what, did Microsoft slip Epic a twenty last week?
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when Danny OâDwyer interviews Denis Dyack the industry will have its Frost/Nixon
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OâDwyer Dyack Dyad
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Steam Sale is on. Anyone find anything that stands out?
canadian copyright is technically not enforceable in the US
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looking forward to pirating the CBCâs domestic-distribution-only public domain James Bond
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Gerald Bond
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all this time I thought the CBC was a state-owned fashion brand
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soul calibur vi is 85% off
dragonquest and yakuza titles are on sale too
spent less than $5 on some small indie twine games
wonât be able to really dive deep until i get my check again
unpacking is on sale so iâm prob gonna get it before the sale is over
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I thought it was the cock & ball care, for after the cock & ball torture
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thatâs what i got, but i know you have at least one of those (because i bought it for you) and I think that you were the one who recommended Morphblade. Maybe?
Minecraft Dungeons is not on sale, which stands out to me personally because i feel like itâs at that point in the lifecycle where you would discount the base game and then sell the (hugely inflated in price) DLC to a bunch of new people. But what do I know.
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diablo 2 resurrected is 40% off
Thatâs a good point, so I wonder if Microsoftâs Game Pass strategy impacts their Steam discounting, since itâs a low-cost entry point. They advise Game Pass games to have DLC ready from day one and use expansions to keep the community going. In a lot of ways itâs similar to how Paradox is trying to manage their expansion pack strategy, to get everyone caught up to a base game cheaply and make it on the expansions. Theyâre dealing with unintentional purchase complexity and a growing sense of FoMO from their DLC list that theyâre hoping to fix with a subscription, but thatâs a tough sell for a single publisher.
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According to a video review by Shmup Junkie, the Switch version has 4.5 frames of delay in Progear ( https://youtu.be/tbvE18QK5OA?t=3474 )âhe notes that this was about the best performing of all the gamesâand 7 in Gigawing ( https://youtu.be/tbvE18QK5OA?t=3690 ), which he notes is what he also measured for Gigawing on Dreamcast.
So, I suppose those arenât actually too bad, relatively speaking.
The talk on shmups.com Capcom Arcade Stadium 2 Announced (GunSmoke, ECO Fighters) - Page 9 - shmups.system11.org seems to be that lag and stuttering in some of the worst games got improved with a patch released after that Shmup Junkie review, and that the later PS4 version isnât horrible but isnât great as far as delay goes.
I suppose I take shmups.com with a grain of salt given that the posters there donât seem to bother trying their own delay testing with actual numbers, and seem to view Hamsterâs ACA NEOGEO ports as a gold standard comparable to M2 ports, whereas my rough tests show ACA NEOGEO fighting game ports as having a frame or two of delay moreâon my set-upâthan the best console ports (the best ones including ports by M2, which ARE actually arcade-perfect in terms of input delay).
Arcade Stadium uses MAME for emulation. A MAME dev mentions a few additional challenges it had that affected performance, though: Reddit - Dive into anything
Arcade Stadium noticeably suffered from having to make their own sound cores (and also from some performance and input lag issues caused by jamming MAME into the middle of Capcomâs RE Engine, but thereâs nothing we can do about that)
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Oh uh Injustice 2 is on sale for $2.99 on the PS Store. = P
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hell of a write up.
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Did a very rough local input delay test on Capcom Arcade Stadiumâs Progear and Gigawing on PS4, got about what Shmup Junkie got on Switch: rather specific to my own hardware set-up, I counted 5 frames of lag in Progear, and 7 in Gigawing. 993: Input Lag - Capcom Arcade Stadium PS4 - Progear & Gigawing rough test: 5 & 7 frames of delay - YouTube
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My game pass lapsed a couple of weeks ago so I went looking for the current hot deal
Works out to $2/mo. for a new subscriber or $2.40/month for a lapsed subscriber
I know @HOBO mention something about Turkey but I didnât turn anything up
I definitely got my value out of it last time when I got three years for twice this price
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Thatâs a slightly better deal than being in Turkey (buying a Turkish Xbox Live Gold key and using a VPN to redeem it, then converting to Game Pass)
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I got the $1 for 3 months deal even though I was a lapsed subscriber for all of 12 hours, your mileage may vary tho
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