starcraft fans are getting a bit of hope for a possible starcraft 3 or some other revival

Can’t properly express how glad I am this isn’t another slideshow. Friggin’ herbs are gonna ruin this site even more than they already have.

Just going to say this so the cheap seats can hear it.

lol

Activision Blizzard isn’t available for streaming. Microsoft entered into an agreement with Nvidia to bring Microsoft + AB (provided deal goes through) games to GeForce Now. That opens up access to people who may not have it otherwise.

Sony is still making more money than ActivisionBliz and microsoft combined currently. this deal makes microsoft the 3rd largest in the gaming market. blocking this merger is really just providing Sony an opportunity to solidify a monopoly they have been barreling towards since the xbox one flopped.

Narrowing the focus of the case to Call of Duty, to the exclusion of most other of Activision’s IP was a huge mistake and negatively affected the strength of FTC’s case.

The fact that loot is leveled and enemies level up with you means your weapons effectively get weaker every time you level up. That stake launcher that was one-shotting vampires 5 minutes ago? Whoops, you leveled up and now it takes two shots. It basically means you have to replace all of your guns every time you…

Oh, this is nothing new. Diablo 1 had the Secret Cow Level, Diablo 2 had the mysteries of the Chat Gem, gamers are always going to see shadows like this :D.

Not old enough to remember devs and publishers complaining about how difficult Sony consoles were to work with

The CEO is entirely correct. PlayStation forced exclusives to be the method any interested players must utilize in order to compete at all. Sony controls the market, they are the dominant player.

Ironically, I have a feeling that if Sony was able to secure an exclusivity deal, even for just a year, Starfield would have been out by now. ZeniMax was all too comfortable with shipping games from BGS with bugs and rushed features. It probably wouldn’t have been as bad as Fallout 76, but it’s likely to have been as…

Except both Xbox and PC run off DirectX (probably 12, in this case). Targeting one low-level graphics framework instead of 2 is definitely a huge win in terms of development time.

Yeah, I really don’t get why people act like gaming as we know it will be done for if this deal goes through. As if there isn’t a ton of publishers out there still.

*glances at the exclusive Spider-Man and Wolverine games on Playstation*

Setting up a resource extraction outpost on an otherwise barren planet is surprisingly a step up from some of the other recent space games I’ve played that had barren planets...where you could basically take screenshots and scan things and not much else.

Having flashbacks of getting high and thoroughly enjoying the oddly tedious yet satisfying aspect of Mass Effect 2's planet mining.

Absolutely livid that it’s sounding more and more like fucking Starfield is going to be the game to give me what I wanted out of No Mans Sky.

or barren planets could also be prime real estate for base construction.

It was important to Skyrim/Oblivion that not all of their dungeons have a distinct purpose. If you’re just exploring randomly and stumble across the cave, you don’t know if that cave just has some bandits and random generic loot, or a big sidequest, or is something more unique and handcrafted. That not knowing adds a…