BurningnnTree

It's impossible to predict which new multiplayer games will be successful and which ones won't. It's so risky for developers to even try making them nowadays. Even games that seem successful at first (like The Finals and XDefiant) struggle to maintain much interest over time.

Anyways, I like Overwatch but I've gotten bored with it over the past few years, so I'm potentially interested in Concord. I'll keep an eye on it. (I was aware that there was a beta, but I thought it was pre-order only so I didn't check it out)

The two examples of misogynistic memes in this article are really tame IMO. It's the type of humor that teenage boys have always had, long before the existence of social media. Don't get me wrong, I definitely think social media algorithms are having a major negative impact on society. But I don't think content like this is the problem.

Interesting, I didn't know there were so many assassination attempts in the past.

What kind of trash tier journalism is this. Genocide is a real, serious issue. You can't just call something a genocide metaphorically, that's incredibly disrespectful.

I remember using ChaCha. Good times

I'm glad that the government is trying to address the issue of social media, but obviously adding warnings isn't going to do anything.

I think the only way to actually solve the problem would be to regulate the recommendation algorithms to make them less addictive and less harmful.

I don't know much about GTA, but I have a hard time imagining GTA6 being anything less than a gigantic success. It doesn't need to be a massive improvement over GTA5, it just needs to be a noticeable upgrade. The only way I can see it failing is if they get too greedy with their live service model, but even then it's still probably going to sell like 40 million copies in its first year.

Apple could easily do the bare minimum to keep regulators at bay while still keeping the experience as shitty as possible so that Android will continue to look bad. For example they could refuse to implement reactions or typing indicators, or they could even deliberately compress videos. I'm expecting the worst until we see otherwise.

It's cool to see someone making a product like this. I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to use phones more mindfully, and I had an idea for a concept very similar to this. So it's cool to see that other people are on the same wavelength as me.

It would be cooler if the brick was activated by NFC instead of scanning it though. But maybe that's an improvement they can make in a future version.

I just don't like that Multiversus matches you against bots disguised as human players. Instant deal breaker for me.

Wtf is that thing next to Shadow

This article doesn't make any sense. A project's "success" can't really be measured in any objective way like the article is implying. Even saying that a project is "on time" is a vague statement depending on the situation, and it's not a good way to measure the quality of the end result or the efficiency of the development team.