RoR2 and RoRR are good btw

!g*mers @birdenthusiast @Bruhfunny_Thrall

A few months ago, I was feeling pretty good about my primogen stash, so I decided to roll for Childe "Tartaglia" Ajax, Eleventh of the Nine Fatui Harbingers. I only really wanted the character because I want to collect all the Harbingers, and because I like his character/story, his gameplay is ridiculously clunky. So I rolled on his banner, lost the 50:50, and had to spend some 150ish rolls on him. My primogen stash was devastated. It took me months to get back to the comfortable stash of roughly 500 rolls, after getting lucky and winning Furina on the 50:50. I've gone from like average 50% world exploration to like 90% world exploration during the recovery process.

So today I decided on a whim to roll for Navia (I have pretty much all the other characters for her best Abyss teams already), and guess what? It happened again. I lost the 50:50. At least last time I got Dehya, a character I didn't have, this time I got a fricking Tighnari constellation. It took me around 120 rolls to get Navia, less than last time, so now I'm down to ~380 rolls, which isn't even enough to guarantee three future characters. I'll probably skip Cloud Retainer and only get Arlecchino, Monsieur Neuvilette and Kazuha on their reruns during the Fontaine patch cycle.

Let this be a lesson, unless you're a whale, do not waste your rolls on a random whim.

Seriously I am a non vidyan and the steam deck is such a stupid no brain purchase for entertainment. $50 basically got me an entire years worth of games to frick around with while camping for 2024

Tetris effect, space invaders extreme, side loaded dsda-doom, vampire saviors and final fantasy vii with all the high def models/backgrounds and voice acting mods is worth the price of admission alone

Also every switch game at 60fps lmao my nieces can't even comprehend

My recommends

Rogue Legacy 2 - 40% discount, 15 bucks/euro, one of the best platformers around. Yes, it's kind of proceduraly generated. Yes, it's a roguelite. Yes, cope seethe and dilate.

Caveblazers - less than a dollar/euro. Pretty good action platformer, for its price probably the best deal on steam rn. Another proc gen roguelite, please let everyone know how much you dislike these.

Neon White - 40% discount, price is under 15 bucks/euro. Fps/puzzle/race game. Neat.

Ori and the will of the wisps - under 10 bucks/euro. The other best platformer around.

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— The Day Before (@playdaybefore) December 22, 2023

This is BEYOND embarrassing. @tobyfox please stop working with these people, this is absurdly unprofessional behavior. pic.twitter.com/yAdXwB4IwT

— Shayy (@Shayy_TV) December 21, 2023

Let's start with the basics. This is Undertale.

It all starts when the twitter account for the fan game named, undertale yellow

Corporate said we had to eradicate 100 tracks off our OST but on the bright side, you can now stream UTY music! 🤠👍

CEO interjects, while he also states that he doesn't speak for TobyFox/Royal Sciences (the actual owners) https://x.com/sebastianwolff/status/1737742943644164145

It's then shown that the game developer gave his blessing, causing the CEO to be community noted, in which he then sneeds

https://x.com/sebastianwolff/status/1738096863344243123

Now it seems that the publisher, Materia, may have retroactively FAQ on fangames https://x.com/shayy_tv/status/1738062658341916929

TLDR:

https://i.imgur.com/F4CD13r

https://x.com/jazzccle/status/1738013128401506713

They're so terrified of people swxualising Tracer that they've completely removed her ass...

Like... it just doesn't exist here. The anatomy makes zero sense. pic.twitter.com/63edHQe2CI

— Josh the COMMISSIONS CLOSED Animator 🇨🇦 🎺🎺 (@JoshAnimator) December 21, 2023

!gacha

https://old.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/18o79j8/daily_login_first_top_up_bonus_and_vip_system

https://old.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/18o8gt5/tencents_stock_crashes_16_in_minutes_as_china

https://old.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/18o6e6r/chinas_press_and_publications_will_ban_online

https://old.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/18o7ku8/china_might_be_banning_all_game_mechanics_that

https://old.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/18o6rvf/oh

Call to action.

Remember the seethe about Rowling and the seethe about Hogwarts legacy? Turns out she's been chudposting lately. This nomination would make people really mad and would tell devs people want more Harry Potter.

I'm pretty sure the publication stole Harry Potter from Rowling but poeple still get mad lol.

hey !haters

Recently, David Jaffe, the creator of God of War series, posted a video on YouTube, sharing that he's not happy with how the series and Kratos evolved, saying that the character became too soft.

More: https://t.co/Xxodns2OiO#GodofWar #games #videogames #gameindustry pic.twitter.com/9d9YVV8zKf

— 80 LEVEL (@80Level) December 18, 2023

Honestly game appears to look better than I would have expected.

Rare Ubisoft W apparently.

Did not check it indepth except for confirming that it indeed looks good.

I think we are finally nearing 2016 tech demo levels of graphics in real time games.

https://www.mariolegacy.com/snes/super-mario-world-2-yoshi's-island-levels.htm

Seriously frick this game wtf

Update dropped less than an hour back, @NoUntakenNames01 wait is over

Many people on the various posts about the Sony leaks have been wondering what exactly all this means and why Sony is having issues. This post is designed to break some of the scattered info down to create an idea of where Sony is headed.

To understand anything about modern Sony, one needs to understand 3 key things:

• The PlayStation 5 was released a little over 3 years ago, in that time 12 exclusives have been released.

• The Game & Network Services (gaming) division is Sony's largest division, making about 26 billion USD of the 88 billion they made across the whole company in FY2022. It is also the primary driver of the company's growth. The Music division and the Imaging and Sensing division are also growing, but not nearly as quickly. The Electronics Products & Solutions division is a good source of revenue, but it's basically stagnant.

• In April 2016 (April 1st lol), Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) was created to operate PlayStation (and pretty much the entire gaming division). This ended up effectively moving the HQ of the PlayStation part of the company from Japan (the HQ of SIE's two predecessors) to San Mateo, California, the HQ of the newly formed SIE.

Sony's PlayStation brand has always been a very strong performer in the gaming market, ever since the PS1. It has had it's ups and downs, but has always been a good source of revenue and growth that's been able to capitalize on the continuously growing video game industry. This is best shown with the fact that PS5 has sold way more units than the Xbox series X and S, about twice as many.

However Sony is actually 2nd in a 3 player race, Nintendo is absolutely crushing both Sony and Microsoft in terms of console units sold. The Switch has sold 3x more than the PS5 despite only being twice as old. In fact in 2023 the Switch has been estimated to have sold an extra 10 million units over the PS5, so the Switch's advantage is not all because of it's age.

The main reason is that many Japanese developers and customers started to switch to the Switch, this will be explained later.

No big deal, right? Sony can at least keep a lock on the American AAA market and claw back over the next few years, right? Well, that was probably the plan, until Microsoft did the unexpected: they changed the entire industry.

Microsoft has always treated Xbox as a side business, never really getting the full backing of the entire company. This is because Microsoft is 24x larger than Sony in terms of market cap. Even if Xbox had an overwhelmingly dominant position in the current console business, it wouldn't really be a huge deal.

Thus, Sony always remained safe knowing that they were too small and insignificant to be crushed by Microsoft, and that they also had a very strong Japanese following (of both customers and developers) that would never go team Xbox. That is of course until two different developments occurred:

Microsoft decided that the console business isn't important... but the entire gaming industry is. They determined that if they could get a large slice of the entire gaming pie, not just console money, they would be able to make tons of money.

The Japanese turned on Sony, and started to move to Nintendo.

Both of these developments are best explained separately, so I'll be making 2 different posts that will cover each side of this 2 pronged assault on Sony's lunch.

Which should I write about first: