Flight Simulator's lighting engine makes excellent use of both natural and artificial lights as convincingly real sources of luminance. Comes with the benefit of middle-of-nowhere wilderness, at night, capturing a pretty terrifyingly convincing darkness.

I have no real idea what the new Avatar is all about except that everyone wants to fuck the evil blue lady. Which is very similar to the other movies where people everyone wanted to fuck the other blue creatures.

Blue tongue in the backyard enjoying some blueberries.

You know, they did a study on game impact on the hippocampus, and found that when given fewer navigation assists (e.g. maps, markets, waypoints, etc), hippocampus neurological activity improved. So, games with fewer waypoints, map markers, etc and aren't just better games. They're better for you.

Finally the week is over.

Scrapping an expensive, high production live service game because of quality concerns, not producing a single original title in 5+ years, and mandating staff to crunch up to 60 hours per week for several weeks, right before the holiday break, is nothing short of catastrophic failure of management.

blessed by keiichi okabe

The whole "Half-Life 3 delayed due to unstable RAM prices postponing Steam Machine release" sounds batshit conspiratorial but it's also completely reasonable and practical. It is absolutely a chain of events that can happen, and might legitimately be happening.

So apparently some Starfield 2.0 update event was recently held. Tempered expectations; not a Cyberpunk 2.0 style update. Nevertheless, when this gen is over, someone really needs to do a post mortem on how many big games were significantly transformed post launch and why it might be better to wait.

Ten years since that glass.

I see that @gene.meme hasn't yet posted it here, but I'm copying this from Twitter as it's great work from Remedy (also the DLC was great and Alan Wake 2 is great).

Two of my top played games in my Steam Unwind are Battlefield. Another is Call of Duty. Actually embarrassing.

Oh wow, the RAM market really is completely fucked.

I know there's no good argument for God because we live in a world where Bloodborne and The Last Guardian haven't been re released and therein lies proof of an uncaring universe.

On a different note, I think juvenility of 'video games' as a creative medium (and I don't mean juvenility as offense, but age) is poignantly highlighted in the language we use, the pop culture perception of the medium, and the 'culture' of 'gaming' as expressed on social media, forums, journos, etc

Being terminally online, it is fascinating/horrifying to watch in real time the insipid right wing, conservative, primarily USA sourced (or masquerading as USA, at least) propagandist hijacking of a local tragedy to peddle and promote ideological divisiveness. It's all so meticulous and deliberate.

Uuuugggggghhhhhhhh

That was sick. I'm in.

Bluesky's discovery algorithm appears superior to Twitter's in greater consistency at excluding marked unfavourable content, but has similar overcompensation issues prior to user action when making assumptions about what content a user ~may~ like. One like does not mean I want a flood, amigos.

protagonist shift concerns aside, i just know control 2 is gonna be that good shit

Tom Waits is so funny to me. Why does he sound like that (positive). Top ten human voices of all time. He sounds exactly the way this album cover looks youtu.be/C7I4kSpS43o?...

I'm keen for Exodus. It's not like...blowing my socks off and always kinda looks a little off in some way, but the type of scifi it's going for is barely anywhere in the "AAA" space. That whimsical, creature heavy, fantastical science fiction over the current trend to darker, more grounded scifi.

Anyway the most important game to come out of that event was that one where you play as the border collie.

Instead of Game of the Year they should do Gamer of the Year, where every year one very special gamer is chosen for ritual sacrifice.

Remedy's writing integrity has maintained impressive commitment and consistency since day one, but I just cannot shake the feeling that swapping Jesse for Dylan came about from assessing Alan Wake 2's slow performance and Firebreak's inability to capture the market, leading to a "safe" protagonist.

Utterly devastated Jesse is no longer the protagonist.

eventually you, uh, do plan to have awards on your award show, right?

That Divinity trailer was fucking sick.

gabe, full nude, sitting on his billion zillion dollar yacht, rolling in russian oligarch money, chuckling at the hype posts over half-life 3, a game that hasn't left prototyping

Dog in my room farted so bad I've had to pop a window. Cosmic timing for the commencement of the Keighleys.

Thinking on it, Death Stranding 2 for PC will probably be at TGAs. It got rated recently, Kojima usually makes an appearance for some shit.

I am once again reminding people that TIME's "Person of the Year" is not an award, nor aims to spotlight the most meaningful contribution or positive values. It's not a Nobel Prize. It's to highlight who/what, over the last 12 months, most significantly impacted society.

Polish journo who stated back in June that his "contacts at CPDR" confirmed a third big Witcher 3 DLC, made by Fool's Theory, has doubled down on the rumour, now stating it's "as big as Blood & Wine". I live to see it.

"The only thing that was important is what happened outside of school, and that had huge impact on me. People, relationships, slow dancing parties, big, big love. And dreams. Dark, fantastic dreams. Incredible time." Lynch, as always.

For all the technical achievements of the series, and the obvious production complexity of making a big AAA multiplayer game for 3+ platforms (+1000x configurations on PC), I am bewildered that DICE continues to be maybe the most technically inconsistent mess of launches/patches around.

If your Battlefield experience doesn't look like this AT LEAST 70% of the time you ARE NOT PLAYING CORRECTLY (up to 30% of play may be used to revive other players).

Day and date on PC, put me out of my misery.

There are always a bunch of really great looking games on display and I genuinely love the work people put in and wish all the representing devs nothing but joy, success, and fulfilment, but I think Wholesome Games might be my arch nemesis.

I hope the statue gateway opens up and births Geoff Keighley like the rhino scene in Ace Ventura 2.

Even though the pacing is all over the place, there are moments like speaking to Silverhand's AI ghost at the oil fields, where he realises all his passionate, egocentric rebellion amounted to was a discarded, forgotten corpse and an unchanged world, and you think "Oh yeah this is cyberpunk as fuck"

also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist

An insult to life itself.

Upon reflection, KOTOR II was probably the first time I found Star Wars really cognitively engaging in unexpected ways, and distinct from the simpler (though still wonderful) adventuring of the original trilogy. Kreia remains one of the most interesting characters to come from the entire series.

I really should give one of these Warhammer: Total War games a crack. The drive just isn't there for me over the historic entries, and I prefer 40k. That being said, I haven't gotten stuck into a Total War game proper since Shogun 2 (which ruled), and pre overhaul Rome II.

I don't know how to explain it but Vampire: Bloodlines (2004) and Predator 2 (1990) have the same vibes and I mean that as a compliment.

Of what I've played so far, I like Metroid Prime 4, but it absolutely isn't landing as strong as I hoped. That open desert really is very awful and a senseless addition.