That source code is available and the game is maintained on all major platforms including ARM Mac native.

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup

https://github.com/JimmieKJ/unrealTournament (public mirror)

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

no longer accessible inside Russia

Fuck Apple for not exiting Russia but the title makes it sound like they removed those globally.

This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.

Most of the games in AA that I played have been reworked to remove monetisation while their regular App Store versions offer freemium model only.

If you own an iPhone just get Apple Arcade through Apple One, it’s really worth it if you game on your phone. No predatory monetisation, regular self-contained games, plenty of high quality titles.

My phone rebooted occasionally on iOS18 and this was mentioned as fixed in 18.1 release notes so this story sounds plausible.

I was mostly talking about Phantom Liberty part - it is much more interesting and better executed than anything in the base game.

I played it at release on PS4 and then with Phantom Liberty on XSX. It was awful game with a great story then. Today it’s a pretty good game with one of the greatest stories in this medium. It’s often brought up as a comeback story for CDPR but lack of polish still rears its head in places. For example clothing pieces still have rarity label based on how much defensive stat it gave prior to patch 2.0 (which detached armour rating from the clothes).

It was the only last gen console to run Cyberpunk 2077 with a stable framerate. First party exclusives made good use of it too.

Well, did you?

Same. I have Game Pass Ultimate so I don’t need to ;)

The video is right for all the wrong reasons.

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2, OBVIOUSLY.

I don’t get it, regular people post on Twitter and traditional media are nice enough to credit them but somehow that becomes some kind of invasion to be stopped in your browser. Yeah, block those share / like buttons but if you just block whole social media platforms outright on purpose then why complain that they don’t work - you chose that yourself.

Person commenting above seemed to be negatively affected without knowing the reason and complained about it so I offered advice.

You likely block social media embeds due to overactive or badly set up adblock. Works fine here.

Fair enough, it’s a very divisive game for sure.

I’m FFXIII fanboy and the game gets bad rep so apologies for this uninvited tirade.

If you didn’t give XIII a proper shot then please do. FFXIII battle system is extremely unique and although you have to waddle through 20 hours of tutorials it gets sublime and feels really natural by the second half of the game. That story while cheesy can be as serious as Shin Megami Tensei at times, with people doomed to be trapped between divine powers. Main characters decide not to eat their shit and go against all odds to one of the better soundtracks in series. It all happens along a corridor but the sense of scale does not suffer from it. Sequels to FFXIII are awesome too.

Me along with 3 other Xbox players are still waiting for FFXVI :(

Literally never had the need to disable defender or change anything about my Windows install.

This doesn’t mean anything if you’re not saying what hardware are you running. I saw what was happening in task manager no matter how much time I gave it. I don’t have time to debug a product I paid for, especially if the free alternative „just works”.

Driver support is far better on Windows than Linux.

For things that Linux supports (which is most of it and the older the better) it’s a much better experience since everything just works out of the box. You might have trouble with bleeding edge hardware but in year or two stuff gets done and keeps working. You might encounter issues on some cheapo laptops with broken ACPI implementations but those are just trouble in general.