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    GOG.com

    Sorry but the idea of private site with torrent trackers is dumb. It's like warez FTP servers in the 90's - only 20 years too late. What would happen to the scene when all smart people will leave and admins will let unwashed masses in ? The answer is - GGN access can be bought for mere 60$...
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    First one was Gothic 1. I still remember the line from "readme" where Piranha Bytes said that they don't know if their game runs on Windows 95. When it comes to second one - I've tried it on newest drivers - and both Nvidia and Intel still cannot implement DirectX 7 API: I mean - it's not THAT...
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    I've analyzed few cases of old game not working on new Windows - and it was never Microsoft's fault. Certain revered RPG was insisting on setting window size to 0x0. Older Windows system was just ignoring such function call. Newer Windows will just kill the process. WINE was trying to render...
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    Why is game development so ineffective?

    I've very rarely seen 'art and music' role. Usually it was the younger of two brothers ;). I've seen one, single guy doing really decent code, graphics and music. More often it is code+graphics guy getting help with music. Of course any decent musician - like Rob Hubbard - knows assembly...
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    Why is game development so ineffective?

    It's crazy hit-driven environment. 95% of projects lose money - but 5% make up for it. Almost none of the project managers that can expand the scope to add to the game when company gets an injection of funding - and wrap it up in few months when the investment climate changes - while not...
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    Why is game development so ineffective?

    In video game industry people are often fired (or quit) at the end of the project. Establishing productive processes takes time - so it's amateur hour with each new game. The only exception are the companies that are doing pure engineering tasks - like ports and tools. But they tend to stay...
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    What happened to "mature" art direction? Everything is Overwatch now

    Say no to infantile Japanese 'art': And embrace centuries old Western tradition: Mature, realistic art style can achieve so much more when it comes to emotional impact and communicating sophisticated ideas. Unless you have large team of varying levels of talent trying to deliver assets on...
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    Games that are compatible with 95/98/2000/XP would run on Linux through Wine much better than on modern Windows ... ... except Wine developers do not like implementing compatibility for invasive copy protections - for ideological and practical reasons. So for many years cracked copy would run...
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    Sure - there are also issues with GOG games. If the game won't start on 64-bit Windows or Windows 10/11 - Valve will give you refund. But they don't feel responsible for checking if the game they sell even runs and most definitely not for fixing it - and for wasting your time. GOG at least...
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    You don't want to buy decade old Windows games on Steam. While trying to run it on modern PC - outdated DRM is one less hassle to worry about. Alpha Protocol is the best proof for that - one fine day its fancy copy protection just stopped working - and Ubisoft just couldn't be bothered to fix...
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    Decline Video-Game Executives Lament Lost Creativity at Developer’s Show GDC

    Monetary policies are not consistent around the world. There is no cabal of lizard people that decides that Switzerland or Russia cannot introduce gold standard. However -global capital either invests in turbo capitalist countries or countries with cheap labour. Going back to games -:crazy...
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    Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    I think someone will license the engine from Larian to make another D&D game with WOTC. The same way Gold Box and Infinity Engine were used to churn out D&D titles for next 4 years. Even if the engine was not designed for licensing - it's an easy way for Larian to earn few bucks - and for 3rd...
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    Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    Sven said that their next game is not Divinity: Original Sin 3.
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    KickStarter The Wayward Realms - upcoming Daggerfall-like RPG from original Elder Scrolls developers - coming to Kickstarter

    Paradox proposal was 5% of Skyrim budget to make 3d RPG. Vijay counter-proposal was making 'Skyrim killer' for 10% of Skyrim budget. No deal. Seeing how first Paradox published modern 3d RPG (Bloodlines 2) is shaping up - I doubt that AAA Wayward Realms stood a chance. They will get less...
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    Nintendo Switch, the only console today making games which are games

    If 'breaking encryption' was enough - you wouldn't be able to watch your DVDs using open source software. They were offering fixes for unreleased games (Tears of the Kingdom) - exclusive to Patreon members. It's hard to argue legitimate use when there was no legal way to obtain the game at the...

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