vasus

The game is free, you can also get it on the author's blog or through itch.io

The Last Sovereign (NSFW) is an 18+ RPGmaker game. The basic premise is this: What if you had a setting with a bunch of hentai tropes lumped together and played straight, with no porn logic or stupid characters?

You play as a middle aged, very competent army veteran who gains the powers of an incubus, and reluctantly uses them with the aim of making the world a better place, slowly developing a harem of well realized, cool characters along the way. There's sex scenes, obviously, but you very quickly forget all about them as you are plunged into an underdog story where you have to manage your fledgling armies + resources and have to constantly make tough decisions.

I don't get the other comments, this isn't something unusual or praiseworthy, TF2 has been getting these "updates" consisting of a new lootbox + community maps of dubious quality, consistently for years

Very reasonable, I hope the dev sticks to his guns and keeps a manageable pace. I feel that it's right to expect content updates coming in if the game is marked early access, but so long as you don't pull a Valheim, people shouldn't be mad at you

"A preliminary investigation indicates Kang knew the victim only online, having met him playing a fantasy video game called ArcheAge. According to the game's website, it is shutting down its North America and European servers this week because of a declining number of users. "

No wonder they don't have players left, this dude beat them all to death

Artisan TD, a classic tower defense game. I quit after the second map. It's not that it's bad, it just didn't grab my attention, doesn't seem to have anything unique going for it besides maybe the pretty visuals. There are dozens of games exactly like this one. As a fan of the genre, I might check it out after release if it's on a large sale.

Level Zero: Extraction, a PvP extraction shooter with the option of playing as the horror creature team that's out to kill everyone. Basically unplayable, not sure what the server situation is but playing from europe I had consistent 0.5sec-1sec delay on all actions. No comment since I couldn't really experience it.

Let's Minesweeper, a massively multiplayer game of Minesweeper. Not sure what I expected of this one, it's exactly what it says it is, you load into a huge map of minesweeper and clear it out for score and xp which translates into bragging rights and cosmetics (?). Unique experience and could be fun if you are the type of person who enjoys zoning out at minesweeper for an hour.

Mortal online 2

I got my fix for this experience through PvP minecraft servers, but not sure if any are still around today that are worth playing

I put the video into an AI summarization tool, the TLDR is that the Johto region in gold and silver is a replica of Japan.

Enderal, a total conversion mod for Skyrim. Free, just requires ownership of the skyrim base game or special edition (there's a version for either).

Has a whole new map, reworked classes, changes to combat, banger OST (here's my favorite, hits incredibly hard when you're listening to it in-game at a tavern) and the story is just incredible. I still think about it, and the choices I made, years later. Dozens of hours long, moreso if you are a completionist.

There's been a number of articles about it a while ago on videogame journalism websites

https://kotaku.com/sweet-baby-inc-consulting-games-alan-wake-2-dei-1851312428

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104799/gamergate-2024-sweet-baby-inc-diversity

https://theweek.com/culture-life/personal-technology/games/gamergate-2-extremism-video-games

https://www.wired.com/story/sweet-baby-video-games-harassment-gamergate/

AFAIK they do still put out articles about it but I suppose it's not as much of a hot topic today

Disclosure I identify with the movement, hence bias

Thing started off February 29 when Chris Kindred, the narrative designer at Sweet Baby Inc, a videogame consulting company, called for a mass report campaign against the steam curator group (and its owner) "Sweet Baby Inc Detected", which exist to highlight steam games in which the company has some involvement. Chris called it a harrassment group and claimed that it breaks steam's terms of service.

This got a lot of eyes on the group which balooned in membership, right wingers/ old gamergaters latched onto it and I think it's fair to say that this Sweet baby Inc detected group is the main Gamergate 2 community. As time goes on the movement isn't just campaigning against this one company, but against many similiar consultation groups (Black Girl Gamers/Gaymers for example) and the concept of ESG funding in general.

Good part of the video talks about how games from Japan specifically are affected by these companies / ESG. So it's not just limited to the american videogame industry