Bungie announced today they are ceasing development on Destiny 2 and this June's update will be the last content for the game.
The writings been on the wall for a while now with plummeting player numbers (although still better than marathon:D) I've not played since the odd starwars themed update and most of the people who used to cover the game moved to arc raiders or some other live service.

Bit of a shame but I guess given the 768 million dollar impairment and the layoffs gutting the teams there it was not doing well for sony.

I really enjoyed the first two subnautic games. Beyond Zero wasn't quite as good but still had some fun survival base building goodness and extensions to the base game.

So Subnautic 2 has been on my radar (or should that be sonar?) for a while. Of course the whole krafton ceo using AI to attempt to cheat the creators out of the 250mil they promised them when acquiring the studio contingent on them releasing Subnautic 2 into early access before a certain date (Maybe some sales number requirments too I forget) Is a really wacky side story to this games release.

I saw this linked on Hackaday Train your own LLM from scratch and curious I gave it a go.

Ai it's everywhere these days and more and more our corporate overlords are saying it will replace anyone and everyone who does anything creative or technical or in some case legal (which ironically is usually illegal).

More and more pressure to "explore the tools" and "come up with agentic work flows" and "put Instagram style duck face filters on all games"

So this week so I could at least say I'd installed the tools and played with them should that become a mandatory rather than heavily advised requirement.

It's an old saying that is definitely quite true. Often times you setup something in a bodged way with the intention to do it properly or revisit it later and just never get round to it. Inertia of having a functional if not ideal solution easily lets you put off doing more to change or improve things.

These are some things I've been playing recently

Power Wash Simulator 2

Marathon is the upcoming extraction shooter from bungie currently in closed alpha. They've been fairly open with it cancelling the NDA's that would usually bind such an early look at something like this so there is a lot of chatter in the intermanets and the youtubs.

I've always liked a nice cup of coffee and I've mostly been a french press, aeropress, or drip machine person for most of my life. I would drink the stuff at work out of the big filter coffee machines which were loaded with a dark roast made drinkable with some milk or what passed for milk (powdered stuff) in the more automatic machines.

So the other day I had my yearly opticians appointment and as part of that they blinded me with a machine that supposedly images the back of your eyeball. The photos they took, very tasteful subdued and flattering, of the back of my eyeballs showed a bit of bleeding. So I had to go to an ophthalmologist to check it. They took more pictures after blinding me this time with eye drops and confirmed there was something there.

So I was then required to go down stairs and get one of my arms drained of blood for "testing" purposes.

Last month to get free money as rockstar are pulling the plug on GTA and red dead prime benefits

Guess they're starting to eol GTA 5 so they can super monetize GTA 6 when it comes out.

And they already killed red dead online so no surprise there