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After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them
  • Totally agree! I remember being shuttled to the demo XBox by a GameStop employee who was fawning over the first Halo and I was not impressed having just finished Half Life 2

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    Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of February 4th
  • I am enjoying it so far! The combat is enjoyable, building is robust and the world does call to you for exploration.

    Progress is server wide which is strange. My completing a quest completes it for all other players so you probably want to play on a private server.

    It definitely has space to improve but I think the devs have a solid foundation here to build something quite enjoyable.

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    Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of February 4th
  • Currently juggling Enshrouded, Frostpunk, and Remnant 2. Enjoying all of them for very different reasons.

    It’s pretty unusual for me since I don’t have as much time to enjoy games as I used to and I tend to remain pretty focused on a single title on my list at a time.

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    Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail
  • This is pretty incredible! I hope more industries adopt this mindset and begin to find ways to combat climate change. It’s going to take all industries exerting this level of change!

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    Netflix launches a game controller app for playing games on your TV
  • I do find it interesting how far ahead of its time the GameCube controller is though. It was almost a precursor for mobile button layout with the large A and other buttons around it in a non-traditional form/layout. That’s what immediately came to mind when seeing the controller layouts.

    I’m not a huge fan of cloud gaming but Netflix may be on to something here by having games be added value to a sub rather than a discrete service with a separate sub. Plus from my experience, it’s not like the apps are streamed to your device but are available for download with an active sub.

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    [IDW's Star Trek: Day of Blood #1 comic] Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command
  • That’s true but I would think that the career path to captain would be more agnostic. Starfleet would benefit from having captains with tactical backgrounds, scientific. Backgrounds etc.

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    Steam Hardware & Software Survey - Go Linux! :)
  • Exactly. They won’t do it now while their Activision/Blizzard acquisition is under scrutiny but they could easily adopt a new strategy in a few years that restricts purchases through stores Microsoft controls

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    Steam Hardware & Software Survey - Go Linux! :)
  • Hope this trend continues to strengthen over the next few years!

    I do wonder how Microsoft buying up basically the entirety of the western game dev world will influence this in the future though

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    What films that flopped when they came out but you saw in the theater and loved, that are now universally acclaimed or cult classics?
  • The original Blade Runner (1982) didn’t do as well as expected at the box office upon release. I originally thought it lost money but when conducting research for this post I found that it apparently did turn a small profit according to Wikipedia.

    Now it’s considered a cult classic and some argue it’s one of the best sci-fi movies ever made and its influence can be felt in many other movies, TV shows, anime/manga, and games.

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