daniyyel

joined 1 year ago
 
  • Close to the Sun (Available today)
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  • Figment (9 January)
  • Super Mega Baseball 4 (11 January)
  • We Happy Few (11 January)
  • Resident Evil 2 (16 January)
  • Those Who Remain (16 January)

And according to a Game Pass app notification Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are also added. (Not the recent Baldur's Gate 3)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I agree that a lot of subscriptions are really overpriced, but updates to an app are also a sort-of service. Pixelmator explained it quite well when their app switched to a subscription model, mentioning some fair (I think) pros and cons of the succession model, both from the perspective of users and developers.

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2022/08/18/why-pixelmator-photo-is-switching-to-subscription-pricing-and-a-sneak-peek-at-pixelmator-photo-for-mac/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I want to play this. But i also still have a lot of game pass games i want to play. Oh, when will my struggles ever end?

 
  • Remnant: From the Ashes (Available today)
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  • While the Iron’s Hot (5 December)
  • World War Z: Aftermath (5 December)
  • Goat Simulator 3 (7 December)
  • Tin Hearts (12 December)
  • Far Cry 6 (14 December)
 
  • Coral Island (Available today)
  • Persona 5 Tactica (17 November)
  • Dune: Spice Wars (28 November)
  • Rollerdrome (28 November)
 

Hi-Fi RUSH is nominated in five categories (Best Art Direction, Best Score And Music, Best Audio Design, Innovation In Accessibility, Best Action Game) and Forza Motorsport is nominated in two (Innovation In Accessibility, Best Sports / Racing). Starfield is nominated for Best RPG (but has no chance of winning).

 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a multi-platform release, but that isn't stopping Xbox from giving it the full first-party treatment. Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren't too happy about it.

 
  • Headbangers: Rhythm Royale (available today)
  • Jusant (available today)
  • Wartales (available today)
  • Thirsty Suitors (2 November)
  • Football Manager 2024 Console (6 November)
  • Dungeons 4 (9 November)
  • Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (9 November)
  • Wild Hearts (9 November)
  • Spirittea (13 November)
  • Coral Island (14 November)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Important note is that is only applies to the Elite 2 and the adaptive controller.

 

Microsoft is promoting Matt Booty to president of game content and studios, including the new responsibility of ZeniMax, and Sarah Bond to Xbox president, overseeing all Xbox platform and hardware work.

The Xbox changes mean Booty will now lead an expanded organization inside Microsoft Gaming that now includes ZeniMax and Bethesda. Booty’s expanded role should help Microsoft Gaming avoid scenarios like Redfall in the future, with Microsoft clearly focusing on better collaboration between the teams it acquired with the ZeniMax / Bethesda acquisition.

Bond will now take over the hardware and software platforms of Xbox. She will now be responsible for the future of Xbox, both in hardware and software.

These Xbox leadership changes mean there will be more women in gaming leadership roles at Microsoft than men once Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, departs at the end of 2023.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or if you only have 82.5 hours available, check out the episode recommendations at https://medium.com/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-deep-space-nine-in-82-5-hours-10acde591fd2 I found it a great way to watch it in a slightly condensed form, focussing on the main themes.

 

Xbox hardware revenue has declined 7 percent, but Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Xbox Game Pass, is up by 13 percent, though. Overall gaming revenue is also up 9 percent. It looks like Xbox Game Pass has grown year over year, but Microsoft is still not providing updated subscriber numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Looks a bit like Sable, but with a really different art style.

 
  • Like A Dragon: Ishin! (Today)
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  • Dead Space (26 October)
  • Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery (26 October)
  • Mineko’s Night Market (26 October)
  • Headbangers: Rhythm Royale (31 October)
  • Jusant (31 October)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A bit surprising that most people pay full price. I really was under the impression that almost everyone did the 3 years gold-to-gamepass conversion and get it really cheap. But maybe the people here (or on Reddit) are not representative of all subscribers.

My 3 year conversion ends in February. Still undecided if I'll renew at the full monthly price.

 
  • Lies of P (available today)
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In April 2022, of the 33.6 million subscriptions on Xbox consoles, 21.9 million were for Game Pass (excluding PC), with the remaining 11.7 million being Xbox Live Gold. The net revenue per subscription was $9.26 – just shy of the $9.99 price tag, suggesting most subscribers pay full price. By comparison, Microsoft was receiving $6.10 for each Xbox Live Gold subscription.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Autoscaling isn't only used the grow the number of servers under load, but also to guarantee availability of a fixed number. If the max is set to 1, the bastion host is protected against hardware failure, zone outages, or just you screwing up. Accidentally killed your bastion host? No problem, within a few minutes autoscaling will have provisioned a new one and you're good to go again.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Arstechnica runs on WordPress on AWS, and they have a really nice series of articles about it. Sure, you could use just one EC2 instance for everything, but on a high traffic website you would need a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To save everyone a click:

[Baldur's Gate 3] will also be out on Xbox before the end of 2023. (...) "It's 2023. And 2023 is narrowing, so it's already pretty precise in my book. Between September and November... So, as fast as we can honestly," Vincke said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just finished Inside. A really weird and wonderful game. In terms of gameplay quite similar to Planet of Lana, which I played before. Both are quite short. I you haven't played Inside before, don't look anything up, and just start playing. The less you know before hand, the better it will be.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

One of the things wrong with platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the filter bubbles they create through their algorithms. I think it would be a mistake to again create filter bubbles through non- (or de-) federation.

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