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6·4 days agoSimulated Gambling:
Interactive activity within a game that:
a) resembles or functions like a real world age restricted betting or gambling service; and
b) does not provide rewards that can be redeemed for real world currency or traded to other players in-game for real world currency.Note: For example, interactive activity within games that resembles or functions like real world commercial casinos, slot machines, lotteries, sports betting services or other betting services will be simulated gambling.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2023L01424/asmade/text
As far as Australia is concerned the mere appearance of a slot machine is enough, it doesn’t need to function like one.
Its a themed slot machine with fictionalised in game currency.
Defeat your landlord in this slot machine roguelike deckbuilder!
If rated today Australia would give it R18+, but it was reviewed before last years changes so it has been grandfathered in at M with the description “Simulated Gambling”.
Simulated gambling seems to have been grouped in as an adjacent issue as some jurisdictions regulate loot boxes.
Balatro is in a similar position in Australia where it is PG on the play store, M on switch and would be R18+ if reviewed today.
Epic needs to pump their MAU stats to look like a legitimate platform. They know what’s going on and are happy to pay.
What I don’t know is what they actually pay the publishers.
Of the OP list astro bot is ps5 only, final fantasy has a PC release scheduled for january and the rest are currently available on steam.
astro bot (4 titles over 11 years), dragon quest (11 titles over 38 years), ace attorney (11 titles over 23 years), or balatro (winning best indie game at both the game awards and the golden joysticks this year)?
It must be a big rock?!
Thanks for presenting your rational, its well reasoned within the definitions you give.
However the definitions might not be as universality accepted as we might like, for example this presents CRPG as synonymous with “role-playing video game” with ARPGs, TRPGs, MMORPGs, etc as subgenres.
We’re going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions
I’m not sure I agree.
Claiming that Skyrim is not a Computer Role Playing Game requires some supporting reasoning.
Something like the Berlin Interpretation might help but as it is we don’t know which features you use feel qualify/disqualify a title for inclusion.
5·19 days agoIt feels a bit late…
As of now, it’s unclear if Corden is referring to first-party or third-party games making their way to Microsoft’s consoles.
This is news only when either: a 1st party strategy is confirmed, or 3rd party titles are named.
That 3rd party timed exclusives go multiplatform eventually is just business as usual.
Well that was fun.
My bot didn’t get 16k but it felt close.
They are not talking about a new platform, but finding a more distinct voice as a publisher
Sega had that kind of style [back then]. Sega’s position was like, ‘If you have attitude, Sega’s the company for you, rather than Nintendo’, because of the games, because of the style, because of coolness or the kind of attitude. We have such beautiful content value in Sega, and some other IPs, so we’re trying to revive it with a little bit of the flavour of hip-hop now.
I’m not sure we need a remake. The ports released in 2017/18 for windows/PS4/XboxOne/Switch work just fine and are compatible with current gen consoles.
This wasn’t as general as many people think:
- It applied only to “auxiliary games” so anything using the primary engine was ok e.g. running in the fog for assassins creed or practicing moves in a combat game.
- It applied only to US and Japan so anywhere else was unrestricted. The entire PAL region was unaffected.
But also:
- The patent was held by Namco / Bandai Namco, they are a prolific publisher but made very limited use of their ability to use loading screen mini games freely.
- The patent expired in 2015, despite this very few games have used loading screen mini games since.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5718632
I can only conclude that the industry just wasn’t that interested in the idea.
What’s next, the superhero landing?
A different branch on IP law but for decades Marvel and DC had a shared trademark on “Super Hero”.
If either felt they could argue it was a unique trade identifier they would have claimed it exclusively but instead they claimed shared ownership and used it to lock out competition in the space from 1979 to 2024.
The source the Tweektown article is quoting also says:
Anticipation is so high that some competing game publishers are waiting as long as possible to commit to their release dates for the fall, according to people familiar with their deliberations who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The publishers want to see whether GTA 6 will make its deadline or slip into 2026, these people say, and they’re determined to keep their own games far, far away.
This is probably more interesting, that some upcoming games which don’t have release dates may be waiting for this before they commit to a schedule is somewhat noteworthy.
The article says they had three projects in the works funded by take 2, square enix, microsoft. Take 2 backed off and square enix reduced the budget/scope. This leaves the microsoft project as the remaining project with its original budget intact.
Are you saying that take 2 and square enix’s actions are attributable to game pass?
Crazy talk!
It offered some navigational choices within each level from the Medical Pavilion on.