Alinea Analytics suggests that Starfield sold only 140 000 copies on PS5 during the first week. Which is less than The Outer Worlds 2, for example.

This could explain the overall positive score on PlayStation store, if only some true fans bought it. But no: a lot of people noticed that it's nearly unplayable due to constant crashes. So it's just the legendary PS fans tolerance to issues.

#Bethesda@GameDEV
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In the meantime, Road to Vostok apparently sold ~150 000 copies so far and the sales are not slowing down (compared to 100K copies on Friday). The official data will probably catch up in a couple of days, but it looks oddly solid by reviews alone.

#IndieGames@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

The hand holding a gun meme is from the cover of True Crime: Streets of LA

🔗 PlayStation Nostalgia

Current mood meme

I removed 556 bots from the channel, now we have exactly the same amount of them as before. Durov should be ashamed of himself.

#meme@GameDEV

LOL 😆

#Soulslike@GameDEV

There's two ways of having profit by making your game free to keep for a limited period

1) Make the game free on EGS so that people buys them on steam once they try it out

2) Make the game free on steam so that people will enjoy it and buys DLCs for it

Either way, it's stonks

Fine, since we're under a huge attack right now, let's talk about TG spam bots a little. I have a few curious facts.

Most of slut bots are Sophie for some reason, there are also Claire and some other names but variations of Sophia are the most common.

A lot of them are literally marked as "sold" and the script scammer uses forgets to rename them. Some are named "+ Some name" literally, so I assume AI vibe coders are involved.

A lot of fake accounts are using Tom (from Tom and Jerry) in a tuxedo. I have no fucking clue why do they think it will be trustworthy in any fucking way.

The sad part: it can be as cheap as $1, the whole attack that lasted for two days and brought 800+ bots here. And telegram ain't doing any fixes.

The reason? To steal your username (if you set the channel as private, you lose the name), to ban the channel (yes, telegram will ban you if spammers follow you). And even more often simply as a prank.

Unplugging 24-pin from the mobo be like...

#meme@GameDEV
#PCMR@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

DICE included a special patch to memorize Vince Zampella, who died in a car crash a few months ago. He was the co-creator of Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, Apex, and finally the head of Battlefield franchise during the last couple of years.

Literally, John FPS

#Battlefield@GameDEV

LOL, I want it (via)

#GodotEngine@GameDEV

Microslop is slopping again

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Windows@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV

This game is also beating Bungie in sales and CCU despite... Piracy! 😂

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3041230/view/509610386809426431
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Wasteland Remastered is Free to Keep!

(Xbox / MS Store)

#Free@GameDEV
#Postapocalyptic@GameDEV
#RetroGames@GameDEV

Been there

#Apple@GameDEV
#Windows@GameDEV
#UIUX@GameDEV

Stop Killing Games public hearing in the European Parliament

https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

And the attack continues, we have about 2000 bot followers in 3 days, all banned. In the meantime I'm testing a fully custom self-hosted bot to counter. And I'm more aware of bot building now 😅

Can damn TG team answer how names like Income, Deleted, Account 1/2/3/5, Bangladesh 1/2/3/5/99 are fucking possible. They literally have access to profiles data and zero solutions to obvious bots.

Imagine someone put you in charge of fairly random layoffs swing which took down 1000 of jobs.

I'd leave too...

#EpicGames@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

Yet another good game is Free to Keep!

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gameuniontv/announcements/detail/567032011043111232
#Steam@GameDEV
#Free@GameDEV

Spy Dogs!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1920290/Barkour/
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#Aww@GameDEV