Friday news, part two:
Roblox data leak sees 4,000 developer profiles including identifying information made public
https://www.pcgamer.com/roblox-data-leak-sees-4000-developer-profiles-including-identifying-information-made-public/
The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach, leading to the release of personal information including addresses from those who attended the Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020. The leak contains almost 4,000 names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and physical addresses. Such identifying information is gold dust for bad actors, and raises serious questions about the data security of one of the largest gaming platforms around.
After being kicked off Steam, Dolphin emulator devs say Nintendo's legal claim 'is a reach': 'Now that we have talked to a lawyer, we are no longer concerned'
https://www.pcgamer.com/after-being-kicked-off-steam-dolphin-emulator-devs-say-nintendos-legal-claim-is-a-reach-now-that-we-have-talked-to-a-lawyer-we-are-no-longer-concerned/
Six weeks after GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin was removed from Steam due to a letter from Nintendo claiming it "violates Nintendo’s intellectual property rights," the emulator's developers have issued a detailed response on the Dolphin blog. The response, with input from legal counsel, announces that the Dolphin team will not be re-attempting to launch the emulator on Steam. "We are abandoning our efforts to release Dolphin on Steam," the post states. "Valve ultimately runs the store and can set any condition they wish for software to appear on it ... given Nintendo's long-held stance on emulation, we find Valve's requirement for us to get approval from Nintendo for a Steam release to be impossible."
Diablo 4 queue times 'unusually long' as Season 1 kicks off
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-queue-times-unusually-long-as-season-1-kicks-off/
Diablo 4 is Blizzard's fastest-selling game yet, so it's no big surprise that the launch of its first seasonal realm is crowded: Diablo 4 Season 1 went live this morning at 10 am PT, and Blizzard says it's seeing "some unusually long queue times" as players pile in.
Apex Legends dev boldly declares that 'queue times are too short,' but let's hear them out
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-dev-boldly-declares-that-queue-times-are-too-short-but-lets-hear-them-out/
Have you ever sat around waiting to find a ranked match in your FPS of choice and thought, man, I wish this queue could take a bit longer! I'm having such a nice time doing nothing?
You'll have your wish in Apex Legends: Respawn Entertainment declared today that "queue times are too short" in a blog post opening up about Apex's recently rebooted ranked mode (as spotted by PCGamesN). The lengthy, surprisingly candid post examines the mode from every angle—what's working, what's failing, and the problems creating friction at higher levels of play, one of them being queue times.
Old School Runescape players were using a new bug to mass-murder each other and it got so bad the game had to be taken offline
https://www.pcgamer.com/old-school-runescape-players-were-using-a-new-bug-to-mass-murder-each-other-and-it-got-so-bad-the-game-had-to-be-taken-offline/
Old School Runescape is a 10-year-old MMO that's based on a 16-year-old MMO, and in light of that you might expect that it's a quiet, staid online realm where people enjoy their gaming buds and gameplay routines and nothing new ever happens. It's actually developed a reputation for just the opposite: Players keep finding new or unique things to do that wouldn't be possible (or reasonable) in a regular MMO.
The latest Old School Runescape shenanigans occurred in the wake of an update that, according to GamesRadar, made some small behind-the-scenes changes to the game. Regular maintenance stuff, really—except that after it was live, players discovered that sending "Rainbow" text in the game would crash the client. And not just their own client: Everyone who read the text would suffer the same fate.
Richard 'Lord British' Garriott still wants to make Ultima Online 2: 'All we need now is to buy EA'
https://www.pcgamer.com/richard-lord-british-garriott-still-wants-to-make-ultima-online-2-all-we-need-now-is-to-buy-ea/
As the very successful launch of New World last year showed us, there's still a big appetite for new MMOs these days, even if the heyday of the genre feels behind us. But what about a sequel to a classic? The father of Ultima, Richard Garriott, still wants to make a follow-up to what was arguably the first MMO, Ultima Online, but so far hasn't had much luck.
Studio makes actual minigame compilation based on those shovelware mobile game ads you see everywhere
https://www.pcgamer.com/studio-makes-actual-minigame-compilation-based-on-those-shovelware-mobile-game-ads-you-see-everywhere/
A feature of online life for anyone who's ever expressed the vaguest of interest in videogames is weird adverts for shovelware games. You know the type, my lord: little vignettes where someone's building a house, or saving a damsel from a burning pyre, or mixing gloop in an oddly satisfying way.
Well now someone's made a minigame collection on Steam with perhaps one of the most outstanding titles I've ever seen. I am going to give this name its own paragraph and allow it to retain caps lock for the full effect:
YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!
Remnant 2 gets you into its zany multiverse shenanigans almost right away, thank god
https://www.pcgamer.com/remnant-2-gets-you-into-its-zany-multiverse-shenanigans-almost-right-away-thank-god/
I loved Remnant: From the Ashes with all my heart—it's an ambitious third-person romp through a fantastical multiverse wonderland. It's a little rough around the edges, sure, but it has a ton of heart. My number one nitpick, however, is that it took way too long to show off what was great about its setting: unrestrained creativity.
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Imagine my relief when I got my hands on Remnant 2 a little early this week. There's a brief tutorial on planet Earth, sure, but it's busy with enough NPC chatter to keep me from thinking too hard about how much I'd rather be in that one cyberpunk world they showed off in a trailer.
Just as I was starting to worry the game was making the same mistake twice, my guy got whisked away to Losomn, a land where two alien species named Dran and Fae are at war with each other. It's completely unrestrained, with grand vampiric architecture that would give Lady Dimitrescu a run for her money, like if you smashed together Bloodborne with Alfheim from 2018's God of War.
Let's end the news checking the weekend deals from GOG and Steam:
+GOG
- The first of the five Deals of the Day is Bread & Fred, 20% off until Monday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/bread_fred
- Pieces of my Heart, a bit NSFW, is getting a 24% discount during 70 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/pieces_of_my_heart
- Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo features a 67% deal until the 24th: https://www.gog.com/en/game/alfred_hitchcock_vertigo
- The Syberia Collection, with four games, will be 70% off until Monday, 24th: https://www.gog.com/en/game/syberia_anniversary_collection
- And the last DotD is Class of '09, with a 79% discount until July, 24th: https://www.gog.com/en/game/class_of_09
- By the way, GOG is suffering from technical problems due to a third party provider. You can buy and play games as usual, but you can't download files at the moment. Learn more here: https://www.gog.com/en/news/update_on_technical_issues_affecting_downloading_and_updating_games
+Steam
- The A Plague Tale Bundle, with both games, is going to be 55% off until Monday. The individual games are also on sale, 80 and 50% off, respectively: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/802975
- The SimFest 2023 features up to 90% discounts until the 24th, albeit some deals will last a bit longer: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/simfest
- Publisher Curve Games celebrates its July Jubilee with up to 90% discounts until the 25th: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/curvedigital/sale/curvejulyjubilee23
- Smalland: Survive the Wilds, still in Early Access, is going to be 25% off until July, 27th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/768200/Smalland_Survive_the_Wilds/
- Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense is going to be free to try during the weekend and 35% off until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/469600/Legion_TD_2__Multiplayer_Tower_Defense/
- Hell Let Loose will also get a 35% discount until Thursday, 27th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/686810/Hell_Let_Loose/
- And the last deal, Need for Speed Unbound, is going to be free to try during the weekend and 70% off until the 27th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846380/Need_for_Speed_Unbound/
That's all folks! Until the next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.
Please excuse my bad English.
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