I love GN for what they do, but I just can’t get into the video format for tech hardware news or reviews.

For some topics, I totally understand the strength of the video format, but for others it just doesn’t make sense to me. A review is much quicker to process with commentary text and relevant charts for benchmarking. I would argue the same for less in-depth news and analysis.

I also wish GN had a peetrube channel!

I am aware how it’s spelt. Typo on mobile. :)

Touche good sir/ma’am!

I am showing my age here, but it seems that boomer in context of slang means old person if you are in your 20s or earlier.

I would love a management/tycoon game where you build out black mesa and have to take care of your scientists and guards.

WW2?

I am not going to get into the discussion around the “boomer shooter” name, but surely HL1 would be considered part of the Gen X experience.

The youngest millennials were in their early teens in 1998. The last members of Gen X were finishing up secondary school in 1998.

I say this as a relatively early to mid generation millennial born in the late 80s.

The whole generational cohort approach can be very limiting. IMO late cohort Gen X and early-mid cohort Millenials have a lot in common.

I remember playing Jill of the Jungle in early 1997, it was on one of those “100 in 1” pirate CD that were common around the time the CD-ROM was introduced (became somewhat common in my region).

That same pirate compilation had Commander Keen, Dune 2 and many other games.

An earlier statement from one of the Paradox PR reps (before release):

“I actually played Bloodlines 1 quite recently, and it is a good game, but it is also an old game, and there are many things that would not fly today,” Lilja said. "But I understand why people were super psyched by it in 2004, because it had a lot of cool [elements], and the feeling of being a vampire is really strong, regardless of other features. But I think people, they remember their feelings about it. And if they replayed it, I think they would see that it’s a competently good game by 2004 standards, now that it’s patched.

Seems like their approach to Bloodlines 2 isn’t much of “high flyer” in the year 2025.

In defence of the PR rep, they were open about Bloodlines 2 not having much to do with the original and that it was more of vampire themed linear action game.

But in that case, why would you have internal targets of 2M+ initial sales if your plan is to have a radical departure from a well known cult classic RPG known for its roleplaying and strong writing?

That’s so true. Murray’s publicity game become so much more cautious and focused after the initial disasterous release of NMS.

Respect to them for supporting the game for so long for free while having a simple and fair monetisation approach.

Cheers!

although my neighbor/crush liked to come to my place to play it so that’s mostly how I got to know it.

That’s funny!

What’s the Euro population like? With the timezone and all.

Honestly, that’s very surprising.

They are not running out of oil money.

They have the best cost per barrel economics out of all countries (at scale) and they still hold a stupid high % of the market (10%+).

Their game investment strategy is of course a massive failure. They will exist in 24-36 months. You don’t need to be a financial analyst to understand this.

Wannabe American oligarch.

The things he allegedly argues against (Apple/Google app store restrictions) is what he would implement (word for word copy/paste arguments) if he was in their position.

Typical corrupt scum.

I work in market research. Data at this level of granularity (price band view) is extremely expensive.

Around 300K per year and that would also likely only include a few retailers GameStop, BestBuy, Walmart. I don’t remember off the top of my head, but I believe Steam data wouldn’t be included.

It’s very likely Valve doesn’t share the full dataset with anyone. Maybe partial data with some of their biggest partners.

That’s in terms of games.

If you look at the content on Steam, there is lots of pro-russian genocidal imperialism messaging (even in charity DLC releases), Nazi stuff and annoying fake anti-woke posturing.

They don’t do anything about it because of their alleged committment to “free speech”. I find that unconvincing, they simply can’t be bothered.

I am more into the indie side with psychological/existential horror and horror RPGs, but I do like the early Silent Hill and Resident Evil releases.

Based on the trailer seems like a game version of a gore/torture/faux-snuff horror movie.