1. 📰 GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you’re actually dead (direct link) (👍476 👎9)

from PC Gaming (!pcgaming@lemmy.ca)

GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you’re actually dead

You can’t bequeath your Steam account to your loved ones, at least not without breaking the TOS. GOG says it will try to accommodate such requests, as long as those left behind can prove that everything is on the up-and-up. The company says there’s “little to no existing legal guidance on the issue of videogames preservation” 🖋️

Posted by alessandro

2. 📰 As the Prince of Persia Metroidvania team disbands, Baldur’s Gate 3 dev says if Ubisoft wants “subs over sales” then “developers must get used to not having jobs” (direct link) (👍141 👎7)

from PCGaming (!pcgaming@lemmy.world)

As the Prince of Persia Metroidvania team disbands, Baldur’s Gate 3 dev says if Ubisoft wants “subs over sales” then “developers must get used to not having jobs”

Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing director Michael ‘Cromwelp’ Douse is calling out Ubisoft for its subscription-based approach to games following the company’s changes to the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. “The Crew, Mirage and Avatar came in 2023 and didn’t perform,” he says. 🖋️

Posted by inclementimmigrant

3. 📰 Turns out, people still like single-player BioWare RPGs as Dragon Age: The Veilguard tops sales charts and breaks Steam records for the studio (direct link) (👍88 👎8)

from Xbox (!xbox@lemmy.world)

Turns out, people still like single-player BioWare RPGs as Dragon Age: The Veilguard tops sales charts and breaks Steam records for the studio

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is already breaking records on Steam. More than 70,000 concurrent players were fighting to protect the Veil. The game has also topped the platform’s ‘Top Sellers’ chart. It overtook Mass Effect: Legendary Edition’s 59,000-player peak to become the company’s biggest Steam release. 🖋️

Posted by AlexanderTheGreat

4. 💬 [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 (direct link) (👍44 👎0)

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Sorry, bit late on this one. Life’s been hectic.Posted by Fubarberry

5. 📰 The Commodore Amiga Used To Make Worms Is Back In Service (direct link) (👍34 👎0)

from Amiga (!amiga@sopuli.xyz)

The Commodore Amiga Used To Make Worms Is Back In Service

Andy Davidson has revealed that the Amiga used to create the original Worms game is back in action. He says that he has plans to expand the iconic Director’s Cut of the game. Davidson says he has a Worms DC update to finish, which will be an update to that which makes it feature-complete. 🖋️

Posted by i_am_not_a_robot

6. 📰 [Playstation Lifestyle] PlayStation Loses Lawsuit Against MotorStorm PSP Cheat Maker (direct link) (👍19 👎0)

from PlayStation (!playstation@lemmy.zip)

PlayStation Loses Lawsuit Against MotorStorm PSP Cheats Maker

PlayStation has lost a lawsuit against Datel, a company behind popular video game cheats. The legal showdown between Sony and the Action Replay manufacturer dragged on for 10+ years, with the European Court of Justice siding with Datel. The lawsuit stemmed from Datel selling cheats for 2009’s PSP game MotorStorm Arctic Edge (also released on the PS2) 🖋️

Posted by ZippyBot

7. 🖼️ Affordable 3rd Party PS5 Controller with Easily Replaceable Thumbsticks? (Not DualSense Edge) (direct link) (👍13 👎0)

from PlayStation | PS5 (!ps5@lemmy.world)

Posted by realitista

8. 💬 What are you playing this weekend? 2024-10-18 (direct link) (👍6 👎0)

from PlayStation (!playstation@lemmy.world)

I didn’t post here last couple of weeks, so a quick recap:

• Finished The Legend of Zelda: Echos of Wisdom. Loved the game. Kind of Tears of the Kingdom light. Highly recommended.
• Finished **St…

Posted by slimerancher

9. 🖼️ ‘Darkchaser:Battletide’ has released an update roadmap and revealed that the game is about to officially launch (direct link) (👍7 👎3)

from Steam Deck (!steamdeck@lemmy.ml)

Posted by leonokarin

10. 💬 New Games Out today on App Store: (direct link) (👍3 👎1)

from iOSGaming (!iosgaming@lemmy.ml)

Indus Battle Royale Mobile Achroma Tides [Wizardry Variants Daphne]…

Posted by agranapezeta

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• Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS
  • Nintendo 3DS, DS, 2DS gaming handhelds, games, accessories, gear, hacks, history and community. Fun, memories and friends associated with them.
• Nintendo Switch
  • Community for stuff around the Nintendo Switch
• SBC Gaming
  • SBC Gaming is for Single Board Computer aimed to play video-games, also called Retro Handhelds
• DOS Gaming
  • This community covers DOS gaming from all angles - reviews, tips and tricks, new releases, troubleshooting, organizing multiplayer events and, of course, good ole nostalgia posts.
• MS-DOS gaming
  • A place to discuss anything DOS related. From DOSBox to actual retro hardware and FPGA emulation. From old games and software to new running on DOS. We also allow source ports of games originally on DOS.
• Commodore 64
  • A place for people all over the world to discuss the best personal computer of all time - the Commodore 64!
• Atari 8bit
  • Community covering everything Atari 8bit.
• Commodore Plus/4
  • Commodore 16 and Plus/4 community.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 Studio working on the Dark Forces [1995] remaster says the game has been ‘difficult to change’ because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular (direct link), posted in MS-DOS gaming (👍70 👎1)

Nightdive says Dark Forces has been ‘difficult to change’ because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular

“There were a lot of small details in how LucasArts did things at the time that made stuff particularly difficult.” "They managed to do multi-threading effectively, using a task system in the mid-1990s. Yet even with immediate access to the source code, it wasn’t easy. If you want to know more about Nightdive’s own remake of System Shock, check out Joshua’s review, and our chat with Nightdive’s System Shock team from earlier in the year Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. 🖊️

Posted by DosDude

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