies that those rules only apply to certain sub-groups of employees in the company, which is, in and of itself discriminatory.

You’re making the assumption (which may be right, we don’t really know) that these two men were among those creating the toxic culture at Riot games. As has been stated, this is more revenge than equality. And revenge will beget more revenge will beget more revenge. Is it really worth it to try and solve inequality…

One of my co-workers summed it up more like this:

“I don’t think it was the smartest move, I’m not arguing that it wasn’t the right thing to do, just not the smartest. Pulling a 180 like was bound to create an even more toxic environment in my opinion because no one (whether true or not) wants to feel disenfranchised…