Game News 2.0

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Splitgate 2 is going to "unlaunch" and pull the game back to being an on-going beta, pending a full relaunch next year. Admitted that they launched too early, game not ready and have been taking feedback on the games issues. Will also unfortunately include some staff being cut.

https://www.polygon.com/news/614738/splitgate-2-unlaunch-announcement-1047-games-layoffs

Maybe they just had enough of the sonic art.

Yeah, the Japanese government have just opened an Anti Monopoly(their anti trust laws) investigation into Mastercard and Visa because of this. Legal Japanese adult content has probably been hit the hardest by the payment processors.

I hate Visa/MasterCard. They make it too easy to buy ****. 😁

I've been watching this unfolding over the last few days, first with the steam removals and now with itch and it's clear these Christofascist muppets trying to claim they're feminists are going to regret the attention they've brought onto themselves. They've been claiming they got these games taken down because they're rape games and such and to be fair some of these games being listed could be considered what I could called controversial to say the least or would certainly get a funny look from people. Most are usually just low quality crap that are not even worth buying but the simple fact is despite that they still ARE legal and this is the real point. They're not illegal but they're still being taken down.

What alot of people are getting pissed off at though is that they're seeing what they're REALLY after aka trying to censor or ban anything they don't agree with which ultimately includes games with LGBT or even GTA. People looked up this Collective Shíte group to find out that they were trying to get the likes of Detroit Become Human banned over a scene with domestic violence claiming it endorses violence against women failing to even comprehend the context. These people are all hypocrites and they don't deserve to be listened to simply because they're all outrage baiters with no ability to build a rational argument. Seriously no one should give an inch to these idiots because they take a damn mile if they do.

Moreso what's gotten attention now is how they lobbied the likes of Mastercard and Visa with their semi-monopoly on payment processing are threatening to cut off the likes of steam if they don't comply with their demands and THIS is a real red flag. Today as well it came out they did the same thing over on itch.io and this is going to piss off alot of people. It will be the dodgy gooner games today but tomorrow it will be the likes of Nier or GTA or Stellar Blade tomorrow and this needs to be clamped down now before it gets out of hand. Moreso Japan is now initiating sanctions on Visa because of this behaviour which the likes of Visa and Mastercard have been doing over there over certain adult content for the last few years but now it's getting to the point its an issue that needs to be dealt with.

What would be the real icing on the cake is if gamers could get the EU's attention on this just like with the stop killing games initiative because of the threat of the proverbial regulatory dildo of consequences being deployed against payment processors pulling these shenanigans. The likes of Visa and Mastercard job is to facilitate the processing of payments not censoring legal content they don't agree with and they need to keep their nose out of this area. Last thing we need is idiotic and smooth brain idiots like Collective Shout dictating what people can buy simply because they lobbied a payment processor.

Seems you can use the photo mode in Death Stranding 2 to bypass the UK age verification.

This crap enshitifies the internet for everyone as some sites have either nuked all restricted content to comply or are making everyone age verify regardless of location.

Has to be a "live" face similar to verification on Revolut where they get you to do specified actions in a short video.

That's a mad one, can picture kids going "hey da, look into this camera for a minute will ya"