Development respond:

Reminder that Troy Baker etc still get plenty of work. It's people like this who are struggling:

_{This is an actual voice actor. Look at him- he deserves every bad thing that happens to him. Frick this guy.}

For the record, I like this game. It combines flying a biplane with running a microbrewery, allowing you to import your own bottle labels for beers, wines and spirits you then deliver all over the islands while avoiding air pirates. For twenty bucks it's great. The visuals are very pleasant and it has lovely music. The AI voice work sounds fine and is a clear indication that using it works very well on small titles like this.

Bonus thread about another indie game I like allegedly having AI art. OP gets big mad that this publicly posted thread on a public forum gets comments from members of the public (who don't agree with him)...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1597310/discussions/0/3886099862947425508/

Link got fricked up:

https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-has-been-canceled

Frick E3, all my homies hate E3

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:

Update I will no longer be checking out stellaris https://t.co/hJgHpQmD1F pic.twitter.com/P7styCjsxt

— Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin 🐀 (@VoicesByZane) May 10, 2024

It's fundamentally disrespectful to artists

that's exactly why people are pro AI

Please CA, do it

LMAO

Steam forums are a underated source of drama

Here we can see the classical how many ovens do I need to bake 6 million cakes

Some people nootice but others dont have that power

https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1aixc3z/jez_corden_microsoft_unhappy_with_how_much_money

https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1aiz4j0/xbox_era_starfield_coming_to_ps5

https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1aj0f6b/microsoft_is_considering_bringing_indiana_jones

Previously it was believed that Hi-Fi Rush would go multi-plat but now it looks like they're going to do the same with Starslop and Indiana Jones. Indy was looking like the first worthwhile exclusive they'd had in years too but now that's going to be on PS5 too. It is so over for Xbros. We are witnessing Microsoft going the way of Sega.

GTA 6 to cost between $1-2 Billion, making it the most expensive game of all time pic.twitter.com/4cfbueV5rm

— Pubity (@pubity) November 8, 2023

There were no memes about this. I never once encountered someone discussing the skin color or intellect of Erudites they were simply another race to pick from especially if you wanted to cap your INT stat.

This was 1999 and for the next decade remained immune to whatever racial dialogue was going on outside the world of gaming. We were just nerds having fun in the best MMORPG ever created.

!nonchuds what happened to the internet since then?

Enjoy this banger login music from back in the day.

!coomers the box art for these games was .

Her name is Firiona Vie.

UPDATE 3: Entries submissions close today in about 8 hours so this is your last chance to participate

UPDATE 2: contest ends tomorrow

UPDATE: reminder that the contest ends on Tuesday! I'll pin this again the day before the deadline as a last reminder

Inspired by this picture and seeing dramatards always seem very excited about sharing their cute pets with everyone I figured this would be a nice/fun activity

[RULES]

1. It has to be your pet

2. No AI, it would be too easy

3. You have to use an actual videogame screenshot taken by yourself or you can also google screenshots to use BUT it must be from the gameplay, not from cutscenes or cinematic trailers EDIT: by popular demand, cutscenes are allowed now!

5. If you're not good with Photoshop, you can commission/get another dramatard to do it

6. You can make as many entries as you want but only one can be on the voting poll

The winner will be decided by vote so if you have multiple entries you have to pick one to be used in the poll

[PRIZES]

1st Place: 5000 DC

2nd Place: 3000 DC

3rd Place: 2000 DC

Might increase the prizes if there's a lot of interest

DEADLINE: The contest will end on Tuesday, July 4

PLEASE REPLY HERE WITH YOUR ENTRY: https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/182848/contest-photoshop-your-pet-as-a/4455526#context

Not sure if those rules are alright, feel free to suggest how to improve or make the contest more fun

Here are some answers to questions you might have

>If we have more than one pet can we Photoshop them together in one entry?

Yes

>Are people with the same pets allowed to submit different applications?

For the sake of fairness I think it's better if only one of the owners is allowed to participate with that pet

>I'm allergic

>I don't play any games that would make sense to have a pet photoshopped into

As long as the pet is yours and the edit was done by you (or someone you commissioned/asked to edit for you) you can google screenshots of a game and use them, even if it's a game you don't play

https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/14l8r4o/skullgirls_bombarded_by_negative_steam_reviews?sort=controversial

Above: the liberal woke media has removed the upskirt panty shot on the big titty tentacled fighter girl.

Decade-old fighting game Skullgirls has been hit with more than 600 negative Steam reviews in just 24 hours because of a patch that mostly tweaks and removes artwork that the developers say doesn't reflect their current "values" or "broad vision" for the future of the game. The overall Steam rating for Skullgirls remains "Very Positive," but its recent review average has tumbled down to "Mostly Negative."

COOMER ALONE WEAK

COOMER TOGETHER STRONG

The devs summarize the art changes to reflect three areas:

• "Allusions to real-world hate groups" seen in the dress and iconography of Skullgirls' Black Egret army, particularly its Nazi-like red armbands

• Instances in which characters "are fetishized and/or have sexualization imposed upon them," with particular attention toward younger characters

• Some content "believed to be in poor taste" with regard to race

Other changes

the combo counter phrase for 18-hit combos, which had been "Barely Legal," was replaced.

Don't worry, though, the devs are still strongly s*x-positive!

Price suggested that the core Skullgirls identity hasn't changed, noting for instance that "Skullgirls is no stranger to characters that confidently express their sexuality"

Even the underage ones!

Anyway, here's what the game looks like I guess:

I'm gonna make that one into a Marsey.

Does that neighbor realise from software is very closed studio full with boomers and almost no foids ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/17ugypd/starfield_ghosted_at_the_2023_game_awards?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/17ugypd/starfield_ghosted_at_the_2023_game_awards/k93xqj2?context=8&sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/17ugypd/starfield_ghosted_at_the_2023_game_awards/k93ooza?context=8&sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/17ugypd/starfield_ghosted_at_the_2023_game_awards/k9412j3?context=8&sort=controversial

Fake Saints Row fans when the "woke" Reboot is a financial success and Volition doesn't go out of business. pic.twitter.com/qSoEz3H6Nv

— DX (@DXFromYT) August 18, 2022

https://twitter.com/DXFromYT/status/1562871753122418689

https://twitter.com/DXFromYT/status/1593291774553890819

https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/1697364913528725881

/r/pcgaming thread with more of the same drama

Overwatch sub reaction

https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/13jdd8d/discussion_overwatch_2_devs_announce_that_most_of/?sort=controversial