"Developer turns 'future of gaming' talk into a surprise attack on convention's NFT and blockchain s

(Because Dreamwidth is still fucking dumbshit with the asinine limiting of subject length, here's the full headline: "Developer turns 'future of gaming' talk into a surprise attack on convention's NFT and blockchain sponsors")

"The speaker was applauded enthusiastically after his talk."

This is, I hope, yet another nail in the coffin of all the crypto/blockchain/NFT bullshit. If that dumbfuckery has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into its grave, then so the fuck be it. Regardless, it needs to die, and the sooner the better.

"Assassin's Creed Liberation delisted on Steam, soon to be inaccessible even for players that have p

(Again, because Dreamwidth eats ass on subject line length, here's the full headline: "Assassin's Creed Liberation delisted on Steam, soon to be inaccessible even for players that have purchased it")

Glorious digital future blah blah same old same old nothing new to see here move along move along.

See also: "Blockbuster Never Died, It Just Became Every Digital Storefront You Buy Games On"

(And welcome to my new "glorious digital future" tag, which contains [or willmight contain, onceif I finish the process of back-tagging posts] every other post I've made about shit like this, aside from the posts on which I missed putting the tag.)

Square Enix sucks, and they have sucked for a long time now.

Heh, okay, so I've written several posts recently about Square Enix and their insistence on infesting their PC games/ports with the malware known as Denuvo, but as it turns out, they've just been idiotically doing the very thing that they explicitly said that they were going to do almost a decade ago, well before the Denuvo dumbshit was ever even a thing, as far as I am aware. Found that post while reading back through old posts of mine for unrelated (or, at least, semi-related) reasons. Not sure why it felt like a more "recent" thing to me.

(Pre-post "EDIT") Actually... no, according to Wikipedia, Denuvo first became a thing that existed in 2014 (though I personally only really became aware of it four years after), which is the very year I wrote that post about the dumbshit thing Square Enix said that same year. Coincidence? Or directly related? Go figure. *shrug* (Pre-post "EDIT")