Is there such a game that exists where you don’t have to install it?

I can see why they didn’t separate the MMOs from the main series. There are probably a lot of FF fans who had zero interest in MMOs, but making them a full fledged FF mainline game means some of those fans will give them a try instead of dismissing them as a spin off.

I’m guessing not, but it sounds the lack of local co-op is mitigated by the free version. Instead of couch co-op another player could get the free version on their phone or Switch and play along without the need to buy another copy.

I’ve just given up trying to use sites like Kotaku on mobile (there are plenty of other offenders). It’s just completely unusable. Maybe my phone’s just not good enough or something, but it’s annoying because it would be good enough if it weren’t for all the ads and videos. So I only use it on PC where I can easily…

I’m guessing it has a database of white faces which it can blend together and distort, and it just tries to find the best match for the image. For some of these images there’s basically nothing for it to go on, so the best it can do is slap on a random face.

There has already been a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, although we’re all better off pretending there wasn’t. It wouldn’t surprise me if they completely ignored it and just made a new game with the same name.

I can see that Youtube channel being C+D’d by Epic as well as Nintendo. It’s called Unreal and uses the Unreal Engine logo, but presumably has nothing to do with Epic. It would be so easy to see that an assume it was an official Unreal Engine thing.

These days developers are a bit more vigilant about code that depends on the CPU being a particular speed, so hopefully problems like that will be rare. It could theoretically be a problem though.

I guess that means the catch is “if you make a new game using this, it has to also be open source”.

It was probably that plus a bit of speculative “maybe one day we’ll release it on PS3".

“The team knew they needed to build a next generation console that could run games in 4K at 60 fps with no compromises for developers,”

I thought as much, because no one knows the Wirral exists unless they are from there or marry someone from there.

My wife will get a kick out of this. She’s from old Wirral!

I take comfort in knowing that the Kotaku I leave behind is full of brilliant, inspiring writers, editors, and video producers, who will all continue doing great work no matter how difficult the circumstances. who I will poach as soon as my new outlet is up and running.

“Delayed Indefinitely” is usually a euphemism for “cancelled”, but presumably that doesn’t apply in this case.

And then they made FFXV, which strayed even further from the established formula. And it sold very well despite the general consensus of it not being that great.

PS1 software emulation is pretty solid. Sony have had platforms with PS1 emulators already (PS3, PSP, Vita), so there’s no technical reason why PS5 couldn’t have a PS1 emulator.

Game logic being explicitly tied to framerate is just one way a game can go wrong when running in a higher framerate. There are fare more subtle ways framerate can affect how a game functions.

Loading could still take longer than 2 seconds. That 2 seconds figure is assuming the game is maxing out the SSD. I suspect a lot of games won’t because they’ll also be doing a load of processing while loading not decompression). It’s something that will get better as the generation goes on though, as developers…

It’s Howard the Duck gone Super-saiyan.