Just to offer a counter-voice, I’m 20 hours in myself and I’ve barely touched the main questline. The side quests so far have been fine (not spectacular but enjoyable and they help give the world some depth), and it’s pretty much always been an unwritten rule with Bethesda games to ignore the main quest as long as…

Are the plethora of rescue axes not in the melee weapon category for you?

DLSS is backwards compatible - even if a game lists DLSS3 support, it will also always work with DLSS2. Unless a future version specifically breaks backwards compatibility, then a GPU you buy today will continue to work with new games that support future DLSS versions, you just won’t get every feature.

The reason anyone uses upscaling is to improve performance

No they don’t. Epic pays for exclusivity in one of two ways: an upfront lump sum, or minimum sales guarantee. Lump sum is calculated based on how much Epic thinks it’s worth to them to drive a platform-wide profit, and sales guarantee is a payment Epic makes to the developer if and only if the game sells less than…

I can only speak for myself, that if it had released on all platforms instead of only EGS, they would have gotten a sale from me. If that was also true for enough other people, it’s reasonable to believe it would be a factor - not the largest one by any means, but if one fewer straw saves the camel’s back, it could…

I love huge games - TES, Fallout, modern Assassin’s Creed. I’m over 40 with a 50-60h/w job. I’m pretty far from “high schoolers or college students”, and when devs make huge games I love they didn’t fail to “get the memo”, they’re just catering for a different audience to you.

I know it’s a much smaller factor than, you know, the design of the game, but I can’t help but wonder if the EGS exclusivity tanked SR sales and contributed to the decision from Embracer. The game only just hit Steam like a week ago, so there’s no way the last week of Steam sales would have even been considered.

“Police are violent thugs” is obviously a problem, but that hardly seems like carte blanche to just let every non-life-threatening crime go unreported. Not to mention, the less cops can rely on witnesses, the harder they push for invasive surveillance and anti-privacy tech.

This story isn’t to do with CDKeys specifically, but grey market sellers and marketplaces generally.

If you’re looking at proportions, then for sure you need to see the other side of the pie to compare size. But there’s still valuable information in comparing the raw numbers.

CDKeys is grey market, just be careful if you’re going to buy from them. Grey market sellers source keys through sometimes illegitimate ways, like regional pricing. You can still get solid discounts through white market sellers like Green Man Gaming and Fanatical, where the keys are officially sourced.

I love Luke, but “don’t preorder” as a blanket statement has always been a fringe view, the overwhelming majority of people don’t follow it (just look at top sales charts when a big game is still in preorder and look at where that game ranks), and that article was written right after Steam’s first refund policy…

This is the wrong take, my friend. All characters should be voiced by Jim Cummings. Not just the men, but the women and children too.

You keep saying X when I think you mean to say Twitter. It’s an easy mistake, but the way to tell them apart is Twitter is a 17 year social media service, while X is a generic letter that appears in several different alphabets.

Same. I used to watch his channel, but he’s progressively gotten more smarmy, less in-touch with the world and people around him, and I guess generally more obnoxious as time has gone on. He’s like the one uncle at family dinners who keeps pulling the same comedy schtick over and over, and sure, it was funny when you…

No more than the number they can do while maintaining quality and integrity, and not burning out their staff. That seems like a reasonable upper limit to me, and one they’ve obviously exceeded.

Linus mentions in his own forum post response to the GN video that they hadn’t compensated Billet yet, so they certainly hadn’t done it before the GN video.

Linus doesn’t seem to realise that he’s turned LTT into the 5-Minute Crafts of tech channels. Just push out content, don’t worry if it’s wrong or even harmful. Who needs integrity when you can have view count.

That in an article about how terrible it is to make corrections as a footnote... Kotaku makes corrections by footnote.