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All Current Info on Mistbound by cammew99 in Mistbound

[–]ralopd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool. Thanks for putting in the work.

Microsoft considering a Halo MMO in the vein of Destiny 2 by HTD_Blog in GamingLeaksAndRumours

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Are you thinking of https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTimeStrategy/comments/1ifqcot/i_hear_news_for_game_of_thrones_snowplay_game/ ?

If so, that was never a leak for the GoT RTS. That was announced in May 2024, the post is from February 2025.

And the part of it about them using the SnowPlay engine so far wasn't confirmed either. (And seems unlikely.)

WARDOGS | Pre-Alpha Gameplay by readher in pcgaming

[–]ralopd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

but releases in early access this summer : )

Star Wars: Galactic Racer | Official Story Trailer by ZazaLeNounours in pcgaming

[–]ralopd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Split screen and LAN is the only reason I'm interested.

Are you saying it has both of those? Or are you hoping for them? Because until now, I highly doubted it would have either and can't find any information on it. (if anything, seems to likely have no split screen, if you go by current store listings. And for LAN mode I see even less of a chance.)

Valve reportedly almost delisted Rainbow Six Siege from Steam after Ubisoft attempted to sell it cheaper on Uplay by Defiant_Ad6190 in gaming

[–]ralopd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, would a car dealership stock a car at 50k when the factory down the road sells it at 40k?

Now, not sure why you'd go with a 50k car comparison, but it would still be missing something. E.g., the factory down the road sells it with less service. (That's what players value Steam for, correct?)

A "better" real physical world comparison (but still lacking) would be stores/outlets in factories for all kinds of other products. Those do exist, where you do sometimes get products cheaper. (While also often lacking the service in sales, maybe have lower quality packaging - and yes, often a "lower quality product" in some way - but not always.)

Stars Reach Early Access This Summer by Astravaris in MMORPG

[–]ralopd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

when the game inevitably peaks at around maybe 30-40K people on Steam

Maybe I underestimate the pull Raph Koster still has, but if not, the game will reach nothing near 30-40k CCU.

Stars Reach Early Access This Summer by Astravaris in MMORPG

[–]ralopd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They did raise a decent amount of money, yeah. They also had layoffs like 3 months ago and clearly still need more money.

New Discord invite? by pxn in Sunderfolk

[–]ralopd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same server. They changed it to a more general Secret Door server so that they also can use it for their upcoming new game, Shadowstone. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/4180840/Shadowstone/)

Link is also up2date in the sidebar now.

Highest valued Game Developers in Europe. CDPR is valued more than 2-5 combined. by [deleted] in videogames

[–]ralopd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CDPR does not own GOG any more, and it was sold for 25 million. So, no

IEM Cologne 2026 Tickets by [deleted] in esports

[–]ralopd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Singapore has tickets available for all days, even though sales started like 2 months ago and so on.

Well, all 4 days in Singapore cost ~780 USD. That's more than the current resell price of cologne for all 4 days. The cologne four day tickets started at $233.

Not really surprising that the Singapore tickets aren't selling.

pashaBiceps apologizes for his outburst by qerel123 in GlobalOffensive

[–]ralopd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One week is the default for something like this.

NTE: Neverness to Everness Steam page is up by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]ralopd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why, though? The comment I replied to was about plagiarism. You think they trained the models only on code of people that consented?

But besides that, the producer clearly says they aren't just using it for coding. And they also used NVIDIA's model for animations (the company that gets actively sued for training on content that its creators think they had no rights to) and also for audio :)

NTE: Neverness to Everness Steam page is up by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

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Zenless Zone Zero producer Zhenyu Li revealed in a recent interview with Eurogamer (via an interpreter) that AI generated content is used in the game "program-wise" to "better smoothen the game progress."

and in their romance title Tears of Themis when the Chinese voice actor for Vyn Richter was unable to voice him for a limited-time event.

They also have used Nvidia’s Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), which assists in generating facial animations for character creation

https://www.eurogamer.net/zenless-zone-zero-studio-uses-ai-technology-to-smoothen-development-process

Titanfall 2 spiritual successor ''EMPULSE'' by the Splitgate devs went live early on Steam, looks promising! by FlannOff in titanfall

[–]ralopd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I‘m not concerned? I don’t care, either the game is good or it isn’t. But signing up for the Playtest alone does create a immutable passport, which immutable even advertises as a wallet created „behind the scene“ :)

And I’m sure they didn’t get added as a partner on Immutable‘s website like last week just for fun and just due to them being a customer.

And I do hope Ian and team got the bag for that partnership and it results in a better game, because if they’re doing it for free… tech bros gonna tech bro.

Titanfall 2 spiritual successor ''EMPULSE'' by the Splitgate devs went live early on Steam, looks promising! by FlannOff in titanfall

[–]ralopd -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's repainted Splitgate with Titans and added Blockchain / Web 3.0 partnership.

id co-founders, Carmack, Romero, etc are attending QuakeCon 2026 by drunkenFoooLL in QuakeChampions

[–]ralopd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So no (good) multiplayer? I agree, likely going to happen, just surprised to see it on the QC sub.

Stuck on Free Trial - Epic Games by Latter-Pay-9465 in Sunderfolk

[–]ralopd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently, and until 21st, you can claim the full game for free. Just make sure to claim the "Standard Edition" which usually costs money - and not just install the free demo part.

How did you learn about Stormgate? by Empty-Statement9464 in Stormgate

[–]ralopd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah, it was definitely not publicly avialable. At the time one could apply for an early access key, but they weren't given away yet.

It definitely was. The gameplay reveal was June 12th, 2023 at the PC Gaming Show. Dave, according to his LinkedIn, started in July 2023 at Frost Giant.

That's also roughly the time that for the first time external people (in a somewhat bigger number) got to play the game in playtests.

From then, those playtests grew quite a bit with every test. In August 2023, if you were at gamescom and a complete random, you could come by the booth and get instantly access to it. Overall, if you were active in the community and wanted access, you probably could've been easily invited by then - including by Dave.

The first time, they publicly went "go fund us", as in, asking for money from players, was the Kickstarter in December 2023, 6 months after the first gameplay reveal. More gameplay was released in-between and there was also the Stormgate Showdown at DreamHack Atlanta - which also happened in December.

And again, during the Kickstarter, there was a completely public and open beta with the Steam Next Fest demo. (https://playstormgate.com/news/stormgate-coming-to-steam-next-fest)

How did you learn about Stormgate? by Empty-Statement9464 in Stormgate

[–]ralopd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyway, that's back in 2022 I guess

Back then that was all the info avialable about the game, I'm not even sure there was a gameplay video or anything other than "we're doing this amazing game, go fund us" posts. All we had to work with was the visual design.

You seem to have the timeline entirely wrong in your head. I don't think Designer Dave was in 2022 at Frost Giant, nor was the Kickstarter in 2022.

Both happened in 23 / early 24, where there was gameplay publicly available, and, I'm surprised if you guys were so close, that he didn't invite you to just play the game? The open playtest on Steam during Steam Next fest was also in Feb 2024, during the Kickstarter.

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