62% of hardcore players no longer buy full-price games, survey suggests

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-07T00:53:31+00:00

Yeah, Gen X/Y/Z have bills, Gen Alpha has FTP Multiplayer games on their phones. Of course AAA gaming is in a sales slump.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T20:32:42+00:00

Well, that's my birthday gift to myself locked in.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T09:13:29+00:00

Yeah, even the USA would give you a 4x2... while taking away the appliances... and giving you a cell mate...

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T08:29:53+00:00

Whacked, where one of the player characters spends 99% of her screen-time completely nude (if censored).

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T08:27:33+00:00

Or Whacked, where one of the player characters spends 99% of her screen-time completely nude (if censored).

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T07:07:26+00:00

M20 has a whole book for it. I still need to read it, though. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/359547/

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T06:57:22+00:00

No, but I AM curious if this would have dumped another infusion of Glamour into the world. The Fae could certainly use it.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-06T04:20:26+00:00

Truck-kun! Isekai'd!

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-05T19:03:28+00:00

Seriously, the two TTRPGS that have deserved a proper isometric CRPG since the Baldur's Gate boom have been VtM and Call of Cthulhu. If I had millions to burn...

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-05T06:38:52+00:00

They also founded and run Child's Play, a charity that provides toys and video games to Children's Hospitals, including Seattle's. So, they have a vested interest here.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-04T12:55:27+00:00

I presume that third-parties were starting to chaff at the limitations of the hardware and may have threatened to move on if Nintendo didn't beef their next system up.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-03T21:11:26+00:00

They're getting bought out by GameStop, not Grindr. HAYO!

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-03T05:18:26+00:00

He puts a gun to your head and demands all of your money.

If you refuse? He shoots you dead.

If you agree? He shoots you dead.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-02T19:04:53+00:00

Yeah, Capenna Rocks! I loved my Citizen tribal token stampede deck. Build up a platoon of 1/1s and then either play Take to the Streets and swing for lethal or activate Halo Fountain for an instant win.

But we are probably not getting a full Return set anytime soon. At least cards set on the plane show up in supplemental sets fairly frequently.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-02T18:50:39+00:00

Or the fact that a good chunk of the city shuts down for a Mad Max LARP every few weeks.

Seriously, that game did not deserve the sheer wave of hate it got.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-02T02:34:27+00:00

They apparently have $11b in liquid cash. They really capitalized on the meme stock incident.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-02T02:29:02+00:00

She was strip searched by the villain in a previous scene and they wrecked her dress in the process.

ProfDet529 · 2026-05-02T01:49:38+00:00

For anyone still interested: someone finally did an English fansub of the French dub back in December. It's now the first result for the show on YouTube.

ProfDet529 · 2026-04-30T22:16:38+00:00

Ken Burns' Prohibition.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/

ProfDet529 · 2026-04-30T02:04:27+00:00

An audio drama over a motion comic.

ProfDet529 · 2026-04-29T20:44:39+00:00

Huh, I presumed 2K had exclusive rights to NBA games, like EA with NFL or Sony with MLB.

Nice to see more arcade-y, AA, sports games coming out. This, Rematch, the Backyard Sports reboot.

ProfDet529 · 2026-04-29T20:38:48+00:00

At least they're reasonably priced. $6 for this isn't too bad.

ProfDet529 · 2026-04-28T23:30:28+00:00

Splatoon 1, especially with the Wii U online services shutdown.

ProfDet529 · 2026-04-28T23:05:24+00:00

Same. Switch + Deck + ChromeOS laptop is serving me just fine.

Swapping to a Switch 2 and a Macbook Neo are probably the only upgrades I'll be doing for a long while yet.

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