#Stadia

[gamemories]

[justinsaadiq]

[doyouknowthisgame]

[bellzsad]

as i’m watching teen wolf i’ve noticed that they always cut off their cute and adorable couple scenes by reminding us that there’s mass murders being committed.

[videovending]

Spontaneous Craving Satisfaction Machine: BURRITO XXL. Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red. 2020.

[demifiendrsa]

We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie — Announcement Trailer

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The quirky and groundbreaking game is back with new features for all to enjoy. A faithful reproduction of the original work released in 2005, with a modern touch!

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Five New Challenges Starring a Young King of All Cosmos – Enjoy all-new challenges and collectibles inspired by the first interlude movie of the main game that shows the King as a child.

Take Pictures of Your Adventure in Selfie Mode – Use your selfie stick to take photos and have fun decorating them! Selfie mode comes with a photo rally feature where you can take pictures and collect stickers of Namco characters placed on objects throughout all stages. Filling your photo rally sheet lets you unlock new frames and filters.

Play as Long as You Want with No Limitations – This remaster comes with an Eternal Mode for those that want to play with no time limit. Keep it rolling… for as long as you want!

Quality of Life Improvements and More – Players can now favorite their favorite musical tracks and select from a list of tracks for playback when they play levels, better locate target objects with navigational indicators that help find barricades and goal objects, easily find stages they want to play with the “Find a Fan” shortcut, and enjoy this HD remaster on a wider pool of gaming platforms.

[blazehedgehog]

Thoughts on the Microsoft Third Party news?

I mean if Xbox is getting to be a big enough brand that people are raising questions of whether or not exclusivity means monopoly, then yeah, spreading more of your games out across multiple platforms makes legal sense.

More and more of the game industry is regrettably going to be moving in the direction of "account ecosystem" rather than hardware platform. Years ago there was talk about how one day there would be no Xbox or Playstation console, just an Xbox or Playstation App you launch on something like a Roku.

The final disgusting endpoint in all of this "no more sales, just service" drive. No discs, not even local data, just a monthly streaming subscription. Forever. No ownership, no ability to mod games, no way to play offline.

Even in the best case scenario, we're looking at a Netflix where you stream 90% of what you play and only "buy" the 10% of games you truly love.

The only thing that flies in the face of that is, like, Steam. The state of movie ownership is what it is because Netflix got there first. The streaming arm of Netflix is the entire reason the "Hollywood Streaming Industry" exists right now. It predates Prime Video, it predates Tubi, it predates everything.

Fewer people probably remember this, but the original premise of Hulu was to get TV networks signed on to simulcast their newest shows online, because none of them were doing that yet. "Netflix Instant" (the original name for Netflix streaming) even predates that. Hulu was trying to fill a need that Netflix could not because Netflix did not actually stream TV shows at first. Not even syndicated rerun stuff. It was just movies. Streaming Seinfeld or The Simpsons or The Office was just outright impossible.

Netflix got in there and shifted the direction of an entire industry, before borders had been staked out or consumers had built up substantial libraries they were protective of. So we went from VHS to DVD to Blu-ray to Streaming, where "Streaming" usually means a subscription service and not any form of ownership.

But that's not the case with games. Users expect backwards compatibility, they expect their libraries to carry forward, and in some cases people may own hundreds or even thousands of games in a digital library. I know on the Xbox 360, I own at least $200 worth of digital games, because I won a sweepstakes specifically for a $200 Xbox gift card. And my 19 year old Steam account will gladly tell the entire world I own over 1600 PC games.

That's just on Steam! Epic is still always giving away free games (200+), GOG is occasionally giving away free games and holding sales where you can get stuff for a couple bucks, etc. etc. etc. It's like the warehouse of mythical items from Indiana Jones over here.

People own gigantic libraries of digital games they expect to keep and willingly modify in perpetuity. It's a lot harder to push people to stream everything off the cloud as a result. It's why the big selling point for game streaming is "No downloads!" and it's why it's struggling to catch on. Sure, a 100gb+ game is huge, but if I take my download limiters off, it doesn't actually take that long. A 90 minute download for a 30+ hour game seems like a pretty fair exchange, all told.

But Microsoft is still going all-in on "account ecosystem." It's like, think of it this way: every game publisher is in a constant war to have the one big holiday game that everybody buys. And for guys like Microsoft, that one big game a year is their primary moneymaker. If they can get everyone to spend at least $60 on their game once a year, they stay in business.

Game Pass is $60 a year. They side step having to put out that holiday season's biggest game and get to say, "Well for the price of one game, you can get access to an entire library." It changes the perspective on so much of their business model. Suddenly they don't need the big flagship holiday blockbuster, they just need to get more people to pay for Game Pass.

And the ultimate end goal there is probably to get Game Pass in as many places as they can. There's already a PC Game Pass. If they can launch some version of Game Pass for Playstation? Game Pass for Switch? They'll do it. The Xbox almost doesn't matter anymore. The subscription and the ecosystem does. It's why Microsoft rebooted the Xbox app on PC a few years ago -- it used to be a "Companion App" for your console, but now the Xbox App on PC is where all of their PC gaming and Game Pass stuff lives. Xbox isn't hardware anymore, it's a service you subscribe to, and that's where the real money is. Especially considering what a gigantic money pit hardware is; I don't think Microsoft has ever, even once, turned a profit on Xbox hardware (and neither has Sony, as far as I know).

Get rid of the need for hardware and that $60/year looks even sweeter, doesn't it? Especially when you start to consider that something like Game Pass Ultimate is actually $180/year. If you can lure people in on the $60 but upsell them to the $180... well, gosh, that's almost the price of a whole new console every year, isn't it? That's a lot of constant cashflow without needing the years and years of deeply expensive research, development, and manufacturing.

Getting people to spend a console's worth of money on your service without actually needing the console itself is massively desirable. They'd be saving millions, if not billions of dollars while making millions more elsewhere. There's a chart out there some executive is drooling over where a line goes straight up by something like 900%.

The only problem is the whole consumer rights/ownership factor. Which I am not a fan of. I objectively refuse to support Game Pass for what it's obvious goals are. I will buy and own every game I want to play. No compromises. I will buy physical if space and money allows. I will not be bled dry by temporary access.

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Child of Light 🏢 Ubisoft Montreal 📅 2014 🖥 PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Stadia, Wii U, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One #videogames

[egirl-vrissy]

No way did google stadia die before actually getting the full release of baldurs gate 3 💀

[rebeccasthoughts]

I'm Going to Become the Disco Cop by Doing Nothing

*spoilers i guess* Disco Elysum is a game that speaks to the soul. Not in the spiritual sense, rather, the game airs itself with a certain sense of uncertainty. It begs the player to ask weird questions, pursue the abstract, and at the end of the day discover oneself. The game is vast in its scope and depth yet feels claustrophobic at times the map is large, but the way one moves around it is…

[arts-publisher]

Largest American University stadiums

[litoscarde]

GYLT el juego de TERROR SICOLÓGICO MIRÁ los 2 FINALES

[ruleof3]

[doyouknowthisgame]

[bellzsad]

sterek is so gross i'm sorry, it's so uncomfortable and weird like they had no chemistry like that come on 😭😭

no fr like i’m sorry to whoever ships it but when i first found out it was a thing i was like “wtf.”

i’m aware that their age gap isn’t as large as you would think (pretty sure it’s a couple years or something) but the maturity level is SO different between derek and stiles that it’s just so weird as to why you would ship it. it’s like saying that a seventh grade and a sophomore could date. it’s not illegal and it’s fine but the maturity levels between those two grades are vastly different that it makes the relationship incredibly weird 😭

ALSO derek is like a brotherly figure to them, maybe even a fatherly figure to scott? like idk it just feels weird because he’s such a family type guy with them that shipping sterek just makes no sense

plus this doesn’t change the fact that stiles is a minor. like hello.

[videovending]

Spontaneous Craving Satisfaction Machine: Insta Food - LEELOU BEANS. Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red. 2020.