From GameIndustry.biz: "GAME boss Martyn Gibbs is "erring on the side of excitement" when it comes to Google's new Stadia streaming service.
Streaming services have been a major disruptive force in the television and film markets, with offerings such as Netflix significantly impacting sales of physical DVDs and downloads."
PSLS writes: I have traveled across the country using the Razer Kishi Ultra in airports and hotels for both PlayStation Remote Play and mobile gaming in general, and I am thoroughly impressed.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
You'll know of EGX. You'll know of MCM Comic Con. Today the two events have confirmed that they'll be coming together under one roof
They'll be into administration in no time, they should concentrate on there own business. Trade in values there are like 40% less than anywhere else, expensive new games
This seems like the blockbuster/Netflix ordeal all over again. They may not have to worry now but if GAME doesn't change soon it will die. GAME struggles without streaming with its overpriced games, horrible trading system etc. In 10 years time when I think streaming will be more accepted, its going to be a case of adapt or die.
By this I don't mean physical games will not be a thing, I hate the thought of a non physical future, I just mean GAME as a company is going to suffer.
you know what the dinosaurs did? they shrugged off that comet in the sky and felt really secure about their ways ;-)
Streaming passive content (movies, music, and the like) is no big trick. Lag is completely unimportant, since the user is simply watching or listening. Streaming real-time interactive content is a wildly different proposition. Whatever the user does needs to hop across the internet to the game running a significant distance away, where the output of the game in response to the user must get encoded into a stream and sent back hopping over the same distance to the user's device, where it can get decoded and replayed. Regardless of the quality of the connection, the lag will hurt action games. A low latency estimate of 166 ms translates to 10 frames of lag at 60 fps. Most users will suffer more gravely than that.
Game are a horrible business. Instead of positioning themselves as a gamer friendly high street presence they are geared up to abbrasively scratch the most profit they can from us with hard selling practices, trying to force disk insurance nonsense down your throat and that’s not even mentioning their uncompetitive pricing.
The move to digital is taking a big chunk of games sales, if streaming takes off then there goes the hardware sales too. Future doesn’t look good.