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76 votes
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Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, US judge rules
62 votes -
Microsoft closes deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard
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Diablo 4 update nerfs all five classes
47 votes -
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion USD
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Diablo IV discussion thread
What are your initial impressions of the game? What do you like about it? What are your criticisms? How does it compare to previous Diablo games? What are your hopes for future patches, content,...
What are your initial impressions of the game?
What do you like about it?
What are your criticisms?
How does it compare to previous Diablo games?
What are your hopes for future patches, content, or adjustments?
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Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2
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Activision Blizzard sued by California over ‘frat boy’ culture
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What's your favorite hard science fiction novel?
I'm a big fan of Peter Watts (Blindsight, Echopraxia) and Greg Egan (Schild's Ladder, Diaspora) and always looking for more to read. That said I find myself a little bit difficult sometimes as I'm...
I'm a big fan of Peter Watts (Blindsight, Echopraxia) and Greg Egan (Schild's Ladder, Diaspora) and always looking for more to read. That said I find myself a little bit difficult sometimes as I'm not really a fan of massive scope stuff like operas or anything too dated. Granted I really haven't given either of the latter much of a chance as I think I just prefer tight, focused stories with a small cast of characters.
I recently started The Quantum Thief and am liking certain aspects of it but you're really thrown into a blizzard with that one.
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Diablo IV works on the Steam Deck
Just tested it myself. Here’s the process that worked for me, in case anyone else needs a guide. No guarantees, of course, but hopefully it works for others too: From Desktop Mode Download the...
Just tested it myself. Here’s the process that worked for me, in case anyone else needs a guide. No guarantees, of course, but hopefully it works for others too:
From Desktop Mode
Download the Battle.net installer
Add the installer as a non-Steam game
Change the installer settings in Steam to run with Proton Experimental
Run the installer
(tip: to make it easy to find the launcher in the next step, you can change the install path to be in your downloads folder instead of deep in the Proton path)Once installed, exit the installer
Add the installedBattle.net Launcher.exe
as a non-Steam game
Change the launcher settings in Steam to run it with Proton Experimental
Run the launcher
Log in
Install Diablo IV
(tip: uncheck the high res textures option which is on by default to save yourself about 40 GB of space)
Close launcher
(tip: if D4 is the only Bnet game you’re planning on playing, you can rename the launcher in Steam toDiablo IV
)From Gaming Mode
Launch the launcher
Click the Play button on Diablo IV
Enjoy!
Other Tips
During installation or the game, whenever you need a keyboard, press
STEAM + X
to call it up.Occasionally, during installation or in the Launcher in game mode, my trackpad input would get wonky or stop responding. When this happens, hold the
STEAM
button down while using the trackpads, and they should work again.Beyond that, the game automatically worked from me. It loaded low graphics settings (which are perfect for the Deck) and recognized my controller. It even opens with some accessibility settings before you start playing that lets you scale the font size up too, which makes it easier to read on the small screen.
I can’t say much about how the game actually plays as I really just did this to test if it works. I’ll be putting in my first actual time with the game tomorrow.
34 votes -
Activision Blizzard laying off hundreds of employees
32 votes -
Blizzard confirms departure of veteran developers amid cancelled projects
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Destiny 2 base game for PC is free on Battle.net through November 18
27 votes -
Diablo IV - Season 1 Announcement - Season of the Malignant
26 votes -
Blizzard recruiters asked hacker if she ‘liked being penetrated’ at job fair
26 votes -
Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval
25 votes -
Activision Blizzard hires union-busting firm as workers start to come together
25 votes -
US FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case
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Blizzard's long history of manic pixie nightmare girls and fear of women
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Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens and is under investigation by multiple international tax authorities
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What are reliable sites for thoughtful content from a non-American perspective?
I came across a site about Chinese tech and video gaming and found it very Buzzfeed-y with its headlines and writing. It made me wonder what are the websites that curate a standard of thoughtful...
I came across a site about Chinese tech and video gaming and found it very Buzzfeed-y with its headlines and writing. It made me wonder what are the websites that curate a standard of thoughtful articles, essays, discussion, etc. and aren't part of the American internet scene.
I don't care what language it's in, what it's about, what country specifically it's centered on, if it's community-centric or not. If you have a suggestion, let's hear it.
Edit: An example I have is The Blizzard. It's really a subscription-model digital magazine (about soccer) but you can read various articles online.
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WoW Classic's hardcore servers have launched, giving Blizzard fans a whole new way to punish themselves
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Pirates liberate games from Battle.net to send message to Activision Blizzard
20 votes -
Want Overwatch to get rid of loot boxes? It might get more expensive
20 votes -
World of Warcraft and all current expansions no longer need to be purchased (only pay for a subscription)
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New hero first look - Wrecking Ball
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Blizzard Dev Watercooler - World of Warcraft Classic
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A dialog in Real Time Strategy - The early years of competition between Blizzard and Westwood
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BlizzCon 2021 announcements/trailers/etc
Figured I'd start putting together a thread as the flood of announcements and articles start coming out from this year's BlizzCon. The site, where you can pick which streaming "channel" to watch:...
Figured I'd start putting together a thread as the flood of announcements and articles start coming out from this year's BlizzCon.
The site, where you can pick which streaming "channel" to watch: https://blizzcon.com/
Full schedule: https://blizzcon.com/en-us/schedule
Opening ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyApQc-ZmSA
Diablo IV
- Blizzard on Diablo 4's Rogue and how PvP works within the open world
- Diablo IV: What's Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO3LQqpiBvQ
Diablo II: Resurrected
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRP62MGOrUo
- Interview on Eurogamer: The big Diablo 2 Resurrected interview
- Some more details on Ars: Diablo II Resurrected tops BlizzCon announcement flurry
- Diablo II: Resurrected - Deep Dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dL7ZeIAsE
World of Warcraft
- World of Warcraft Classic will be extended to include first expansion The Burning Crusade this year, along with paid character cloning and boosts, and "pre-nerf" raid bosses.
Overwatch 2
- Behind the Scenes of Overwatch 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRj-GotnNaQ
18 votes -
Frank Pearce (one of Blizzard's three founders) announces his departure from the company
18 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: Diablo
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Quin69 died during loading screen after finishing a nightmare dungeon in hardcore in Diablo IV
17 votes -
Steam, Epic, PayPal and Battlenet have been banned in Indonesia
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Bobby Kotick actually wrote Fran Townsend's deranged, company-wide email
17 votes -
World of Warcraft Classic goes live worldwide August 27
17 votes -
Overwatch Animated Short: Shooting Star
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New leadership at Blizzard
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Activision Blizzard employees are walking out in protest
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Do Nazis deserve electricity?
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow...
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow politicians to (somewhat?) violate its own rules about threats and harrassment. Blizzard banned a star video game player for speaking out about the Hong Kong protests.
I'm on Mastodon, and while it's faded from the headlines a bit, the Gab-war still rages there, with the Tusky-v-Fediverse debate over apps blocking domains, and instances blocking other instances over their support for yet other instances.
Yada.
I'm thinking a lot these days about the "slippery slope". Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Github/lab, etc ... these are all business(-like) entities, privately controlled, which are nonetheless approaching the status of public infrastructure ... at least, sort of.
PG&E intentionally shut off power to millions of Californians last week, to prevent hypothetical fires. You see where I'm going with this.
When/As smart capabilities for power grid, ISP, etc emerge, do racists, white supremacists, get Internet? Electricity? Hospital/Ambulance service? Where is that line?
Is reverse discrimination appropriate? "We don't rent to racists..."?
Not sure what I'm expecting here. Just starting the thread, see where it goes.
ETA: A really interesting, thoughtful 2-minute excerpt from a Rogan podcast
Edit #2: The Hacker News thread that prompted me to start this thread.
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Introducing the Overwatch Workshop
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Diablo III Eternal Collection - Announcement Video - Nintendo Switch
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Tonight is the launch night for the 7th expansion to World of Warcraft! Who else is hyped for Battle for Azeroth?
There's been a bit of drama regarding the direction of the general story, but I reckon they know what they're doing - I'm mostly excited for the new zones anyway. And quests, storylines in new...
There's been a bit of drama regarding the direction of the general story, but I reckon they know what they're doing - I'm mostly excited for the new zones anyway. And quests, storylines in new zones, etc.
WoW has been on a slow and steady downward trend in terms of popularity, and it's not very talked about in gaming communities - but hey, it's now 14 years later and it's still going strong with millions of subscribers! Although mildly annoying that we can no longer see exactly how many there are, it's understandable - if nothing else for the beauty of an updated version of this graph!
So who's excited for BfA?
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Overwatch 2 devs fear story missions have been canceled
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Competitive Overwatch players of Tildes: What's a tip you'd love to share?
Whether it be team comps, strategies, or even a nifty thing about a hero. Who are our competitive Overwatch players who might be missing a place to chat about it?
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How Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
15 votes -
Inside Blizzard developers’ infamous Bill ‘Cosby Suite’
15 votes -
You can now play the original Diablo in a web browser
15 votes -
Trailer for Warcraft III: Reforged
15 votes -
World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore realms open 24 August
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WoW Classic Hardcore is the first time I've had fun with WoW in a long time
I've been out of the game for years. I left midway through Legion, early into BfA, and then finally SLs burnt out any lingering love I had for the world and its lore. Apparently DF is better, but...
I've been out of the game for years. I left midway through Legion, early into BfA, and then finally SLs burnt out any lingering love I had for the world and its lore. Apparently DF is better, but it's not a world that interests me anymore. Alternatively, Classic was neat, but it's a solved game and mostly a time capsule.
So I'm surprised how much I look forward to playing classic hardcore when my daughter goes to sleep and I have a bit of time to myself. I'm never bored; even boring walks might have stealthed panthers or stuff, so I have to pay my full attention. Whenever a bag drops, or I get an upgrade, it's the best feeling in the world. Leaving a kobold cave alive is such a rush. Watching your hearthstone finish casting in the middle of an enemy camp and letting out that breath that you're holding is incredible.
It absolutely sucks when you die, but then it also makes me more likely to try out classes and races that I usually steered away from, because why not?
Is anyone else on the same boat, or looking forward to the official servers?
14 votes