I imagine this is a mix of things. UE5 has officially been out for a while, their biggest competitor just offed themselves, Fortnite's UE editor support is out and thus Fortnite probably doesn't need as many devs now with UGC to pick up the slack, etc.
That's still a huge chunk of people though. Wonder if all these financial gambles they've taken are starting to add up.
Just update a current game and put a 2 on it?
It was a "ground-up" rebuild on Source 2, so while it carries forward all the CSGO content and aims to "play the same" in terms of movement and gunplay (with the exception of improvements like subtick actions), I'd say it's way more of an actual "2." New engine with all kinds of fancy lighting and other improvements, new assets (including weapon and character models, some of which were still originally in the 2013 CSGO launch), remakes and retouches of maps, vastly improved map-making tools, some nifty accessibility features (your walking sounds appearing on the radar) and quality of life features (selling back misbought items, or the picture-in-picture grenade throw practice camera), and some huge balance changes (games are now shorter, players now need to more strategically choose their weapons, smoke grenades are voxel-based and can be cleared out with gunfire and grenades, skyboxes are now open for grenade tosses, etc.)
It looks the same but with some lighting changes on the surface, but it's actually huge.
Not allowing to ship out paid orders is not forgivable no matter the situation imo.
Switching to Firefox worked great.
Oh, Russia is mad that another country is making illegal claim to territory they see as their own?
Slava Ukraini. Crimea isn't the only thing Russia's going to lose now that the entire world knows their military is a husk.
It's the same as when Elden Ring dropped. Even people who never played Souls games prior were picking it up because it was just a complete, solid open world RPG.
I've never played Baldur's Gate before, but I'm probably gonna pick 3 up to play with my roommate in splitscreen.
This is the U.S., we quite literally can't uphold values to save our lives. Hollywood studios aren't going to pause shit.
It's also the name of the best feature of the 3DS. What the fuck, Nintendo? Why don't we have it on the Switch?
I've explicitly been using my beehaw.org account pretty much exclusively because of the constant DDOS attacks on lemmy.world.
Kinda funny how their plan to seemingly kill Lemmy is just helping it stay decentralized by pushing people to other instances.
Considering the whole point of a corporation is limited liability, I can't imagine the whole "individual execs will get in trouble" thing is going down well for them. I'm sure nobody wants their encrypted chats handed over to the government, either, especially as governments have been backtracking rights for pretty much everyone.
Fuck the Online Safety Act, it's gross overreach.
I wish they'd just let it through already. The way it looks, nothing changes for PlayStation gamers, Nintendo gamers get access to CoD for the first time since in years, Activision's back catalogue goes to a company that's way more likely to use it for something other than cool easter eggs in Black Ops games, CoD gets more accessible overall by being a part of the subscription, and Sony's complete market dominance gets another blow that once again forces them to compete and improve their platform.
If anything, I wish the FTC had been this aggressive when it came to the Zenimax purchase. All that really did was give Microsoft the ability to make those games Xbox-exclusive (establishing a pretty scary amount of western RPG dominance) and plop them on Gamepass.
It's an eight year old smartwatch. I feel like most of the target audience already has a newer model.