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gabbo

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How much money can a game journalist earn ? Must be super low, but better than my zero.
I need to work, I can’t continue living like this, but I also can’t really do a traditional work, too much social interactions.
I mean part of game journalism is networking and contacts unless youre at a larger organization (like pcgamer, or ign, etc). Unless youre going like youtuber, then, i've no idea.
 

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How much money can a game journalist earn ? Must be super low, but better than my zero.
I need to work, I can’t continue living like this, but I also can’t really do a traditional work, too much social interactions.
Well, I write about games a lot, but it doesn't pay, unless :

  • You are well connected and can write on big enough websites / magazines to get paid
  • You have absolutely no shame and can do marketing work instead of journalist work, saying games are great and being paid to make Twitch streams and Youtube videos about shitty games that pays a lot (hello, did you heard about Raid Shadow Legend ?). But it often means interacting with people.
  • Make good content on Twitch, but it means interacting with people, too.

BUT : being well connected is something that can be built. If you can write / make videos / podcast / whatever, if you can be good at it, interesting, bringing something different... being noticed can happen.

The only thing for SURE : if you don't write, if you don't create, no one will notice you, either the audience or the employers. So why not try ?
 

Alexandros

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After the news that Easy Anti-cheat will now be compatible with Linux I sat and thought about the impressive developments that PC gaming has experienced after its supposed 'death' in the 00s. Just think about this: In a few months we will be playing Halo, Uncharted, Monster Hunter and Elden Ring on a Linux PC handheld. It's nothing short of crazy. It is almost unbelievable how much the platform has evolved, improved and expanded over the last few years. The indie boom, classic genres coming back with a vengeance, japanese studios supporting the platform en masse, Microsoft releasing on PC, Sony releasing on PC, Linux becoming a viable option for PC gaming... It's all just incredible.
 

Mor

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if so, fingers crossed that there's only a Sega copyright on the reveal trailer like there was for the 2017 teaser. decent chance that it's only a timed Switch exclusive in that case
I mean, it was in Nvidia's leak, take it as you want haha
 

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Whenever I thought I had the latest data snapshot and I was comparing it to Ighor's data snapshot, I might have been comparing my data snapshot from September 13 (as it was seen from Europe) to the current state of the database (as it is seen from South Asia). Very weird if true.
Alright, here is a first observation about the back-up of the leak which is hosted by Ighor: it is missing 30 apps out of 19346 apps (including redundant apps).

Code:
6ebcfde0-6c1c-49d0-8c02-bd145195d4b3    A-Train 10    <--    Artdink Corporation    <-    DEGICA Co., Ltd.
77fd713b-0999-4d1b-962c-12cb62ec892d    A-Train 10    <--    Artdink Corporation    <-    DEGICA Co., Ltd.
4ce8f504-6574-4f83-971e-b09dc03fb824    Battlezone 2    <--    Rebellion
d3e07c6d-bcb7-4258-89fd-6f9a493ef27e    Battlezone 2    <--    Rebellion
311be895-5a32-4f01-bf34-8b86101259b4    Divinity: Fallen Heroes    <--    Larian Studios
70150ce1-1925-41f8-9d16-41ded0f70a56    Divinity: Fallen Heroes    <--    Larian Studios
492a4821-1d2d-493a-a971-903ab1e2dd62    Dolphin (emulator)    <--    Dolphin Team
94583470-3747-4889-8b8f-56d8a501ef4e    Dolphin (emulator)    <--    Dolphin Team
4e761f36-abc0-4f73-bbfa-00a7f687c4ab    Hard West 2    <--    Ice Code Games    <-    Good Shepherd Entertainment
b7ab61b0-ff29-41a4-9f8d-cadb37ca60dc    Hard West 2    <--    Ice Code Games    <-    Good Shepherd Entertainment
32464ab2-25b3-4e68-b6b6-821da8ce5c05    Human: Fall Flat 2    <--    No Brakes Games    <-    Curve Digital
8ce56b90-ba46-4030-a2b2-51068be29b5a    Human: Fall Flat 2    <--    No Brakes Games    <-    Curve Digital
86dd19ac-3418-493e-a3a4-6256561fa57c    MechWitch    <--    League of Geeks    <-    Private Division
b750cdea-0c9e-4bfc-af3d-8e7dc0c71869    MechWitch    <--    League of Geeks    <-    Private Division
a0284d15-e85f-4511-9ec1-637120ff3630    New Super Mario Bros.    <--    Nintendo
ef36ed93-d75c-4db1-93d0-1ea2f8943e8f    New Super Mario Bros.    <--    Nintendo
4dd63a61-d699-46d6-b1b9-30a4b3e5c039    Project QD Next    <--    Quantic Dream
cc8e1c07-4f6c-44f8-8fb2-89d41ee2a412    Project QD Next    <--    Quantic Dream
adfe43f0-dad1-4936-9fcf-33415e9c3550    Project Wind    <--    Rebellion
bef12f17-15e3-4873-ad0c-44c677ca6b7c    Project Wind    <--    Rebellion
99379f48-84b2-4a5b-b962-8030e357e835    Roller Champions    <--    Ubisoft
fc828fe1-8c79-4432-8431-5704ee66c9d0    Roller Champions    <--    Ubisoft
58c1db26-7196-4266-a264-5f989388638b    Sniper Elite 5    <--    Rebellion
c450d5ff-8f19-48d0-a279-ec44345fa12b    Sniper Elite 5    <--    Rebellion
62474635-a30c-4ee4-b04b-48a3ee36e3dd    The Mighty Eighth    <--    Microprose Software Inc.
e914ec03-076b-4e21-abc7-18a61d02e52d    The Mighty Eighth    <--    Microprose Software Inc.
3380ffa6-7748-4238-8c09-7a29c24b833a    Trainz Railroad Simulator 2021    <--    N3V Games Pty Ltd
d13a789c-5f97-4807-90e8-6de2fc214869    Trainz Railroad Simulator 2021    <--    N3V Games Pty Ltd
0af4f840-0adc-4b0c-8a4d-d86d53d4a144    Zombie Army: Dead War 4    <--    Rebellion
8771d9ba-b9a2-41ec-a478-0090c3a60c13    Zombie Army: Dead War 4    <--    Rebellion
I don't know whether he removed these apps intentionally, or whether these apps were missing from the database when he downloaded it. It could be a bit of both, as I suspect he does not want to embarass Nvidia with some of these, e.g. the Dolphin emulator or New Super Mario Bros.
Actually, the answer seems obvious for Dolphin and Super Mario. The dude posted a link to query these two appIDs in his original blog post:



If you replace Nvidia's endpoint with Ighor's backup, you get a chance to query the database, and the result is empty for these two specific appIDs.

I have had a quick look at the differences between the leak which I had access to and Ighor's back-up.

If you see this:



Then the first line contains:
  • the id of the entry in the database, 0acde8a6-9479-4b8a-9fcb-8bc9a88ad496
  • the title of the entry in my database, Horizon Forbidden West
  • followed by an arrow and the field which changes between my database and Ighor's. -> title
The follow lines contain:
  • the value in my database, Horizon Forbidden West
  • the value in Ighor's database. Project 559S
I have skipped the differences between release dates for now. Here are some notable differences:



So we can see that:
  • I have some project names whereas Ighor seemed to have the full name (Triangle Strategy, Diable II Resurrected)
  • and vice versa (Horizon Forbidden West, Space Marine 2, Returnal)

Then there are weird cases:
  • I have the Korean name for Kena whereas Ighor has the English name,
  • Arc Raiders has a different name in mine (Arc Raiders vs. Pioneer), and is published by Embark in mine, and by Nvidia in Ighor's
  • a different publisher for Skullgirls (Marvelous vs. Autumn),
  • I have the appID for 3DMark and he has not. It was released on September 14, so a day after the leak was public.

I wonder if all these changes happened in a short time frame between the time when he downloaded data, and the time the leak was public so that I downloaded mine, or whether these changes happened because of different regions.

Edit: Here are the main things which we can learn from the comparison between the leaks mentioned above.




Edit²:

Sackboy was called Project Marmalade.

Basically, 15 entries were deleted from the database, and a few real game names were replaced by code names after the leak.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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Want that Actraiser Rennaisance. Might treat myself for when the OLED Switch turns up.

SMTV Preorders begin today apparently.

MArio Movie.
Chris Pratt as Mario
Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach
Charlie Day for Luigi
Jack Black as Bowser
Key is Toad
Seth Rogan as DK
Charles Martinet doing stuff and has a cameo.
 
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Tizoc

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Real talk; I'm more interested int he sonic 2 movie due to its cast moreso than the mario animated movie.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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At least the internet detectives get to amuse themselves for a few days analysing voice samples to work out who the VA for Bayo 3 is.

Yoko Taro Card game looks curious.
Kirby's back wooo!
 

YourFriendMaynard

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That's the kind of chaotic good energy we need in video game with nintendo

also O H M Y G O D at Nintendo Switch being cRPG central WHAAAAAAAAT
 
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Digoman

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I was a Mega Drive/Genesis kid so don't know anything about Actraiser. And since they decided to do a 1:1 conversion rate from USD to my country, it's probably going to stay that way for a while.

Also... I'm intrigued.... by... Splatoon lore :p
 
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mastemas

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GOD, I WAS RIGHT
MY SMTV THEORY WAS RIGHT, I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT
I CALLED IT TWO MONTHS AGO, AND THIS TRAILER BASICALLY CONFIRMED IT FOR ME

THE NAHOBINO IS AN ENTITY CAPABLE OF REBIRTHING THE WORLD, WHICH IS WHAT IT'S ULTIMATE GOAL IS; TO REMAKE THE WORLD, BUT WHY?
BECAUSE THE WORLD IS UNDERGOING ARMAGEDEON (ANGELS VS DEMONS IS CLASSIC CHRISTIAN ARMAGEDEON, SURT APPEARS TO KILL NORSE GODS AT RAGNAROK, THE NORSE ARMAGEDEON)
AND BECAUSE HE IS THE ENTITY CAPABLE OF REBIRTHING, THE DIFFERENT MYTHOLOGIES ARE GETTING TO HIM LIKE REASONS IN SMT3, THAT'S WHY WE'RE GETTING THE LARGE-MYTHOLOGY DEMONS BACK AS WELL AS NEWER ONES


ALSO NO, I WILL NOT CALM DOWN WITH THIS CAPS LOCK, SCREW YOU YOU FUCKING GOVERNMENT AGENT, YOU CAN'T KEEP ME FROM NOT EATING THE PILLS, I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
 

Valdien

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GOD, I WAS RIGHT
MY SMTV THEORY WAS RIGHT, I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT
I CALLED IT TWO MONTHS AGO, AND THIS TRAILER BASICALLY CONFIRMED IT FOR ME

THE NAHOBINO IS AN ENTITY CAPABLE OF REBIRTHING THE WORLD, WHICH IS WHAT IT'S ULTIMATE GOAL IS; TO REMAKE THE WORLD, BUT WHY?
BECAUSE THE WORLD IS UNDERGOING ARMAGEDEON (ANGELS VS DEMONS IS CLASSIC CHRISTIAN ARMAGEDEON, SURT APPEARS TO KILL NORSE GODS AT RAGNAROK, THE NORSE ARMAGEDEON)
AND BECAUSE HE IS THE ENTITY CAPABLE OF REBIRTHING, THE DIFFERENT MYTHOLOGIES ARE GETTING TO HIM LIKE REASONS IN SMT3, THAT'S WHY WE'RE GETTING THE LARGE-MYTHOLOGY DEMONS BACK AS WELL AS NEWER ONES


ALSO NO, I WILL NOT CALM DOWN WITH THIS CAPS LOCK, SCREW YOU YOU FUCKING GOVERNMENT AGENT, YOU CAN'T KEEP ME FROM NOT EATING THE PILLS, I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE

:coffee-blob:
 

mastemas

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:coffee-blob:
YOUR MX ULTRA DIDNT WORK ON ME NOW YOU CIA FBI SLAVE
I WILL ROAM THE WORLD AS A FREE MAN BEFORE I EVENTUALLY CROSS AN ILLEGAL BORDER AND PROBABLY IDK GETS SHOT OR PUT IN PRISON FOR THE CRIMES I HAVE COMMITED AGAINST THIS MORTAL REALM

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also this direct was amazing, talking 1000x times better than the E3
short and consistent trailers, lots of surprises, amazing, 9/10

shin megami tensei v's appearance was spectacular, a very good sight to see that the theory i said 2 months ago actually became true
 
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mastemas

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more in depth look of SMTV trailer + my theory: (prepare for some fucking essay language)

The whole idea behind Shin Megami Tensei V is the concept of Armagedeon and "what happens after it". As the Nahobino, your job is to essensially recreate the world and ascend to Godhood (as ads for the game directly tell you), but what is your job as a God? Your job is essensially the hard part, the whole recreating the world part.
The world of Tokyo/SMTV is in the very concepts of Armagedeon within several mythologies:

FUCK IT SENT EARLY I PRESSED BY ACCIDENT FUCK
 
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Arc

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Quick Actraiser Renaissance impressions after about an hour of gameplay:
-The Fillmore remix is insanely good. I just sat at the beginning of the first level for a few minutes listening to it.
-The graphics have kind of a 90s prerendered look that is feels kinda cheap, but is also charming.
-The city building aspect is a lot larger in scope compared to the original. There are quests and tower defense gameplay which involves forts and a hero unit.
-To destroy a monster's lair, you have to take your avatar inside them and destroy a core. I'm not too keen on these right now since they mostly involve walking a few feet and hitting the core, but they might be expanded upon later.
I've played about an hour and am still in the building aspect for the first part of Fillmore, whereas I can completely finish the SNES version in 2-3 hours. I don't think it renders the original irrelevant, but it's an interesting spin that tries to do new things.
 

ExistentialThought

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only 90s kids will remember this browser game. no, seriously, I guarantee you no one else would remember this at all

My god, this seems so familiar, but I cannot recall how or where I would have played it. Maybe I played the In Space? I feel like I remember this back from the Shockwave days, which I also sorta forgot about haha.
 
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