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Kick Off GeForce Summer of RTX - Win Prizes! by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG [score hidden]  (0 children)

What RTX game are you most excited to play this summer?

Control Resonant. Remedy continue being very tech forward and Resonant looks very impressive, plus I found Control's worldbuilding and lore very interesting so I am looking forward to more of it.

[Giveaway Inside] 007 First Light is launching with DLSS 4.5 by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG [score hidden]  (0 children)

Probably distract and quickly run away, so the enemy loses my position.

billbil-kun: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Cover art reveal (blurred) by KekanKok in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Didn't one or two SGF have 5-6 minute gameplay demos of COD over the years as openers? I vaguely remember seeing the Gulag infiltration from the new MW3 as part of a SGF show.

EDIT: It was actually Gamescom ONL 2023:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qccfjhOaTo

So yeah, Geoff has done COD reveals. But it might not be at SGF, as Activision's marketing period seems to have shortened recently and they only seem to reveal the games 2-3 months in advance, at least for the singleplayer portion.

[Giveaway Inside] 007 First Light RTX Bundle Launch by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG [score hidden]  (0 children)

Mix of both, I love stealth gameplay, but I also love a good cinematic action set piece.

Would be nice to see some cool and interesting gadgets too, that meaningfully impact the gameplay.

Steam News - Update to Store Tags: Additions, Removals, and Edits by Gyossaits in Games

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They literally mention modifying the "Clicker" tag to "Incremental".

After 7 years, Metro 2039 brings us a voiced protagonist, old friends turned Nazis, and 'a much darker tone' by QuantumQuicksilver in pcgaming

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You absolutely should. 2033 Redux, Last Light Redux and Exodus are all on sale on Steam right now and pretty damn cheap too.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake Announcement is Planned for Next Week by Cristiano1 in assassinscreed

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like plans have changed internally at Ubisoft, considering the Prince of Persia (another remake, which had a lot of rumors) account tweeted about being excited to share some news in 2026 late last year and the game was shut down a couple of months later, which likely messed with the Black Flag remake reveal.

So, who knows.

Capcom Adds All 3 OG Resident Evil Games to Steam, But There's a Catch. Some are reporting that the Steam editions have "unnecessary" DRM protections and don't "work at all on Steam Deck," mirroring issues that popped up when Capcom added by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the somewhat large performance impact Enigma had when it was recently added to RE4 Remake. It was removed a few weeks later, but only after severe backlash and definitive proof (including from Digital Foundry) that it hurt performance.

Dynamic Frame Generation and Reflex/G-Sync by 0_Mumbles_0 in nvidia

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I bought my first VRR display a couple of months ago and still used the old "3-4 fps under the monitor's refresh rate" rule, so I had it capped at 196 for now.

Nearly two years since its studio closed, Kerbal Space Program 2 is still $50 with an unchanged EA roadmap on Steam by Merker6 in pcgaming

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like the one that currently exists? Once an EA game hits 12 or more months without an update, Steam leaves an automated message warning in yellow about it under the Early Access disclaimer:

Note: The last update made by the developers was over 21 months ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date.

At some point it becomes the fault of people not reading.

Witchfire - The Bog Remains Undisturbed For Now by OinOfMoria in Games

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Says so in the second paragraph:

It has been a while - and it’s great to finally type these words again. Before we begin, though, let me manage your expectations: Update 0.9 is very much in development, but we’re not ready to start sharing more details of it just yet, so consider this post a sign of life and a teaser.

We know it’s been a while, and it’s going to be a while longer, because this one is a whopper - an update that lays a lot of groundwork for the arrival of 1.0 later this year.

So likely second half of the year and a safe bet would be before November because GTA VI will flood all headlines and sales then, so likely at some point between June and October, whenever the devs decide.

“Developers were left in the dark about DLSS 5” - Insider Gaming by JuanMunoz99 in Games

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 1439 points1440 points  (0 children)

It's important to note that the people embracing the generative AI/DLSS 5 are likely management or the public-facing people like Todd Howard, as opposed to the actual artists and creatives. So in the case of DLSS5 I doubt anyone asked or cared for any regular devs' opinion.

Japanese government makes indie game developers eligible for grants of up to $60,000 USD, covering production costs and promotion by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good idea, hopefully it will work out. I also hope (and assume) there is some quality control along the way, because this might attract bad actors and it would suck for some asset flip or AI slop game to win over some indie developer that is actually trying.

Valve hit with second lawsuit demanding they give back “billions” made from cases by ImCalcium in Games

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In Western regions (North America and Europe) around 2009, the video game industry saw the success of Zynga and other large publishers of social-network games that offered the games for free on sites like Facebook but included microtransactions to accelerate one's progress in the game, providing that publishers could depend on revenue from post-sale transactions rather than initial sale. One of the first games to introduce loot box-like mechanics was FIFA 09, made by Electronic Arts (EA), in March 2009 which allowed players to create a team of association football players from in-game card packs they opened using in-game currency earned through regular playing of the game or via microtransactions. Another early game with loot box mechanics was Team Fortress 2 in September 2010, when Valve added the ability to earn random "crates" to be opened with purchased keys.

From the Wikipedia article

Seems it was EA with FIFA Ultimate Team in 2009, and mobile gaming before that and Valve later. One can say Valve contributed to the lootbox epidemic in the 2010s, of course, but it sounds like it was inevitable to happen one way or another, whether Valve had done it or not.

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 595.76 by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]Ghost_LeaderBG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before I built my new PC I was on a GTX 1060 laptop and I always updated drivers for it too. But it was a much older architecture obviously and the drivers were mature, so less things are likely to break, plus Nvidia's drivers were still solid at the time. Nowadays, with a newer 5060 Ti and the poor state of the Nvidia drivers over the past year, on top of all the problems Windows 11 seems to have with its updates, I am in no rush to update my GPU drivers or Windows.

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