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Sony reportedly discounting PlayStation 5 Slim by "at least" €75 in Europe ahead of Christmas (www.eurogamer.net)
Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

That source code is available and the game is maintained on all major platforms including ARM Mac native.

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup

https://github.com/JimmieKJ/unrealTournament (public mirror)

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

Apple Reportedly Removes Podcasts By Independent Russian Media Outlets in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 35 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

no longer accessible inside Russia

Fuck Apple for not exiting Russia but the title makes it sound like they removed those globally.

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Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay (www.pcgamer.com)
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The remake of one of the best cult classics from one of the best years in gaming just dropped, and I have become 9 years old again [Little Big Adventure] (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Apple Arcade unwraps new games for the holiday season (www.apple.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/19124918

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Apple Arcade unwraps new games for the holiday season (www.apple.com)
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World of Warcraft's next major patch will let you drift in a car '4 to 5 times faster' than a normal ground mount, all while learning 'more about goblin culture than ever before' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Blizzard, What Are You Doing? Signed: Nathan Grayson, Eight Years Old (aftermath.site)
 

Another remaster that misses the point

Today Blizzard announced remasters of its classic fantasy real-time strategy hits Warcraft I&II, the games that put it on the map in the distant, functional past of the ‘90s. I should be celebrating; the second Warcraft as unequivocally my favorite game as a young child. I spent God only knows how many hundreds of hours playing it, and even He eventually got bored of watching me make my own horrible little maps and walked away. These remasters, though? They ain’t it.

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m very glad these classics remain playable. I’m sure Blizzard’s making a pretty penny off doing so, but at least it’s keeping its history alive. That said, I will be playing these re-releases with the new graphics turned off, because just look at them:

Warcraft Remastered Battle Chest Launch Trailer

The art looks basic and generic where the original pixels inspired imagination, letting your mind fill in the gaps of these units’ physical features. Some, like Ogres and Ogre Magi, appeared almost photorealistic to young me, who sought to recreate them (over and over and over) in drawings and other, larger-scale art projects. In trying to more fully inhabit this universe whose collection of Little Guys inspired me to dare to dream, I constructed life-sized (relative to an eight-year-old) paper dolls of nearly every unit in the game. It was my Everest, entirely because – again – the original game left room for interpretation.

Now admittedly, I’m no longer a small child fueled entirely by starry-eyed wonder, and that’s definitely part of the problem. But Warcraft’s original look was a product of its limitations, and trying to pave over that with plastic-y sheen is a mistake. I don’t know who the new graphics are for – I doubt these old games are going to lure in many new players, especially with art that looks like it belongs in a vastly less-intricate game than Warcraft – but it’s certainly not me.

Some YouTube Premium subscribers complain of seeing ads in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno announces new studio focused on original AAA action games (www.eurogamer.net)
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Baldur's Gate 3 is safe from the top-down Elden Ring CRPG that only exists in our imaginations and these modded screenshots (www.pcgamer.com)
Why are most mobile games trash? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Most of the games in AA that I played have been reworked to remove monetisation while their regular App Store versions offer freemium model only.

Why are most mobile games trash? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you own an iPhone just get Apple Arcade through Apple One, it’s really worth it if you game on your phone. No predatory monetisation, regular self-contained games, plenty of high quality titles.

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Adding ceramic powder to liquid metal thermal paste improves cooling up to 72% says researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
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OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations (www.reuters.com)
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Tetris Forever review - the history and spirit of the eternal game (www.eurogamer.net)
Europe needs to wake up and look after itself in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you.

Europe needs to wake up and look after itself in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have no idea about internal workings of german politics but isn’t it the time for CDU-SPD coalition? I know it happened before and unity government is something that would be the most reasonable way out. It might be my bias talking though. While I identify as socialist I respect true Christian democrats for their social policies. I don’t believe any major party can reasonably advocate for debt brakes in current conditions. Are CDU that far gone really?

Europe needs to wake up and look after itself in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 22 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Uh, in this rare instance The Economist published something that calls for more public spending and less austerity. I think some are realising what years of neoliberal rule has led to. Current oligarchs are scared that they’re going to be replaced with new ones.

Can you hear this picture? in c/yurop@lemm.ee
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

They will never give you what Bill and Robert could.

iPhones stored for forensic analysis unexpectedly reboot, causing problems for officials in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

My phone rebooted occasionally on iOS18 and this was mentioned as fixed in 18.1 release notes so this story sounds plausible.

Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

I understand that half of the world is currently healing psychological trauma from the US election results but Atlus has been commenting on politics in their games for much longer.

Can you hear this picture? in c/yurop@lemm.ee
[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I keep a photo of Bill Kaulitz right next to a photo of Robert Pattison on my night stand.

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