| @hipsters_tears The desktop GPU's have horrendous power draws though, it's put me off upgrading (even if I could find one) due to 'only' having a 500W PSU |
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles review - more history lesson than comedy
Get Razer's brand new £2050 Blade 15 gaming laptop for £1399
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition patch quietens down those deafening mass relay jumps
| @MuckyPupToo I like that too. Best thing was the resources, much less time with the scanning mini-game has allowed me to power through a bit (still visit every planet for side missions though) |
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Ex-BioWare designer draws map to Mass Effect 3 Mars rover Easter egg
| Should have been the war asset that meant you could just nut the star child thereby destroying the Reapers forever |
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Looks like Ni No Kuni 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch
| @omersener You'll have to buy an Amiibo for that... |
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles finally confirmed for the west
| I've played the fan translated versions on the 3DS. Really fun cause I love the series anyway, but the soundtrack is amazing. |
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Nintendo Japan website updates Diddy Kong's render and his fans are very excited
| Half-Life 3 confirmed? |
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Naughty Dog reportedly working on The Last of Us remake for PS5
| Just sounds like a quick and easy way to make a technical showcase for the PS5 considering the actual base gameplay doesn't need polishing. |
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Bethesda delays Deathloop again
| Maybe by then we might be able to buy a PS5 |
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Xbox back compat games added to xCloud streaming service
| Cool, only way to play Fable 2, Gears 2 + 3 on a PC. |
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Street Fighter 2 turns 30 years-old
| @Pierre2k Regarding shoulder buttons. I still have to have hard kick on the right shoulder button to this day |
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Mario has a licence to kill in Peach's Castle
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@_TheDarkSide_ Than man with the golden mushroom is Donald Trump |
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Cyberpunk 2077 best PC settings: how to improve performance with minimal hit to quality
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@thestage TBF to DF, they have been really careful in their analysis of the new AMD cards compared to Ampere cards. They have been at pains to point out that they only do like for like comparisons. The truth is, Nvidia's raytracing is way more advanced than AMDs and DLSS is a game changer. I have actually been frustrated looking at the analysis between the two cards that raytracing had barely been mentioned and DLSS has been ignored, especially if you are looking for an informed choice of new hardware to buy. DF have been more than fair to AMD on this front. |
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| @rosscomac Not sure it's an optimisation issue, it's just a really CPU heavy game because of the decompression of constantly streaming assets and HDD speed will affect things too. I have an 8700k with a 1070, so no access to DLSS and no RT, but my display is 1080, so I stay at that resolution and I am getting frame rates between 40-60fps with everything on high or Ultra. |
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The power of text in games
| @RawShark Those early Lucasarts adventure games were essentially written with text in mind and way funnier than anything that came after. Something was lost in translation when they did the special edition Monkey Island updates. |
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti review: faster than 2080 Super, easily beats 1080 Ti
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I'm tempted, because I want the new RT features, I'm a content creator as well so modern rendering apps have features to take advantage of the extra horsepower. On the other hand, I have a 500w PSU (so that has to be factored in for any upgrade) and my 1070 still runs most games at 1080p60 on ultra settings. I might make 2021 my 'ultimate build' pc year anyway, considering no ones going on holiday for a while. |
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The best launch titles ever: Super Monkey Ball on GameCube
| I remember holding the record for Monkey Golf for a while. It's been equalled since but never beaten. Still perhaps my greatest achievement in life. |
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Amazon PlayStation 5 customers report receiving toys, cat food, or simply nothing at all
| @sqrwindow Cat was pretty happy though |
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"No plans" for Star Wars: Squadrons DLC or extra modes, EA says
| @minmax Mass Effect 2+3? Dragon Age Origins? Bioshock Infinite? Bloodborne? |
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New Bugs and Fish in October: Everything arriving and leaving this month in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
| You forgot about Covid |
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Nvidia pays an Arm and a leg for UK chip designer
Microsoft confirms Xbox Series S won't support Xbox One X backward-compatibility enhancements
| @jesselafantaisie60 2gb is reserved for the OS, the rest is a pooled resource. It's not allocated like it is on a PC. |
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Xbox Game Pass for PC leaves beta next week, gets price increase
| Incredible value, but sometimes I have been disappointed that certain games made it to console but not PC, hopefully more parity going forward. Find it hard to complain though. |
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Hands-on with RTX 3080 - is this really Nvidia's biggest leap in gen-on-gen performance?
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Insane numbers TBF. I think it came out that XSX put out equivalent performance to a 2080ti, which is actually hugely impressive, but an almost twofold uplift before the new consoles have come out? Exciting times. I think this is genuinely the generation where imagination is the limit, not the hardware. Better get saving then |
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BioWare reveals our best look yet at Dragon Age 4
| Considering DA:Inquisition was 2014, a bit disappointed this is not further along in development. I love the world of Dragon Age, the last one kind of lost focus with too many fetch/collect quests, but still enjoyed it. Witcher 3 kind of ruined it for me. |
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Horizon: Zero Dawn PC version gets August release date
| @Lin 2017 is old? Me and you have a very different interpretation of what constitutes old. |
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2K first to make next-gen game editions $10 more expensive
| It's actually quite amazing how stable game prices have been considering the exponential rise in budgets for games. I remember paying £70 for Streetfighter 2 turbo on the SNES over 25 years ago. But honestly, I would never buy a game at launch anymore. If you just wait, the price drops by more than half. Unless you're a Nintendo fan anyway. |
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Fallout 76 is coming to Xbox Games Pass on console and PC in July
| Quite clever actually, just enough deviation from the offerings on PC & Xbox to make it worth owning both. Still an amazing service on both systems, would just hope for more parity in the future, although licensing issues may not make that possible. |
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Rise of the Tomb Raider, Erica are July's PlayStation Plus games
| I own Rise, so not too bothered. But a warning for new players, the first twenty minutes are awful. Filled with handholds failing to give dramatic tension, by the end of that sequence all I was thinking was, let me play the f**king game. Improves dramatically after that. |
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Star Wars Squadrons leaks on Microsoft Store
| This is probably just going to be the dog fighting sections from battlefront with micro transactions. Hope I'm wrong though |
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Intel Ghost Canyon NUC review: meet the performance PC that's smaller than Xbox Series X
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I am sure I saw a similar modular system a few months ago, may be the same one. But I think for such systems to succeed standards have to be adhered to (such as when DVD was developed). You cannot have different manufacturers all applying various design strategies to the problem because no system designed will ever get critical mass to bring the pricing down. That is why console will always have the advantage in this kind of area. I would love a system where instead of buying an entirely new unit you could swap various bits in and out like a PC but with the design ethos of a console. Looking forward to the next few years though. Last console gen did not push PC innovation at all. I think this one will push things a lot further on the i/o side especially. |
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Nvidia announces first Ampere GPU for datacentres
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The real problem is going to be PC Architecture over the coming years. PS5 and XSX have overcome restrictions in memory access through custom designs. PCs can overcome these with changes to the architecture, but that means significant changes to motherboards which quite frankly, is a fairly costly upgrade to most peoples PCs. The Unreal Engine 5 demo on PS5 was astonishing, I know it will scale across platforms, but the bandwidth being asked for of it including read/write speeds, it will require a lot of PC users to upgrade to see the benefits. But with the benefits applied, I fully expect to see PC running console games at 4k/60fps with raytracing applied in a couple of years. Mostly, I think UE5 has shown that quite frankly, the developers imagination is the limit, there is not a technical limitation there, They should be able to achieve whatever vision they were aiming for. Bizarrely, with reduced asset creation and foregoing stuff like in baked textures, potentially, this cuts development times significantly. I would be interested to see what this could do for old games though. For example, Gears of War was (I believe) one of the first games to make proper use of normal maps. Wouldn't it be interesting if we could get a version where the highest density meshes/textures were used rather than the LOD versions? How many Unreal Engine games could be enhanced in this way for miminal cost? |
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In Theory: Which PS4 games could benefit most from PlayStation 5 back compat?
| @Eoin That was my problem with Witcher 3 on PS4. The load times for fast travel or after death were excessive. Meant I would not even dare to go for a higher difficulty level. Replayed it recently on a a decent gaming PC with SSD and it absolutely transformed the experience and the game. |
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Stadia Pro is currently free for two months
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@spock123 No I haven't. I s that a problem? Not fully reading T & C's? Does it make you feel superior? Get a fucking life |
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@TinyKaiju Honestly didn't realise how it worked then. Still think it would be better as a model like game pass or ps now though. Would actually give incentive to engage with the ecosystem. |
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Having tried, curious about the streaming aspect & quality, I found it to be a very pleasant experience. The tech works which is a positive thing. The price as many have said is just too big an obstacle. £8.99 a month is fine, but it has to be a streaming service. £8.99 is just buying you the ability to stream games and then you have to buy games on top, just isn't worth it to me. I have a pretty good gaming pc, so I may as well just buy the game and forget the streaming. The main problem is, if you stop your subscription, you lose access to games you have bought. Seems ill thought out. If you could harness this tech and produce a service like xbox games pass or ps now it would be a cracking deal, as it is, it will never get the traction needed to take off. |
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Streets of Rage 4 gets soundtracks and 12 more playable fighters from previous games
| It's weird to say in these times but this really is a golden age of gaming. If you have a half decent PC (or raspberry Pi etc), then emulation brings all your old games to life, you have lovingly made remakes or reboots of your favourite games as well as all the triple A goodies. I genuinely hope that one day, we get a service for retro gaming, that everyone signs up to, to preserve the history of gaming. |
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Monster Boy dev shows off the DuckTales game it pitched to Disney
| Brilliant game, or that's how I choose to remember it anyway. Don't know how it has aged but loved it on the MegaDrive. |
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Sources: Nintendo Switch 2020 line-up dominated by Mario games old and new
| @The_shlaaaag_returns Agreed. SMG2 was amazing, but SMG1 had little touches like the storybook which was actually quite moving. Added to the experience for me. |
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The big Half-Life interview
| Would love to play this, a shame the cost of entry is high. One day, one day... |
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Could Xbox Series X's 12 teraflop GPU deliver even more power than we expected?
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It's weird actually, the last console generation was probably the first that never resulted in a leap of PC graphics tech. All the previous gens had consoles that pushed the technical boundary. But is seems that the pushing of that boundary is back with this gen which can only be a good thing for gaming. It does feel like we are getting a period of diminishing returns however and I think maybe this is the last console generation, which will be subsumed by streaming tech. I would always favour a local experience but with ever more expensive boxes, I just think streaming services are the next logical step for consumers to 'consume' their experiences. The nice thing is that I think we are getting to the point where the limit of a developers ambition is only constrained by their imagination, and not by hardware or storage limitations. Developers can actually just deliver the vision they want, not hobbled anymore. |
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate is free on the Epic Games Store this week
| I think the setting itself made this my favourite assassins creed, though I'm yet to do Origins or Odyssey yet, both in the backlog. |
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These Xbox One X bundles now start at £259
| Why do these deals three weeks into the month? Beginning of the month, might be an impulse purchase from me. This far in? No chance. |
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All this week on Eurogamer, we're celebrating the Games of the Decade
Reminisce over past BioWare glories with Anthem's new Mass Effect cosmetics
| Tried it, netcode was shocking, I literally couldn't go a 100 yards without being pulled back a 100 yards. They fix, I will play. I have a very good internet connection BTW. |
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We built a 'next-gen' Zen 2/Navi-based PC - how much faster is it than current-gen consoles?
| Will the extra cpu grunt be fully utilised though? I think MS have already said that they want games to be fully scaleable, from XB1 right up to Scarlett. There may be a cut off point where the new consoles can break free but I think for the time being at least, the shackles of the old gen consoles may still be there. |
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Google reveals more games coming to Stadia, including Cyberpunk 2077
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Next year marks the release of the PS5 and Xbox 2 (scarlett, whatever). The truth is, they are going to be the last console generation, presuming a similar console generation life cycle. The future is going to be streaming services like google stadia, PS NOW and whatever MS are going to call their service. I predict in a few years, that even bespoke PC hardware will drop off, only really being used for content creation. I will always prefer bespoke hardware, a much more reliable way to game, but streaming services are inevitable. |
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Witcher 3 on Nintendo Switch is 540p handheld, 720p dynamic res docked
| @BorderlineJon I know, guess a few people don't think it's the best, but this is my personal opinion. |
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| Favourite game of all time so hopefully this turns out well |
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