Not a bad episode but I find it really funny how Nate talked about Idris being “packed” - it’s a space ship and a military one at that, shouldn’t “packed” be the goal here?!

The official answer seems to be: CIG trying to get as many people to the Manchester office and he may or may not be unwilling to relocate. That’s just my guess though.

GamesIndustry has additional comment from CIG on the matter.

For what it’s worth, he’s been replaced by Richard Tyrer (director of Squadron 42).

Iirc moonie also quoted legal statue and stuff on his video but was rebuked my Karl as well

Yeah, that’s why I’m planning to look into whether that was a screw up or not, thanks for the link too.

I’m familiar with HBG but it’s always good to mention him.

Yes, it is insane. That case is also a great showcase of how trying to make example out of a single guy doesn’t really work since, as you mentioned, rest of the team is still doing their thing.

I’d like to think (well, hope anyway) that no one looks at Bowser’s story and thinks “yeah, that’s a reasonable conclusion”.

Oh no, I completely agree no one should be completely screwed over piracy. Just wanted to add some context as I saw a lot of discussion about him ending with “poor innocent dude” without digging into details. That’s all.

Nintendo has a lot of problems that should absolutely be called out. I hope me trying to add more details didn’t imply otherwise.

No idea, I’m only familiar with some of his videos so can’t say one way or another. Is there any place I could read about it?

Edit: Also, I believe the video I mentioned has links to specific legal documents surrounding this case so it should be easy to fact check. Still, I’m not trying to whitewash the situation you wrote about would love to learn more if it happened.

Edit 2: A’ight, while I didn’t have time for a deep dive I did manage to confirm that situation happened.

I sucks since the videos I’ve seen seemed reasonably researched and now I’m wondering whether that was a one-time screw up or a normal thing that simply wasn’t caught more often. Guess I’ll try to look into it more when I’m free.

As much as I dislike Nintendo and wish Yuzu devs all the best I’d like to point out that Bowser wasn’t some innocent guy who was caught by big bad company - Moonie has a video that goes into specifics about his involvement with a pirate enterprise worth a shitton of money.

Other than that yeah, I hope they can survive this situation. I wonder if Ryujinx devs are next.

I probably can’t help with the hardware part but want to clarify just in case:

• are you looking for an officially licensed one or just anything? I’m guessing the latter based on the “cheap” requirement?
• are you looking for a gift or just a way for her to play those games?
• if it’s the latter, does she have a smartphone? any budget phone will easily handle this kind of emulation so she could just use that

I’d agree about P3R if not for the fact that despite remaking the game Atlus still couldn’t be bothered to make a definitive edition of P3.

Besides that, you could also argue P3P doesn’t really belong here due to being available on Steam but the question was about our favorite games played on an emulator and PSP version is what I’m playing right as I’m typing this :P

Parasite Eve is great, isn’t it? I wish we got more RPGs like this set in modern times.

I don’t expect anything will come out this but I really appreciate Ross trying to give it an honest shot. I can’t help since I don’t own the game but I can at least cheer from the sidelines an lend my power for a spirit bomb.

Go Ross Go!

I’ve been using emulation pretty much since I started playing games. It’s actually one of the main reasons gaming became my passion (and eventually major money drain).

My favorite thing? I don’t have to shuffle different devices to play everything I want - it’s even more importent now, since I have a Steam Deck and can have all of them on the go again.

Here’s a short list of titles I love that don’t show up too often in threads like this one:

• Tetris DX (GBC / mGBA)
• Fantasy Golf Pangya (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Persona 3 Portable (PSP / PPSSPP) - just started NG+ with female protagonist
• Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Ridge Racer 2 (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Parasite EVE (PSX / DuckStation)
• Captain Toad Tresure Tracker (Switch / Yuzu)

I’m not going to dump my whole library here but these are fun and rare enough worth mention.

I mean, they’re adding big box delivery so…

Jokes aside, non-aggressive unlawful gameplay could be focused on pure stealth, for example: to steal or plant something without being seen as an intended goal of the mission giver. Maybe add racing on a private property? It’s definitely something more difficult to come up with and implement than just shooting people in a different location but they will have to do it if they really want to make the game into a sandbox for everyone and not just action players.

Sure, as the name suggests unlawful gameplay will always skirt the law, I just don’t think everything has to be about murder. That’s just me though, hopefully peaceful game loops will make their way into the game at a more reasonable pace after recent development shift.

Sure but they specifically talked about non-aggressive approach to unlawful play style.

Besides, it’s not really a huge deal. Just making fun of how everything in SC has to be related to combat in one way or another.

I love how good chunk of “non-aggressive” unlawful gameplay consisted of killing without rising alarms. Very cool…

If you’re looking for something relaxing there’s Afrika - a photography game with a (light?) sim focus.

If you’re fine with kind of mediocre gameplay, rough performance and interesting writing: Drakengard 3. The occasional humor may or may not be your cup of tea but the overall story is worth it - it does require replaying stages and some grinding if you want to reach the true ending however.

It does! They showed it off during CitizenCon and talked about it in this video.

It also suppose to have a list with various POI located in the system (stations, moons, planets), custom markers (not sure if they’re targeted for 3.23) and some other stuff I’m probably forgetting right now. It should be way more usable than what we’re used to.

I checked out the demo and you can actually select one of the few speed settings in the options menu. Some of them felt pretty fast but I’m not an expert on racers so you might want to check out the demo to see if any of them gets close to what you’re looking for.

While I don’t care about using alien ships Syulen looks really cool. C1 too, I guess.

Storm on the other hand… this thing should be like half the size it is now. I may be exaggerating a bit but one-man “light” tank should not be this big. I also can’t get used to the track pods being completely static - they look like they should be split in two and act like suspension (even though it wouldn’t make sense with tracks).
Hell, at least make them move in relation to the main body.

That said, MLRS variant looks cool - if only for the rocket barrage.

Siege of Orison Re-Activation - Event Updates

• Siege now has a warning period for the event, when this initially starts there will be a 30 min warning where Dulli will say something is going down, this is to allow people to prep and accept the mission to know where its taking place
• The lift from Orison to the rooftop will be disabled by default and only enabled when the event starts.
• All the shuttle call terminals require the lieutenant’s code to be input one time to unlock (the only one that won’t have a code is the broken shuttle from H to E island).
• The barge now has a container that will prevent people from pushing into the barge beyond the first room. This becomes unlocked when all the previous Islands boss’ have been complete
• If you take a Siege Ship out of the area while the event is active we active self destruct that the player can not turn off
• If you get back in the area it should disable the self-destruct
• Once the IFFI on the barge is down, players will be free to take the ships as the Self-Distruct will be disabled
• If you try and take your own ship into the area, you will be impounded back to “the last ATC the player was near"
• There have been changes under the hood to turrets and the way the IFFI interact
• If a player commits a crime or attacks another player on the mission they will get a marker placed on them and players still in the mission will be allowed to kill them, with this they will see an objective to do with Nine tails sympathizers and how many have been killed. You will only see markers for sympathizers on the same island as you.
• When you kill the island lieutenant and loot the code you will get a marker on potential IFFI locations
• We have new audio lines
• If the player approaches an island and the lieutenant is killed but the AA isn’t disabled
• If you are heading to an island and there are Ninetails sympathizers on that island
• Along with one saying about more than 1
• New mission success line
• New line saying the lieutenant is dead and the iffi is optional they can move on
• A line for the possible IFFI locations
• Personal thank you to the player for doing the event
• If a player kills another player everyone on that island gets informed, there is also a repeat line for this.
• Fail reason strings have been added to all relevant objectives and the overall mission fails

Arena Commander 3.21.1 Patch Notes

Game Mode Updates:

• Single Weapon Elimination - now featuring Railguns! Play now until November 19th & December 3rd til 10th only!
• Tank Royale & Team Tank Battle - The TMBR Storm has been added to Tank Experimental Mode, available for those that own the vehicle.

Ship Inclusions Balance:

• Ship Additions to all game modes:

  • AEGIS Avenger Titan
  • AEGIS Avenger Titan Renegade
  • DRAKE Buccaneer
  • Espiria Glaive
  • Espiria Scythe

• Squadron Battle:

  • AEGIS Eclipse
  • AEGIS Vanguard Harbinger
  • AEGIS Vanguard Hoplite
  • AEGIS Vanguard Sentinel
  • AEGIS Vanguard Warden
  • ANVIL C8 Pisces
  • ANVIL C8R Pisces Rescue
  • ANVIL C8X Pisces Expedition
  • ANVIL Gladiator
  • ANVIL Hurricane
  • ANVIL Valkyrie
  • ANVIL Valkyrie Liberator
  • ARGO MOLE
  • ARGO MOLE Carbon
  • ARGO MOLE Talus
  • CNOU Mustang Alpha
  • CNOU Mustang CitizenCon 2948 Edition
  • CNOU Mustang Beta
  • CNOU Mustang Delta
  • CNOU Mustang Gamma
  • CNOU Mustang Omega
  • CRUS A2 Hercules Starlifter
  • CRUS M2 Hercules Starlifter
  • CRUS Ares Star Fighter Inferno
  • CRUS Ares Star Fighter Ion
  • CRUS Mercury Star Runner
  • DRAKE Corsair
  • DRAKE Cutlass Red
  • KRIG P-52 Merlin
  • KRIG P-72 Archimedes
  • KRIG P-92 Archimedes Emerald
  • MISC Freelancer
  • MISC Freelancer DUR
  • MISC Freelancer MAX
  • MISC Freelancer MIS
  • ORIG 300i
  • ORIG 315p
  • ORIG 350r
  • ORIG 400i
  • ORIG 600i
  • ORIG 600i Executive Edition
  • ORIG 600i Touring
  • ORIG M50 Interceptor
  • RSI Aurora CL
  • RSI Aurora ES
  • RSI Aurora LN
  • RSI Aurora MR
  • RSI Constellation Andromeda
  • RSI Constellation Aquila
  • RSI Constellation Phoenix
  • RSI Constellation Phoenix Emerald
  • and RSI Constellation Taurus

• Pirate/Vanduul Swarm:

  • AEGS Reclaimer
  • AEGS Reclaimer Best In Show Edition

Scoring Balance:

• adjusted scoring to value the hull of the vehicle rather than the overall ability in preparation for Multicrew

A Useless Idol and the Only Fan in the World
All hail Urumin. We’re slowly getting close to the end of pre-serialization parts and I can’t wait to see how things expand from there.

Power Antoinette
Story about a buff Marie Antoinette who escapes her execution and bashes her way through Paris. It’s silly, it’s fun, it’s only 4 chapters long (translation that is, original version is on volume 2).
Not a huge fan of muscles being a temporary buff (even if they’re active for most of story so far) but it is what it is.