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ezodagrom said:
It's also on GMG, those that have GMG gold get a 20% discount:
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I need some impressions. Even on Era there's nothing except that the demo was bad. (not that I would start it anytime soon, 35 hours into Cold Steel IV and JUST started Act.2...)
 
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Destiny 2 came close to beating it's all-time peak today. I wonder if it could do it during the weekend?

This also shows that Sony made a smart investment. Despite the problems with Destiny 2, it still gets a lot of people playing.

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www.videogameschronicle.com

Exclusive: 2K has secured the Lego licence for a range of sports games | VGC

Visual Concepts and UK-based Sumo Digital are working on the first games in a new partnership…
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The publisher has signed a new multi-game partnership with Lego, people with knowledge of its plans told us, as the construction toy firm looks to broaden its games output beyond the expiration of its exclusivity deal with Warner Bros.’ TT Games.
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This could be fun.
 
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Aaron D. said:
I'll be there Day One.
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same!!!

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www.gematsu.com

Tencent acquires Inflexion Games

Tencent has acquired Inflexion Games from Improbable, the companies announced.
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Improbable sold the entirety of its stake in Inflexion Games to Tencent, the details of which were not disclosed.

Inflexion Games is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada, where CEO Aaryn Flynn will continue to lead operations as the studio develops its shared-world survival crafting game Nightingale, which will now join the lineup of games published by Tencent label Level Infinite when it launches in Early Access for PC later in 2022.
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Alextended said:
What do the R6Siege yearly passes even add? The new one (7th!!) is like 30 and has a premium version on top like a full price whole new game, 60.
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Looks like it'll net you all 4 Battle Passes this year plus a bunch of Extras,


Year 7 Premium Pass

  • Back by popular demand, the premium Year 7 Pass will be available to purchase, granting access to the following benefits and VIP perks:
    • 4 new Year 7 Operators
    • 4 headgears and uniforms (included in Battle Passes)
    • Access to the 4 Year 7 Battle Passes
    • Unlock the first 20 tiers on each Year 7 Battle Pass as part of the Premium Bundles
    • An exclusive Exotic Weapon Skin for the MPX
    • Exclusive Valkyrie Byte Set
    • Ash Chilled Bundle
    • 14-day early access to each season's new Operator
    • 30% bonus Battle Points (not applied to Challenges or Achievements)
    • Persistent Challenges
    • Challenges will continue to unlock along a set time frame but will no longer be time-limited, allowing players to finish them at their own pace until the end of the Battle Pass.



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      That said, refrain from buying for now. There is a store bug where if you have Y7 Pass as DLC, it won't authenticate and thus the game fails to launch.
 
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Alextended said:
Fighting Collection is like Darkstalkers Collection (which isn't a bad thing!) with some bonuses and once again a token Street Fighter for the name/sales. They shouldn't have Street Fighter since it has its own collections and add more obscure games. If there's no more (non Marvel/Jojo/licensed stuff I guess, even excluding the vs. games altogether) good 2D stuff they could add Rival Schools, Project Justice, Tech Romancer, or whatever else they have out there.
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Just think: Capcom 3D Fighting Collection!

Project Justice, Rival Schools, Power Stone 1 and 2, Tech Romancer, Star Gladiator, SFEX +a and 2/3.

I'd buy that so hard I might break the Buy button 😍
 
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Two random thoughts I guess.

1: In relation to the turning PC on away from the PC itself. I wonder why no one ever invented a PC remote lol. Especially after the growth of PC gamers who play on TV's.

2: When you see the new Need For Speed in development, does anyone else also wish for NFS Underground remasters?
 
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「Echo」 said:
Two random thoughts I guess.

1: In relation to the turning PC on away from the PC itself. I wonder why no one ever invented a PC remote lol. Especially after the growth of PC gamers who play on TV's.
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Wake on Lan is a thing.
 
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They pretty much needed to do this. Take a year off and that will allow you to regroup so you can continue yearly releases from 2024 onward.

A year off basically buys all 3 of their studios a year off which is massive. Being owned by MS makes it affordable too so the quality should be better in the future.

Someone should definitely take advantage of this next year and release some new multiplayer shooter in November since there won't be competition. It most likely won't be Battlefield heh but someone else can like maybe new BattleRoyale or something. You may not get an opportunity like that again with how big of a sales eater COD is.
 
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A lot fewer games on my wishlist in the Next Fest this time than previously but that's OK. Also getting distracted by demos NOT on my wishlist which is a problem I guess.
 
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Shameless quoting myself from the Steam Next Fest thread.

Panda Pedinte said:


Neon White - controls pretty well, aesthetically it remembers a bit of Paradise Killer though I found the dialogue here to be a bit cringey, but the gameplay was top notch. Even though you're incetived to play each level at least two times to get a collectable they were short (I only played the introductory mission) and finding the fastest way through a level felt good.



Kao the Kangaroo - A 3D platform, don't expect something polished as Psychonauts 2. Even though the camera felt a bit wonky in some cases I was enjoying it, though the demo game crashed.



I played just a bit of as I wasn't feeling the combat, maybe I'll give it another chance later the festival.



Little Orpheus - I played the first level, it's a cinematic platformer where your character is narrating the events that unfolded in his mission to explore the insides of earth. Plot wise you can expect something inspired by Voyage au Centre de la Terre except the characters are soviets. The levels are beautiful but the heavy use of cromatic aberration was a strain to my eyes, I checked the graphical options and there wasn't any way to tur n it off.

Another annoyance was the fact that you need to use de analog even though it's a 2D game, let me use the D-PAD to move my character. Just a minor pet peeve but if your character is already from another nationality stop with the fake accent while they speak English, just make them speak whatever language they should speak as I will play it with subtitles anyway. Speaking about subtitles, they put them on top instead in the bottom of screen and it's a strange decision. Besides all of my criticism I liked it.
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MonthOLDpickle said:
It's still faster to download then unpack a preload on steam right?
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That all depends on your internet download speed. I would imagine it taking no longer than 1 hour to unpack a pre-load
Aaron D.





I think 50F is the lowest that it sometimes gets other wise in a lot of parts in SoCal it's normally 60-70 all year round with it being in the 90s during the summer.



By the way did you get to go to Legoland? Since that's in Carlsbad.
 
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「Echo」 said:
Two random thoughts I guess.

1: In relation to the turning PC on away from the PC itself. I wonder why no one ever invented a PC remote lol. Especially after the growth of PC gamers who play on TV's.

2: When you see the new Need For Speed in development, does anyone else also wish for NFS Underground remasters?
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1.) May be an infrared USB dongle would work for such a case:
Amazon product ASIN B07RBB46YX
 
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Kyougar said:
PSA: Lost Ark

The EU West servers are online. Things to know:

- crystal aura is accountwide, so you will have crystal aura on the new region
- you get 15 days crystal aura on the third day for the separate EU West login event, as crystal aura is serverwide, this will count to your time on your main region/server
- you also get 500 crystal on one of the days of the login event, which nets you nearly another 30 days crystal aura (I think 520 crystal for 30 days, and you get 10 crystal for the first quest you do and another ten a bit later)
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One last time to wrap up this story...

Amazon figured out what is happening and they've put EU servers into maintenance right now. They're modifying the the login rewards to remove the aura and blue crystals and replacing them with whatever.

Fixed an issue with the 10 day Attendance Event on the Europe West region. The Day 3 reward has been changed to Una’s Tasks [Daily] +1 x10, and the Day 6 reward is now Rare Combat Engraving Recipe Selection Pouch x10.
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Doubt they'll tamper with rewards that were already given out but nobody will get to stack the crystals the way it seemed like it could be done.

Also the song of triport tune is stuck in my head and I keep humming it randomly all the time :disapproval-blob:
 
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crimsonheadGCN said:
Destiny 2 came close to beating it's all-time peak today. I wonder if it could do it during the weekend?

This also shows that Sony made a smart investment. Despite the problems with Destiny 2, it still gets a lot of people playing.

Edit:

www.videogameschronicle.com

Exclusive: 2K has secured the Lego licence for a range of sports games | VGC

Visual Concepts and UK-based Sumo Digital are working on the first games in a new partnership…
www.videogameschronicle.com www.videogameschronicle.com



This could be fun.
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LEGO Football Mania 2 let's gooooooo
 
spindoctor said:
One last time to wrap up this story...

Amazon figured out what is happening and they've put EU servers into maintenance right now. They're modifying the the login rewards to remove the aura and blue crystals and replacing them with whatever.



Doubt they'll tamper with rewards that were already given out but nobody will get to stack the crystals the way it seemed like it could be done.

Also the song of triport tune is stuck in my head and I keep humming it randomly all the time :disapproval-blob:
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I just want the queues on Europe Central to go away :confounded-face:
At this point I can basically only play on weekends unless I play immediately after work (but I usually don't wanna play immediately after work).
And even then "play" means I can only do the solo-adventuring stuff, because to my understanding matchmaking for all group content is basically fucked all the time.

And I'm not going to restart on a different region/server.
 
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Player biofeedback for dynamically controlling a video game state

Document Type and Number:

United States Patent 11253781

Abstract:

Various embodiments are directed towards employing one or more physical sensors arranged on or in proximity to a video game player to obtain biofeedback measures that are then useable to dynamically modify a state of play of a video game. The sensors may be connected or even unconnected to the game player, replace, or otherwise augment traditional physical game controllers. The sensors gather various biofeedback measures and provide such measures to a biofeedback application programming interface (API). Before and/or during video game play, the video game queries the biofeedback API to request inferences about the game player's state of arousal. The response to the query is then used to modify the state of the video game play. Where the video game is a multi-player video game, biofeedback measures from other game players may also be obtained and used to further modify the state of the video game play.


 
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Dear players,

Over the past weekend, we received numerous inquiries from you and requests to explain why suddenly, 3 years after the game's premiere, Agony UNRATED was separated from Agony.

Reminder
: So far, every player who bought regular Agony on Steam automatically found Agony UNRATED in their library as well.

At the launch of Agony UNRATED
in 2018, we entered into an agreement with Steam
whereby the combination of the two games was implemented. Due to the fact that we couldn’t - technically - connect both applications, the Steam crew made the connection.

However, last week
Steam decided that the 2018 arrangement has to be changed
and the two applications need to be separated. The reason that led to this situation is probably (that's our guess) because some players who intentionally bought the game in the censored version also got access to the uncensored version, which they did not want. (There is also a different age rating for both games).

Accordingly, the two games can no longer be linked together and we were asked to remove any posts & announcements that linked to adult-only versions of our games, which you might’ve noticed as some of the pinned threads have disappeared. We had no choice in the matter as not complying with Steam’s demands could lead to a removal of all our games from the platform.

Using the tools available to us, we tried to find a solution that would be the best for you - players - in this situation. Therefore, we’ll create a
special Bundle
in which every Agony owner has a
95+% discount on Agony UNRATED
(which is the lowest value you can discount that game by) so that the "upgrade" to the unrated version will cost as little as possible. This is the best solution we can think of that’s within our reach, though we’re still in talks with Steam, trying to find another way to resolve this issue.

We are very sorry for this whole situation. Despite the fact that it did not result directly from our fault, it affects the game we created and we feel responsible for everything concerning it. As a developer, we learn from mistakes. The situation with Agony UNRATED was something new for us and we are glad that Steam allowed us to develop a solution that was beneficial for you at that time.
We made sure that similar problems won’t show up in the future
as all of the adult-only versions of our latest games are DLCs instead of being separate apps on the platform.

It is also worth noting that this situation only applies to players who got Agony UNRATED as a bonus when purchasing Agony. These players have lost access to Agony UNRATED. Players who purchased Agony UNRATED separately are not affected. These players still have full access to the game.
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I think that Valve should have tested a lot more games ahead of Steam Deck's launch. My own library is 80% untested games, I don't consider this an acceptable result. And this is with a two-month delay!
 
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Alexandros said:
I think that Valve should have tested a lot more games ahead of Steam Deck's launch. My own library is 80% untested games, I don't consider this an acceptable result. And this is with a two-month delay!
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from what i understood there is some lag behind the verrification as they are giving devs sometime before giving official verified mark
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lots of stuff is in progress and probably was put at the end of the queue for retest (stuff like P4G which was marked Unsupported and yet valve folks tweeted it got fixed in Proton7)

Also even with 20% of your library its still bigger launch lineuo than every hanheld console ever :shrugblob:
 
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Alexandros said:
I think that Valve should have tested a lot more games ahead of Steam Deck's launch. My own library is 80% untested games, I don't consider this an acceptable result. And this is with a two-month delay!
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Keep in mind that alongside the absurd amount of games on the platform, each game needs its moment to check every aspect, after that testing devs do have 1 week to tweak or publish the results so that also makes things slower.

In my case 77% of my library is still untested but we are seeing waves of 50-70 games at a daily rate so yeah, slowly but steady, while I can understand your position, I'm quite happy with the number of games that are already available and as a person who plays mostly smaller games it's quite nice to see that 23% of my library is already tested.
 
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Ascheroth said:
I just want the queues on Europe Central to go away :confounded-face:
At this point I can basically only play on weekends unless I play immediately after work (but I usually don't wanna play immediately after work).
And even then "play" means I can only do the solo-adventuring stuff, because to my understanding matchmaking for all group content is basically fucked all the time.

And I'm not going to restart on a different region/server.
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I was on Neria which has/had 15k to 20k queues. I was a little pissed when my guildmates decided to abandon the server and begin new on Antares. It was the best decision ever. Antares has basically no queues, the only time was on Sunday evening with a 400 to 600 queue that was cleared in 10 minutes.

of course, it doesn't change the matchmaking issues which are region-wide or the occasional "heavy server load" message that even plops up when Antares has no queues but other servers in the region are overloaded

Reddit did a sample

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The only servers with no queue during this period were Inanna, Thaemine, Antares, Brelshaza and Nineveh.
 
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Alexandros said:
I think that Valve should have tested a lot more games ahead of Steam Deck's launch. My own library is 80% untested games, I don't consider this an acceptable result. And this is with a two-month delay!
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Does it matter, in the end?
Either they are playable and you will find out when you play them, or they are not.
If you try to make a financial decision IF you should buy the Steam Deck depending on the playability of your games in your library, it shouldn't matter because you won't get a Steam Deck for a few months.
 
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