That’s my experience with 99% of old school point and click games. At some point in every one it devolved into me running in circles and trying every item on every object.

Please god not the distrochooser site, when someone asks you where to install Linux you send them anything but that.

Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus, are exploring the possibility of developing versions of the Android operating system that do not rely on Google Mobile Services (GMS).

Clickbait title. They’re rumored to fork Android which will still just be Android without the Google suite.

I would love a 3D re-imagining, as long as they don’t butcher the story and introduce multiverse timetravel ghosts. Sigh.

You won’t be able to play with 2 players in the final game either, they’ve already said as much when they first announced it.

Last I’ve heard they said they were looking into it but haven’t confirmed anything. They also mentioned they were surprised so many people wanted a 2 player mode which is… Surprising.

This could be great, but I’ll wait around for reviews. I’d be very excited about this if it weren’t for Fromsoft’s bad experience with online play. In the beta you couldn’t play with 2 players and if someone disconnected there apparently wasn’t a way to reconnect, and the netcode could be janky. Really hope they fixed those issues before release.

No, they confirmed it was releasing 2025. That’s it.

An enormous component of anything is advertising, I don’t see your point.

Well, that settles it. $80 games is going to be the new standard and Sony will quickly trail along. Oh well, nothing much has changed for patient gamers.

I have found that adept gets more balanced as you level up, I’m level 8 right now and I’ve had a few challenging fights.

A little over level 10 is where the game gets most difficult, then it quickly gets easier again. Once you have a powerful restoration spell you’re almost unkillable on adept.

Correction: It is to make money, but the goal is to get people to subscribe now then jack up the prices once people start relying on it.

I finished the base game earlier today, doing the shivering isles now. It’s a great remaster, but it definitely needs a few updates. Performance and bugs aside, the balance of the game is all over the place and the difficulty options are broken. Expert is way too hard, adept is too easy. Luckily, modders already fixed a lot of things.

I highly recommend modding your game to improve a few things:

• Ultimate Engine Tweaks improves performance at zero cost to graphics. It also helped significantly with stutters.

• Difficulty Slider Fixed makes the difference between difficulties less drastic

• More Damage makes everything (including enemies) deal more damage. A must have imo because Bethesda’s school of spongy enemies is really outdated game design. 2x more damage on everything makes combat deadlier and more exciting.

P.S. there’s an “unofficial oblivion remastered patch mod” that claims to fix thousands of bugs, but in reality it makes the game more unstable and has its own issues. Don’t use it yet.

House Flipper 2 is great. I wish missions were less linear, but it’s probably the best “home designer” game out there.

In other news, 8bitdo is no longer shipping in the US due to tariffs

This makes me think he knows something we don’t. Is he trying to dodge GTA 6’s release date? There wouldn’t be another reason to move the launch date up by two weeks.

Context length is disappointing, but the fact that it trades blows with R1 despite being 30B MoE is insane. I’ll wait and see if real-world performance matches up to benchmarks, but it sounds like a big deal.

53% is abysmal, it might as well be a coin flip. FYI this article is about a random one called BrandWell, popular AI detectors like GPTZero are much more accurate.

FYI it fails to fetch votes if you don’t include https:// at the start.

[Have a coin, beggar.]

The old video game industry still blows my mind. Competition was so fierce, there were tons of high quality AAA games releasing each year until things suddenly slowed down in the PS4/Xbone era. Granted, a lot of consoles failed and a lot of companies went under but it must have been wild to see Counter Strike, Baldur’s Gate 2, Diablo 2, Deus Ex, Perfect Dark, Red Alert 2, etc. all launch in the same year.

The indie scene today is great, but the amount of AAA games coming out these years are much fewer, and there’s a 50/50 chance it’s going to be a total flop.