It seems that now when I submit some news it just sits in the pending section a few days and slowly gets approved. Recently I posted a news article about the Ready to Rumble game coming out again and it failed approval, don't know why. It was new and no one has posted information about it yet. I submited an interview on an upcoming game, Frontlines: Fuel of War it sat there for nearly a week with only four approvals and eventually it failed submission. So does this system work? For what ever reason news is not being posted be it biased or just plain people not doing their job. If a news article fails then it should be noted why it failed or whoever is doing the approving should have a reason for failing or approving articles.
The one thing I know is that it was working better for me before the site was updated.
Lately, a number of notorious difficult ARPGs have added difficulty options. Is that a good thing or does it ruin the experience?
As long as it is just an option, it is totally okay, but it's also OKAAAAY! To simply ignore that option.
Long as fromsoft never does it. This was only expected since the soulslike genre is so popular now.
Stuff like this really shows that people completely missed the point of that argument. The argument was never that souls likes shouldn't have a difficulty option. The argument was that if someone makes a game, particularly souls likes, that did not want to include difficulty options, that you should just respect that instead of demanding and berating the developers to add them.
I see the lack of difficulty settings as one of the key traits that defines a Soulslike. It’s not just about being challenging. It’s about how the game is built around that challenge, expecting you to learn through failure and grow by mastering its systems. Once you introduce difficulty options, you’re changing that foundation. You’re giving players a way around the intended experience, actually you are killing the whole idea of a "intended experience".
That doesn’t make the game worse, necessarily, but at that point, it’s just not a Soulslike anymore. It's a action RPG.
IGN: Microsoft has announced a collaboration with AMD for the next Xbox console - which sounds a lot like a gaming PC.
I think what most are struggling with is the concept of a console that is NOT a closed platform.
An open one. You're used to being locked in.
Exactly. If I can run Steam, Epic, and GOG, as well, it will be interesting to see and consider getting one. My first branded Xbox since 360.
Saying, “working closely with the Windows team to make Windows the number one gaming platform.” is not the same as saying the console is going to play PC games.
If they are telling you they are making a console and all this other stuff, why not just say the console is going to support PC? Why play coy about it?
To me it seems like more of a reply to the fact that they have a Rog Ally that they are trying to sell but has terrible performance because of Windows 11 and they are simply trying to convince people to buy it.
In an embarrassment for Microsoft, SteamOS seems to destroy Windows 11 on gaming performance and battery life, as well as usability
https://www.windowscentral....
Every generation people say Xbox is going to play PC games then it doe
As opposed to "open platform", it´s gonna be *more open* instead. That´s the main difference that some people still don´t realized.
The Xbox Next will continue and be your conventional home console. However it that will bring a revolutionary innovation to console market by bridge the gap and blur the line between console and PC gaming.
Literally the best of both worlds!
Square Enix has been expanding its multiplatform releases, including Final Fantasy XVI. A port for the Nintendo Switch 2 may be on the menu.
I agree that the approval system does not always work perfectly and unless the story is controversial, it is difficult to get 5 approvals.
I think its time we see some users upgraded to N4G Editors so news can be approved faster.
I also think that there is still too much news on the front page. Articles soon get replaced on the main page and forgotten about by lesser stories which never reach 100 degrees.
Things definitely have to change, and change soon. It seems to me that NewsBot is the source for most articles being approved - a lot of articles get zero or one approvals and have a very low temperature and yet NewsBot will still come along and give it the full five votes!
We need, proven, unbiased contributors to be promoted to Editors so that they can quickly approve worthwhile stories.
Also, stories shouldn't make the front page unless they've got at least 50 degrees, but most importantly stop NewsBot approving dull stories that no one's even viewing!
agreed :)