Games

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Creative Assembly and Sega have pulled Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition from Steam after a raft of complaints about the quality of the remaster.

Today’s game is Spliner Cell Chaos Theory. Ages ago someone recommended it to me and I picked it up. I don’t remember who it was, but if you’re seeing this, seriously. Thank you. Legit one of the best purchases I’ve made in a while.

I recently had the chance to chat with SapphireRhodonite, the sole developer of SeedlessDS, for what I believe is his first proper interview about the project.

I wrote a blog post on the current trend of game decompilations using AI and where we’re going with this. It’s all very promising but oh boy are the implications scary.

As always, more nuance is inside, but some major bullet points:

Huh.

Xbox Labs is Xbox’s attempt to explore the recent rush of genAI-driven game ports and recompiles.

Today’s game is some more of the Cobblemon Server I set up for my friends. Today was the first day it was in actual “release”. I ended up finding a way to get both this and the Attack of The B-Team server to run on separate subdomains so I’m happy.

I played so much Duke 3D as a kid 😢

God of War Laufey is the next big game to get a collector box without the game itself.

GTA 6 will launch on PC just a few months after consoles, according to a new report.

Today’s game is Minecraft. My friends asked have been wanting me to set up a Cobblemon server, which is what I’ve done. Went through the whole thing to set it up and I tested it while the chunks generated. All pretty good.

Barone announced Haunted Chocolatier back in 2021, but amid ongoing work on his phenomenally successful Stardew Valley, progress on the follow-up has been slow going. Indeed, in June, Barone admitted to feeling somewhat embarrassed to have to keep on saying he was still working away on the game. “Feels kinda dumb posting this same thing over and over, but that’s the reality,” he said at the time.

Today’s game is some more Baldur’s Gate 3. Me and my friends have been exploring the Underdark and ended up splitting up. Though. We did it in the worst way possible. We had our support members go on their own while Me (The Fighter) and The Barbarian went off our own way.

According to retail data, 35% of Marvel’s Wolverine sales were physical discs. This comes from Ampere Analysis (via The Game Business), which tracks sales data across major markets globally.

Today’s game is Baldur’s Gate 3. I managed to get my friends together to keep playing and we went into the under dark. So far it has been hell. For example: These fuckass birds. I was stumbling around down there doing stealth and suddenly got spotted by one from the other side of a huge pit. And what does it do? It calls all its friends. And suddenly my entire party is swarmed by like 3 of these things and a random drow that seems to have an issue with us.

Needless to say, this is the game, not the movie.

A wave of AI-decompiled mashup mods has taken over X/Twitter this week.

Today’s game is Pokemon Soul Silver. I’m about to take on the Pokemon League, but before I do I want to try and fill out the Johto Dex. I’d like to have to avoid doing return trips that way.

This also includes an update to DX11 and many graphics rendering updates.

The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.

Today’s game is Baldur’s Gate 3. I finally reinstalled it so I could finish playing through it with friends. And when I say “Playing” I really mean finding any excuse I can to play with the Photo mode. Like legit this has got to be one of my favorites just for the ability to position them in the game world.

The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn’t seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propaganda to convince people to pay you for it. Fight people that see through your oily business.

Just think, the next data breach will now include your government issued ID!

I’m lucky enough to call both Russ from Retro Game Corps and Lee (who some of you will probably know better as Wild Lee from Venture Electronics) friends, which made this a particularly fun article for me to put together.

A new division called Xbox XP will take the lead on “film and television, consumer products, strategic partnerships, and live experiences,” with a focus “on how people experience our franchises beyond the games themselves.”

I went to see this game on Steam’s newest release tab, but the surprise (besides a nice affirmation that it sits at Very Positive reviews at this time) was realizing that it didn’t come from Electronic Arts or Ubisoft.

GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek has returned to publish a 24-minute gameplay video that has left fans scrambling to issue spoiler warnings across the internet.

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Today’s game is Pokemon Soul Silver. I keep nearly typing platinum out of habit. I guess it’s become engrained in me. I also think a part of me wasn’t quite ready to leave it behind. I might make another stop there and go see some of the post game stuff. I’ve never messed with them and want too. I hear I can even get a house.

I stumbled onto this last week and its been crazy fun playing one of my favorites woth so many new people and mechanics. Dev is very responsive, lots of fun mods included, and even sailing/raids. For the price of free I’m pretty happy with my time so far! It can even be run in browser.

https://github.com/LoreanXavier/pt-pc

Today’s game is Pokemon Soul Silver. I’ve been hunting Pokemon and clearing Gyms all day. I found out about the commemorative photo system and even nabbed a few today. That’s what I used for the main image.

Well, here’s my feature on spruceOS and where the project is heading with their 4.5.0 update. Rather than just running through a changelog, I wanted to get into why spruce has grown the way it has: the push toward that “one card to rule them all” idea, making the same SD card useful across more handhelds, the work behind dArkMoss/BaseOS, offline RetroAchievements, and how the project has expanded without losing the hobbyist spirit that made it interesting in the first place.

It’s fascinating to see some of the scenes. They were clearly internal testing/debugging footage (like one scene is just repeatedly shooting the same gun at the same door, I suspect because someone was creating footage about impacts not being rendered) but it’s soooooo cool.

Today’s game is Halo. I actually meant to get some proper gameplay screenshots today, but today was the day I did the “Group Photos” photo shoot I had wanted to do. And it actually took way longer than I had expected. It was like wrangling cats.

Today’s game is Soul Silver. I spent my time prepping making a checklist of just how many of each Pokemon I need to catch to make a living Johto Dex. So hopefully this time it’ll be a whole lot easier.

Some ideas for how the afterlife might persist as a series of customizable games.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Liberation. It’s been burning a hole in my storage space going unplayed as of late. So I thought I’d finish the story tonight and try for collectives. So far it was a pretty quick experience.

Time for an article I wrote about Slot, an interesting custom firmware made specifically for the Anbernic RG SP. I chatted with its developer K-Wall about where it came from and why it deliberately does things a little differently.

Steam, as on a Steam Deck

i love this game and as the source is still locked by some asshat, i just rebuilt it using claude.

Today’s game is some Halo. I wanted to take it easy tonight, mostly because I had to be up early in the morning. So Halo was how I chose to relax. Somehow even the PvP sessions are relaxing to chill in. Well. Usually at least.

The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated modifications.

Today’s game is Daikatana. I have heard that this game is basically not good. I had a left over handful of quarters though in my Steam wallet so I decided to pick it up. To really see how bad it is. I even decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and install patches and all that stuff.

Today’s game is some Halo PvP. Admittedly today after a single match I was more focused on taking photos in theater mode than actually playing in lobbies. Partly though this is because I’m working on setting up stuff to take a Group Picture of my Halo Group. It might sound Tacky but I’ve got a inkless photo printer and I’d love to have a picture of my group in there. Some of us have moved away and it’d be nice to have that as a way to have a photo of them.

I’ve spent the last little while properly getting to know the Retroid Pocket Duo Lite, and my review is probably a little more focused on the feel of the thing, the two-screen experience and what it’s actually like to live with than on endless performance charts. I do cover some of the usual emulation stuff, but I was especially interested in what Retroid has managed to do with the form factor at this price, and whether it still has a bit of that dual-screen magic once the novelty wears off and the limitations of the processor kick in.

Fairy Mount and Devolver Digital explain why they are releasing their titles against what could be the biggest game launch of all time, and analysts weigh in on

I did it by eye. I made it from the outer ring of a bearing (which is why my blade is 5 mm thick). I cut it in half, heated up one half, and forged it into a straight flat bar. Then I cut out the shape using an angle grinder (the teeth on the spine of the blade and fitted the shape for the handle) and sharpened the blade on a bench grinder. I made the holes in the blade using a drill press.

The previous two DLCs the game received were really fun and both got 86% positive rating so my hopes are high for this one

Today’s game is Breath of The Wild, on the 3DS. I saw someone post a link online somewhere, and despite years of experience handling cyber security on a personal level, there was a little voice in my head that was saying “Just a peak. You’ll know it’s probably safe it’s a .CIA file”. Turns out. It was safe. And it’s beautiful in a “This looks like shit but is genuinely impressive” kind of way.

Seeing as this visual novel never got much interest in the years after it came out, I figured I should bright light to a hidden gem.

Top of mind for me after reading this article is that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet should just be called The Heretic Prophet, and Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn.