Oh, and there's Nintendo Direct:

They just reinvented local multiplayer: before you could play on one screen only with several controllers, but now it works on up to 4 screens with one copy of the game. Not all games will be supported, but it's amazing anyway.

Joycons are now able to act as the most advanced mouse: thanks to gyroscope it can also detect rotation.

The sound system is heavily improved: microphone with noise cancellation, better audio quality, spatial sounds, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1e1BcyuvPg
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The what? This whole virtual thing isn't Nintendo way and people are getting furious.

Off topic

About a century ago president Hoover signed a similar act, imposed tariffs on 20000+ goods from other countries. It worsened the great depression, lowered imports by 63% and exports by 61%. GDP collapsed, the international trade slowed down and the world war became inevitable.

It's hard to imagine a dumber idea to fix the economy of the US, than using failed tactics from literally the worst president in American history.

There are several possible outcomes and they are all bad.

As you may have guessed, the Minecraft Movie is sitting on quite literally two funny jokes and the rest looks worse than fan-made YouTube films. The majority of reviews are trying to sweeten the pill, but it's nearly impossible to spot a bright side.

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Meanwhile, Ubisoft censored the topless priestesses in Far Cry 4 with the new patch. The patch is generally good and fixes a lot of bugs, but ladies were lore-accurate, since it was a part of their beliefs.

Oh, and they broke fan-mods installer + added at least 10 new bugs that people noticed in the first couple of hours.

UPD: The changes were rolled back and appeared to be a mistake — the censored version was for Japan only.

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Brazilian Sonic looks fascinating!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiiOdgDdO8
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Thanks, chat!

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Epic Games is trying to end copyright violation madness on its community platform UEFN and marketplace FAB. Unlike Roblox, that often requires manual DMCA strikes, Epic is going to use mass-research, similar to YouTube algorithm.

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inZOI has surpassed 1 million Early Access sales — a meaningful milestone achieved in just a week.

The biggest SIMS competitor in ages is a curious case, since yet another alternative (Life by You) was cancelled by Paradox last summer. While KRAFTON got even more confident and hope to develop the game for many years.

And a bit more into Steam revenue

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Wait, it's real!

Tron Legacy was a masterpiece and I've watched it four times in a movie theater (twice in IMAX) in just a couple of weeks. Despite a questionable plot, it has enough depth into it and amazing world building. The sound and visual designes, made to evolve over oddities of the first movie, were also spectacular. Will it be possible to grow it further?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVG_X_7Naw
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Yep 😊

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Yes, crowdfunding may be an amazing plan B for indie games:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/as-the-games-industry-continues-to-be-a-mess-the-devs-behind-hyper-light-drifter-share-why-they-took-to-patreon

Good night, folks! (via)

Oh, and go wishlist a game from our fellow chat member!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3020130/Foxlore/
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Apparently, Minecraft movie is on track to become a commercial hit. It earned $10m+ during the preview evening, $100m+ on its first day and is now aiming for $260m+ by the end of the weekend.

Wait, is it bad or what? It's rather dumb, but somewhat passionate and filled with references for true fans. It makes sense to watch if you have kids and they are into it.

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3DCG Modeler choco_ikarashi has unveiled what has to be the most convincing 2D-like 3D model, depicting The Apothecary Diaries' Maomao.

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