Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player’s favor: ‘anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed’

When Firaxis’s XCOM remake came out a constant complaint in the comments was that its random number generator was clearly cheating against players. Someone would miss a 95% chance, or God forbid a couple of them, and confidently declare that Jake Solomon was personally tweaking the probability to fuck with them.Of course, that wasn’t the…

Read More

Pokémon streamer’s Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K

Pokémon are everywhere right now. Turn away from the marketing blitz for Pokopia for a second and you’ll see imitators like Pickmon, a knock-off so shameless it makes Palworld seem restrained, and Aniimo, which combines Pokémon-esque design and gacha mechanics like there was an explosion at the cynicism factory.Wonderful Neoran Valley does actually seem like…

Read More

Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it’s ‘a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it’s like a race to the middle of sh*t’

The next issue of PC Gamer magazine features an interview with Brendan Greene, perhaps better-known as PlayerUnknown, about his career in game development thus far, the wider landscape, and what PlayerUnknown Productions is up to over in Amsterdam.PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens at one point asks Greene about his prediction that the future of computing will…

Read More