{"source":"Videogames","paragraphs":["\u003cp\u003eBut the streamer in the panel is

far from a big-time broadcaster. Known as Michael \"mmDust\" Duarte, he is a Twitch

affiliate known for speed running Resident Evil 7 who currently holds world records
for beating the game as quickly as possible. Since the panel, mmDust initially
doubled down on his comments, only to joke about them and eventually apologize in a
Twitlonger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEA will start releasing games on Steam
again, after it moved away from the popular PC game marketplace in 2011 in favor of
its Origin store and launcher. It’ll start with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order,
making it the first new EA game released on Steam since 2011. Additionally, EA
announced plans to bring its EA Access subscription service to Steam starting next
year, allowing players to pay a monthly price for access to a collection of EA
games through Steam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThat’s setting a very high bar,
and, for now, I’m not sure Alyx clears it. The game is fighting VR’s inherent
hardware limits, a pandemic-related headset shortage, and the difficulty of
building a game for a new platform. While it’s about as long as the landmark Half-
Life 2, with my game clocking in at 15 hours, it doesn’t feel as big or as
narratively and mechanically fresh. It advances the series’s main plot, but it
doesn’t come close to resolving it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwitch is also
relaunching its twitchsports channel today to highlight broadcasts and programming.
The relaunch includes a showcase today, hosted by Major League Soccer star Jimmy
Conrad, that will cover the NBA, UFC, Arsenal, and House of Highlights using two-
hour slots to demonstrate the type of sports content Twitch has to
offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt’s an eclectic lineup, but it’s also one that
includes some of the developer’s more influential games. San Andreas is the biggest
of the trio and arguably is the most beloved game in the GTA series. It introduced
the world to the fictional version of California that would also be the setting for
the best-selling Grand Theft Auto V. Midnight Club: Los Angeles, meanwhile, is a
racer that came out in 2008, and at present, it’s the last title in the series to
be released, while Table Tennis is a shockingly in-depth look at the sport from a
developer best-known for violent action games.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheThe
moment I fully grasped the danger of my situation in the opening few hours of
Cyberpunk 2077, I had just opted to take a hit of a particularly dodgy illegal
substance. The drug came from a junkie gangster with a spider-like face full of red
cybernetic eyes. His name, he insisted, was Dum Dum. As a street kid, my
chosen \"life path\" in the game, I recognized the name of the aerosolized
adrenaline-booster and was able to chat cordially with our frightening host about
it. Had I come from a corporate background or been a wandering nomad type passing
through Night City, I might not have known.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClosest in
tone to Game of Thrones’ dirty and pitiless fantasy, The Witcher 3 is a truly
superb fantasy game as full of sex, dirty tricksters and political betrayal as any
Thrones fan could wish for, with a more generous dose of fantasy creatures. You
play as a monster-hunting outcast, Geralt, caught up in a rulers’ war.
Interestingly, The Witcher lets you see the impact that the egotistical nobles’
struggles actually have on the people forced to live under them, rather than
casting you as the hero who rides in on a white horse. Its characters and writing
are excellent, and the socio-political intrigue will be irresistible to anyone who
appreciates GoT’s tangled webs of houses and
rivalries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen the latest instalment in Microsoft’s
decades-old Flight Simulator series was first shown at the E3 video game event last
year, it drew gasps from the audience. Using two petabytes of geographic data
culled from Bing Maps, together with cutting-edge, machine learning algorithms
running on the company’s Azure cloud computing network, the game presents a near-
photorealistic depiction of the entire planet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRocket
League is changing in a big way. Today, developer Psyonix announced that, later
this summer, the multiplayer cars-meets-soccer game will be going free-to-play.
Additionally, the game will get cross-platform progression, covering elements like
cosmetic items, battle pass progression, and competitive
rank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStudents from Boston University to UCLA, from
South Louisiana Community College to Northwestern University, have recently created
or resurrected Minecraft servers and shared their creations on Discord chats, in
Facebook meme groups, and on Reddit threads. The boom of college Minecraft servers
has begun. These servers have the express purpose of bringing students together and
building, oftentimes focused on recreating their college campuses. Searches for
Minecraft server hosting have peaked to unprecedented levels in the last few weeks,
and thousands of students are discussing college servers, most notably on the
Facebook group \"Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens.\"\u003c/p\u003e"]}