MurrayL @ MurrayL @lemmy.world

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Honestly, a bunch of indies self-labelling as 'triple i' feels a bit pretentious to me, but the intent seems good so I'm hoping it doesn't come off that way in practice.

Xbox UI has been a bit all over the place on Series S/X (and XB1, which shares most of the same design).

It's not terrible by any means, but it can be unintuitive at times and the updates to improve things tend to be 'two steps forwards, one step back'.

Hopefully 'narrative adventure' being one of the pillars means we'll get more games like Jusant!

"I talked to at least five small teams, like 35 members] and under, during GDC, and they're like: Cuts, cuts, cuts, funding canceled, talks that were going on for a year, canceled," said Casey Yano, the co-founder of Slay the Spire studio Mega Crit. "It sounds like it's shit. We're definitely very privileged to be able to self-fund. Otherwise] I'd be very, very, very scared right now."

If these deals didn't exist, lots of games simply wouldn't get made. You can hate on the platforms all you like but the deals are one of the only sources of funding for small & solo developers.

Misleading post - the tweet clearly says they're adding EA Anticheat. This has absolutely nothing to do with Easy AntiCheat.

It's literally just a 20-minute rant about Xbox Live. Doesn't even mention security until 15 minutes in, and that part is about players being able to get your IP address if you join a party chat.

Can they not just send a DMCA takedown notice to the host of that web server?

True, but if Nightdive get a deal to do it, I guarantee they'll use KEX like they have for all their other ports.

There's a game called A Little to the Left that's a whole bunch of lovely organisational + sorting puzzles

Basically the entire Wadjet Eye catalogue, and the first two games in the Broken Sword series (then stop - the 3D ones are crap)

At this point, are there any corporations left that haven't owned jagex at some point?

Usually because the studios and publishers go out of their way to avoid promoting individual developers - it's seen as bad for business (encourages poaching, among other things).

On the other hand, preserving old games by making sure they're playable on modern hardware is something I wish more companies cared about.

they're a massive corporation with basically no interest in the product except how much money it can make

I think that describes Hasbro just as well as Tencent.

It's not a euphemism; redundancy is legally different from being fired, with different protections, compensation, etc.

Article doesn't mention this affecting anywhere other than the US. Why is this in world news?

It's like RoboCop having a meltdown when he tries to arrest an OCP officer

Can only hope Microsoft has stepped in and freed Toys For Bob - they did great work on Reignited and it was so sad when Activision responded by locking them in the Call of Duty content mines.

PepsiCo owns far more than just Pepsi (Ocean Spray, Tropicana, Aquafina, Lipton, Quaker, Lay's, Cheetos, and many other brands)

The noun 'use', as in 'this has a specific use'