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" In solidarity with Epic Game Store's lack of features, we have decided to drop support for: forums, refunds, parties, account sharing, version rollbacks, screenshots, groups, marketplace, mod hosting, library sorting and the entire Mac and Linux platforms"

Thanks for the heads-up...I have a Pi Hole on my network so I added these hosts from the post to the blacklist to block this, but you can also stop them by adding them to your HOSTS file:

redshell.io
api.redshell.io
treasuredata.com
api.treasuredata.com

The more I read about this, the more it seems this is just a vulnerability in PNG and it just so happens that Minecraft uses the PNG format for player skins. It could have been any other distribution method, including a website. Running MC is fine and won't get you infected...... unless you run a mod from a dubious source. That's the big security issue: only download mods from good sources!

(edit: even calling this a PNG vulnerability is stretching it, as it sounds like it's just inert code inserted into the file with no way of executing under normal circumstances; it just happens that AV flags this anyway)

(edit 2: since the above site isn't updating their article, here's a confirmation on what a lot of us were saying: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-skins-issue-update)

Full-Scale Wearable T-51 Power Armor Helmet with West Tek Canvas Carrying Bag: https://ebgames.com.au/ps4-240212-Fallout-76-Power-Armor-Edition-PlayStation-4

Full-Scale Wearable T-51 Power Armor Helmet with West Tek Canvas Carrying Bag https://fallout.bethesda.net/buy-now

They are still calling it a canvas bag, even though it isn't a canvas bag.

This is actually false, and i quote from the PRE-ORDER PAGE ''20 Weekly Items with Airlift-Get 20 weekly Airlifts, each containing one customization item.'' Source: https://www.battlefield.com/buy/battlefield-5

Add Valve to the list of developers who have blacklisted Kotaku.

Edit: Not sure what their status currently is but Bethesda and Ubisoft both blacklisted them at some point. Here is an interesting article about it.

And for independent developer that don't have or don't want a store of there own (because it's a big way to ruin yourself) there's always the Humble Widget or itch.io who take under 10% for selling your game.

which makes no sense as the game can be run without the steam client running once installed via steam: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Party_Hard

also the piracy excuse is BS also because steam DRM is easily stripped even if they used that.

They also didn't update the Amazon listing

>Full-Scale Wearable T-51 Power Armor Helmet with West Tek Canvas Carrying Bag: This wearable helmet faithfully replicates the in-game model and comes complete with voice modulator speaker, functioning LED head lamp, and custom V.A.T.S. sound feature.

https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-76-Power-Armor-Xbox-One/dp/B07DNBWR87?th=1

The worst part about this is how it's idolised, and--I'd put good money on--entirely misunderstood.

It's like places that say "you can take as much leave as you want". The result, as unintuitive as it sounds, is that no one takes any leave. Everyone feels pressure to not take leave, because there is no longer a minimum amount. So a valid answer for "as much leave as you want" is 0, and to take leave becomes-- silently--socially unacceptable[1].

Similarly, when they have "no management team, do what you want", what that will really mean is that it's actually a giant secret club full of unofficial group dynamics, pressure and infighting. There are no structures to formalise what always happens when groups of humans work together.

All Valve does these days is yearn to make money. Steam is a giant cash cow. Every game they make must support micro-transactions, hats or whatever. I will bet large sums of cash that they will never, bar some kind of large management change or industry change[2], make another single-player narrative focused experience ever again.

Edit: Apparently if we all read the internet more, we would have known this 6 years ago: https://kotaku.com/5795355/valve-probably-done-with-single-player-games

[1] The way some companies have fixed this is to have unlimited leave with a forced yearly minimum. I don't think it's been long enough for those companies to report back on how that's worked, or at least I haven't heard anything.

[2] Say, Steam stops being free money or people finally get sick of microtransactions

I'm getting confused, everyone's saying pcgamer is irrelevant or dead, yet even you link info from them to this sub because you don't want to link a 2 hour podcast from someone else that gets their news from pcgamer?

They have a heap of journos with contacts in most every company same as IGN, Polygon etc and even have there own show at E3 which most of the PC gaming crowd watches, They had 41 Million page views just last month.

I'm just trying to understand how people here are all of a sudden saying they're dead or irrelevant all of sudden, seems this sub just loves a bandwagon everything that Epic touches regardless who they are or in this case what they do, this is just a news website this time lol.

Metrics for reference https://www.similarweb.com/website/pcgamer.com#overview

Just to clear up some confusion in this thread, Oldschool Runescape (2007scape) is not being shut down, just Runescape Classic. A lot of people still play old school, myself included, even more than Runescape 3. You can check out the subreddit /r/2007scape. There's even going to be a mobile client releasing soon

Edit: For reference here are screenshots of RS Classic and Old School RS

Classic: https://www.topbestalternatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Runescape-Classic.jpg

Old School: http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/35300000/90-Fletching-oldschool-runescape-35325681-754-493.png

Something happened

^Something ^happend

*edit got it working, downloaded the ISO and double click it then setup. here is link to ISO if you can't download from the media creation tool.

>Says game will not have X.

>People rejoice and buy game.

>EA waits a while and then when sales slow down, insert X anyway.

>Laugh at the suckers who believed them.

Don't even have to wait, lootboxes are already in the game and people are buying the misleading marketing spiel hook, line and sinker; the same as always.

>Battlefield V - Deluxe Edition

>20 WEEKLY ITEMS WITH AIRLIFT - Get 20 weekly Airlifts, each containing one customization item.

Use haveibeenpwned.com to check whether you've been pwned.

EDIT: Use a password manager. Use a VERY GOOD password for the password manager database. For reference.

> You can use everything.

You should at least capitalise that if you're not going to link, otherwise it's just confusing to someone who doesn't already know what it is.

https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/

Arguably it wasn't the best choice of name, but it did provide me with this amusing screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/cKCwOpV.png

Yeah he's serious.

https://mafiagame.com/en/news/view/en-a-look-at-the-post-release-content-coming-to-mafia-3/

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>FREE! All New Character Outfits > One of the biggest requests we keep getting from you – our fans – is about the ability to change Lincoln’s outfit. This is coming! New outfits will allow you to select a look that suits your tastes and define your take on Lincoln.

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>MORE Vehicle Customization > >Hey, gearheads: We’ll be expanding upon the vehicle upgrades that already exist in Mafia III by adding new customization options. You can cherry out your favorite ride with new wheels, personalized license plates, and paint jobs. And, yes, you will get even more options to boost the performance on your vehicles.

The problem is that lots of these marketplaces (Bethesda.net, Blizzard app, Paradox's client, Ubisoft's uPlay, lots of others I'm sure) exist for the sole purpose of first-party games.

Steam is a marketplace which does have first-party Valve games but it mostly has games from other developers. Other open marketplaces that focus on third-party games include GOG and Itch. But Humble and GMG don't really count since they mostly sell Steam keys instead of distributing games themselves.

If you want Steam to have competition, buy from Itch or GOG.

The title is very misleading. They haven't changed the engine cut at all, it's still 5% of the total gross revenue made above $3000 per quarter. What they've changed is the revenue share for Unreal Marketplace assets, which is a different thing.

Campo Santo announced and are working on In The Valley of Gods, so I guess that's the next Valve game after Artifact? Anless Valve cancel it, which I hope not because it looks great

It's single player and storydriven too... holy crap Valve could actually put out a new single player game!

Edit: They've confirnmed In The Valley of Gods is still coming out So yeah, that's absolutly goign to be the next Valve game!

The 1.3.6 update has become 1.4. This is the 4th and final major update to the game, and the trailer don't show everything, there will be more surprises. It will be out by the end of the year, and Re-Logic will move to the next game.

https://terraria.org/news/re-logic-announces-terraria-journey-s-end-at-e3

Op, you can add link to Denuvo Steam Curator to your post.

It tries to solve this exact problem. While subscribed you will see this curator info right on the Steam Store Page of games that have Denuvo installed.

But at least they proved they're GDPR-compliant by handing over the data...

Of course, based on my limited understanding of the GDPR they now have less than 72 hours to decide if they need to report this to the relevant data protection authority; if they fail to do so, that's up to a fine of 10 million euros or 2 per cent of global turnover (although unlikely in this case).

And that's on top of any consequences for failing to secure the data in the first place (in practice, probably the more serious thing).

And they need to document all this. And probably go over a lot of their stuff to make sure it doesn't happen again. And probably some other stuff.

Then there's the possibility of suing - although that probably won't get far depending on where they're based. The Epic Store EULA has a binding arbitration clause, but that may not hold in some places (generally the EU doesn't like them), same with the limitations on liability and choice of law rules and so on. Might be difficult to show damage, though.

As an aside; they really should do the standard thing of having a separate section in their EULA for EU people - as with the Steam Subscriber Agreement - whereby the med-arb clause isn't valid. Although they do have a reference to the EU's Online Dispute Resolution Platform.

Why not link the original report from Jason Schreier? This Polygon regurgitation has less detail and incorrectly refers to "a Dragon Age reboot", which (incorrectly) makes it sound like Bioware is rebooting the series (the original article only says they're rebooting their production strategy).

The Steam Link app for IOS and Android is coming on May 21 for anyone wondering. As the name suggests, you'll be able to stream steam games directly to your phone/tablet and use any bluetooth controller your device supports.

On their main store page: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/epic-games-store-update

> We’ve shifted features targeted for April to May and June as development efforts have focused on supporting online features required for new game launches.

https://gearsofwar.com/en-us/forums/1c0e371ac5e54e4bb619f2c05a05f519/threads/rise-of-the-horde---update-compression/b20a04e4-ee69-4f64-8736-5121a59d7f32/posts

The reason it is so big is because it includes all of the previous updates using a new compression method. After installing this massive update the game will actually take up less hdd space and future updates should be much smaller in download size.

Actual text from terms of service of AWS/Lumberyard: (emphasis mine)

57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

Please stop spreading false information. The 2 months comes from the steamdb package "Iron Galaxy Studios Dev Comp". If you look at Arkham Knight here https://steamdb.info/app/208650/subs/ it shows the 2 months but that literally says "Last updated". Copypasting my response from elsewhere.

>Bullshit. Check the history for that package https://steamdb.info/sub/45433/history/

>You can clearly see they created "Iron Galaxy Studios Dev Comp" on May 29, 2014. They also added Batman: Arkham Knight to the package on the same day. The "2 months ago" only shows that the package "Iron Galaxy Studios Dev Comp" was updated 2 months ago. It existed before that, and it included Arkham Knight before that. Please stop spreading false information.

Now, having 10 people (if that's what they only had) porting the game for a year might not be enough, I don't know and I don't really care. Just stop spreading this "2 months" or "8 weeks" thing before it becomes a bigger rumour, since it's based on a total misunderstanding.

• Proxy

1. Get Foxy Proxy for Chrome
2. Open up foxy proxy by clicking it's icon
3. Options
4. Add new proxy
5. Add IP + Port
6. Save
7. Click FoxyProxy again - Use Proxy
8. Go to
9. If it doesn't go to it isn't working
10. Reserva ya (BF4)
11. If you want Premium (there should be something in the cart below BF4 that says add Premium)
12. It should say $898 (Pesos)
13. Go to checkout
14. When asked to login, turn off proxy (click of FoxyProxy and disable it
15. Login 16 Pay as normal.
16. You'll get a spanish email with yoru receipt.

This is the best deal on the internet.

-Edit- So I've also heard you can have your account banned from purchasing further on Origin, however, this is NOT again st ToS so they can't rightfully do that. Therefore, you can call EA's support and argue that not only is it not evident in the Origin / EA ToS that purchasing software from another country for your American account is against the terms, but it's a wrongful ban, causing you mental and physical damages, as well as massive amounts of stress, which can be brought up in court, if the ban was not reversed.

I respect Tripwire, I'm a huge fan of the Killing Floor and Red Orchestra/Rising Storm series; in fact RO2 is my most played game (I seriously love hardcore shooters). On the downside, they often release games in a 'nearly finished' state, and Killing Floor has paid cosmetics/weapons/loot crates which I'm really not a fan of. That said, they fix up their games post-release with free updates and content, and their sound design/weapon animations are second to none, the attention to detail is admirable. If you want to see what's next for RS2 they've got a public trello where they list their roadmap.

To anyone who is thinking of buying it. Pay $5 for a month of EA Origin Access. You'll get 10 hours of the trial to see if you like the game. If you do, you save $6 (10%), so you save a dollar and got 10 hours free. If you end up hating the game, you are only out $5 and still have a month to play other games (including all the old ones, which are good games).

I'm not trying to say you should buy it, but I know people are going to do so regardless of what reviews say, so just trying to save people money. I'm going to wait til it's cheap and the issues are fixed.

https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Main_Page

Smooth video project, comes with mpc-hc + madvr + other blackmagic to enjoy high quality animu at 60fps & superior quality.

You'll be able to laugh at streaming plebs in no time.

Also https://www.clementine-player.org/ because it's good.

The account system powering Epic Games store and Fortnite have not been compromised.

Specific individual accounts have been compromised as a result of numerous automated attempts by hackers to try to log in to Epic Games accounts using email/password combinations leaked through security breaches on other web sites.

Epic accounts that use the same email address and password as a compromised site are vulnerable to this attack.

Always use a unique password for every web site. Additionally multi-factor authentication should be used to add an additional layer of protection.

Epic accounts that use the same email address, but a different password, are not vulnerable to attack, but may receive an email notification when such logins attempts are made.

The https://haveibeenpwned.com/ site will tell you if your email is in any of the leaked account databases commonly used by hackers. If you have an Epic account, and your email is on this list, you’ve likely received these failed-login-attempt emails in the past.

We have an automated system processing email/password dumps that proactively forces password resets on login, further protecting players. Credentials matching the pastebin from this post will experience a forced password reset on their next login.

>More specifically, it's Disney lobbying very hard

Yes but lets not mince words here, there has been many times the government has been able to protect the public interest but didn't.

Our governments do not work like we think they do because we've been mis-educated.

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

f.lux is an essential for me. It automatically tunes down the contrast of your monitor at night, making it easier on your eyes. It generally doesn't impact games, but it's fantastic for late night browsing. You'll want to disable it when working with any graphics programs due to how it changes your color balance, though.

GPLv2 allows users to "copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it" but the new license requires users be "granted express permission".

These licenses are incompatible and the author does not have the authority to retroactively deny rights he previously granted. Any version of BorderlessGaming's source prior to commit 6d4c93 can be freely redistributed without the author's permission, and following the terms of GPLv2.

For those who haven't heard about this before, it isn't a new Fallout game, it is a mod for Fallout: New Vegas. I apologize if you clicked on it thinking it was, personally I thought it would be cluttered to include both New Vegas and New California in the same title. The mod takes place before New Vegas and from what I remember, I don't know if it's been changed, the mod ends with you waking up in Doc Mitchell's house letting you start New Vegas. Here's a link to their ModDB page.

1. f.lux (reduces eye strain at night)

2. SVP (interpolation software for mediaplayers, makes 24fps movies run at 60fps or higher.)

3. Unchecky (Software that automatically unchecks spam/adware in installers, and gives you a warning if accidently have one checked)

4. Greenshot (better screenshotting software, standard settings works like snipping tool but with functions to instantly upload your screenshot to sites like imgur and more)

5. Classic start (puts back the start menu in Windows 8/8.1)

6. Steam (obvious reasons)

7. Geforce Experience (if you have a Nvidia GPU then this is great, mostly for the Shadowplay feature and easy driver updates)

8. Clover (adds browser like tabs and more to Windows Explorer) [this program might have some stability issues so just be warned about that, especially since you won't be able to refert to standard windows explorer if it decides to crash everytime you try to start it due to Control Panel using Clover if it's installed, although it should most of the time stop crashing if you restart or force close clover with task manager a few times.]

9. Taiga [for anime watchers] (automatically updates your animelists on sites like MAL if it detecs you are watching anime)

10. Notepad++ (it's basicly Notepad but superior in every way possible)

See https://ninite.com/ for a site to very easily download and install a lot of programs you would like on a new system, including some of the ones I named above. I'd recommend you select K-Lite codecs in it aswell since it gives you all the video codecs you need to watch videos, it also installes MPC-HC which is my video player of choice, although you can uninstall it if you prefer a different video player.

You need these two guys:

• Kentie's Launcher
• New Vision Mod

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Goddamn it's been five years since they announced Bannerlord. Hell, it's been so long that the images on the first announcement expired.

C'mon Taleworlds, I need a decent RTS/FP...S? hybrid that isn't a decade old.

i have a legit copy of Starlancer that i'm currently replaying, that i bought around 2001 or so. Starlancer has safedisc DRM which no longer works with W10; and W7 since that is the OS i use. i believe because the safedisc servers no longer exist to authenticate.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_rights_management_(DRM)#SafeDisc

so i had to get a tool to remove the safedisc DRM to be able to play my legit copy of Starlancer.

not all publishers/devs care to remove the DRM when the DRM servers goes defunct. in my case, microsoft is the publisher, and they coudn't care less to.

Posted this in another thread as well, but Kotaku seems to know more.

They were teasing in the comments that they have info from people working on the project.
The article accompanying the teaser now reads:
" although the studio hasn’t yet said what it is, we hear it’s an online game of some sort. "
Kotaku

So unfortunately I am guessing some sort of MMO'ish thing possibly? I hope not.

Edit: Another confirm by Kotakus Jason Schreier on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1001832458164285442?s=20

The solution for the issue was added to the PCGamingWiki article right after it came out. The bug is there but it's fixable and acknowledged by the publisher.

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EDIT: Soooo I just realized that the monitor behind Lord says "half life 3" and he is guarding that with his knives. I initially linked to that image just for the knives' worthiness, but now is twentyfold better.

TRIVIA: Gabe loves knives

Funny thing is, the Stadia controller looks to be descended from the Ouya controller.

https://www.amazon.com/OUYA-Wireless-Controller/dp/B002I0GX38

https://gamexguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/buduschee-esche-ne-nastupilo-pervye-obzory-google-stadia-62266-760x430.jpg

Seriously, just reading the game description, including the system requirements, makes the whole game worth it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/847880/Asset_Flip_Simulator/ This is sad for Steam, but is also genuinely funny and clever. Some critics could call this whole thing an art piece even, because it is not just a game, they are actually trying to make a point.

Fifa 11 is available on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Arts-PCOESSELE09228-FIFA-DVD/dp/B003T9W2VO

As is PES 2013 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pro-Evolution-Soccer-2013-DVD/dp/B00899UOEQ

You musn't have searched very hard !

Here's a list of games with results from compression

Not every game gets compressed very well, but some of the results are almost mind boggling.

Note that if a game/file is updated it gets decompressed, so you'll have to rerun the tool after a major update to your game.

It looks like it was made specifically made for the console release. Simple, non-stylized, and blocky so it's easy to read from the couch. Blizzard did the same thing with their menus and fonts when porting Diablo 3 to the consoles. If there isn't an option to customize the HUD for PC, it will be really disappointing.

It went from a HUD for PC to a HUD for consoles

The sad truth is that the loot box fiasco that is EA's STAR WARS: Battlefront II has completely overshadowed the Visceral Games Studio shut down. EA will continue to put lootboxes/microtransactions/always online features in their games, and those studios that do not fall in line will be shut down. A quote from Kotaku:
 
> “Our Visceral studio has been developing an action-adventure title set in the Star Wars universe,” EA’s Patrick Söderlund said in a blog post. “In its current form, it was shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game. Throughout the development process, we have been testing the game concept with players, listening to the feedback about what and how they want to play, and closely tracking fundamental shifts in the marketplace. It has become clear that to deliver an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come, we needed to pivot the design.”

 
I cannot emphasize this enough. EA will not produce any more games that do not have any of these features included. EA's bullshittery is way bigger than just the SWBF2 Loot Boxes, it's their entire company direction.

yea, had the same, but turns out it's the mic privacy option that mutes it. this setting

it was quite confusing to troubleshoot, as all my mics were identified too, and they showed the "bars" moving in audio control panel, yet no apps could get anything from them.

Because he said PC Gamers are pirates.

https://kotaku.com/5056532/why-no-gears-of-war-2-for-pc-well-piracy-for-one

And he said PC gaming is driven by WoW and The Sims.

http://www.gamesradar.com/pc-gaming-in-disarray-says-cliffy-b/

It's been patched a few times, improving the existing game and adding new stuff.

https://www.nomanssky.com/news/

It's still nothing like what was shown pre-release but it's definitely better today.

Depressurizer - It auto-categorizes ALL your steam games using the same categories used on the Steam's shop. You can also select tags (like local co-op, indie, spacesim, things like that) and it will also use them as categories.

This way you'll finaly be able to kind of browse your giant Steam collection by category. "Oh, I have friends coming today, let's see all my local coop and local multiplayer games!"

For example, this is how my Steam list of games look: http://i.imgur.com/cUniDo2.png

Here is one I use every single day. There are hundreds of different remotes to choose from and they are really handy.

Before anyone goes screaming "Copying Discord"

https://slack.com/

Wanna leave that there. Existed before Discord, for quite some time. Discord itself is the copy.

https://a.slack-edge.com/3dba7/marketing/img/downloads/screenshots/win10_screenshot.png

I'm not sure exactly WTF is EA doing lately.

1. They removed trials
2. Even though they still have free promotions they removed link to it so you gotta find it on your own like BF1 Premium that's free atm or BF4 Premium
3. They change store page to confusing grid system that makes it harder to navigate and stupid price is hidden even on sale??

I don't understand how this helps at all, it seems like 3 steps back instead of 3 steps foward.

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If you want trials it seems you have to find them on your own. Here's FIFA 19 https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/store/fifa/fifa-19

It only is code that will never be run because it is in a png file. Their definition of malware is having the code on your computer, not that it will do anything.

Edit: Proof: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-skins-issue-update

In case you're wondering, CA has stated they plan on having a romanticized mode with powerful heroes and a "Classic mode" that is more historical.

> redshell.io > > api.redshell.io > > treasuredata.com > > api.treasuredata.com

These addresses and domains aren't included in MVPS, yoyo.org and Dan Pollock's hosts files (for links, see: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts). I've understood that these list are the most widely-used, but I may be wrong.

I'd say Dead space. Seeing as the first game came out nearly at the start of the 360/PS3 era, I didn't expect much graphically. How wrong was I. This game definitely has it's moments that wow you. Especially the space walks.

Actually the PGW page on FFXIII is where I found this! Well the Discussion page anyway:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Thread:Talk:Final_Fantasy_XIII/PS3_videos_on_PC/reply_(4)

And just to clarify, I didn't do the work, this was actually from a user over on the Steam forums by the name of Lulech23.

Copied from the related blog post:

Keeping Things Fair

• We get it: This is a major change that may be controversial, particularly given some recent questionable moves by full-price games.
• We’re moving forward with this system because we believe it will make the game better for all of our players. We want to serve our players, and we’re confident that we can best do that with a more wide-open and fun QuickPlay mode, and a Ranked mode that is only affected by player skill.
• The vast majority of our players will never spend a dime. Regardless of how much money you have in your wallet, we want to make sure you have a great time. Our number one priority as we introduce Cards Unbound is that the free-to-play experience feels great.
• For those players who do choose to spend money on Paladins, we aren’t comfortable charging you for Card Chests until we have time to tune the economy after seeing real-world results (and we definitely anticipate adjustments).
• Therefore, upon the initial release of Cards Unbound, there will be no way to directly purchase Radiant Chests or Champion Card Chests with Crystals; they may only be unlocked via Gold or playing the game. We expect to allow Crystal purchases of those same Card Chests in OB65, but we may delay this.

Hi-Rez was fully aware of the comparisons to BF2, and made sure to avoid taking the same route. Yes, the chests will eventually be purchasable with real money, but they're really not hard to earn with the in-game currency. Plus:

• There’s no need to collect cards just to play a champ with your favorite loadout in Ranked. On Day 1 you have all the cards and all the Legendaries– and we set them all to Level 3 for Ranked and Competitive play.

If you play Ranked, you don't have to pay for shit aside from champions, and more than likely you'll settle into a small batch of those.

Games should be using the %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\ directory and never trying to save to the Documents folder.

After enabling Controlled Folder Access in Windows 10, which requires that programs are whitelisted in order to write to protected directories, you would be surprised at how many games behave badly when they no longer have write permissions to that directory.

• Silently crashing at launch.

• Crashing with an error message at launch.

• Freezing or crashing when you try to change the preferences.

• Freezing or crashing when saving.

• Proceeding as though everything is fine - including saved games appearing to work - but displaying an error about being unable to save when you quit the game.

• Proceeding as though everything is fine, but failing silently without displaying any kind of error message.

• Creating directories in, or saving to, the root of the C:\ drive rather than the correct location.

Fortunately, CFA does not block symbolic links - they resolve to the source location. So my 'solution' to this problem is creating a directory for the game inside %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\ and using Link Shell Extension to create hidden junctions that point to it, inside the Documents folder.

It's a nuisance, but does mean that the actual files are all stored in a single location, and I don't have to whitelist games and give them unnecessary permissions.

Amazon prime is a good start if you like new games. 20% off within 2 weeks of release.

Check Isthereanydeal here for anything else you just have a hankering to play. Its an aggregator site, and only gives links to the ones that are not shady.

An alternative is an application called Steam Mover. It works on any folder, not just Steam games. It works great.

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/03/steam-mover-automated-tool-to-move-games-and-apps-to-other-drives/

PCGamingWiki (in a vaguely related note) actually shocked me in a similar manner recently. The Denuvo entry on it screams astroturfing, with no links to all the PROVEN performance losses and is incredibly defensive over the intrusiveness and failings, even going as far as outright lying about online requirements (which I have experienced first-hand several times beyond the first launch) along with cherry-picking sources and results. The majority of evidence completely ignored, for unfortunately obvious reasons.

It's a little disgusting, as is this, and I say that as someone who literally suffers from Denuvo implementations. I get hard system resets 2/5 launches of any D-protected game, and only on D-protected games. Legit or cracked. It's a modern plague and a disgrace to see it getting covered up.

Ninite https://ninite.com/ if you are doing a fresh install of Windows.

Select the programs you want, download the installer, and it will automatically install everything while skipping any "external offers" like the ASK toolbar and it will update every program automatically whenever a new update becomes available.

Thank you very much, I couldn't resist as the concept is so neat!

edit: Playable prototype for those who want to try the concept before baking: http://superhotgame.com/play-prototype

edit2: holy crap, they got 10k in an hour!

edit3: they got 50k in 7 hours. Tomorrow they'll be done!

edit4: $97,074, it'll be over in less than a day. I wonder how much they'll have in 29 days, at the end of the campaign :)

edit5: $100k !!!

Actually they changed that. I just installed windows 8.1 with my windows 8 product key. (The key is for Windows 8 Pro, if that makes a difference).

http://www.howtogeek.com/187525/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-of-windows-8.1-with-a-windows-8-key/

It let me download an .iso file, but you can also use other boot media.

Dwarf fortress - the amount of work put into this game is insane. Yes the UI is not so friendly but you can take some time to read the wiki and you will get used to it eventually, a little effort and you will be rewarded with one of the most interesting and brutal experiences of strategy/dwarf management. Also it's free.

Half life 2 - Very fast paced action from start to end. Still stands out as one of the best of all time. Movement is very fluid if you practice it, can make the game seem so smooth. Also City 17 is how I imagine a futuristic 1984 would be, minus the thought police. Almost everyone already has it but if you don't I really recommend it.

Morrowind - Yes Skyrim is one of the most popular games of all times, has tonnes of mods to add hours and hours of playtime and looks insane but before Skyrim even existed I played morrowind for hundreds of hours, running home after school to load it up. I've never felt more immersed in a world before. There is currently an overhaul mod in the works, it is playable but not entirely finished yet, sadly the game does not hold up too well with graphics and movement like it did when it was released. The magic system in the game is nuts as well.

Eh, depends. Ironically 1 year out NMS put out Atlas Rises which more or less hit what they initially promised.

But the consensus was that year 2 of NMS, NEXT, was the bread winner that turned things around. Every year after that has just been gravy.

So maybe next year for Cyberpunk?

A solution to the high frame rate physics issues was found quite a while back, documented on pcgamingwiki.

Also working on other titles with the same engine.

You can also submit whitelist requests here if the game has been tested to work flawlessly for multiple people.

The game may go to Epic but there is zero chance that it would be an exclusive considering CDPR owns GOG.com and CDPR is also quite passionate about making their games available to everyone on whatever platform they want.

Here is the link.

"Sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC" No mention of any third party involved. Has the correct developer listed, but it's a forgery.

Notice that there is no Amazon link on Numantian games's Buy section of thier website.

UPDATE: It's been taken down. Looks like some internet outrage did the trick.

Actually there are official versions but only work on NVIDIA Shield. You can play Portal, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1 & 2

Here a link to the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.valvesoftware.halflife2&gl=US

REMINDER:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2466312/cortana-removal-will-not-be-tolerated-in-windows-10-anniversary-update

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/microsoft-removes-policies-windows-10-pro/

(the two most recent issues)

I just did the same thing about 9 months ago; I hope you like it as much as I do.

• Check these sites for game deals: http://isthereanydeal.com/ https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

• Don't buy too many games! just buy the ones you know you will play, the others will still be there if you decide you want to give them a try. I bought so many games in my 1st Steam sale that I've had to ban myself from buying new ones until I play them all!

• When in Steam, press your controller's guide button to enter Big Picture mode.

• Try to stay away from early access games; they're almost always shit. There are exceptions here, of course.

• You don't play Ubisoft games any more... Just don't waste your money.

• Steam Workshop is a really easy way to install Mods, just find the mod you want and click subscribe. You can uninstall them in the same manner.

• Origin (EA) is actually pretty good: they give you trials of games and let you return games that you don't like. They also give away free games pretty frequently, granted its usually stuff like Peggle.

• You will run into issues from time to time. Games might not launch properly, or they might crash etc. When this happens, don't worry about it. I haven't found a problem yet that the internet can't fix. You'll actually feel pretty good about yourself when you fix it.

edit: You can also add non Steam games and programs to be launched from Steam. Just click 'add a game' in the bottom left corner of Steam. This way you don't have to seperate your library when you get games on Origin or ...... Uplay.

> don't use their brain much.

GreenManGaming sells legit keys of some publishers but not all. There is a reason GMG was removed from both istherenaydeal.com and /r/GameDeals.

For instance they are not official SEGA partners, yet they are selling games like Warhammer.

Sidebar Diagnostics

A reddit user made this application which monitors hardware info and displays it on the screen. Especially useful if you have a second screen.

Slickdeals.net

Techbargains.com

I see them pop up on these 2 sites regularly. Usually $37-$55 depending on what version, battery, etc. Slickdeals has been a personal favorite of mine for years.

Edit: BAM!

https://jet.com/product/MICROSOFT-S2V-00001-Xbox-One-TM-Wireless-Controller-PDRS2V00001/41cc9c31c6644996821a2462682c17c9

Add to cart, apply promo code APPLE15.

PRESTO! - $34.99USD + free shipping

Courtesy of Slickdeals

Knaves Obliterating Trains Over Rainbows

You do that, but, also makes a "modkit" downloadable "somewhere".
People can play the legit version, with non copyrighted assets, but people can infringe themselves by replacing the assets with something else.

A bit like how Open Transport Tycoon works. You can download Open Transport Tycoon, and, if you own the original game, use those assets with that engine.

Of course, in the case where assets are actually infringing, it wouldn't be allowed to be distributed, and the project would have to distance itself from those assets, but you can't force yourself the fan to not make assets for your game, which is totally not related.

SuperF4, for every time you've wanted to tear your hair out because unresponsive programs black screen, ignore alt+f4, and refuse to allow task manager to be visible.

https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/

It's unreasonable to expect people to read every single EULA for every single product/service they use.

They can take 10-20 minutes to read if you skim them, and most of them are the same. Imagine actually sitting down and reading the terms of service for every website, every app, every product you plan to use.

Don't worry, somebody already tried.

tosdr.org is a great way to find out what a websites terms are at a glance. The real tl;dr is most companies are taking whatever data you put in and using it however they want.

Companies and people scoff at regulations like GDPR but there is absolutely no accountability with the data being gathered and how it's being used, as we saw with shit like Facebook and Equifax. Nobody fucking cares because nobody gets punished for it.

Blizzard already uses Open GL for their Mac versions, of course they'd want in on the Vulkan action. They're even on the Vulkan development group listed as a partner.

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan

It's not an "anymore" thing. It never has been on sale.

The reason:
>We state it on our steam page, but people are still asking about it so I want to state it officially. We don't plan any Factorio sale. I'm aware, that the sale can make a lot of money in a short period of time, but I believe that it is not worth it in the long run, and since we are not in financial pressure we can afford to think in the long run. We don't like sales for the same reason we don't like the 9.99 prices. We want to be honest with our customers. When it costs 20, we don't want to make it feel like 10 and something. The same is with the sale, as you are basically saying, that someone who doesn't want to waste his time by searching for sales or special offers has to pay more.

Source: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-140

It's basically about this: If you like the game you should be able to buy it right away without having the feeling of wasting money by not waiting for a sale.

I recommend everyone check out Gamesave Manager which backs up your steam (and non-steam) gamesaves to the folder or cloud service of your choice.

This program has saved me lots of hassle.

This is interesting, because I very recently had an issue with hundreds and hundreds of contacts being added to my account. And there's no way to delete contacts in bulk.

I actually already assumed my TV account had been hacked and have since changed the password. I contacted TeamViewer to see if they could remove the contacts for me, and instead got a canned response.

For the record, https://haveibeenpwned.com does in fact show that my email address has the big Adobe and LinkedIn data breaches listed, so that's what I assumed it was. But now I'm not so sure...

After 550 days of work we are sharing beta demo of our indie game ! for Windows/ Mac / Linux. :D

You could DOWNLOAD it here http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mims-beginning/x/3944421 on our Indiegogo Campaign. Write Remarks here or on our forum. or you could download it form IndieDB http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-mims-beginning/downloads

Posted this in another comment thread, but to support what you're saying I'll paste it here too...

You can find the book here ($229.87)

https://www.amazon.com/Surfaces-Research-Artists-Architects-Designers/dp/0393730077

And there are multiple places where the author clearly states

>> Ready to be used in your designs, presentations or comps, as backgrounds or for general visual information.

and then specifically noted for the CD

>> The accompanying CD-ROM contains screen resolution TIFF files for all of the images in the book ... With the appropriate graphics software, on either Macintosh or Windows platform, the CD images can be used by artists and designers in developing concepts, preparing presenations for clients, and communicating visual information to others. Although the images are primarily intended for on-screen display, they can also be printed on either a black and white or color printer.

So yeah, this isn't an open and shut case as you indicated. Unless there's some hidden license, all plain english text indicates that this book is $200+ for a reason and that reason is so artists can use the images contained within.

Sound cards are a relic of the past unless you have really good headphones (non-gaming) or high end speakers.

Even then an external dac/amp will be a better buy. You can get something like the FX Audio DAC-X6 for below 70.

I got these over a year ago, and they are starting to show their wear, but hey, 20 bucks for a year, ain't too bad.

BOONA Memory Foam Keyboard Wrist Rest – Set Includes Ergonomic Keyboard Pad and Mouse Pad Wrist Support;Effective Protection for RSI & Carpal Tunnel–Comfortable design suitable for office, games（gray） https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D4KBK5W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4BpgCbJM5DT9N

I got black so it shows less dirt.

just my 2 cents - you can download the full stream after it finishes from twitch with 4kvideodownloader in videos page

that is if they leave it there

i also found this, a good photo album of the streamby @d7470pl - https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/9an3je/twitch_data_transmission/e4wug29/

the code has been reported as a loop, there is a part in there which goes /cd/L9N1H53FeMIsKKo... so look for it it might be the start

> Obligatory reminder of SafeDisc and SecuROM which don't work anymore on Windows

SecuROM does actually work on Windows 10. I've played a couple of SecuROM games recently, but I have no reason to believe that this DRM continues to be compatible.

Older versions of Starforce don't work on modern operating systems.

>

> Below 4.05.007.005 > > Application will never work under Windows 10. >

http://isthereanydeal.com/waitlist/ Look at the game, look at your wallet. Now look at your Steam backlog, now look back at me. Don't you wish your ...nvm.

Ok, just figure out what something is worth to you. Then get notified at a certain price. Then and only then make the buy/not buy decision, after again looking at how much time you have, how much interest, and what your wallet says.

F.lux - it reduces the harshness of a bright monitor at night, removing some of the blue light. You can set it to auto adjust slowly based on time of day, and you won't notice just how amazing it is until you disable it. Can help you sleep better at night too.

https://justgetflux.com

I rather like Ninite. You pick which programs you want and it creates a single installer to get you going. If you want to check for updates for any/all of the things it installs, you just run the installer again.

You may also want to check out this Reddit thread. The OP has a site listing useful PC and Gaming software and the top post list a bunch of alternatives.

You can actually run your windows games on Linux thanks to Proton. It's a compatibility layer for Linux that runs Windows games and built into steam / developed by Valve. It's not perfect but it works for a lot of AAA games (DOOM, GTA, Red Dead, ect).

There are a few issues with DRM and anti-cheat, but the FAQ claims they will have updates to proton to address this before the handheld releases.

And yes, you can run Windows on it. And I'm pretty sure Dual booting will work as well, this device is pretty much just a laptop with joy sticks on it. You're free to install any OS on it.

I'm excited :)