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End of an era: Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam, and more Blizzard games will follow

Overwatch 2's Steam release will include Achievements, friends list integration, and Battle.net crossplay.

www.pcgamer.com

End or beginning of another generation. Blizzard games on steam. Bring the rest of them, and maybe we can talk

 

[Couchpotato]

Another article for the only in Australia section again.

Neurosurgeon investigating patient's mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman's brain in Australia

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital has plucked a3-inch wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.

apnews.com

 

[Corwin]

See, here in the merry old land of Oz, we have everything covered!!

 

[JDR13]

See, here in the merry old land of Oz, we have everything covered!!

Even giant beach worms.

Is there anything in Australia that isn't disgusting?

 

[JDR13]

It's one hell of a party when you can see it from space.

Satellites capture Burning Man festival's fire from space (photos)

The annual 'radical self-expression' festival has just begun.

www.space.com

 

[pibbuR]

Is there anything in Australia that isn't disgusting?

Some australians.

pibbuR who can name a couple.

 

[pibbuR]

Today in 1870 Louisa Swain became the first woman to vote in a general election in the United States.

 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb5kUjIdZA


A good analysis.

 

[Couchpotato]

The reality of marketing for fastfood.

 

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‘Dead Space’ Co-Creator Departs Startup After Newest Game Flops

Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months after the commercial flop of its first game.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[pibbuR]

I think this one is something many of you would love to know. And now you do:

95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report

Crypto crashed and brought NFTs with it.

petapixel.com

One quote:
"This is not to say that all NFTs are scams or that people should have nothing to do with them, but some NFT collections are remarkably stupid at best."

pibbuR who chooses to support developing countries. Like Nigeria.

Spoiler

Actually he doesn't.

 

[JDR13]

‘Dead Space’ Co-Creator Departs Startup After Newest Game Flops

Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months after the commercial flop of its first game.

www.bloomberg.com

That's too bad. I had really high hopes for The Callisto Protocol at one point. During development, it looked like it was going to be a legitimate successor to Dead Space. I wonder where things went wrong.

 

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That's too bad. I had really high hopes for The Callisto Protocol at one point. During development, it looked like it was going to be a legitimate successor to Dead Space. I wonder where things went wrong.

There must've been some struggle in the company, or maybe with their publisher, that caused him to leave/be pushed out.
Even if Callisto failed, they could've easily reused all that work and effort and put it into a Callisto Protocol 2, or a new space horror IP, that would be much more faithful to how Dead Space was. If their new idea was rejected so fervently.
And I'm sure that would've probably taken considerably less work, since they could reuse a lot of infrastructure. And just made new content and a new combat system. And it would probably be a much bigger success than CP.

 

[pibbuR]

Has the game improved after patches (assuming there were patches), so that buying it actually makes sense now?

pibbuR who is curious (and has a Ryzen 5950x, a 2080 Ti, and 52.01 EUR to burn).

 

[JDR13]

Has the game improved after patches (assuming there were patches), so that buying it actually makes sense now?

Steam reviews are mixed, although more recent reviews are mostly positive. I'm waiting for the next decent sale. I'd buy at 50% or less.

 

[pibbuR]

Sounds reasonable.

pibbuR who once again decides to follow the advice of the 13th jdr.

 

[Hurls]

I think this one is something many of you would love to know. And now you do:

95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report

Crypto crashed and brought NFTs with it.

petapixel.com

One quote:
"This is not to say that all NFTs are scams or that people should have nothing to do with them, but some NFT collections are remarkably stupid at best."

pibbuR who chooses to support developing countries. Like Nigeria.

Spoiler

Actually he doesn't.

Just Nigerian bankers?

 

[Couchpotato]

Well Square Enix isn't going to like that as they called NFTs the future.

Me on the otherhand I'm happy their value crashed.

 

[pibbuR]

Just Nigerian bankers?

And royalty.

 

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Remedy says its Max Payne remakes are ‘a big, big project’ | VGC

Remedy’s Sam Lake describes the work involved…

www.videogameschronicle.com

This has the potential to be amazing. I hope they do a great job. I also hope they reuse the exact same dialogue recordings.
Just imagine playing the two games as one, in the Control engine. Could be amazing. I hope they don't half-ass it and they know what they've signed up for.