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Feeling lied to by developers, gamers give negative reviews to The Day Before

December 16, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

The Day Before’s gameplay did not live up to promises, making many gamers feel lied to and negative reviews rained down. It even went straight into the list of the worst Steam games.

It first appeared on December 7, 2023. Present as early access, it turns out it didn’t give a sense of satisfaction to those who played it.

The Day Before gathered more than 30 thousand gamers, who played simultaneously. But after finding out that what Fntastic was offering as the developer was not suitable, the number of players dropped drastically.

Of course this makes many fans angry. Many of them gave very poor ratings, and called the developer a fraud.

“The biggest fraud in the history of gaming,” expressed the frustration of a gamer in the review column.

“This is the biggest failure in gaming history, and I’m happy to be at the forefront of this disaster,” continued another gamer.

Game Station monitoring from various sources including the official page on Steam, Friday (15/12/2023), it was recorded that only 15% gave positive reviews, out of a total of 21,495 people who recorded their analysis. To the extent that The Day Before received the title Overwhelmingly Negative.

What’s worse, after releasing The Day Before, a few days later the company said it would stop operating. This means they are officially closed here.

“Today we are announcing the closure of Fntastic Studio. Unfortunately, The Day Before failed financially, and we lacked the funds to continue it,” said Fntastic.

Suddenly this news became a hot topic among gamers. Not a few people make fun of it and make it a joke. One of them came from Pash***** who said something like this, “Fntastic released The Day Before and closed down The Day After,” he wrote.

Even so, the company admitted that it did not take any money from purchasing the new game. Fntastic said gamers can get a refund.

“Mytona (publisher) and we are currently working with Steam to allow refunds for any player who chooses to request one, regardless of game time,” Fntastic said.

“Call of Duty Mobile” Season 11 Launches, There’s a New Mode and a Snowy Map

December 15, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

Garena officially released Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) Season 11 – Siren Song, on Thursday (7/12/2023). In this latest version of CODM, Garena brings various new content, ranging from modes, maps, to weapons.

The newest mode, called Surprise Skill Playlist, brings together 20 players in two teams. The user’s abilities (skills) will change every 30 seconds in a match.

Examples of this ability are Cranked which increases the user’s damage, Double Jump so the user can jump twice, Long Slide, and others.

Surprise Skill Playlist is divided into two versions, namely a version where each player will get the same skills, and a version that provides different skills for each player.

If you want to win in this mode, users must adapt to the skills they have acquired.

Turning to the map, the newest Call of Duty Mobile Season 11 Siren Song map is called Miami Blitz. Miami Blitz is a winter version of the Miami Strike map.

This means that this map will be enlivened by a number of decorations related to Christmas, for example snowmen, Christmas trees and gifts, and reindeer trains.

This multiplayer map includes a number of buildings flanking a long road. The road is covered in decorations such as tents and reindeer sleighs, making it a great place to hide.

Not only fighting on the street, users can also enter a number of buildings mentioned previously. Users should ideally use short-range weapons such as a Submachine Gun (SMG) or Shotgun because the buildings and roads are relatively narrow.

On the other hand, the Sniper Rifle is not suitable for use in the Miami Blitz map. Crossfire is a more suitable map if the user relies on a Sniper Rifle as their main weapon.

Talking about weapons, the latest CODM season presents two new weapons, namely Groza and Ballistic Knife. Groza is an Assault Rifle with a high rate of fire. This weapon is intended for gamers who aim for mobility rather than damage. Groza was brought from the game Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Epic Games Wins Lawsuit, Google is Considered a Monopoly in the Play Store

December 15, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

After waiting for about three years, Epic Games finally won its battle with Google. A Federal Grand Jury declared that Google had exercised an illegal monopoly on its store.

The ruling also included findings that the tech giant abused the relationship between its app store and Google Play Billing service. Including agreements regarding game distribution with Activision, Ubisoft, Square Enix and others which are monopolistic in nature, as reported by Game Station from Kotaku, Thursday (14/12/2023).

So that means, from the results of the trial, it was revealed that they had made secret agreements with smartphone companies and game publishers. Here, Google reportedly spent billions of dollars on Activision and others, to keep it from launching its own app store.

That way, they can continue to maintain their dominance in the Android market. That’s the maneuver Google is trying to do against Epic and Riot Games.

But Judge James Donato has not yet decided which law should be applied. Meanwhile, he is still thinking about how to take the right steps to fix this problem.

It is known that both parties will meet again with the Judge in the second week of January. The aim is definitely to discuss how to resolve this illegal monopoly case.

But on the other hand, Wilson White, Google Affairs and Public Policy VP, said his party plans to appeal. According to him, the trial made it clear that his company only competed fiercely with Apple and the Apple Store.

Breaking records, “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” sells 2.5 million copies a day

December 14, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

The Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 game, which was released last Friday (20/10/2023), has set a new record for PlayStation Studios.

This exclusive game for the PlayStation 5 (PS5) console sold 2.5 million copies in its first day of release, making it the fastest selling game released by PS Studios.

This figure includes the number of pre-orders for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and games bundled with the PS5 console.

PlayStation Studios is a brand under the auspices of gaming giant Sony Interactive Entertainment, to mark the company’s exclusive (first-party) games.

Studios in this brand include Insomniac Games, the team behind Marvel’s Spider-Man series, Naughty Dog as the creator of The Last of Us series, and many more.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is indeed a long-awaited game. Because, the two prequels, namely Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales are of high quality, and received positive reviews from both gamers and critics.

With total game sales reaching 2.5 million copies, Spider-Man 2 beat the record for the game God of War Ragnarok (2022), which sold 5.1 million copies in its launch week. Sales figures were not disclosed on the first day of release.

Before Spider-Man 2 and God of War Ragnarok, the previous record for fastest sales was held by The Last of Us Part 2 (2020), with more than 4 million copies sold in the three days since its release.

There is also Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) with 3.3 million copies sold in three days.

Seeing this positive response, PlayStation expressed its appreciation through posts on social media X (formerly Twitter).

“Thank you for making the launch (of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2) a great success,” the company wrote on Monday (23/10/2023).

Eric Lempel as SVP, Global Marketing, Sales, and Business Operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment also thanked the players who contributed to achieving this new record.

“As a representative of Sony Interactive Entertainment, I would like to thank the players,” said Lempel.

“We hope you enjoy the experience of playing as Peter and Miles (the two main characters of Spider-Man 2), in this extraordinary adventure,” he added.

Can play two Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 characters

which is the first Spider-Man game made by Insomniac Games that can only be played on the PS5 console. Both prequels can be played on PS5 and PlayStation 4 (PS4).

Dismantled, Game “Counter Strike 2” Reaches 1,000 FPS

December 13, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

An overclocker (a person who likes to tinker with the clock speed of a computer’s processor/CPU) managed to make the game Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) run at a frame rate of 1,000 FPS (frames per second).

Frame rate is a unit commonly used to determine how much image is displayed on the screen. Usually, the frame rate is seen from how many images appear on the screen in one second (FPS), so the higher the FPS number, the smoother the animation in the game.

In some games, including CS2, users can actually get a level of smooth animation if their computer can run CS2 at around 60-90 FPS. However, in the competitive scene (e-sports), FPS figures will feel increasingly important. Because, the higher the FPS number, the faster the game will respond to player actions.

Returning to CS2 which ran at 1,000 FPS, this achievement was achieved by an overclocker who is usually known by the nickname “der8auer”. He showed the results of CS2 running at 1,000 FPS in a video on his YouTube channel under the name “der8auer EN”.

In the video, he explains that the CPU used to get 1,000 FPS in CS2 is an Intel Core i9-14900K, while the graphics processing unit (GPU) used is an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. In particular, the speed of this CPU has been increased (overclocked). such that up to 8.1 GHz.

Counter Strike 2 1k FPS

Before reaching a CPU with that speed, he said that CS2 actually ran at around 900 FPS with a CPU speed of 7.4 GHz. However, this was deemed insufficient and he then increased the CPU clock speed to 7.8 GHz, so that it could run in the range of 1,000 FPS.

This increase in CPU speed is of course also accompanied by an extra cooling system based on liquid nitrogen. This liquid can be put into a nitrogen tube that is “attached” to the motherboard to cool other computer components, such as SSD storage media connected to the board.

This liquid nitrogen itself is needed to make computer hardware, such as the CPU and GPU cool. The reason is, the level of stability of FPS numbers usually depends on the temperature of the CPU or GPU, the hotter it is, the lower the FPS you get, and vice versa.

Steam Has a New Feature, You Can Hide Porn Games Or 18+ games

December 13, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

Valve announced that its game buying and selling store, Steam, has a new feature. This allows gamers to hide their 18+ games from others.

The feature was first discovered and shared by SteamDB designer Pavel Djundik. He revealed this via his personal Twitter account (8/11).

Based on Game Station monitoring from Twitter, Monday (11/13/2023), Djundik showed a photo showing how to do it. It can be seen that gamers can choose a feature called Mark as Private.

From the information in the image, after activating this feature, the game in question will not be able to be seen by friends. According to Djundik, this new option goes beyond Steam’s current privacy settings.

Unfortunately, not all gamers welcomed the arrival of this new privacy feature with joy. There is one camp that tells a joke, if gamers who dare to use it are labeled as cowards.

Then other camps have different opinions. According to them, the arrival of this feature could provide benefits for people who just want to enjoy dirty games in peace without having to accept ridicule.

“Finally now I can play hentai games without having to worry,” wrote one netizen.

“Soon you will be able to buy games from our catalog like The Kinky Kitsune and The Tantalizing Tanuki, without feeling publicly humiliated,” wrote online hentai distributor Fakku Games.

Most netizens thank Steam. This is because they don’t need to be embarrassed if they play 18+ games. But what do Gamers think about their newest privacy feature?

Due to unfair prices on the PlayStation Store, Sony was sued for IDR 123 trillion

December 11, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

Sony, as the parent of the video game giant, namely PlayStation, has to face a mass lawsuit with a fantastic value. It is known that the figure reached USD 7.9 billion or around Rp. 123 trillion.

They were accused of abusing their position as game buying and selling platform providers. The information is that Sony provides unfair prices to customers.

Actually, this lawsuit came to Sony last year. There are at least nearly nine million names of British citizens behind the lawsuit, who have purchased digital games or additional content on the PlayStation Store.

Sony lost IDR 123 trillion

Alex Neil, the lawyer who defends consumer rights, estimates that the total losses from this case will reach above the previous value. According to him, the company requires digital games and add-ons to be bought and sold only through the PlayStation Store, charging developers and publishers a 30% commission.

Reported by GameStation from Reuters, Wednesday (22/11/2023), the claim said that customers paid higher prices for games and additional content than they had to pay.

In fact, Sony’s lawyers had asked that this case be dropped. He said it was flawed from start to finish. Unfortunately the objection was not accepted and the case continues.

Here the Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled that Neil’s case could proceed. However, people who made game purchases on the PlayStation Store after the case was filed in 2022, must be excluded from the group of plaintiffs.

Neil emphasized that Sony’s actions harm millions of people who cannot afford it. Especially now that there is a cost of living crisis and many consumers’ wallets are being squeezed.

More Game Revenue, Tencent is ahead of Sony and Microsoft

December 11, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

Recently, a study revealed that Tencent outperformed large companies such as Sony, Apple, Microsoft and Google in terms of revenue in the gaming industry. They occupy first position, with much more income.

This data was released by Newzoo, which collected sales information from each well-known game publisher during the first half of 2023. Compiled by Game Station from its official website, Monday (27/11/2023), they then compared it with the 2022 report.

It can be seen that here Sony, Apple and Microsoft have experienced an increase this year compared to before. But that’s not enough to overthrow Tencent, which has twice the revenue as them.

Referring to data revealed by Newzoo, Sony experienced growth of 8.7%. That way, game revenue in the first half of 2023 could reach USD 8 billion or around IDR 124.4 trillion.

Then Apple is in third place, because it was able to generate USD 6.9 billion or around Rp. 107.3 trillion. Meanwhile, Microsoft grew 3.5% compared to the first semester of 2022, so that previously the figure was USD 5.88 billion or around IDR 91.4 trillion, to USD 6 billion or around IDR 93.3 trillion.

As has been said, even though its income is very large and increasing, it is not yet able to compete with Tencent. This video game giant has more fantastic income.

Even though the numbers have fallen, this is still too much and difficult to overcome. They were recorded as earning USD 15.4 billion or around IDR 239.5 trillion during the half term of 2023.

The following are the 10 largest gaming companies that will have large revenues during the first semester of 2023:

1.Tencent – USD 15.4 billion or around IDR 239.5 trillion

2.Sony – USD 8 billion or around IDR 124.4 trillion

3.Apple – USD 6.9 billion or around IDR 107.3 trillion

4.Microsoft – USD 6 billion or around IDR 93.3 trillion

5.NetEase Games – USD 5 billion or around IDR 77.7 trillion

6.Google – USD 5 billion or around IDR 77.7 trillion

7.Activision Blizzard – USD 4.4 billion or around IDR 68.4 trillion

8.Electronic Arts – USD 3.8 billion or around IDR 59.1 trillion

9.Nintendo – USD 3.1 billion or around IDR 48.2 trillion

10.T2 – USD 2.4 billion or around IDR 37.3 trillion

From these values, it can be seen that Microsoft has a big chance to take second place. This is because they have acquired Activision Blizzard.

So Activision’s joining has an impact on the flow of funds coming into Microsoft from the gaming sector. This is because there are many games owned by Activision, which will soon be able to be enjoyed by Xbox gamers and Game Pass members.

If GTA VI is released on PC, roughly these are the specs needed

December 9, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

Finally, news about the launch of GTA VI is no longer just a rumor. Because, Rockstar officially announced that this newest series is certain to be available in the next two years on the gaming platform made by Sony and Microsoft. So what about PCs?.

So far, Rockstar has not provided any information about the release of its games outside of these two platforms. This has also been confirmed by their game publisher.

“Take-Two Interactive as publisher is proud to announce that Grand Theft Auto VI will come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series in 2025″ said Take-Two, as quoted by our team from its official website, Wednesday (7/12/2023). /2023).

From the statement they gave, they did not mention the presence of GTA VI on PC or PS4 at all. It looks like gamers on these two platforms will have to wait even more patiently, because if you remember Rockstar’s previous behavior, they only released GTA V two years after visiting the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Who knows whether they will implement a similar strategy, or not bring it to PC at all. However, apart from that, several media have estimated the PC specs needed, if GTA VI is released on this platform.

Here they provide estimates, at least gamers must have PC specs as below.

GTA VI PC Specs (Minimum)

1.Operating System: Windows 10/11

2.CPU: Intel Core i7 8700K/AMD Ryzen 7 3700x

3.Memory: 8GB RAM

4.GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080Ti/AMD Radeon RX5700XT

5.DirectX: Version 12

6.Storage: 150GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

GTA VI PC Specs (Recommended)

1.Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit

2.CPU: Intel Core i9-10900K/AMD Ryzen 5 5900X

3.Memory: 32GB RAM

4.GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080/AMD Radeon RX 6800XT

5.DirectX: Version 12

6.Storage: 150GB NVMe SSD

So far, Rockstar has only revealed the first trailer for GTA VI. Just released yesterday, December 5, the 90 second video has already taken the internet by storm.

Since this news was made, the GTA VI trailer has successfully occupied the first position on YouTube trending. Then it was watched by 99,065,677 people, got 8.9 million likes, and managed to collect 727,610 comments.

It is likely that the number will continue to increase. This is because the video was only released yesterday and has been eagerly awaited by many gamers around the world.

GTA VI Trailer Watched 90 Million Times in 24 Hours, Breaks Mr. Beasts

December 8, 2023 / adminagent1 / 0 Comments

The first trailer for Grand Theft Auto (GTA) VI has become a hot topic of discussion in the last day. Not only does it satisfy fans who have been waiting a decade, this trailer also breaks many records on YouTube.

According to our team’s monitoring, Wednesday (6/12/2023) the GTA VI trailer uploaded on YouTube has now been viewed more than 90 million times. This number makes GTA VI the most watched non-music video in 24 hours.

The record was previously held by YouTuber Mr. Beast which got 59.4 million views in 24 hours. Interestingly, the trailer only took around 12 hours to break this record.

The trailer video also almost beat the record held by BTS for the music video ‘Dynamite’ which earned 101 million views in 24 hours in August 2020.

Currently the trailer has 8.6 million likes and more than 704 thousand comments. The number of GTA VI trailer views in a day almost beats the total GTA V trailer views of 96 million views, as quoted by PC Gamer.

Not only the video, the announcement of the trailer release schedule on Twitter/X uploaded by Rockstar Games on December 1 also broke the record for the game-related post with the most likes on X. Currently the tweet has more than 2 million likes and has been viewed by more than 189 million times.

The first GTA VI trailer itself was released sooner than originally planned because it was leaked on social media. “Our trailer has been leaked so please watch the original on YouTube,” Rockstar said in a post on X.

This 90 second trailer highlights Vice City which looks more realistic. Fans of the GTA series were also introduced to the first female protagonist named Lucia.

According to information in the GTA VI trailer, this game will be launched in 2025. In its official statement, Rockstar said that will be released for PS5 and Xbox Series

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