Official PlayStation Podcast 364: Sweet Dreams

‘Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT’ says the developer of an Office alternative as their account is blocked, later filing an appeal ‘which they didn’t care to answer’

Despite building an alternative to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice developer Mike Kaganski still has to deal with Microsoft’s customer support since having his account locked. This led to a familiar tale of fighting a losing battle against customer support services that don’t quite understand what you’re saying. In a blog cheekily titled “Microsoft, anybody home?” (via…

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Gearbox boss says Borderlands 4 day-one patch ‘does a lot’ but warns that players should have ‘realistic’ expectations about performance: ‘Older hardware may not provide buttery smooth performance’

Borderlands 4 is now just a few days away—here’s the full rundown of global release times—and Randy Pitchford has confirmed, in what should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone, that there will be a day one patch. It “does a lot,” the Gearbox boss promised, but it’s not going to work miracles, and he…

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Nearly 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024

Nearly 19,000 videogame products released on Steam this year—18,945 as of press time, meaning if 50-some things get dropped before January 1, 2025 my headline there turns into a lie but whatever I’m going for it. Where was it? Oh, right, what the hell? That is a lot of game releases. According to ever-reliable stat…

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