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[Link] Being a Facebook Metaverse ‘Community Guide’ Seems Like a Nightmare Job
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
Imagine you had to moderate a Facebook comment thread, only each commenter was able to come up to you, wave their hands in your face, and scream whatever they want. Peanutbutter sighs loudly and approaches the group of kids.
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[Link] Valve bans Cities: Skylines modder accused of hiding malicious code in mods
Read: 14/2/2022 www.pcgamer.com
If you used Cities: Skylines mods from a user known as Chaos or Holy Water, it's probably worth unsubscribing from them, as a post on the Cities: Skylines subreddit explains.
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[Link] DMCA-Circumventing Cheat Maker Uses DMCA to Take Down Cracked Copy
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Copyright law exists so that creators of all kinds can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
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[Link] Bridging Game Worlds With The ‘Impossible’ Pokémon Trade
Read: 8/12/2021 hackaday.com
Transferring hard-earned Pokémon out of the second generation GameBoy game worlds into the ‘Advance Era’ cartridges (and vice versa) has never been officially supported by Nintendo, however [Goppier] has made these illicit trades slightly easier for budding Pokémon trainers by way of a custom
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[Link] Coder Spends 1,200 Hours Piecing Together Diablo's Source Code
Read: 29/11/2021 kotaku.com
If not for a few oversights on Blizzard’s part, the original Diablo’s source code would likely be lost to time. However, thanks to those oversights and some serious dedication from one coder, people can now see (and tinker around with) what makes Diablo tick.
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[Link] A DRM Error Made Major Single-Player PC Games Unplayable
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Over the weekend, online forums were flooded with reports that numerous video games on PC were not launching. Gamers narrowed the problem down to an issue affecting Denuvo, a DRM solution used by some publishers.
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[Link] Stellaris Invicta, a fake documentary about fake space empires, wraps second season
Read: 7/11/2021 www.pcgamesn.com
One of the most powerful things about grand strategy games is their ability to generate amazing stories, even if it’s only in your head.
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[Link] Why Does FaZe Clan Think It’s Worth $1 Billion?
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
FaZe Clan, the esports and gaming influencer group, announced plans on Monday to become “the only digitally native, youth-focused lifestyle and media platforms publicly traded on a U.S.
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[Link] Indie dev finds that Linux users generate more, better bug reports
Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either.
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[Link] Halo 3's been moddable for a week, so here's Dust2
Read: 25/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
If a game has mapping tools, the wisdom goes, you can be sure someone, somewhere, has remade Counter-Strike's Dust2 using them. That's how, after 14 years as one of the most enduring console shooters ever made, Master Chief can finally hold Bombsite B against Covenant invaders.
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[Link] Cyberpunk Mod Gives V A Different Apartment Depending On Lifepath
Read: 25/10/2021 www.thegamer.com
One thing that was a little overblown in Cyberpunk 2077's promotional material was the significance of your lifepath. Originally, it seemed like this would dictate how the whole world treated you, influencing your outcome in Night City.
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[Link] Battlefield 2042 leaker claims beta build isn't as old as EA stated
Read: 17/10/2021 www.gamesradar.com
The new report comes from GamingIntel, where seasoned Battlefield and Call of Duty leaker Tom Henderson claims new information about Battlefield 2042 from an associate working on the game.
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[Link] The ‘Leak’ of Warzone’s New Anti-Cheat System Was Actually Part of the Plan
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, Activision bombastically announced its new anti-cheat system—called RICOCHET—and promised to eradicate most cheaters from its massively popular online games such as Call of Duty: Warzone.
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[Link] The Gamers Who Regularly Stream to No One
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017. The numbers tend to vary.
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[Link] Cheat Maker Is Not Afraid of Call of Duty’s New Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Activision announced its new anti-cheat system, called RICOCHET, on Monday. The company also said the new system will run in the kernel, the core of the operating system, which controls and has access to most of the computer's functions.
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[Link] Playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ How It’s ‘Supposed’ To Be Played Is Lifechanging
Read: 12/10/2021 www.forbes.com
Yesterday, I got a new PC from PowerGPU after my old one died last week. I could have repaired it, and I probably still will, but I figured it was time for an upgrade anyway. The first game I installed after I got it set up? Cyberpunk 2077.
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[Link] Grand Theft Auto modders that tried to get around a DMCA claim get walloped with Take-Two lawsuit
Read: 7/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
The existence of the GTA Trilogy remaster was more-or-less confirmed by the Korean ratings board last week, but the rumours have been gathering pace for a while: not least because Rockstar parent company Take-Two has been getting very heavy-handed with modders of the original games on PC.
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[Link] Steam Achievement names can be upsettingly long, Cookie Clicker discovers
Read: 8/9/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Achievement names often feel like an afterthought. Usually forgettable, at best a mildly funny pun beeping onto your screen as an award for collecting 15 trinkets.
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[Link] 'The Sims' Fans Are Mad About This One Window Specifically
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
A new, small selection of new furniture and architectural details came out for The Sims 4 yesterday in the Industrial Loft Kit, a small collection of new items with a Brooklyn loft theme. The Industrial Loft Kit initially felt like it might include architectural details players were excited about.
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[Link] ‘Warzone’ Bans 100,000 Cheaters in Largest Ban Wave Yet
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The makers of the popular first-person shooter Call of Duty just banned more than 100,000 accounts for cheating in what is the largest ban wave in the game's history. On Wednesday, Raven Software, the developer of the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone, announced the bans in a tweet.
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[Link] This artist funded his sister's degree and added a floor to his parent's house with Warframe skins
Read: 22/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Digital Extremes' Warframe is a live service game which makes money largely through cosmetics, and part of its success has come from the studio's willingness to embrace all forms of fan expression, whether that's guides or incredible 3D art.
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[Link] This Week In Modding: Legendary Skyrim Mod Deleted, DMCAs Issued, And More
Read: 15/8/2021 www.thegamer.com
New ways to play Skyrim, and DMCA takedown notices - yep, it’s been a pretty standard week in the modding community.
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[Link] Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.
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[Link] Half-Life 2 'Breaking The Bar' Event Aims to Set A Record
Read: 15/8/2021 techraptor.net
Lambda Generation is a Half-Life fansite that has an intriguing event going on this weekend: the fine folks of this community want everyone's help to smash the Half-Life 2 peak player count.
[Link] EVE Online's record-setting war ends with a whimper
Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A war of unprecedented magnitude in EVE Online is coming to an unexpected and anti-climactic end.
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[Link] One of Skyrim's most popular modders is pulling his work from Nexus Mods
Read: 8/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Popular mod-hosting site Nexus Mods announced recently that users who upload files will no longer be allowed to delete them.
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