ONGOING DISCUSSIONS: >John Heinecke, the Chief Publishing Officer & Head of the Western Branch of Square Enix has officially resigned ahead of the wave of layoffs. https://archive.ph/KVCR6 >FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is https://archive.ph/TtM8o >Crystal Dynamics, the Studio Behind Tomb Raider, Faces 2nd Round of Layoffs This Year https://archive.is/AQrxe >Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 Employees, Gaming Division Affected; Everwild, Perfect Dark Reboot, and New ZeniMax MMORPG ALL Reportedly Cancelled https://archive.is/CuX27 https://archive.is/3F0po https://archive.is/RmsYy >Ready or Not devs announce censorship to comply with console partners. https://steamcommunity.com/games/1144200/announcements/detail/526472884483260568 >PirateSoftware kills StopKillingGames by lying about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo%5BEmbed%5D%5BEmbed%5D <The StopKillingGames petition garnered over 1.4 million signatures https://archive.ph/oPJFp >Texas anti-loli bill passed as of June 20, 2025. https://archive.ph/nFjCN

>Vince Zampella—the co-founder and former head of Infinity Ward, co-founder and head of Respawn Entertainment, and head of Ripple Effect Studios—died in a car crash on Southern California’s Angeles Crest Highway on December 21, according to an NBC4 Investigates report. He was 55 years old. >The single-vehicle accident was reported at about 12:45 p.m. The car veered off the road, hit a concrete barrier, and a passenger was ejected, according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver was trapped in the car fire and died at the scene, while the passenger died at the hospital. >Details about why the car veered off the road have yet to be determined. RIP Vince, you and your team deserved better. source: https://archive.ph/ASRhr

It's been a month since release, any of you wageslave anons still working your way through the game? Favorite crests and tools? What are your hopes for DLC?

QTDDTOT - Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread This is the thread for threads that don't really deserve their own thread but are interesting enough to keep on /v/. Think of it as inbetween /v/ and /vb/ as you will.

Discussion, previews and reviews of Indie Games. What indie games have you played recently? I'm gonna write stuff about Indie Games i've played in 2025 so far. Bunch of good games. --- I recently finished GIRLS MADE PUDDING a rare indie game made by japanese devs. You play as 2 girls on motorcycle, venturing the world where everyone suddenly disappeared. The core gameplay is looting ingredients and cook foods to unlock dialogues between the girls about bunch of topics, especially the state of the world and future plan. There are also 2 side characters. The dialogues are fun & Comfy and the worldbuilding (mystery behind the disappearance) is great. Kinda like Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou + yuribait

Enters Early Access soon. A lot has happened over the last few days and I have no idea where to start. Simon Collins-Laflamme bought back the rights from Riot, rumoured for $25,000,000, and put the game back into development. Currently Hypixel has 50 staff back. The new engine was scrapped, it's gone back to the original engine they showcased. The new engine made because Riot wanted to go multi-platform, but Hypixel have decided to go back to being PC exclusive for now. A lot of the problems were caused by Riot. Enter Access release is soon, Collins-Laflamme says he wants to get it into the hands of players as quickly as possible, even if it means putting out the unfinished game. They're attempting to "Break the Curse", as they put it. It's priced at 20 dollars' base, but they have higher tiers for people who want to support it more. People don't tend to read the entire OP if it's too long so I'll continue this further.

>What is Open Battoru? Open Battoru is an online Beta Client of the TCG version of Wixoss Diva Format. >What is Wixoss? Wixoss is a TCG multimedia franchise produced by Takara Tomy around 2014 d by Takara Tomy, J.C.Staff, and Warner Bros. Japan. With various Anime, Manga, and other sorts of media about the eponymous card game. The main appeal of this game is make decks based on cute girls with a few monster girls here and there. >What is it about? It's a card battle game where the selector (player) battles with a LRIG, basically a commander styled unit that you upgrade every turn you attack in order to deal damage. The Franchise revolves around they players, referred to as selectors play the titular card game, Wixoss in universe in order to have their wishes granted. LRIG's are the avatars ||Made from players that have their wishes granted.|| they use to help selectors compete against other selectors. Selectors that lose enough in the persuit of their wishes can never have it granted or achieved in their lives again. The winner ||Get's possesed by their LRIG and their soul made into a LRIG as the now possessed girl carries out their wishes in their sted.|| >How do you play the game?

Last thread is on page 12 and beyond the bump limit, but eroge marches steadily onward. Just at the beginning of this month, Monster Girl Quest:Paradox Part 3 finally released, making the game complete unless I missed something about them extending it to a 4th part. Available here, https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ01114724.html I do not yet know where to pirate it, but I'm sure it will crop up one of my usual sites around when translation is finished. Still being actively translated, you can follow translation progress here, https://arzorx.wordpress.com/ Given Part 2 took 3 months from the date of release, I except this one take at least that long, if not at least 4 months, as it's larger. In the meanwhile, I'm sure there's anons learning JP that may still enjoy the game, or may even want to contact the current team to contribute to the translation in the coming months. Also mentioned at the end of the last thread and currently in development with a free demo is Princess Reconquista. Play a (totally not) Central/South American Princess and fight off your white (totally not) Spaniard conquerors in a pixelshit action game. Makes the mistake of losing being the method of accessing many scenes, but you can also tempt your enemies and watch other girls get BLEACHED. https://sorry-carl.itch.io/princess-reconquista Last thread >>819339 https://archive.is/CEm8b Someone else archived it just 8 hours ago. What a coincidence.

Is there a reason to not grab liberty? I have been playing a lot of civilization 5 lately and I was thinking about how useless piety and Honor is. Tradition is good if you want to play tall. Piety and honor though I have no idea why you would pick them. If you go Piety then yeah sweet, you build Shrines faster. But then if you go the tradition/liberty then you can build everything faster. I think Honor would be a lot better if it gave you culture on every kill but no it only does against barbarians. and you would be a lot better at spamming troops out if you went tradition/liberty. Is there something I am missing or is there just no real point to them? Also fuck civ VI, that game is hot garbage, Sid meier is a faggot for adding Drottning Kristina instead of Karl XII or Gustav Vasa or just any other Swedish King.

Previous thread >>944197 Progear: Child soldiers must fight back against The Empire™ in their magnificent flying machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmmIBffX5Nw https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556729/Capcom_Arcade_StadiumProgear/ Or just download Final Burn Alpha and the rom JustAxe: Slav loli platformer https://store.steampowered.com/app/2455430/JustAxe/

I guess it's time for me to finally finish this game Adding a link to the OP, wish there was more I could add to it but I don't know enough about the game. https://archive.org/details/mercenaries-2-world-in-flames-pc

The dedicated /v/ackbox thread, for now at Saturday nights at 7PM PST/10PM EST Which just so happens to be today: https://cytu.be/r/jackbox1 Play games with anons from anywhere across the world online. Show up to the above cytube stream channel, enter the code at jackbox.tv and play the games on screen. No sign up or verification necessary. Or choose to sit back and observe comment as others play a variety of (gay) trivia, writing, drawing, deduction games, and so on. Other similar games available to play are Rifftrax, What the Dub, and Use Your Words 1&2, which operate on similar rules to the aforementioned jackbox, just enter the corresponding room code on screen to the corresponding sites found on: https://rifftrax.games/ https://playwtd.com/ https://wordsgame.lol https://www.party.codes/

A thread for Softmodding and Jailbreaking consoles. Guides https://www.cfwaifu.com/ Nintendo 3DS: https://3ds.hacks.guide/ Nintendo Wii U: https://wiiu.hacks.guide/ PlayStation 2: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-the-great-ps2-aio-guide.30219/ PlayStation 3: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/exploiting-4-90-ofw-installing-cfw-running-ps3hen-flash-writer-ps3hen-now-supporting-4-90-fw.39772/ PlayStation Vita: https://vita.hacks.guide/ Homebrew http://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Applications (3DS only) https://apps.fortheusers.org/ (Wii U only) https://www.brewology.com/ https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Main_Page https://gbatemp.net/download/ https://www.psx-place.com/resources/ (Sony only)

HOLY FUCK YES AT LONG LAST Uncle Death is finally back! I've been waiting for this for years! Now, what did you guys think of the trailer? Personally, one thing I dislike is this shitty new cartoonish art style with the bright, over-saturated puke colour palette. It's like they're trying to appeal to Fortnite kids or some shit. Man, it's so sad to see LID lose its iconic grimy punk look. But hey, aside from that, I'm still cautiously optimistic. I believe in Mr. Shin. He hasn't made a bad game yet. As for the graphics, I suppose I can always adjust the picture brightness & saturation myself. If the game itself happens to lack options for that, I can do so natively on my monitor, no problem. Gameplay-wise, I think it's looking good so far, true to LID roots. Action-survival with inventory management, dual-wielding, semi-permadeath, neverending grind, all that good stuff. Anyway, it's been a long time since we last had a Let It Die thread, and now's the perfect time for a new one. Feel free to post all your speculations for the new game, your opinions on the old ones, your favourite music tracks in the series and whatnot. Don't give up, Senpai!

In this weeks big shocking news: GOG and CD Projekt RED have officially split with the co-founder Michal Kicinski taking the GOG store private. Personally I hope this means that GOG can start enabling more robust social features, Linux support, more experimental projects, and hopefully more console games that never got PC ports. As for CD Projekt RED, I think those following Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 have seen the writing on the wall with them going in a more stereotypical AAA publishing direction. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Cyberpunk 2 had DRM and would avoid GOG all together with Witcher 4 being the last CDPR game on GOG. Still, I'm hoping more resources get put into GOG and that we get more games and features that couldn't be done under CDPR. I'm hoping for the best for GOG and hope I'm wrong about CDPR, but we'll see in due time. https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/

IO INTERACTIVE FUCKS UP AGAIN! 007 First Light developer IO Interactive has said that their version of James Bond won’t be anything like the “old school” spy of the 1960s, a decision the studio claimed would would be “tone deaf” today. 007 First Light, the next game from the Swedish studio is now primed to launch in May 2026 after a short delay. Releasing before Hitman 4, which the studio has promised will happen, the upcoming stealth-action game is a more modern take on the iconic British spy. Cinematic director Martin Emborg revealed that while there will be elements of the smooth-talking Bond many have come to expect from the franchise, he’ll be a “modern guy” and will reflect “modern values”. When asked at The Game Awards 2025 about whether or not their spy, played by Dexter Original Sin’s Patrick Gibson, will share some of the earlier Bonds’ characteristics, specifically focusing on the character’s “womaniser” tendencies, Emborg explained said, “Yeah, you will [see that].” However, he went on to explain that the “character [of] Bond has evolved”, adding: “So, he’s evolved through the decades, and obviously, we reflect modern values. So it’s not going to be your old school Bond, which would just be tone deaf in this day, right? He’s a modern guy.” Personally, I'm not a super Bond fan so I wasn't looking forward to this game. Although if I was, then I would be pissed at this news. I don't know if it's a hivemind reddit thing that game developers seem to have, or publishers are being forced by developers into making shit games. Either way, expect hardships for IO Interactive, especially after they fucked up Mindseye. https://archive.ph/pXMQh