games

I will believe it when I see it

apparently there's a stellaris free weekend coming up

yeah bro and the world will end in 2012

ye, new DLC just dropped for Stelaris

no idea if it's functional or good!

i am watching spiffing brit break it

he got sponsored

uh.... how many views has this gotten in <2 hours

at a non-peak time

35k

wtf

no Leg, the actual veiw number

Youtube sticks rn

oh yeah, with 1.7 million likes

nothing in that trailer made me want to play it

that was a strange trailer, I think it's better than the 1st one but they go REALLY hard on the sex/relationship shit between the two MCs

which seems like an entirely pointless marketing angle

SF6 in Japan is actually a phenomenon, its super massive. Its actually become an issue for ranked top 500. Asia has so many people who hit Master rank (when your points are now counted in the pool) that its pretty much impossible to get into top 500 outside of Asia. I think the current number is ~8 players not in Asia in top 500.

I think one of the biggest factors for its growth is casual modes, simplicity, but also they had a lot of weekly tournaments with pro players coaching vtubers

Is anyone in here like actually excited for this?

Not really

I was excited for it when I was 13

Yea thats my feeling rusp

I guess i under estimate the fervor or normies and RPers

I want to see what a $2B game is like

that's my only curiosity

I hope it fails

it would be so funny

I like to see the reaction to culturally huge games.

Yea i more so meant excited to play the video game

Polu, I'm looking forward to asking you wtf your take was on some of these story beats in Expedition 33 once I'm finished with the game

Genshin Impact is about to be required by law to age-gate their game, they are the only game affected by this, literally 1 of 1 the FTC is forcing to do this

No one knows whether it's going to be ID verification, or just a normal age-dropdown selector

why? lol

Unirronically

Probably because the outgoing director of the FTC hated how much his daughter spent on Genshin

It doesn't apply to other games, not even other Mihoyo games

If Mihoyo was an American company, I actually think Congress might be sympathetic to reigning in the FTC (or passing some broad but consistent "protecting child gamers" bill)

I don't think Notch is impressed by GTA6 https://x.com/notch/status/1920151415948992816

what i wanna know is why GTA6 isnt releasing on PC at the same time as consoles

lol no

+6 months or whatever

thats why

India has risen

I was going to clip that too Syren, lmao

The opening of the game is at ~45 seconds

you spawn into the slums and immediately murder a woman

The fantasy of every Indian boy

what the fuck were they thinking

HE IS SO COOL 😭

Pls remind me so i can save my acc 7529_KEKW

prime gaming is giving out Minecraft Legends for free right now

Europa Universalis 5 Stream 5/8/2025 12:00 PM

but spooky what if its actually not called Eu5

wouldn't that be a twist

does paradox have a game in the roman republic/empire era?

yes, they abandoned it though

Imperator: Rome

and previously, Europa Universalis: SPQR

so its SPQR 2

That would be the funniest bait and switch

abandon their Rome game, to make a better Rome game

peak Paradox

but no, it's EU5, dates are (likely) 1337-->1835

which will be ambitious, because it's going to require multiple different eras of mechanics, which they've not really done in their grand strategies before

despite being abandoned its pretty good

Btw Imperator got another small patch recently

mostly for modding

Paradox has been weirdly non-committal on side project games for a while now

I feel bad for Imperator

it didn't really get a chance

Canceling their Cold War game East vs West is still the one I'm most disappointed about

And the more wargamey ones like March of the Eagles being killed