They're still doing it, albeit in a slightly pared back fashion.

Not really good enough, honestly. Backpedal further, guys, you're almost there.

Plane must have accidentally ran into a surface-to-air missile. Y'know, as you do.

It's not like it's never happened to paid full games before.

*cries in Battleborn*

Literal rent-seeking. Bunch of filthy leeches.

Now maybe fix the AI pathing to keep your idiot party members from stepping on already-discovered traps?

If they started with that proposal 2 weeks ago, there would be no drama at all.

Agreed, but now they've kicked this hornet's nest, they're going to need to go back further than their starting point to make up for it.

You're conflating grey market key re-sellers (G2A, Kinguin, CDKeys, etc.) with actual legitimate key sellers (GreenManGaming, Fanatical, GamesPlanet, etc.).

Just because the names of what they do sound alike doesn't mean they are alike. As has been pointed out in other comments, either use isthereanydeal.com or gg.deals with the "Keyshops: Disabled" option, and any shop listed will be fine.

For 99+% of the Switch's target demographic, there aren't options.

They have never heard of the Deck, the Ally, or any of the other handheld PCs. They know three things about gaming: Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox. Those last two don't let them play Mario, Zelda, or Smash Bros., and they certainly don't let them play on the go, so they essentially only have one option.

I love my Deck and I hope to see the handheld PC market continue to grow and evolve, but it's just delusional to think that it will ever get to a point where it will have even the slightest impact on the third-best-selling console of all time (or, more to the point, its successor).

There are actual authorized key seller sites out there (Green Man Gaming, Fanatical, GamesPlanet, AllYouPlay, IndieGala, Voidu, etc.), you just need to make sure they're not selling ill-gotten keys. Basically, if the price seems like it's too good to be true (as it always will on grey market keyshops like G2A, Kinguin, etc.), that's because it is too good to be true.

As others have mentioned, use https://isthereanydeal.com/ to find the best prices. They don't let illegitimate sites into their listings.

we have a very small middle class.

That assumes there even is a middle class.

(Spoiler alert: there isn't.)

If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

Sunset Overdrive(Good)

Released in 2014, so while good, doesn't quite fit the "from the last 5 years" criteria (unless you're specifically talking about the PC port, which just squeaks in by a month, but I'm not sure that's quite in the spirit of the discussion).

Hopefully that message is "eat the rich" and not "starve the poor".

I wouldn't go holding my breath. He's pretty clearly on the ignorant conservative train, he just happens to maybe be a little less racist than most of them.

Quite the opposite. Epic gave them a $250,000 MegaGrant a few years back.

They even offer Godot through EGS.

I did like death loop thou

That would make sense if you don't like the games Bethesda makes since that one was Arkane.

Per the 22nd Amendment, someone who has held the office for more than two years of someone else's elected term is limited to a single elected term of their own. So if you've done two or fewer, you are still eligible to be elected twice. Those two initial years plus your two elected terms would be ten years.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

Judging from their history of rapid releases, I'd say this is more a matter of just throwing it out there to see if it sticks because "why not?"

Worst case, it fails, they're out a little bit of capital, but can just as easily swap it over to Windows and keep selling it that way. Best case, they've opened the market up that little bit more for themselves.

Inb4 Fani turns the tables again with a perfectly-timed "no u".

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-half-life-ray-traced-mod-has-been-released/

Think of how much productive work we can get out of them, you mean?

Wolfire Games created the original Humble Indie Bundle, but they've been divested from it for a few years now. From Wikipedia:

The Humble Bundle concept was initially run by Wolfire Games in 2010, but by its second bundle, the Humble Bundle company was spun out to manage the promotion, payments, and distribution of the bundles. In October 2017, the company was acquired by Ziff Davis through its IGN Entertainment subsidiary.

The comment above that Humble's the ones suing Valve here is inaccurate.

This article almost makes it as if they're removing stuff from your library

But it doesn't remotely imply that? Here are the words/phrases it uses to describe what will happen:

• Steam will halt support for macOS 10.13 and 10.14
• existing Steam Client installations on those operating systems will no longer receive updates of any kind, including security updates
• some games will effectively stop functioning on macOS
• The Steam store will stop considering games that offer only 32-bit macOS binaries to be Mac compatible at the end of 2023.

At no point does it say or imply that anything will be removed from your library. In fact, it explicitly says how you can ensure that those games you own will remain playable:

In order to ensure continued operation of Steam and new 64-bit games purchased through Steam, users on these older versions should update to a more recent version of macOS.

Why would they include that if they're trying to tell people the games will be removed from their library?

Stop fearmongering.

Depending on when you pull the trigger, 2/3 of your options will be OLED anyway.

They're phasing out the original LCD 64 and 512 models and only retaining the 256 LCD. The new lineup is 256 LCD, 512 OLED, and 1TB OLED. Permanent price cuts are in effect for the 64 and the 512 LCD until they run out of stock.

Need to watch more Digital Foundry 😉

Latharian studios

Guessing some kinda typo/autocorrect business going on here, but just to cover the bases, it's Larian, not Latharian.

EGS is really the only thing remotely close to what Steam does, though.

GOG will always be an afterthought as long as they have their DRM-free policy in place. They're super cool, but they're a niche and will never grow beyond that without losing what makes them cool.

Origin (or whatever EA's calling their store now) gave up pursuing third-party sales years ago. They still do it, but they clearly have no interest in actually making a go of becoming an actual competitor to Steam.

The Windows Store is terrible for a number of different reasons, even if it's better than Microsoft's previous attempts at getting into this space (coughGWFLcough). EGS is more likely to overtake Steam than Windows Store is to even rival EGS.

Uplay (or, again, whatever Ubisoft is calling their store these days) is like Origin - I don't even know for sure if Ubi is doing third-party sales, but if so, it's very much an afterthought for them.

And then everyone else just sells Steam keys. They're not in the same market as the others, so don't really fit into this conversation. If you're 100% reliant on the store you're "competing" with, you're not competing with them.

The only benefit of ICE over BEV is quick refueling, and that only matters if you're roadtripping.

The solution is fast-charging BEVs. Edmunds just released a roundup of EV charging times, and showed that with some Hyundais/Kias, you can get 100 miles of range juiced up in 7-8 minutes. Obviously, yes, that's still slower than dumping some dead dinos in your gashole and taking off, but it's still pretty quick.

With further technological refinements over time and infrastructure built to give you something to do during 15-20 minute charges, road trips will be perfectly feasible without ICE and will actually probably be more pleasant.

There's a video in a tweet in the linked article.

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

As a publisher, we would like to deliver it to PC users as well, but per our agreement with Vanillaware, we are only releasing on console. In other words, there are no plans to port it to PC currently.

That's from the game's producer at Atlus. If the publisher wanted to get a PC port, they would have found the money to do it (or found a third-party to manage the port if Vanillaware wasn't willing/able). Per the quote, Vanillaware themselves do not want it on PC - nothing about not being able to afford to port it or anything like that. This tracks with how they've never released a single game on Windows aside from an MMO they made for Square Enix almost 20 years ago, before they were even known as Vanillaware.

Vanillaware just doesn't have any interest in PC, and while that's quite frustrating, it's their prerogative.

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The messenger is actually a prequel to Sea of Stars.

Other way around. A "prequel" is a work that is released after (as in "sequel") but set before (as in "previous") another work.

Sea of Stars is a prequel to The Messenger, as it was released after The Messenger but is set (thousands of years) before it.

This device is not for sale; it has been developed for Skull and Bones promotion only.

😠

I love seeing more competition in the PC handheld market.

Yes! It's so great to see this one play out in the exact opposite way from Steam Machines and VR. In all these cases, Valve made noise about how they wanted to kickstart a category with their own thing and then sorta leave it in third-party OEMs' hands (less so with Machines, I suppose, since that one they just went straight to the OEMs). Fun watching the Deck take off like it did and sorta launch the entire form factor into the mainsteam.

while the president is only max 8 years.

10, technically, but it doesn't change your point. Just felt like doing an ackshully.

#sorrynotsorry

The idiots behind this shit really should have paid more attention in history class.

Oh, they paid plenty of attention. That's the problem - they're using it as an instruction manual.

Not sure what you're seeing with regard to the power consumption, but it specifically mentions that the APU is more efficient (which tracks with the die shrink). Between that, the OLED display, and a bigger battery going in, the system should last longer on a charge while performance remains the same.

Are you seriously asking why a company in a capitalist economy would keep more money for themselves?

*cries in FF6*

since it didn’t seem that people complained

Nevermind didn't complain - that UI won actual awards. And despite OP's disdain for the concept (which, admittedly isn't always implemented very well in other titles), Destiny's implementation of it was really good. (It still is, but it was, too.)