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It would be if Deck had an OLED screen.
4:3 content on an IPS is pain, especially when played at night.
Updates on the ongoing Activision Blizzard situation:
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World Of Warcraft production has stopped as staff call out Activision Blizzard
Following Activision’s response to the sexual harassment lawsuit, apparently all work has stopped on World Of Warcraft.
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Agree that an OLED screen would have been really nice, but I don't think it's a real deal breaker. Things like the small screen size might make the backlight less apparent.
Kinda sad Valve couldn't include the OLED option in the more expensive version. Maybe a supply issue where having two different screens would made things too complex for them in manufacturing.
I had a copy of this but lost it when my launch 3DS was stolen. sighLooks up length of Solatorobo
Hitman 2 is dirt cheap
Buy the Gold edition and the legacy pack to have the complete Hitman content (1 and 2 only, 3 isn't available on Steam yet)
Buy the Gold edition and the legacy pack to have the complete Hitman content (1 and 2 only, 3 isn't available on Steam yet)
I discovered Cavia made some weird "Resident Evil" style Kamen Rider action-adventure game 
Gonna try playing it, unfortunately no English or fan translations
Will see if I can beat it, thankfully there is at least an English walkthrough
Gonna try playing it, unfortunately no English or fan translations
Will see if I can beat it, thankfully there is at least an English walkthrough
PUBG might being going free to play depending on results next month:
FIFA 2023 might be free to play:
FIFA 2023 might be free to play:
Over 1,000 Activision Blizzard Employees Sign Letter Condemning Company's Response To Allegations [Update: Now Over 2,000]
Developers say statements from management have "damaged our ongoing quest for equality"
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Heads up!
The Steam Android app seems to have received an updated GUI through a backend update.
The interface looks a lot more clean and better sized than earlier, and this without any app updates to my knowledge.
The update must have been pushed recently since I had the old design just an hour or so ago...
The Steam Android app seems to have received an updated GUI through a backend update.
The interface looks a lot more clean and better sized than earlier, and this without any app updates to my knowledge.
The update must have been pushed recently since I had the old design just an hour or so ago...
best immersive sim of 2021 |OT| - Cruelty Squad - Hit-men on acid
From what I'm told it's sort of like "what if Picasso vomited on his palette then used that to paint a masterpiece"
There's actually a small blurb at the top mentioning the change! Didn't see that earlier.
EDIT: Hey! And the mobile website changed as well!
Besides voice chat and simple text chat, everything else Discord is a shitshow, they should just stick with they are good at.
Thanks! So it's the store itself. I'm now seeing that too. A little funkier on my end through.
I thought maybe the mobile app UI also got a facelift. Kind of a clunker sometimes.
Here's a quick comparison of the Steam mobile changes.
Let's see how the forums handle absurdly tall images.
Handles them fine, but it really is tall so I'll link it instead of make everyone scroll it, because I'm nice.
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Handles them fine, but it really is tall so I'll link it instead of make everyone scroll it, because I'm nice.
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Its true, now it works perfectly without cutting in half a banner or a game title. It fits the screen perfectly, its almost a relief
It's a lot of sensible changes in terms of mobile design, and it seems like there are no cutbacks to information. You lose the achievement icons and point shop item icons, but since it only showed couple of them previously anyway, it's not a big loss.
Theming is darker overall, especially at the top of the page because the old site had really light gradient there.
The franchise box actually scales to size when there's two lines of text.
This change is live on the website and in the mobile app since the mobile app just displays web pages anyway.
Theming is darker overall, especially at the top of the page because the old site had really light gradient there.
The franchise box actually scales to size when there's two lines of text.
This change is live on the website and in the mobile app since the mobile app just displays web pages anyway.
Finished Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's a mixed bag. I enjoyed exploring the environments and solving the puzzles in the tombs. When it comes to combat though, the game is mediocre. The gunplay is unsatisfying and melee is so terrible it's barely an option, which is an inconvenience because certain enemies just rush you until they're either dead or within melee range. This is particularly aggravating when you're limited to the bow which takes time to shoot. Combat feels like an afterthought but fortunately there's not much of it and stealth can be used in a lot of cases.
The writing isn't as terrible as in Rise but it's still bad.
And hearing about a rare animal only to go slay it to make a new outfit feels so weird for the character.
But I have fond memories of the locations you get to visit during the game, they make it worth experiencing.
My brother bought 13 sentinels so I tried it out today. Gorgeous game. Let's see if the story is as good as they say, the beginning couldn't be more filled with tropes if it tried.
The writing isn't as terrible as in Rise but it's still bad.
And hearing about a rare animal only to go slay it to make a new outfit feels so weird for the character.
But I have fond memories of the locations you get to visit during the game, they make it worth experiencing.
My brother bought 13 sentinels so I tried it out today. Gorgeous game. Let's see if the story is as good as they say, the beginning couldn't be more filled with tropes if it tried.
and another batch of threadupdat backlog
This time for Nacon Connect 2021 and few delays or dates i forgot to update
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This time for Nacon Connect 2021 and few delays or dates i forgot to update
News - Clash: Artifacts of Chaos (Nacon/ACE Team) - announced for June 2022
You are Pseudo, a powerful warrior living as a recluse in the strange land of Zenozoik. When you become embroiled in a quest for the Artifacts of Chaos, everything changes. Explore the world and defeat your enemies, but never forget the sacred rules of the Ritual. The Mysteries of Zenozoik You...
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News - RoboCop: Rogue City (Nacon+Teyon)- announced for 2023
Become the iconic part man, part machine, all cop hero as you attempt to bring justice to the dangerous, crime-ridden streets of Old Detroit. Armed with your trusty Auto-9, factory-built strength, years of experience on the force and a variety of tools at your disposal, you will fight forces...
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News - Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown - releasing 22 September 2022
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is an open world driving and lifestyle experience. Grab your keys and live your life of luxury. Remember, social status is everything In the world of TDU. Here is an overview of the game, via KT Racing creative director Alain Jarniou: You may recall that the...
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News - Steelrising (Nacon/Spiders) - releasing June 2022
King Louis XVI's automata army is terrorising the citizens of Paris. Join the Revolution as Aegis and fight against this reign of terror to try and change the course of history! Here is an overview of the game, via Spiders Studio CEO Jehanne Rousseau: For our latest game, Steelrising, we...
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News - SESSION - Available now in Early Access
crea-ture Studios – Taming the lame since 2014 Pure, raw skateboarding. Forget about hand holding magnet features or turbo timers here... It's you and the streets. Now, get ready to tame that concrete! Independent developer Crea-ture Studios has officially announced that its Session...
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News - Lord of the Rings: Gollum (Daedalic/Nacon) - releasing Fall 2022
Athletic and agile, sneaky and cunning. Driven by the desire to once again hold in his hands what he lost, Gollum is one of the most fascinating characters in the world of The Lord of the Rings™. He has seen things that others can not imagine, he has survived things that others would not dare...
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News - Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong (The Council devs) | timed EGSclusive , delayed further to February 2022
A narrative RPG being developed by Big Bad Wolf, the team behind episodic 18th century mystery The Council—has just announced its name: Swansong. It's a singleplayer game which gives you control of three different vampires, each a member of a different clan within the Camarilla, the...
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News - GhostWire: Tokyo by Tango Gameworks (PC/PD5) - delayed to 2022
Bethesda.net Teased at the 2019 Bethesda Showcase, watch the trailer for GhostWire: Tokyo, a new action-adventure game brought to you by the team at Tango Gameworks. After strange disappearances hit Tokyo’s population, it’s up to you to uncover the source and purge the city of a strange, new...
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|OT| - Dying Light 2: Stay Human (Techland) - releasing December 7
It’s been 15 years since humanity lost to the virus. The last great human settlement exists within an unforgiving, infected world, plunged into a modern dark age. During the day, bandits, factions and starving survivors roam the streets scavenging for scraps - or someone to take them from, by...
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|OT| - Ys IX: Monstrum Nox - Power Rangers of the Round Table
While imprisoned in Balduq, Adol is cursed and becomes a Monstrum. With his newfound powers, he must stop the Grimwald Nox from consuming the city. DEVELOPER: Nihon Falcom, Engine Software BV, PH3 GmbH (aka Durante ) PUBLISHER: NIS America, Inc. Feared Protectors: Play as any of the six...
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News - I.G.I. Origins (Project IGI prequel) - delayed to 2022
It’s 1980, the Cold War balances precariously on the brink of full-scale conflict. Infiltrate a volatile and manipulative world of high-stakes espionage – your way. Plan and execute your missions against an enemy plotting all-out nuclear war in this tense and tactical first-person shooter. Go...
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News - System Shock Remake (by Nightdive Studios) - coming Summer 2021 | free SS2:EE for preorder
“Look at you, Hacker. A pth-pth... pathetic creature of meat and bone.” You awaken from a six month healing coma aboard Citadel Station, TriOptimum’s premier research facility. Mutants feast on their former crew mates, nightmares of flesh bound to metal roam the dark hallways, and the...
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News - Sifu - delayed to Early 2022 (Ps4/PS5, EGS)
Absolver developer Sloclap has announced third-person action game Sifu for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC (Epic Games Store). It will launch in 2021. Featuring the gripping intensity of classic Kung Fu films with realistic and raw combat, Sifu tells the story of a young Kung Fu student...
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|OT| - Endzone: A World Apart - Radioactive dirt farming | Prosperity DLC coming in Fall 2021
https://www.gog.com/game/endzone_a_world_apart In 2021, a group of terrorists blew up nuclear power plants around the world and plunged the world into chaos. Only few were able to escape into underground facilities called "Endzones". 150 years later, mankind returns to the surface - under your...
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Great interview. It is rare to see a game with law theme, probably because you can't write story like this without the knowledge. I can't buy the game until August, but I am very excited to play it.I played it as a skyrim mod and even then it was great, good story.
IGN did an article from when it was a Skyrim mod till now.
The Forgotten City's Nine-Year Journey from Skyrim Mod to Standalone Game - IGN
The Forgotten City creator Nick Pearce reflects on the game's nine-year journey and how his ambitions grew from a Skyrim mod to a fascinating, original game set in Ancient Rome.www.ign.com
I made a thread about it on Era, not gonna remake it here so I'll just link it - long story short, new California Energy requirements effective July 1st are probably going to kill a lot of prebuilt gaming PC sales in the state and others that are adopting the policies.
New California energy requirements might have an impact on buying prebuilt gaming PCs going forward | ResetEra
New California energy requirements might have an impact on buying prebuilt gaming PCs going forward | ResetEra
The "upgrade legacy pack" only includes the dlc for Hitman 1. Only buy that if you already have Hitman 1.
The dearer one has all of Hitman 1 including the dlc. Buy that if you don't have any of Hitman 1.
I only read a tiny bit (and understood even less
) , but I was trying to think of whether their definition of high expandability computer (listed below) would apply to some pre-built computers? If so, I am wondering if it only needs to follow section 6 (listed below) as long as it has a sleep mode built in and follows the increased certified PSU requirements in the later table v-9.Not entirely sure of anything I wrote without doing more digging.
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High expandability computer
means a computer with any of the following:
(1) An expandability score of more than 690;
(2) If the computer is manufactured before January 1, 2020, a power supply of 600 watts or greater and either:
(A) a first discrete GPU with a frame buffer bandwidth of 400 gigabytes per second (GB/s) or greater; or
(B) a total of 8 gigabytes or more of system memory with a bandwidth of 432 GB/s or more and an integrated GPU.
(3) If the computer is manufactured on or after January 1, 2020, a power supply of 600 watts or greater and either:
(A) a first discrete GPU with a frame buffer bandwidth of 600 gigabytes per second (GB/s) or greater; or
(B) a total of 8 gigabytes or more of system memory with a bandwidth of 632 GB/s or more and an integrated GPU.
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(6) Small-scale servers, high expandability computers, mobile workstations, and workstations. Small-scale servers, high expandability computers, mobile workstations, and workstations manufactured on or after January 1, 2018, shall:
(A) Be powered by an internal power supply that meets or exceeds the standards in Table V-9, or an external power supply that meets the level VI of efficiency described in the International Efficiency Marking Protocol for External Power Supplies Version 3.0 (Sept. 2013);
(B) Incorporate Energy-Efficient Ethernet functionality;
(C) Transition connected displays into sleep mode within 15 minutes of user inactivity; and
(D) Transition the computer into either the computer sleep mode or computer off mode measured in Section 1604(v)(5) within 30 minutes of user inactivity. If the transition is to a computer sleep mode, that sleep mode shall either:
1. Be a computer sleep mode as described in ACPI as S3; or
2. Consume power less than or equal to the values shown in Table V-6.
EXCEPTION: to section 1605.3(v)(6)(6)(D): Small-scale servers and rack-mounted workstations are not required to comply with section 1605.3(v)(6)(D) of this Article.
Hmm. The definition for high expendability computer and a workstation really ought to be easier to find, it does appear to be a loophole, but it seems like manufacturers are still being cautious. The definition should really be hotlinked in the documents themselves...
Yeah, I had to Google it to see if had a general legal definition, only to find the document on Google search. I 100% agree, it really should have been defined/linked within that document.
That said, I am still not sure what an expandability score is?
Yeah I saw that too and that's my other concern. I can't find anything about it, and it seems like - in practice - the loophole might be tighter than it might actually have been intended to be.Yeah, I had to Google it to see if had a general legal definition, only to find the document on Google search. I 100% agree, it really should have been defined/linked within that document.
That said, I am still not sure what an expandability score is?
So uh, Great Ace Attorney is still releasing tomorrow, right? Capcom still hasn't updated the date on its store page. 
Ok, yeah, these regulations are very poorly worded.
Expandability Score is simply the peak power draw if every component in a system was running at max power draw.
So 690 Expandability means 690w peak power draw.
Edit: how the hell do they define framebuffer bandwidth, they link to a document that supposedly calculates it, but it doesn't???
Expandability Score is simply the peak power draw if every component in a system was running at max power draw.
So 690 Expandability means 690w peak power draw.
Edit: how the hell do they define framebuffer bandwidth, they link to a document that supposedly calculates it, but it doesn't???
Does that included RGB lighting?
Seriously though, that is really poorly worded. It is also possibly poorly thought out if it means power hungry components get to skirt aspects of the law, unless I am misunderstanding?
No yeah it sounds like, if anything, it's the mid-range gaming PCs that will be impacted. Ironically enough, higher-end rigs with the higher power draw get to be classified as high expandability and only need to adhere to sleep mode bs. Machines that are powerful but not powerful enough to chug 690w+ of power don't make the cut, and they'll likely not meet the frame buffer requirement (which they don't actually properly define!)Does that included RGB lighting?
Seriously though, that is really poorly worded. It is also possibly poorly thought out if it means power hungry components get to skirt aspects of the law, unless I am misunderstanding?
Found out that when they said "frame buffer bandwidth", they just meant "memory bandwidth"... so let me get this straight. A 3070 ti or a Radeon VII would qualify for this, even if the full system doesn't hit 690+ watts, but a 6900xt system would not... because they chose "memory bandwidth* as a possible loophole?
The $500 MSRP card counts but the $1000 top-of-the-line card doesn't if overall power draw doesn't hit 690w at peak. This makes absolutely no sense!
The $500 MSRP card counts but the $1000 top-of-the-line card doesn't if overall power draw doesn't hit 690w at peak. This makes absolutely no sense!
The Steam Deck has had the unfortunate side effect of making me take pause on playing my PC titles atm lol.
I have more than few that would be perfect on the go.
I have more than few that would be perfect on the go.
I totally agree...but also...i took pause on playing pc titles way before that, too though. No games played, baby!
At least you can continue buying games instead of playing them while waiting for the Deck.
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Is it me or are people less willing to write guides to the Steam community? Older games have insane number of guides while newer game have lesser than ten guides.
Some of them are just links to YouTube videos which aren't really good way for guides. I don't want to watch the entire video to learn one thing
Some of them are just links to YouTube videos which aren't really good way for guides. I don't want to watch the entire video to learn one thing
This is the CEO of the relaunched Interplay:
Worked for Wizards of the Coast, Rockstar, and Blizzard previously.
Worked for Wizards of the Coast, Rockstar, and Blizzard previously.
This is so confusing damn. I checked the steam page and apparently the "Legacy Pack" is Hitman 1 Goty as a DLC for Hitman 2. Now If I buy Hitman 2 Gold and then buy the legacy pack, do both games show up in my library as standalone games? Or only Hitman 2 will show up in my library? I know is dumb I like having all my games show up individually in my library lol and I want to make sure.
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