GammaGames
@GammaGames@beehaw.org
he/him
- Comment on Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update" 3 days ago:
Yeah it kinda balanced out the economy, and probably raised market prices overall so they still make more money
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 4 days ago:
Can’t wait for Kevin Fang’s coverage of this
- Comment on Steam gets personal with a recommendations calendar to help you find games 4 days ago:
Oooh that’s actually kinda cool
- Comment on Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system 2 weeks ago:
The beta for this was excellent for players that got into the series at 3 or 4. Unfortunately EA got bought by some shady private equity so I will not be supporting it
- Comment on Hyper Light Breaker's development is ending, and devs Heart Machine are laying off staff 2 weeks ago:
Dang that’s sad, that first game was really special
- Comment on Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats 3 weeks ago:
The next step is the AI generated avatar interacting with the product in the ad 🤢 so you and your clanker can chat about how much you each love your newly purchased [insert product here]
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Eternal was fun, I only got to it a few months ago!
- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Its origin is actually related to the “30 year old boomer” meme. Etymology is fun!
- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 4 weeks ago:
It’s also used because things tend to go boom in the games
- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Why? It’s a genre at this point
- Comment on CHARK is a smooth Balatro-inspired chess roguelike and I've become an instant fan 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played either of them, I don’t have the patience for chess. Good luck though!
- Comment on CHARK is a smooth Balatro-inspired chess roguelike and I've become an instant fan 4 weeks ago:
The bottom of the article had a link to play it on itch: protzz.itch.io/chark
- Comment on Baby Steps is the most gloriously frustrating game I’ve ever struggled through 4 weeks ago:
Played the demo for over 10 hours, I’ve been excitedly waiting since silksong delayed it!
- Comment on Pick up some goodies from Remedy like Alan Wake and Control in this Humble Bundle 4 weeks ago:
Everything but AW remastered and AW2 is steam. Unfortunately I already have most of the games I’m interested in through steam so I’ll be passing, maybe one day I can play AW2!
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 5 weeks ago:
Direct link, it’s great bsky.app/profile/shacknews.com/…/3lz344mxmb22a
- Comment on Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates 1 month ago:
Nice, I’ll be able to switch in October!
- Comment on Dune: Awakening gets a free weekend for September 11, a first ever discount and early DLC release 1 month ago:
How long should they wait? A quarter of a year seems fair to me.
And it’s only a day early, lol
- Comment on Clean up the world in Kingdoms of the Dump a SNES styled JRPG coming in November 2 months ago:
Backed this one on kickstarter, excited it’s finally so close!
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 2 months ago:
Incredible, glad my hardware was arbitrarily incompatible
- Comment on The Switch 2 Has Had The Biggest Video Game Console Launch In US History 2 months ago:
99% of people have no idea about any controversy
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 3 months ago:
Laura was right, xbox is cooked
- Comment on Sony Won't Budge on PlayStation Plus Day-One Releases For First-Party Games 3 months ago:
I mean, yeah. It actively devalues new releases. Gamepass is great in the same way Spotify is great, for the consumer
- Comment on There shall be no Sifu 2, says Rematch dev, because "chasing safe bets is a death sentence" 3 months ago:
Someone is saying it! Higher ups think sequels are the answer but if it’s just a sequel for the sake of a sequel it can fail and doom a studio.
- Comment on Can some nettles defeat wild pigs in Sherman tanks? Thanks to Stalker 2's new modding tools, you can find out 3 months ago:
That word makes me think of Salad Fingers and his rusty spoons
- Comment on Ridiculous Harry Potter-like wizard game Secret Agent Wizard Boy gets a huge upgrade 3 months ago:
Awesome! This game is actually fantastic
- Comment on Watchword gives the Balatro treatment to an anagram word game 4 months ago:
Glad to see this being talked about! GMTK had a similar idea and recently published a demo, the developer also released a devlog yesterday about it youtu.be/jfD7m7sgOgQ
- Comment on Bungie used an artist's work without permission in Marathon 5 months ago:
Allegedly a former employee (contractor?) had tipped the assets and saved them in a texture sheet. When they left nobody knew it was stolen, and they said they’re reviewing assets to make sure there are no more.
It seems like a reasonable explanation to me
- Comment on The original Stalker trilogy is getting a free upgrade that brings in reworked lighting, full controller support, and more 5 months ago:
Controller support, yes!
- Comment on This Fan Believes They Found Evidence That Mario Kart World Has Three Continents 6 months ago:
I mean, it’s called world?
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 6 months ago:
The reason was not specified in exact details, but it was likely because a contributor was temporarily geolocated in a U.S.-sanctioned region.