Absolutely bizarrely, while researching Scottish development studios, today, the same day as this article, but wholly unrelated... I came across EM Studios:
https://www.emstudios.co.uk/?page_id=212 [External Link]

...who worked on Broken Sword! What are the chances.

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Yeah, that's pretty distracting. I thought it was a new YT captioning thing and tried to turn it off!

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualVery interesting usage of LLM tooling. I wonder what the benefits are; it almost seems more costly and more work to do it the way they're doing it.

XKCD sums this up, I reckon. At least, this is my programming life...

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Looking at the top 100 games, it's dominated by multiplayer titles. A few single player games stand out, like Slay the Spire and a handful can be played single player, but there's a big focus on gaming together there.

I think that's all it is. There are so many games that encourage group gaming now, so we're seeing this rise in numbers, both from organic growth, but also from a desire to play with others, either against them (battle royal, or team games like DOTA, PUBG or CoD) or together (co-op focused games, like Helldivers).

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In this game's case, there might be the occasional asshole claiming the reboot is "too woke", but honestly, it's probably just because it's a reboot. Reboots are very rarely loved. Doesn't help this game ended up being a bit of a car crash, with poor writing, hit and miss humour, a host of bugs and a comic/hero art style which was a big shift away from the originals.

I'm not very invested in SR. Played SR4 the most and it was... okay.

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Quoting: jo3fisA blurb about each one would be nice also.

Probably not worth the effort for news about yet another bundle - there's blurb's on each one on the Humble page itself, just click through them!

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Warhammer 40k Darktide is playable with AMD GPUs.

I've got tens of hours in Darktide on my AMD 6900XT, so I'm a bit baffled that those release notes.

Presumably there was a Proton 9 regression that introduced an issue? I used Proton Experimental and played right up to Christmas last year, so all Proton 8-based.

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I played a couple of hours of Pacific Drive on Friday, mainly testing out my new Movemaster. But I spent the bulk of the weekend spreading democracy in HellDivers 2, and building up a new character in the awesome Last Epoch.

Funnily enough, HD2 is regularly hitting 300K players, and Last Epoch is well over 200K. Last Epoch definitely surfing a popularity wave, stealing players from Path of Exile, which is down at the 15K mark (although it'll typically rebound to around 150K easily when a new season launches) and Diablo 4 which lucky to see 10K players these days.

Crazy numbers really, considering these two games are barely even top five (Countersrike, DOTA2, Apex Legends, etc, as noted in the article). No wonder Steam is hitting new highs!

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Quoting: MinuxNo please Liam, don't do this to me again. I have no more money to buy anything. I already sold my gaming computer, now I must survive on a wooden pc. :cry:

Don't shoot the messenger!

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You'd think, after the second, third or possibly tenth time it happened, someone at Valve would look into the why of it and you know, fix it.

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