That may be stretching the definition of the survival genre a bit, but the game does have some survival characteristics.

Anyway that’s the closest thing to a survival game that I enjoyed playing.

Prey

It has a good storyline. It’s not horror focused, and ennemies won’t suprise as much as in resident evil or doom. They’re mostly there to add difficulty or be part to the mission. Recycling makes the low amount of munitions/inventory tolerable.

Please enforce this for console games as well. Digical games and DLCs are typically more expensive than both new and used physical games. Physical games prices usually decrease few months after release, digital one rarely do.

It’s obvious that vendors rely on digital restriction (aka DRMs) to kill the used market and sell older games at higher price. I’m avoiding digital games and DLC because of this, and I’m reluctant to buy a new console given the hard push toward digital games and attempts to kill the used market.

Half Life 25th confirmed

I have mixed feeling about more people being armed. But it’s great that people that do have weapons get trained to safely handle weapons.

Prices definitely increased, over the last 20 years new AAA games price increased from 45-50 EUR to 70 EUR.

With inflation taken into account that would probably mean flat prices.

With the increase in the numbers of players, the spread of DLCs and micro transactions, I suspect revenue increased even with inflation taken into account.

Could it be the cost of creating game is rising faster than inflation? Or game studio just got more greedy?

Put that idiot in jail. And Lil Nas X in the box office.

The law’s authors are motivated by homophobia, not public health.

I doubt suggesting tweaks is a good use of time and efforts. It should simply be opposed , and its authors shamed.

Uganda is suffering from aggravated homophobia

Well, another Mass Effect now looks less likely.

How many people work at Bioware right now? I wonder how big of a cut it is for the company.

English version archived on August 24th, 2023: German government OKs simplifying gender change

French version: Le gouvernement allemand approuve la simplification du changement de genre

French version archived on August 24th, 2023: Le gouvernement allemand approuve la simplification du changement de genre

My guess is either gambling addiction or money laundering.

I wonder to what extent gambling addiction is fueling the growth of casual/social gaming.

Loot boxes in video games have been linked to problem gambling.

Candy Crush is using a strategy that is “known as a variable ratio schedule of reinforcement and is the same tactic used in slot machines”.

I played Watch Dogs 2 back when there were enough players to make it interesting, then Watch Dogs Legion but didn’t enjoy as much as the previous one. Played a couple single-player video games since.

That’s sick. One of the victim was arrested/kidnapped when he returned to Russia to attend his father’s funeral.

NFT sounds like a convoluted way to earn money for games. If a company can make a exciting, engaging, fun to play game, can’t they just sell them? Adding NFTs into the game/gameplay might just annoy players and scare people away.

Things I often find lacking in videos games: good storytelling, adjustable subtitle/UI size, immersive world with adequate pattern of life (eg background characters, random environment animations, …).

Things I don’t miss: NFTs, microtransactions, constant in-game awards/points collections.

Nokia 3310’s snake

I’ll continue to avoid digital-only games copy for as long as I can because of this.

After a few years I typically replace my console, and sold the oldgen along with physical game copies. Sometimes I sell games sooner.

Each time I reconsider whether to buy Xbox vs Playstation, availability of physical copies is always a precondition.