There’s two big changes: a cap to 2.5% of revenue rather than potentially infinite charges, and having the install count limited to number of unique users as far as the developer/publisher can reasonably estimate from their own data, rather than letting Unity’s ‘proprietary algorithm’ come up with some charge with…

So that splash screen removal comes with a big ol’ asterisk for anyone not reading the fine print: It only applies to 2023 LTS or newer - you know, the versions that the runtime fees or revenue share apply to. You don’t get to have your cake and eat it too.

On one hand, this seems like a terminally online meltdown from a number of people, but on the other Bethesda has probably made it difficult to fairly judge the game on its own merits. Most of what they’ve discussed of their AAA game seems like a limited version of something an indie game already did the better part of…

I’d like to think it depends on where they’re at on development in the here and now, and how much of their approach depends on Starfield’s success.

Right, because Spider-Man feeling responsible for a loved one’s death was a concept that’d never been explored in his history, so this was fresh ground that needed breaking.

Yes, I’m sure you know the hardware much better than the team developing the game for it, or the MS reps helping with the port process.

some of that older game’s design decisions—it was first released in 2006—haven’t exactly aged well, particularly its grindy tower. Persona 3 Portable made some changes there, but whether Reload also makes some more modern concessions remains to be seen, since this is just a leaked trailer

Hairstyle doesn’t matter because they made the mistake of modelling him too closely to his voice actor. I’ll never be able to see him as anything but the wannabe Joker kid from Gotham.

You would think, given the last three years, that people would’ve learned to spell “quarantined” - or that, given the last twenty or thirty, they’d learn to at least look at the spellcheck suggestions before slapping text into a shitty comic.

Gaider tweeted that this alleged cultural shift was a contributing factor to his departure in 2016, a year before EA acquired the studio.

Male Shepard is *allowed* to be gay in Mass Effect 3. Same with all of the Dragon Age protagonists and ME: Andromeda’s, as well as female Shepard (to some extent) in the earlier ME games.

it doesn’t seem like there’s an upper limit to how many stylish hats you can wear, which means your stack of hats can be as tall as you dream.

“[Devs] could say: ‘Oh, my God, you’re always online. If you get on your Steam, and it’s not online, you freak out. If you get on your Xbox, and you can’t get the latest patch, or see what your friends are doing, you freak out. You want to be always online!’ But that response, I think, lacks empathy.”

Yeah, between Tower of Fantasy and Torchlight Frontiers/Torchlight 3, I have very little faith that Perfect World will produce anything passably good out of this, unless design, gameplay/systems, and writing are all being handled by ATLUS themselves. Though, to their credit, it looks like they’re hewing pretty close…

I hear they pair rather well with a bag of Aldi’s nuts.

A PC release isn’t guaranteed to run on low-spec machines; the devs can always shrug and say “buy a better computer”. Currently, Microsoft doesn’t allow for devs to just release for the Series X and tell Series S users to suck it up.

That “custom NVME SSD” in the Series X is a PCIe 4.0 x2 drive, vs the PCIe 4.0 x4 drive in the PS4 - effectively, the Xbox drive has half the bandwidth, and the same theoretical maximum transfer rate as a PCIe 3.0 x4 drive even if it’s more likely to come close to hitting that rate.

Dehya is pretty lightly tanned, and even with that she’s only the fifth playable character (out of about 65 or so through the end of the current patch) that could be construed as non-white in any sense. It’s been a stronger point of contention in the last year or so because the current region draws a lot from Indian…

You have until April 30 to pick up Microsoft’s smaller, leaner Xbox for half-off its retail price

Just use Linux.