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  • Star Citizen and Squadron 42: founding reached 1 billion .

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  • That's fair, but at the very least you have to recognise that's it's fair to call Star Citizen a scam.

    I mean they've literally lied about planning to have exploration gameplay and continue to sell JPEGs/cash shop items worth hundreds of dollars when they have no plans to include exploration gameplay.

    Thats just one notable example. There are many others (hundreds of major cases of lying and premeditated falsehoods in search of financial gain).

  • Steel Artery: Train City Builder, a steampunk fantasy city builder where you manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logi

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  • Steel Artery: Train City Builder, a steampunk fantasy city builder where you manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logi

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  • SimTower actually runs OK with Windows 10 (64 bit) the UI can be a bit small with modern resolutions. It's been a few years, but I believe it was the winevdm solution cited on PGW. I ran a bunch of 3.1 era games for fun.

    I played SimTower a lot as kid. Turns out the developer of SimTower (Maxis was the publisher outstide of Japan where it was released as The Tower) released a sequel called Yoot Tower. It is nice upgrade even if the core of the two games are extremely similar. It also works on W10.

    But it's always good to try new games. :)

    Cheers!

  • Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'

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  • I would personally be OK with engine updates (with a focus on getting that timeless look like in HL 1/2) and a continuation of the story.

    Unless they decide to go with a hybrid genre model, it will be difficult to make a game as innovative as HL1/HL2.

  • Games @lemmy.world
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    Hotel Architect, a top down, 3D, colourful hotel management game with construction and room design (with a template system), with gameplay reminiscent of Two Point Hospital, released on Steam/GOG. [Mi

    store.steampowered.com /app/1602000/Hotel_Architect/
  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    Hotel Architect, a top down, 3D, colourful hotel management game with construction and room design (with a template system), with gameplay reminiscent of Two Point Hospital, released on Steam/GOG. [Mi

    store.steampowered.com /app/1602000/Hotel_Architect/
  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'

    www.pcgamer.com /games/fps/former-valve-writer-chet-faliszek-has-no-interest-in-writing-half-life-3-i-dont-want-to-touch-that-with-a-10-foot-pole/
  • Roguelike Games @lemmy.world
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    KingFish is a co-op roguelike where one of you gets to play a city builder while the other plays an action game

    www.rockpapershotgun.com /kingfish-is-a-co-op-roguelike-where-one-of-you-gets-to-play-a-city-builder-while-the-other-plays-an-action-game

  • So Lemmy, what are your thoughts on Mixtape?

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  • Sounds cool enough, although the reviews suggest gameplay is middling which is OK as long as it's got other good/unique things.

    I don't mind walking simulators if they are done well have something to offer in terms the overall package. I actually played Soma with a mod, I didn't find the bosses to be scary, just a bit tedious, so I disabled them, they just walk around, it's actually a bit unnerving.

    That being said, I don't think it's a game for me as it feels very US suburb-centric (I lived in the US for several years). It wouldn't strike the right notes.

  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    Boardwalk Builders, an idle broadwalk management game where you design and expand your boardwalk by building rides, shops, and restaurants to draw in crowds, host events and invite VIPs, released on S

    store.steampowered.com /app/2958890/Boardwalk_Builders/
  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    Port Trader, a minimalist idle merchant empire management game, set during the age of sail, with a top down view mimicking the visual style of hand-drawn historical maps, released on Steam (demo avail

    store.steampowered.com /app/4402730/Port_Trader/

  • How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did'

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  • I feel like it was somewhat big back in the day. I played it back then I wasn't the only one. :)

  • Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC

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  • I was a big fan of RtCW back in the day (played through it multiple times) and this is the first time I am hearing of Cursed Sands.

    Also very strange that it's not on Mobygames.

  • "We tried something different": Looking back on SiN Episodes: Emergence, the Valve-backed shooter that tried and failed to kick off an age of episodic gaming

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  • Maybe I missed the sarcasm, but this was back in the mid 2000s when Valve was planning to switch to an episodic model. As we can see (from both Half-Life and SiN), that approach didn't really work (at least in an industry-wide way).

  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    I Loved Unleashing My Creative Juices, Wayward Sausages, And Adorable Ghosts In Two Point Museum’s Arty-Facts DLC

    www.thegamer.com /two-point-museum-arty-facts-dlc-review-interview/
  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2026/05/previously-console-exclusive-return-to-castle-wolfenstein-cursed-sands-is-finally-on-pc/
  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
    Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

    "We tried something different": Looking back on SiN Episodes: Emergence, the Valve-backed shooter that tried and failed to kick off an age of episodic gaming

    www.rockpapershotgun.com /we-tried-something-different-looking-back-on-sin-episodes-emergence-the-valve-backed-shooter-that-tried-and-failed-to-kick-off-an-age-of-episodic-gaming

  • Colony Ship - Guides for Editing Save Files

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  • It's a great game! Didn't realize save game editing would be that involved.

  • The Immense Engine - Arjan Brussee (Guerrilla Games) is developing The Immense Engine. An AI-based engine alternative from Europe to challenge the dominance of Unreal and Unity.

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  • It's not a matter of continental purity, I would have no issues with ML services from any democratic-leaning country as long as they have the capability to choose an independent path that's not subject to American/Chinese pressure.

    I will also note that it was Brussee himself that pitched the notion of an European game engine. The concept doesn't really work if you are using American services (Anthropic or OpenAI) for core elements of your game engine architecture.

    Reliance on OpenAI/Palantir/Anthropic in the ML space is asking for trouble as you give the Americans your data and you open yourself up to blackmail, threats and extortion.

    I also wouldn't hope for any fundamental change in attitudes towards things like crime, corruption among the leadership elements of American society in the next 20-30 years. For better or for worse, the median American is too well off to have any incentive to put pressure on their leadership to address crime. And when they start wondering

    I would love to be completely wrong on all of this, but I am afraid it's a bit too naive and careless to just assume all problems will magically disappear just like that.

  • The Immense Engine - Arjan Brussee (Guerrilla Games) is developing The Immense Engine. An AI-based engine alternative from Europe to challenge the dominance of Unreal and Unity.

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  • I am sure you didn't mean it in a bad way, but usage for the military is not necessarily a bad thing. It all depends on your real life situation.

    I live in Ukraine and I would only be happy for ML tech to help save Ukrainian lives (both military and civilian), increase the efficiency of killing of russian invaders (on an absolute and cost basis) and enable more efficient strikes on military facilities and oil infrastructure in the imperial core of russia.

  • The Immense Engine - Arjan Brussee (Guerrilla Games) is developing The Immense Engine. An AI-based engine alternative from Europe to challenge the dominance of Unreal and Unity.

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  • If it's based on LLMs from Anthropic or OpenAI, it's still dependent on Americans.

    Le Chat/Mistral seems to have improved quiet a bit for my LLM use cases since I last tried it, but I have no clue how well their services work for game development use cases.

    I would argue a European alternative needs to have something different to beat the American oligarchic "freedom polemics in the front, corruption and crime in the back" model. Open source seems like the best way to develop services that can resist corruption and focus on making a good product. This doesn't seem to be open source, would be interesting to hear what their USP is beyond alignment with EU regulations and deep integration with ML tech (that is still dependent on US service providers).

  • Space Station Silicon Valley

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  • Never heard of this (probably because the only console I ever had was the Sega Mega Drive which was abandoned after we got a PC), surprised to hear it was made by DMA Design. DMA Design were revolutionary in the 90s; GTA2 is one of my favourite games (I like GTA3 a lot too).

  • Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear

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  • It's interesting how it seems indie games releases with a similar genre/concept always come out around the same time, in clusters.

  • Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear

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  • Yes, there was definitely an Unreal Tournament map built around the cannon.

    I was even curious and it turns out it was an Assault map called Overlord for UT99 based on the WW2 operation.

    https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/AS-Overlord

    There might have been another one.

    Although you definitely don't get to manage them on a day to day basis in UT99.

  • [Itch] Pacman.exe, classic arcade meets indie horror

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  • I thought this would be an PS1 3D narrative indie psychological horror about Pacman, but turned out it was a re-skinned variant of the classical game (not a bad thing).

  • Day 661 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • Heading screenshot looks beautiful!

  • Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear

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  • Interesting concept, I am surprised something similar have never been done before. That being said, it's possible that someone made a more primitive version of this gameplay concept on newgrounds and it just never got big.

  • Urban Games Enters Partnership With Paradox Interactive

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  • As a huge fan of Transport Fever, this is really bad news!

    Get ready for a stream of pointless DLC for TF3.

    I guess we still have Transport Fever 2 which is a great game that will stand the test of time.

    EDIT: 25+ pages of comments and overwhelming majority are negative.

  • PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market"

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  • Timberborn is a lot of fun, you can build some crazy worlds when you reach the end game.