10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of December 2024

[@theshizl4400]

The fact developers like *BUNGIE* had to be _"exposed"_ for hiring fans and underpaying them is insane.

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Never underestimate corporate greed

[@demogun117]

Bungie is not a Bungie we knew anymore

[@quietspark8703]

I'll bet it's a common industry practice and always has been. You can underpay them and if they quite you have a line of people willing to take the same job for even less. it's sick.

[@stuartmorley6894]

Hiring modders is very common. What's also common in the games industry is not advertising the pay scale for the job roles (or giving very vague bands and saying "based on experience"). You go in for an interview and you have to have a guide idea of what wage to ask for in advance because they'll happily let you underpay yourself. I think people think that everyone in a particular job grade would be paid roughly the same, give or take a bit for experience, but they'd be surprised. You can easily have two people doing the same thing and one is on a much higher wage for no reason other than they chanced asking for it and it didn't make the interviewers just discount them for asking for too much.

[@jaylarkin4331]

I regret less and less that I left that game behind last year

[@jessehays]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all the GameRanx folks, you guys put in a ton of work year in and year out and we appreciate it!

[@gameranxTV]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@warrabbit123]

its funny you wrote their name like that, GameRanx. Ive always read it GamerAnx in my head, like Gamer anxiety,

[@jessehays]

@warrabbit123 LOL CHILL WINSTON!

[@lucutes2936]

Xmas

[@317Beastmode]

​@@lucutes2936don't bring that here. I'm not even religious and that's a 💩 move.

[@13_voices]

Is that a 'Snuggie'? No, it's a 'Yanket'. What are you doing under there? "You'll never know" wink

[@GRH_Roadhouse]

Hehehehehehe Roadhouse

[@carr0302]

Yes.

[@rotaxmax72]

Ciri does mention cyberpunk to Geralt. When you talk to her about where she fled to to escape the wild hunt, she mentions (if you ask her about it) a world where there’s people with metal in their heads and flying ships.

[@coreypierce7757]

You failed to mention that Helldivers 2 ended up backtracking and giving the rest of the paid DLC for free.

[@crestFall1]

That's good to know, thanks!

[@DreadKnight117]

Yeah, came here to say the same thing. Way to report on the story and not even remotely mention the fact that they very quickly responded to the feedback on pricing and gave out the entire other half of the content for free. If you're going to report on a controversy, do it right.

[@stuartmorley6894]

While I agree that Helldivers 2 should have different rules for selling micro transactions for a paid game. At some point though that $40 is going to be eaten up by ongoing development costs and, even more, server costs. Again I get why people complained, and the price is ridiculous, but people have to accept at some point that if they like the game, unless you can get a bunch of others to buy it, something else has to pay for it.

[@Sundergaard]

You fail to see the fact that it’s still $20 in the superstore for 6 items. 615 sc for one gun is absurd. And I grew up playing Killzone

[@MrBeetsGaming]

@@DreadKnight117 Why don't you cry about it?

[@stefo214]

That "Windows 98 Desktop" Thing is actually a Windows XP Background.

[@bobothn]

That was bothering me too they kept saying windows 98 and Bliss was the background.

[@dfgyuhdd]

Still in beta and we're finding major holes in Windows lore. Not good.

[@michaellyndaker2438]

Way to ruin the immersion!....

[@Jadepulse-fx9jj]

Fun Fact: Do you guys know that Vampire Survivors was instead inspired by Magic Survivors(an older android game ). Tbh, this might be the fist time in history that something out of a mobile game to actually influence the Pc gaming market in such a dramatic way.

[@stefo214]

@@Jadepulse-fx9jj yeah .. or Everspace 1 and 2 was obviously influenced by Galaxy on Fire 1 and 2. Galaxy on Fire 2 is to this day one of my favorite mobile games of all time

[@tylerdurden9411]

12:45 Companies generally try to hire young people, interns, recent graduates, because they play with their illusions, saying that they are a family, that they are the best company, that they are making games or great projects, and they fill their heads with these ideas, so that the new workers inexperienced in the area of ​​corporate deception fall for it, and make a great effort. They offer them fun work environments, where among colleagues they generate a community, so they no longer have to pay overtime and they exploit them without them realizing it. Mental Power games. They will say that right now they cannot pay more, but if you could look at the millionaire salaries of their partners, that blindfold would fall from your eyes. To everyone out there, a job is a job, whoever says the word family is a trickster who wants to play with your mind, be very careful.

[@bonecollector5]

The guy is a general in a country that's technically been at war for his entire military career. Let the poor guy play phone games during the break... The only thing weird about that story is that people are complaining about it.

[@TM-hf6cr]

really. The guy has a probably very high stress level job. If he finds some way to unwind with playing a game in his brake, let the man play his game.

[@meej33]

I am 100% certain that if that general ever found an enlisted soldier or a NCO playing on their phone, all hell would break loose. All he had to do was sit down and pay attention. If that was too much to ask from a general, maybe he should be running a second hand bookshop or a convenience store in some corner.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

​@@meej33 May I remind you that people, even generals and presidents, are human? The few minutes he spent playing that game, on a break where nothing is happening and nobody is speaking to be paying attention to, is probably the only few minutes he has in a given day other than whatever time he gets to sleep.

[@KryyssTV]

When someone puts themselves in a prominant position they fully accept tgat they will lose personal liberties because they are now subject to public scrutiny. Celebrities know that they lose the freedom to live a normal life, presidents and politicians suffer the same fate but so too is anyone in a senior position of authority. So no, he knows he cannot do that which is why he stopped when he was told that even interludes are televised.

[@Geidi174]

Y'all expect too little from people in positions of power and authority.

[@bloodybucket213]

"Desktop 98 Survivors", reminds me of "Desktop Destroyer" from probably 1998. You choose from things like a chainsaw, hammer, termites,machine gun... and you get to trash a snapshot of your desktop. Merry Christmas, Falcon!

[@Sam_Aconitum]

i remember my cousin pranking me that his pc got virus'd while playing desktop destroyer back then!

[@simonlarge2052]

I was trying to remember the name of this!

[@kurtvanniekerk9561]

Bro just unlocked a childhood memory thanks man loved that game as a kid 😂

[@matthewklein5071]

Yooo major nostalgia hit with this comment thank you 🙏

[@Jadepulse-fx9jj]

Fun Fact: Do you guys know that Vampire Survivors was instead inspired by Magic Survivors(an older android game ). Tbh, this might be the fist time in history that something out of a mobile game to actually influence the Pc gaming market in such a dramatic way.

[@seid82]

New Years Resolution: PLAY MY DAMN BACKLOG!!!!!!! I can open my own store! Ridiculous!🤣🤣

[@thefrothingotter]

The sales that Steam puts on throughout the year will do this :)

[@felipegrijo5803]

I'm with you my friend. I think that if I don't buy anything new from now on and, if I live more 20 years, I'll be able to play everything that I own 😂😂

[@seid82]

@@felipegrijo5803 🤣🤣🤣

[@Alexandra-Rex]

Dude, having a pouch for food on my chest while playing and sometimes just leaning back and eating it a bit, and I only play on PC at my desk.. That sounds perfect!

[@provocatrix1455]

Where do I buy this blanket?

[@lunarjellyfish5538]

your comment got copied by a bot and they have more likes than you lol

[@Culdcepter]

Amazon's got similar, probably find something there that suits you.

[@deathkinslayer5653]

Sounds overweight

[@alexandredevito8501]

The ups and downs of helldivers are giving me whiplash

[@reapersasmr5483]

Yeah I left after the 1st round of crazy nerfs .. wont come back

[@Stinkmean]

@@reapersasmr5483your loss

[@AvatarOA]

he is literally spreading misinformation, I got all the skins by farming sc for 2-3 hours 💀

[@fira857]

​@reapersasmr5483 they've fixed the nerfs, it really seems like every time they get criticism they've worked to fix it.

[@reapersasmr5483]

@fira857 yeah it's also a dignity thing they let some group get on there run the mouths bully people ban people and didn't nothing about it ... not a company I want to support with money ..

[@StormTehSinner]

Am I the only one who is mildly triggered by the WinXP background used for a Windows 98 desktop?

[@MercenaryTau]

Speaking of unlined snack pockets, I knew someone who would legitimately pull out chicken drumsticks from between his couch cushions. I lost my train of thought but that's fine, I don't think I wanted to finish that thought anyway. Moving on...

[@jayluck8047]

Desktop Survivors 98 Shows Windows XP default wallpaper.

[@WolfyRagnarok]

Immediately came to the comments for this.

[@SkewtLilbttm]

​@@WolfyRagnarok Same

[@missedmurphy]

Icons and theme is from 98 though. So it's technically Windows 98 with the bliss wallpaper

[@gntpapi]

My issue with the Helldivers x Killzone collab isn't necessarily the price, it's the fact that Sony has let the Killzone IP just fall to the side, even though they're licensing costumes out to helldivers and bots in Astro bot. It's such a great IP that deserves more!

[@Luv_Sammy]

Killzone was a commercial failure and sold like trash even as a launch title. Ofc they won’t make a new one

[@TheRedrocketrover]

Its also been 11 years since the last Killzone… let that sink in. But it is made by the devs of Horizon so its kinda stuck in that limbo.

[@jamesjones5023]

Killzone barley made money. Like be for real. It’s just gonna die as soon as call of duty picks up. Like it did every time before

[@J33B_M4CHETE]

Dude Sony isn't the problem here, they haven't let the Killzone IP die, Blame Guerilla Games, the director of the studio said him and the team don't want to make Killzone games, they are sticking to Horizon.

[@fullmetalsoldier6511]

Things like this tend to be how Corpos figure out if there is a market for a comeback in the first place so idk collab interest might lead to another installment or reboot despite Guerilla foolishly not wanting to make more

[@LeonardoLee3396]

"you didnt pay for overwatch" I laughed 😆

[@theneurologist1]

$20 for a skin? is like 3lbs of gummy bears, a two liter of Mt dew, a candy bar, and a big bag of chips! And I actually own the food 😅

[@sagbag856]

you dont own the food either. that goes back to sewers and reproduced. thats the trash food cycle. freedom aint free.

[@Alloveck]

Yeah, I don't even care if the base game was free, no way I'd pay that kind of money for one skin. They might occasionally get my money if the prices were reasonable, but no. They always charge way too much for that sort of stuff and therefor don't get so much as a penny from me.

[@sonxthedemon]

Its that time of the month again love this series

[@joshuadavis2175]

You neglected to mention that Helldivers 2 released the 2nd half of the killzone set free to everyone

[@DanteMasaru]

The fact that it wasn't acknowledged doesn't really surprise me.

[@garythdragon]

Dont forget, it really does not take that long to farm up the SC to use for the warbonds and skins. Which they said are not willing to change any time soon, until they hire the new monetization Czar.

[@Sundergaard]

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s still $20 in the store for a quarter warbond

[@ericpalahniuk6013]

As if that negates the fact they are charging $20 for a skin in non free to play game. Screw hell divers.

[@joshuadavis2175]

@ericpalahniuk6013 you're alone here hell whiner

[@jennfitz2]

Enjoy the show! Appreciate the hard work the team does to bring us 7 days worth of videos on Gaming!

[@Bobby-z6c]

Im actually glad borderlands 4 is "toning down the toilet humor" that was one of my biggest problems with bl3... the "edgy for edgy sake" attempt at humor.

[@whocares9033]

I call it "trying to hard" If I play BL3, it's with the dialogue turned off 🤣

[@BARF_FACE_9000]

Exactly, the tonal shift from 1 onward turned me off of the series. Granted, the OG had zany humor at times but it wasn’t Tiny Tina screeching every 5 minutes or Handsome Jack saying “Butt Stallion” for the 7th time..

[@Alloveck]

Personally, if by "toilet humor" they very specifically mean stupid gross-out humor and poop/fart jokes, like, actual toilet-related material, then I say good riddance. As much as I like pushing the envelope and breaking the rules and saying what should not be said, I've never cared for actual gross-out humor in anything. Not because it's offensive, it's just... dumb. If avoiding toilet humor means taking the edge off in general and more "sensitivity" changes like midgets becoming tinks, on the other hand, then no, that's not a welcome change. So for me it's a matter of exactly what toilet humor means in this context. If it means to them the same thing the phrase means to me, then yeah, good change. If it's instead a matter of toning down ALL edginess and silliness, gross or not, bad change.

[@ghosttheoremproductions5469]

Borderlands 3 humor already comes across like it was written by a Borderlands fan that doesn't actually get it. The writing was a major step down in the series.

[@RedMatthew]

All of the writing for Borderlands 3 was a major step down from borderlands 2

[@RashaadGenie]

Ryan Reynolds was rumored to have script doctored it.

[@TallulahSoie]

There's no recovering from what Gearbox did to Borderlands (in 3).

[@marquisepixley684]

​@@TallulahSoieyou are wrong

[@marquisepixley684]

​@@RedMatthewI disagree with you

[@RANDOMDROP21]

I always look forward to this segment. It always puts a smile on my face.😊💕

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

7:20 Farming for super credits in Helldivers 2 is actually really easy, if a bit tedious. So you can definitely grind out the cost of those items in a day, as I did. Just search for trivial missions with friends or look for higher level players, they will usually already be doing the method which is: be running around the map getting all the POIs and then return to the ship with the whole squad to skip the cutscene and repeat. This also farms requisition and medals.

[@xav_luna1477]

Happy holidays falcon and the gameranx team! Love the weird gaming story series!

[@ohmanthatguy2443]

9:12. Assassins Feed.

[@Jeff-cn9up]

I earned those supercredits for that set in Helldivers II just by playing the game. I had enough extra lying around to buy the whole set outright as soon as it dropped. If I had to farm them, it would only take me a few hours. But it's not hard or onerous to farm, because you ALSO get to play a fun game at the same time. That being said, the offer was not ethical because new players had no chance of earning it in the time allowed.

[@jojohill27]

Straight up gotta say that this is the best Gaming channel on the Tubes keep doing that awesome work Gameranx Merry Holidays 💯👍

[@guiobotelho]

Merry Christmas guys, and thank you so much for the video I was waiting for this!

[@gameranxTV]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@FflawedMetalhead]

Obviously we'll never be done with updating/upgrading tech, but I think in terms of 'major leaps', we have definitely hit a plateau. We already have resolutions and frame rates beyond what the eye can perceive, motion controls and full body tracking, VR/AR, and surround sound. So what could be next?

[@timslaven9842]

Full dive is the next big leap that every weeb an nerd is drooling for

[@Alloveck]

Until we can have fully dynamic raytraced lighting, a CONSISTENT absolute minimum 60 fps, and no easily visibly noticeable LoD or other distance-based changes ever, without cutbacks elsewhere relative to what current graphics achieve otherwise, there's still need for technological improvements if you ask me.

[@JetBlastoff-y6h]

SmelloVision.

[@BrianWelch-vc7xy]

@@Alloveck Yes, but will those technological improvements be possible without taking up all 4TB of your SSD? Seriously though, there's something this video gets wrong. Once dedicated GPUs took over from the graphics accelerators around 25 years ago, everyone could see where the future of 3D rendering was going. If you showed someone who helped design a GTX 260 in 2008 an RTX 4090, they would still understand exactly how the card was built and recognize some of its architecture, and even if they didn't understand RT cores they would still know what they did and probably be able to make educated guesses about their performance. The fabrication process has gotten smaller and more detailed, but what chips do hasn't fundamentally changed in decades. Chip designers could see all of this coming; they knew what their hardware would be capable of at some point. What we have today wouldn't be the least bit surprising or shocking to them. Today? We don't know where we're going to get any big breakthroughs. We don't even know IF there will be another breakthrough, and not just because of a technology barrier. Graphics cards are already running into the problem where incremental upgrades aren't enough to drive profits because those cost far more than the average consumer can afford. Dedicated graphics might actually die in the next 10 years, with advances in APUs driving graphical improvements and shrinking profit margins driving GPU sales towards machine learning models. There's simply no realistic way to compare the advances in graphics architecture of the past 20 years with what's coming down the road.

[@Alloveck]

@@BrianWelch-vc7xy Those are fair points, the obvious and low-hanging fruit of graphical hardware improvements have been worked over pretty well already. Still though, the fact that there aren't expected new innovations we can see right now by no means proves there aren't yet undiscovered innovations out there at all, I'm by no means ready to assume graphics have hit a wall forever. The long game of technology is full of predictions of peaks that were ultimately proven very, very wrong by unanticipated breakthroughs. But with that said, even if were against the wall already and hardware could never get any better than it currently is? My list of what I'd consider satisfactory "we can stop upgrading now" graphical capabilities still stands. Possible or not, that's the goal all the same. And I absolutely don't agree with those who think graphics have already hit the point where they're as good as they need to be.

[@thefishgolder]

Desktop survivors looks so charming tbh

[@artikpark2140]

@1:00 , I don't agree on this one entirely. The magic survivor came out back in 2019, and did exactly this.

[@Reviverey]

Magic survival is dope ASF, and came first. I saw people telling me to play vampire survivors but I was like bruh I've had this on my phone for years

[@GerbyMcGerbs]

I have never paid for Helldivers 2, it was gifted to me, and I have unlocked everything without paying any real money.

[@yetibluebeard]

Thank you as always for entertaining us Falcon, much love to you and yours this holiday season! Wishing you an amazing 2025

[@kingshadow8782]

Happy Thursday everyone!

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video gameranx and merry Christmas,fantastic job.

[@hippo1985]

The borderlands one, the director doesn't say toilet humour he specifically mentions skibidi toilet and hawk tau memes, he even said dont worry the humour is still going to be there.

[@WildkatPhoto]

First, Awesome roundup. This is the segment I most look forward to all month. Second, Im going to defend the Korean General a bit. I tend to use games to help me though times of extreme stress and to clear my mind. Bejewled Blitz is my game of choice for that. Timed 1 minute games give me a chance to reset my brain. They also occupy it when there is nothing to be done but wait - like a break in testimony. Anyway, happy new year!!!

[@Skaliton]

for #10 keep in mind that there is a game called kingsway which sounds like your typical fantasy rpg until you give it a quick glance and realize it is windows 95's OS

[@raviamodernepic]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays Granx crew!

[@HUKIT.]

A Kleenex pouch? The whole damn blanket is a Kleenex so who needs a pouch.

[@Nazzimz]

this video was honestly one of my fav weird stories in the series.

[@GoldenJoe9176]

9:23 “I’ll be back in 10 boys, play a match” Honestly Neon was my favorite place on Starfield. And The Pitt was dope in Fallout 3 so props to Pikey!

[@timothyoswald8618]

Desktop Survivors looks like a bad, bad trip.

[@Thegoobersupreme]

Good work gameranx! Exited for the next video! Keep it up,

[@michaelmain1990]

The hd2 killzone pack also came with new guns not just skins, but they gave out a bunch of it for free after a backlash

[@Bicc_Burb]

In response to the borderlands thing - the best toilet humor I've seen in a video game is the pickle in the outhouse in Yaniv Station in Stalker 2. Not in your face, not talked about, hilarious. You can do toilet humor without being 5 years old about it.

[@Seedrick596]

Hello falcon, merry Christmas 🎉🎄

[@gameranxTV]

Hey

[@Xboxcampking334]

Gameranx crew love you guys keep the content coming🎉

[@Flopfist]

The Witcher 3 and cyberpunk being connected through the dimension hopping is old news

[@scarletkinkajou1]

If the gaming robe came with one of those things they deliver pizza in, take my money.

[@SpartanHighKing14]

My favorite Gameranx segment

[@--_--IMP--_--]

"It rings 'odd' to me, which I kinda like." - Statements like this are why Falcon is my spirit animal.

[@tsubject12]

I want that gamer blanket outfit

[@greenblooded395]

I'm just wondering do y'all make a top10 weirdest gaming storys of the year video to show to best stuff if not you should thank you and have a happy new year 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@coreypierce7757]

And Helldivers 2 has given tons and tons of free updates to all users that massively expand the game.

[@apexanimo]

here's some weird gaming news: I reached the final battle in BG3 (Honor mode), and lightning hit my backyard, messing all my electronics. My PC can't even boot, don't know if the motherboard died or what, but that's my honor run (un)completed, I guess.

[@nestihado]

Were you wet when you got hit by lighting?

[@elyssa.c90]

Thanks a ton guys for providing so much entertaining content every day! 🦅

[@Cindy-v9r]

Bethesda wanting to keep using the Creation engine would make sense if the engine was actually good, but it just isn't. It hasn't been good since Morrowind.

[@darkbow12]

well unreal is hard to mod

[@Charun1982]

@@darkbow12 Any actual data to back that claim? I've seen that thrown around a lot, without any reasoning given, and if you look at Stalker 2 modding scene for instance, there's a pretty wide selection available, even though the game, and UE5 are pretty new.

[@robertmaniac]

Shut up stupid stealing comment bot.

[@Mrchair905]

It’s the reason we can mod it as much as we can Creation is pretty good you just don’t understand game engines and how they actually work.

[@Coast_dweller_of_DayZ_Temp]

​@@darkbow12Unreal isn't that hard to mod, takes time to get accustomed to yeah but after less than 3 months it gets easy, the Creation engine is still only used due to the ease of modding

[@michaelgardner7525]

Great new video! Long time fan of yours, keep up the great work!

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks! Will do!

[@UngliYT]

My weird story is that I hit 500 subscribers in only a handful of months after learning to edit. That has nothing to do with anyone or anything here but @JakeBaldino gave me the advice I needed to start, by saying I just needed to start creating. So thank you Jake, thank you Falcon, and thank you Gameranx. ❤

[@LatterExodus]

i don't think it's wrong, we all need to chill tf out, and be happy, and focus on what we have, i appreciate this attitude, maybe now we focus on games, limitation breeds creativity

[@jettblade]

I do think that gaming tech has reach a place where the improvements are going to be as massive. Not saying there won't be any improvements just that they won't be as big as they were. I honestly think that is a good thing because it would allow a little bit of breathing room for consumers. It just really sucks that things move so quickly and that things are so expensive. I'm stuck on Xbox One and do need to upgrade simply because I'm being left behind but I don't really have the means to get one of the newer systems. The only reason why I even have an Xbox One was because my friend upgraded and gave it to me because the resale was nothing. It would be really nice for systems to reach a place where they can chill for a while and allow the technology to grow to the point where a new console gen is worth it rather than a minor change that doesn't really do anything other than force people to upgrade to make money.

[@jhonshephard921]

Paid DLC is fine if it expands the game. We used to have expansion packs like Yuri's Revenge and Kane's Warth. Even recently Elden Ring, MK 1 and CyberPunk basically had expansion packs which they called DLC.

[@shahriarchowdhury7871]

15:15 the world might burn but still gotta do your dailies

[@Wormweed]

No skibidi toilet is the best news in a long time

[@starvinmarvin2130]

Supp Falcon🦅 Get me that blanket . Perfect for winter gaming

[@natheannzbar7925]

The vampire survivors genre existed for a very long time before vampire survivors. I'm pretty sure I played multiple games exactly like that way back on New Grounds, in the ancient days 😆😆 and if not New Grounds then something similar.

[@ThatAlchemistGuy]

My favorite video every month. Let's go!

[@schwolmart]

I'm always here for Sunny references

[@leecurtis6539]

Clearly Falcon wasn't aware that there's no vampires in Vampire Survivors..

[@andybrown4284]

No more hardware leaps is an indicator that there's a stronger shift in the upper corporate levels towards streaming so the consumer gets locked into a hardware access point that's cheaper to make while any tech advances are on their end and dictated by the infrastructure of the internet so not their problem.

[@gussta777]

im watching your video from my new Meta quest 3s, this is crazy lol

[@dustinhooper2260]

The general wasn’t even wearing shoes. Chill as hell 😂

[@TNCombatMedic]

Borderlands director has lost sight of what made borderlands good.

[@rageshot4352]

I think bethesda should just build a new creation engine from the ground up, taking some things with it but updating and making it better then even creation engine 2 is, especially keeping with modablility. While i see the argument that they could switch engines to unreal, i think its a bad take that every game dev studio should just switch to unreal as if its the prefect engine with no flaws for game development. Also, creating l monopolies like that is bad for competition and fostering improvement. Again creation engine isnt great but its more about bethesda's game design and quest design needing an overhaul then the engine. If starfield was less boring, had more stuff to done/explore, was fun, etc, no one would mention the engine other than in passing like usual

[@rageshot4352]

Oh, and if modders fix something in the game/engine, then bethesda really just needs to patch that in officially. Would solve the whole "modders fixed engine problem X back in skyrim or fallout why is it still a problem" thing that happens all the time at launch

[@noladavis5085]

My boyfriend earned the super credits for Helldivers. He's unlocked everything in every season pass. He also has no life, but he's happy with his free Killzone armour.

[@HappyParrot-d1l]

I am Happy parrot . Falcon and I used to be great friends when we were in the Amazon forest

[@gameranxTV]

That's awesome!

[@silentparrot1087]

​@@gameranxTV and i was his father

[@Electro-nics]

The last surprise of the week really caught me he said "book me at Cameo" xDDD

[@tbw223]

10:48 Bethesda wants to keep using the Creation Engine because: a.) they've sunk a lot of money into it and getting rid of it would probably have an impact on their financial statements since they would have to write-down the value they were carrying for the engine (probably a rounding error now for Microsoft after its acquisition); b.) they don't want to pay the license fees to Unreal and retrain/hire new staff to be proficient in it. In short, it's all about money.

[@logan_sunday]

That Bungie story made me remember the story Myelin told about his experience working with them

[@nocturnechanson]

I don’t see a problem with that South Korean guy using breaks to step back and focus on something else for a few minutes. A little refresh can help focus the mind.

[@schools6555]

I can't believe it's the last weird gaming stories of 2024 already! Tempus Fugit!!

[@salchipapa5843]

The South Korean military dude was also not wearing shoes in that screenshot. Classy.

[@408bloomin]

Tis the morning after Christmas

[@maximum_effort1]

Hope you still got your holiday inflatables 😉

[@0071slipknot]

That blanket is PERFECT for us with adhd

[@kyo_san21]

We really need a Falcon face reveal 😭

[@aaronworthing1023]

Merry Christmas and FYI sometime in the early 1900s the guy who ran the US patent office suggested that they should close the office because everything had already been invented. Kind of similar to your last item in the sense that he was obviously wrong back then and the same can be said with consoles That being said, the differences between generations is becoming less and less each time.

[@MichaelRobins]

Ooookay we need links to the gaming snuggie.

[@The7Reaper]

Here's to a good 2025 Gameranx and everyone else here 🍻

[@piemaster1288]

The question I want to know is: do we NEED more powerful hardware? Sure, we can probably do more upgrades to improve frame rate and such, but if I recall, some companies are complaining that it's too expensive to keep improving graphics. And honestly, I'd rather them focus on storytelling and mechanics than graphics, and I don't think those need more powerful hardware right now.

[@beveon]

“That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did.”

[@NoshikiYT]

I got vampire survivors for free since it was free for only a day lol Amazing video and channel

[@nkazarian]

The Hawk 2A joke though is on another level.

[@DrVenture45]

Okay, that gaming wearable blanket is a bit too much, not saying that wearing a diaper to play a game for hours isn't more insane, but that thing screams, "BE LAZY". Happy Holidays to the Gameranx Team and gamers everywhere. ☃🎄🎮🎁

[@RolandHazoto]

I watch these literally every month for the last 4-5 years and still YT recommends this to me 5 days late! 🤬

[@Stephen_Eee]

Sort of agree with #1, the leap from ps3 to ps4 can finally be noticed on ps5 😮 as long as you dont want ray tracing too 😂😂😂

[@duncanramsay9262]

Think Charlie Brown has a dog named well... you know where I'm going with this.

[@SloanJ86]

If you're eating popcorn while you game, be prepared to replace controllers CONSTANTLY

[@arha-z1v]

controllers?