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Pillars of Eternity's 10-year anniversary turn-based mode will sidestep the biggest issues I was worried it would have, and you can try it this week Pillars 1's turn-based mode enters public beta testing on November 5

Finally! I've been waiting for this to replay the first PoE for ages www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pi...

That's such a good campaign concept!!

I realise this is going to sound fucking insane but could you not run it via Android emulator? I do that for Destiny Rising and it works a treat.

I should have known that things could only go downhill based on how strong Gundam 00 was out of the gate. Season 2 ditches basically everything that made S1 interesting to re-run the plot of Zeta Gundam and it is not working for me at all.

Very cold on the first episode but now that I am further in it is unbelievable how much Gundam 00 is made for my special interests (geopolitics)

Very late but Mouthwashing is a very good video game

I don't care that much but the Halo remake looks garish and creatively bankrupt.

A Melbourne real estate agency just casually putting a job out on Airtasker for a lawyer to write a cease and desist for a fkn Google review. Incredible.

Part of me is convinced there has to be more to this story because the very familiar story of a SP-focused studio being pushed to pivot into live service only for it to go poorly so rarely seems to end with any consequences for the executives/leadership responsible.

Is there life beyond live service gaming? Can we come back from the era of the forever game?

Finally managed to catch up with @bibbybhoy.bsky.social for this week's issue of Multiplier, which delves into our complicated feelings about live service gaming and how it's changing the industry we both cover multiplierau.substack.com/p/is-there-l...

I remain super keen to dig into VTM: Bloodlines 2 at some point but that RRP feels *steep* given how all over the map the critical reception seems to be.

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Turn A Gundam was as good as its reputation suggested. Lt. Harry = iconic

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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I'm trying to understand how this is a ceasefire when Israel basically seems to have never stopped killing Palestinians

Incredible opportunity for Microsoft's mismanagement of Halo to overshadow Sony's mismanagement of Destiny/Bungie here.

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If anyone I am following did all of GCAP+PAX + SXSW Sydney and would be open to chatting about the marathon of events that October has become in recent years for the newsletter please drop me a DM

I feel like I haven't heard a word about Keeper since the first trailer dropped. Worrying that it feels like Microsoft is setting DF up for failure.

They're so good!

Do more with less

Sleeping on it, deeply unsure whether the end of Peacemaker S2 is a galaxy brain satire of (neo)liberalism or just an accidental one.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

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Everyone has very strong/insane opinions about audio gear but basically I want to spend less than $800-$1000 if possible and I am trying to tease out whether it makes more sense to get a sensible setup that sounds good (better than budget but not insane) or pair up a turntable and a Sonos 5 instead.

I am once again entertaining the idea of trying to find a record player and speaker setup for my pile of vinyls.

I had a terrible and expensive experience trying to make the Victrola Onyx work with my Sonos system a while back but am struggling to find alternatives that offer a similar simplicity.

I think there's a lot that you can glean here in terms of Sony seeing these games as setting the template for its prestige AAA strategy going forward but it's tricky to try and tease out how much these games have aged poorly and how much of them just isn't my thing.

Started the second Uncharted and I think I like it even less than the first one. As a fan of pulpy capers, I will push on. All too often though, I think the series plays like a weird Western market counterpart to MGS that learned all the wrong lessons from Kojima's success.

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

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