CPU is definitely almost never going to be a bottleneck going forward, and I love that we've gotten to that point in time because damn, it used to be a struggle bus.
The 7800X3D's big brother, 9800X3D, was one that I had considered due to the gaming performance boosts (and some workloads) but ultimately, pure core counts won due to the just absurd amount of parallel tasks I run where my old 8c/16t would max out easily.
As far as RAM goes, yeah, if I did go 32 I wouldn't be happy. I was willing to just because the prices are so absurd right now, but I've hit 32 GB of usage on my old system quite reliably and I'd rather not hit any kind of disk cache on Windows when that happens. My Mac Studio has 64 GB and it's just become my new baseline because of that and how it has enhanced the way I work. At times I may have a dozen different 3d models open in printing slicing software, each consuming 2-4 GB of RAM which does not work too well on a system with only 32 GB. I definitely have created my own unique set of problems but, that's the beauty of having options.
Honestly, if RAM prices weren't so stupid, I'd maybe have even gone 128. I would love to run a virtualized desktop with a dedicated Windows and Linux environment, plus run some containerized (kubernetes) workloads on other cores/ram on the same hardware for one really kickass box. The only thing that stops me from doing that is some games (particularly those with anticheat) do not like to or will not run in a virtualized environment. I'm big on virtualization but even bigger on container orchestration, so I'd love a single box like that. Realistically though, I'm going to just need to get a couple of more mini pcs to add to my local kubernetes cluster.
You definitely made the right call in waiting on the 5070 Ti there, it's a great card with plenty of VRAM (as you said) and once the prices stopped being silly, it's really a no-brainer for the upgrade. I'm a little worried right now that GPU prices are about to skyrocket due to memory costs increasing which has me considering just doing the 5080 now, but 3080 Ti handles everything I need it to without an issue so it's a silly optimization to make.
Personally, I've moved up the ladder from 60 series cards (sup 560 and 760), to 70 (oh hey there 970), and then finally to 80 (1080ti hype) and it just feels like I need to stay on 80 even with the absurd pricing they come with. I know that I would be happy with a 5070 Ti, they certainly kick serious ass, but the better potential for local AI workloads, that small speed increase might be worth it. I don't really do any local AI stuff, but it has been fun to play around with and if I did for some reason want to make more use of it in general, the option would be nice to have since renting GPUs is too expensive. I used to rent the hardware Out of Games ran on but ultimately now the business owns the hardware and the costs are a fraction of what they used to be every month and soon the cost of ownership will start being a financial win for the website.
Though, I do wonder if the Super variants that are rumored will actually come with 24 GB of VRAM because that would be the real thing to wait for. A 5080 Super would be more competitively priced than the 5090 with its whopping 32 GB, which, yes, there are definitely even limits for me lol. I'd love a 5090 but the potential energy consumption is just too insane and I know the moment I go to the 90 series, I'm going to want to stay on the 90 series.
AMD is definitely not playing great on the AI/ML field right now though as you've found. I wish their graphics cards were more competitive on all fronts because it would force Nvidia's hand (hopefully) to reduce prices at least a bit. GPU costs skyrocketed during the start of the pandemic and they never really went down. We had already seen GPU costs rise before that, but then with the scarce supply, it normalized really expensive GPUs. Our GPUs are definitely more complicated today than ever before, but the premium Nvidia is making on them is too damn high.
Funny enough, I have a new RM850X that uses Type 4 cables and I had to go look at the official Corsair page for cable compatibility and my Type 4 cables do not look like their Type 4 cables - they have the sleeves of the Type 5. I did however receive a EPS12V cable that is labelled as a Type 4 though... why the hell did you have to make this so complicated Corsair. I too really do dislike companies reusing model numbers when specs change. Its like the NVME SSD fiasco a couple of years ago when the onboard NAND and controllers changed and completely destroyed the drive's performance. I can't recall who was at fault for that one so I won't name names, but the years of reviews of how good the drives were and then all of a sudden people weren't getting the same performance... absolute bullshit. Corsair should have just called the new one the RM850z, PC enthusiasts love their X and Z.
God, 20 years of Xbox. It's wild to think that it has been that long.
I never owned an original Xbox, nor did I own a 360 though almost everyone i knew did - I was a Nintendo kid.
My first ever memory with Xbox was when I went to a tournament to play Halo without ever playing the game or the console. It was taking place at EB Games and then my store didn't have enough registrations so we were transferred to another one a couple of towns over at their large mall. I had absolutely zero idea what I was doing and it reinforced that I really did not like playing shooters with a mouse.
That did end up making me interested in the game though, and I did buy it at a later date when I realized it was out on PC as well.
My first Xbox console was the Xbox One. I bought it mainly as a Forza machine though I also played GTA V, Halo 5: Guardians, and various random titles. It was such a funny looking console, I wasn't the biggest fan of the design of it, the 360 was such a beautiful and iconic beast. Then I upgraded to a Project Scorpio edition Xbox One X on launch day because I wanted more power out of it and that sweet 4K resolution. I still love how it said "Project Scorpio" on the console and controller in that green text, it was wild that they didn't do the same thing for the Xbox Series X (Code named Project Scarlet) because I had hoped to add another unique piece to my collection of consoles.
Of course, the Series X was purchased on launch day as well because we wanted even more power, we wanted faster loading, and the beauty of raytracing and true 4k potential. Admittedly, I haven't played my Series X as much as I had hoped, though Forza runs so beautifully on it and with Game Pass, I've definitely played a wider variety of games on it than the Xbox One family.
PC will always have my heart though and it's nice to see that Microsoft has been focusing their efforts more on PC and cross-platform instead of a closed ecosystem: Xbox Play Anywhere. It's interesting to see where the Xbox brand will go in the future and I do wonder if the new Steam Machine can get enough support, could we see Xbox appear more on it in some way? Sideloaded app store? I would love to see Microsoft fully embrace Xbox on Linux.
This is a huge update for the game. Walls were such a pain to deal with back in the day... and I suppose for the past 100 years as well that the game has been out. Bravo to the team on OpenRCT2 for the patch.
It's funny, I haven't played any of this year's nominations for Game of the Year.
I never finished the original Death Stranding because I wanted to wait for it to come out on PC because I just hate playing a lot of games with a controller that would clearly be better with keyboard and mouse which is why I never gave 2 a go.
Clair Obscur looks like a beautiful game and ever person I have talked to had nothing but amazing things to say about it, it just wasn't really my type of game. I fully expect it to win Game of the Year.
Donkey Kong... I bought it and never had time to play it yet. I was waiting for "the right moment" to just sink into it but that moment never came. I've heard a mix of commentary on the game but I really don't believe for a moment that this deserves to be here at the top. Is it there just because Nintendo didn't have a first-party title in the category? Feels rigged lol.
Hades II I understand is missing a bit of the charm from the first game, but otherwise is a solid game. The timeline on it feels... rushed maybe? I'm looking forward to diving into it in the future, because the first one was amazing, but the second iteration really didn't seem to have the same OMG AMAZING that the first did.
Hollow Knight: Silksong being in this category makes sense. It sold a boat load of copies, the number of positive reviews is huge, and I mean, it is Hollow Knight its bound to be great. It's still on Game Pass so go give it a play if you haven't.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, I had to look this one up because I could have sworn this was a last year release but no, it was the beginning of February. I remember hearing a lot about it, I know people have been positive about the game, but is it Game of the Year worthy?
It's a shame Metroid Prime 4: Beyond comes out in a couple of weeks because I bet this would have been on the list if it did. I hope next year's awards showcases it because December may as well be 2026 but also, next year is looking insane for games. Grand Theft Auto VI, The Witcher IV, and Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, just to name a few, will likely eclipse it and I'll be making the same comment next year about how Metroid is only on the list because Nintendo didn't have anything better. Let's be real though, GTA 6 is a titan and a half and it's already won Game of the Year for 2026.
I am happy to see Borderlands 4 didn't make it. It feels messed up to feel that way because historically speaking, I've loved Borderlands titles. I just had zero desire to pick it up and from everything I've heard, I made the right call; 2K and Gearbox have lost the plot. I'll give it a go at 75% off when it gets a huge discount next year at some point, but yeah, we'll be waiting on that one.
Yeah I'm not going to call it anything but the Gabecube. If I get one, I might have to design and custom print a vinyl sticker for it with the various Gabe memes collaged all over.
I love my Steam Deck. I don't get a ton of time to play with it, but I have always wanted them to put their trackpads onto a standalone controller and its finally happening.
But, the Steam Machine... it's about damn time it makes a return! SteamOS has gone so hard and with the place where computer hardware is at right now, it makes so much sense to have a new machine for the living room. Low power usage with high performance, god, computer hardware has been getting exciting again these past few years and I'm so curious where it's going to go.
Looking at the Steam Frame, the Snapdragon processor on it gives it the ultra-low energy usage that is required for a headset, at the cost of not everything being able to natively run on it since its ARM and not X86-64. Effectively a mobile SOC that you've find in an Android phone, and on some recent Windows Laptops, it would be interesting to see this help push gaming even more towards ARM. I've been using an ARM-based M2 Mac for the past couple of years and I'm so thrilled by its gaming performance while being super quiet and not heating up my room like a space heater. It would be amazing if we could get more desktop-grade things on ARM, and SteamOS is going to help us get there.
I thought 2025 was feeling like Year of Linux Desktop, but 2026 is going to be even more exciting with these new hardware announcements. Before my desktop died due to a CPU failure, I had moved over to Fedora with KDE Plasma and I had Steam with Proton and it was a wonderful experience playing games on Linux, away from the hell that is Windows and in an ecosystem that supports more games unlike MacOS. Windows is still king for anti-cheat though, which I hope devs can figure out a good solution for anti-cheat on SteamOS at least because I'd love to be able to daily drive Linux for gaming at the very least. I've been so proud of what Valve has been doing for gaming on linux.
I've been quite busy with the website and life so not a whole lot of gaming has been taking place so far this month, but, I did play the demo for Saelig and was quite impressed.
It's an RPG that has simulation and business management elements. I made my first character a super thief by taking anything that would give me a boost to thieving. It took a moment to figure out how I could actually put my skills to the test, but when I did, wow. It was a good idea to start in a larger town!
I kept getting caught stealing though since my stealth wasn't too good... but I was having such success that I was able to pay the fines off without an issue... until it became one. I was caught being bad, and I got exiled from the town. So with not much time left in the demo, I decided to hell with everyone in this town, this is my town. I started burning down all the buildings and most importantly, the other farm plots so that my workers on the farm wouldn't have any competition anymore. As I was doing this, barbarians attacked the town so everyone was occupied with them or running away from them so the fires burned half the town to the ground.
Then I got caught afterward. I didn't have the money to pay the fine so I got sent to the pit. Well, I don't know how long my sentence was for, but my demo ended about 20 minutes later and I just laughed at the insane situation I put myself in and how silly the pit was. I tried to use the unstuck tool in the pit and it teleported me to the top of the pit but I still was unable to move... as expected since I had been jailed. Winter came and that was that for my demo time.
It is definitely worth the purchase, it's $17.49 CAD and I can see having more fun with it.
I also played a couple rounds of Balatro while eating lunch yesterday and finally did the Speedrun achievement which just involves skipping most of the rounds. I got very lucky.
I seriously can't wait to get my hands on this, even if it ends up just being a reskinned version of Vampire Survivors and quite literally since it's the same engine. The art just looks so good, but that's not surprising since Boltgun's art is incredible.
The one thing I wonder is if this means we're going to have to wait a long time for a new Animal Crossing game. I think some of these additions are cool and add value to the game, but I also think the island concept is a bit much at this point.
What I'd like to see out of a new game? A return to a chunk of land with borders; I would love to be connected to a friend or friends by a land barrier so if we're both online we can freely visit each other and our animals could even cross over between the towns. Speaking of villagers, we need them to return to, at a minimum, New Leaf levels of interesting. The villagers were so blegh, for lack of a better term, in New Horizons. The technology is here, Nintendo, you have the power, make them all more engaging and find more fun things to do with them.
A Switch 2 Animal Crossing game definitely would sell consoles. Just as a Switch 2 only Zelda or Metroid would. I know we're not too far off every game releasing only being for Switch 2, anything that has dual released at this point is just games that were being worked on when Switch 2 was still far away. It's a shame that Legends ZA is a dual-release because you know they could have gone a bit more wild with it if they didn't need the two games to work together. I hope the next mainline Pokemon game is fully focused on the full power of the Switch 2 - though it's Pokemon so it probably won't be lmao.
And now we've derailed into Pokemon so that's enough for this comment.
I haven't had much time to play any games so far this month but I do plan on playing World of Warcraft's Legion Remix event that started this past week and I've got this itch to jump back into Schedule 1 since I haven't played it for a while and they came out with a new crime mob update not too long ago.
I'm going to be playing Discounty soon as well as I received a key for it on Nintendo Switch and I plan on doing a full review. That was supposed to happen earlier in the week but the website had other plans for me.
Sorry all about the downtime the past two days. Card reveal season for Hearthstone always increases our traffic and when the stars align, stuff happens. This time around a long-term performance issue that hadn't really been that large of an issue took the site out due to some other changes on our backend.
It took some time to sort that out but the issue is resolved and steps have been taken so that the issue cannot happen again. Nirast was saying how every time we have a reveal season something goes wrong and yeah... he's not wrong.
I'm diving into some other performance related issues though this evening to help improve things even more since there are still a few slowdowns I'm seeing with the site, but the big ones are fixed and I'm glad for that to be the case.
Yo actually tho, where in the world is Monk? It would be interesting if they did that next year since this year seems to be all about a power level reset. It would give Monks a more even ground to stand on without making their cards just insanely overpowered.
Hey, thanks for the reply!
CPU is definitely almost never going to be a bottleneck going forward, and I love that we've gotten to that point in time because damn, it used to be a struggle bus.
The 7800X3D's big brother, 9800X3D, was one that I had considered due to the gaming performance boosts (and some workloads) but ultimately, pure core counts won due to the just absurd amount of parallel tasks I run where my old 8c/16t would max out easily.
As far as RAM goes, yeah, if I did go 32 I wouldn't be happy. I was willing to just because the prices are so absurd right now, but I've hit 32 GB of usage on my old system quite reliably and I'd rather not hit any kind of disk cache on Windows when that happens. My Mac Studio has 64 GB and it's just become my new baseline because of that and how it has enhanced the way I work. At times I may have a dozen different 3d models open in printing slicing software, each consuming 2-4 GB of RAM which does not work too well on a system with only 32 GB. I definitely have created my own unique set of problems but, that's the beauty of having options.
Honestly, if RAM prices weren't so stupid, I'd maybe have even gone 128. I would love to run a virtualized desktop with a dedicated Windows and Linux environment, plus run some containerized (kubernetes) workloads on other cores/ram on the same hardware for one really kickass box. The only thing that stops me from doing that is some games (particularly those with anticheat) do not like to or will not run in a virtualized environment. I'm big on virtualization but even bigger on container orchestration, so I'd love a single box like that. Realistically though, I'm going to just need to get a couple of more mini pcs to add to my local kubernetes cluster.
You definitely made the right call in waiting on the 5070 Ti there, it's a great card with plenty of VRAM (as you said) and once the prices stopped being silly, it's really a no-brainer for the upgrade. I'm a little worried right now that GPU prices are about to skyrocket due to memory costs increasing which has me considering just doing the 5080 now, but 3080 Ti handles everything I need it to without an issue so it's a silly optimization to make.
Personally, I've moved up the ladder from 60 series cards (sup 560 and 760), to 70 (oh hey there 970), and then finally to 80 (1080ti hype) and it just feels like I need to stay on 80 even with the absurd pricing they come with. I know that I would be happy with a 5070 Ti, they certainly kick serious ass, but the better potential for local AI workloads, that small speed increase might be worth it. I don't really do any local AI stuff, but it has been fun to play around with and if I did for some reason want to make more use of it in general, the option would be nice to have since renting GPUs is too expensive. I used to rent the hardware Out of Games ran on but ultimately now the business owns the hardware and the costs are a fraction of what they used to be every month and soon the cost of ownership will start being a financial win for the website.
Though, I do wonder if the Super variants that are rumored will actually come with 24 GB of VRAM because that would be the real thing to wait for. A 5080 Super would be more competitively priced than the 5090 with its whopping 32 GB, which, yes, there are definitely even limits for me lol. I'd love a 5090 but the potential energy consumption is just too insane and I know the moment I go to the 90 series, I'm going to want to stay on the 90 series.
AMD is definitely not playing great on the AI/ML field right now though as you've found. I wish their graphics cards were more competitive on all fronts because it would force Nvidia's hand (hopefully) to reduce prices at least a bit. GPU costs skyrocketed during the start of the pandemic and they never really went down. We had already seen GPU costs rise before that, but then with the scarce supply, it normalized really expensive GPUs. Our GPUs are definitely more complicated today than ever before, but the premium Nvidia is making on them is too damn high.
Funny enough, I have a new RM850X that uses Type 4 cables and I had to go look at the official Corsair page for cable compatibility and my Type 4 cables do not look like their Type 4 cables - they have the sleeves of the Type 5. I did however receive a EPS12V cable that is labelled as a Type 4 though... why the hell did you have to make this so complicated Corsair. I too really do dislike companies reusing model numbers when specs change. Its like the NVME SSD fiasco a couple of years ago when the onboard NAND and controllers changed and completely destroyed the drive's performance. I can't recall who was at fault for that one so I won't name names, but the years of reviews of how good the drives were and then all of a sudden people weren't getting the same performance... absolute bullshit. Corsair should have just called the new one the RM850z, PC enthusiasts love their X and Z.
God, 20 years of Xbox. It's wild to think that it has been that long.
I never owned an original Xbox, nor did I own a 360 though almost everyone i knew did - I was a Nintendo kid.
My first ever memory with Xbox was when I went to a tournament to play Halo without ever playing the game or the console. It was taking place at EB Games and then my store didn't have enough registrations so we were transferred to another one a couple of towns over at their large mall. I had absolutely zero idea what I was doing and it reinforced that I really did not like playing shooters with a mouse.
That did end up making me interested in the game though, and I did buy it at a later date when I realized it was out on PC as well.
My first Xbox console was the Xbox One. I bought it mainly as a Forza machine though I also played GTA V, Halo 5: Guardians, and various random titles. It was such a funny looking console, I wasn't the biggest fan of the design of it, the 360 was such a beautiful and iconic beast. Then I upgraded to a Project Scorpio edition Xbox One X on launch day because I wanted more power out of it and that sweet 4K resolution. I still love how it said "Project Scorpio" on the console and controller in that green text, it was wild that they didn't do the same thing for the Xbox Series X (Code named Project Scarlet) because I had hoped to add another unique piece to my collection of consoles.
Of course, the Series X was purchased on launch day as well because we wanted even more power, we wanted faster loading, and the beauty of raytracing and true 4k potential. Admittedly, I haven't played my Series X as much as I had hoped, though Forza runs so beautifully on it and with Game Pass, I've definitely played a wider variety of games on it than the Xbox One family.
PC will always have my heart though and it's nice to see that Microsoft has been focusing their efforts more on PC and cross-platform instead of a closed ecosystem: Xbox Play Anywhere. It's interesting to see where the Xbox brand will go in the future and I do wonder if the new Steam Machine can get enough support, could we see Xbox appear more on it in some way? Sideloaded app store? I would love to see Microsoft fully embrace Xbox on Linux.
This is a huge update for the game. Walls were such a pain to deal with back in the day... and I suppose for the past 100 years as well that the game has been out. Bravo to the team on OpenRCT2 for the patch.
What a huge showcase today! Clover Pit has been calling my name on Steam for a while, I'm glad to see it's now on Xbox too.
It's funny, I haven't played any of this year's nominations for Game of the Year.
I never finished the original Death Stranding because I wanted to wait for it to come out on PC because I just hate playing a lot of games with a controller that would clearly be better with keyboard and mouse which is why I never gave 2 a go.
Clair Obscur looks like a beautiful game and ever person I have talked to had nothing but amazing things to say about it, it just wasn't really my type of game. I fully expect it to win Game of the Year.
Donkey Kong... I bought it and never had time to play it yet. I was waiting for "the right moment" to just sink into it but that moment never came. I've heard a mix of commentary on the game but I really don't believe for a moment that this deserves to be here at the top. Is it there just because Nintendo didn't have a first-party title in the category? Feels rigged lol.
Hades II I understand is missing a bit of the charm from the first game, but otherwise is a solid game. The timeline on it feels... rushed maybe? I'm looking forward to diving into it in the future, because the first one was amazing, but the second iteration really didn't seem to have the same OMG AMAZING that the first did.
Hollow Knight: Silksong being in this category makes sense. It sold a boat load of copies, the number of positive reviews is huge, and I mean, it is Hollow Knight its bound to be great. It's still on Game Pass so go give it a play if you haven't.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, I had to look this one up because I could have sworn this was a last year release but no, it was the beginning of February. I remember hearing a lot about it, I know people have been positive about the game, but is it Game of the Year worthy?
It's a shame Metroid Prime 4: Beyond comes out in a couple of weeks because I bet this would have been on the list if it did. I hope next year's awards showcases it because December may as well be 2026 but also, next year is looking insane for games. Grand Theft Auto VI, The Witcher IV, and Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, just to name a few, will likely eclipse it and I'll be making the same comment next year about how Metroid is only on the list because Nintendo didn't have anything better. Let's be real though, GTA 6 is a titan and a half and it's already won Game of the Year for 2026.
I am happy to see Borderlands 4 didn't make it. It feels messed up to feel that way because historically speaking, I've loved Borderlands titles. I just had zero desire to pick it up and from everything I've heard, I made the right call; 2K and Gearbox have lost the plot. I'll give it a go at 75% off when it gets a huge discount next year at some point, but yeah, we'll be waiting on that one.
Characters are looking real good! I hope we get to see some more teasers because a 2027 release date feels like an infinity amount of time right now.
Yeah I'm not going to call it anything but the Gabecube. If I get one, I might have to design and custom print a vinyl sticker for it with the various Gabe memes collaged all over.
This is awesome. Seriously. Awesome.
I love my Steam Deck. I don't get a ton of time to play with it, but I have always wanted them to put their trackpads onto a standalone controller and its finally happening.
But, the Steam Machine... it's about damn time it makes a return! SteamOS has gone so hard and with the place where computer hardware is at right now, it makes so much sense to have a new machine for the living room. Low power usage with high performance, god, computer hardware has been getting exciting again these past few years and I'm so curious where it's going to go.
Looking at the Steam Frame, the Snapdragon processor on it gives it the ultra-low energy usage that is required for a headset, at the cost of not everything being able to natively run on it since its ARM and not X86-64. Effectively a mobile SOC that you've find in an Android phone, and on some recent Windows Laptops, it would be interesting to see this help push gaming even more towards ARM. I've been using an ARM-based M2 Mac for the past couple of years and I'm so thrilled by its gaming performance while being super quiet and not heating up my room like a space heater. It would be amazing if we could get more desktop-grade things on ARM, and SteamOS is going to help us get there.
I thought 2025 was feeling like Year of Linux Desktop, but 2026 is going to be even more exciting with these new hardware announcements. Before my desktop died due to a CPU failure, I had moved over to Fedora with KDE Plasma and I had Steam with Proton and it was a wonderful experience playing games on Linux, away from the hell that is Windows and in an ecosystem that supports more games unlike MacOS. Windows is still king for anti-cheat though, which I hope devs can figure out a good solution for anti-cheat on SteamOS at least because I'd love to be able to daily drive Linux for gaming at the very least. I've been so proud of what Valve has been doing for gaming on linux.
It's not a huge overhaul but definitely one that needed to happen. It's was wild at how small the Steam interface has been all these years.
I've been quite busy with the website and life so not a whole lot of gaming has been taking place so far this month, but, I did play the demo for Saelig and was quite impressed.
It's an RPG that has simulation and business management elements. I made my first character a super thief by taking anything that would give me a boost to thieving. It took a moment to figure out how I could actually put my skills to the test, but when I did, wow. It was a good idea to start in a larger town!
I kept getting caught stealing though since my stealth wasn't too good... but I was having such success that I was able to pay the fines off without an issue... until it became one. I was caught being bad, and I got exiled from the town. So with not much time left in the demo, I decided to hell with everyone in this town, this is my town. I started burning down all the buildings and most importantly, the other farm plots so that my workers on the farm wouldn't have any competition anymore. As I was doing this, barbarians attacked the town so everyone was occupied with them or running away from them so the fires burned half the town to the ground.
Then I got caught afterward. I didn't have the money to pay the fine so I got sent to the pit. Well, I don't know how long my sentence was for, but my demo ended about 20 minutes later and I just laughed at the insane situation I put myself in and how silly the pit was. I tried to use the unstuck tool in the pit and it teleported me to the top of the pit but I still was unable to move... as expected since I had been jailed. Winter came and that was that for my demo time.
It is definitely worth the purchase, it's $17.49 CAD and I can see having more fun with it.
I also played a couple rounds of Balatro while eating lunch yesterday and finally did the Speedrun achievement which just involves skipping most of the rounds. I got very lucky.
I couldn't agree more! It's already taken them forever and a half, whats another half?
I seriously can't wait to get my hands on this, even if it ends up just being a reskinned version of Vampire Survivors and quite literally since it's the same engine. The art just looks so good, but that's not surprising since Boltgun's art is incredible.
Fortnite is truly the metaverse. Facebook wishes they could have had this level of success.
The one thing I wonder is if this means we're going to have to wait a long time for a new Animal Crossing game. I think some of these additions are cool and add value to the game, but I also think the island concept is a bit much at this point.
What I'd like to see out of a new game? A return to a chunk of land with borders; I would love to be connected to a friend or friends by a land barrier so if we're both online we can freely visit each other and our animals could even cross over between the towns. Speaking of villagers, we need them to return to, at a minimum, New Leaf levels of interesting. The villagers were so blegh, for lack of a better term, in New Horizons. The technology is here, Nintendo, you have the power, make them all more engaging and find more fun things to do with them.
A Switch 2 Animal Crossing game definitely would sell consoles. Just as a Switch 2 only Zelda or Metroid would. I know we're not too far off every game releasing only being for Switch 2, anything that has dual released at this point is just games that were being worked on when Switch 2 was still far away. It's a shame that Legends ZA is a dual-release because you know they could have gone a bit more wild with it if they didn't need the two games to work together. I hope the next mainline Pokemon game is fully focused on the full power of the Switch 2 - though it's Pokemon so it probably won't be lmao.
And now we've derailed into Pokemon so that's enough for this comment.
It’s the weirdest timeline lol
Such incredible pieces of art but damn that is soooo many to collect lol. Mister Clocksworth really stands out and I also really enjoy King Maluk.
I haven't had much time to play any games so far this month but I do plan on playing World of Warcraft's Legion Remix event that started this past week and I've got this itch to jump back into Schedule 1 since I haven't played it for a while and they came out with a new crime mob update not too long ago.
I'm going to be playing Discounty soon as well as I received a key for it on Nintendo Switch and I plan on doing a full review. That was supposed to happen earlier in the week but the website had other plans for me.
Sorry all about the downtime the past two days. Card reveal season for Hearthstone always increases our traffic and when the stars align, stuff happens. This time around a long-term performance issue that hadn't really been that large of an issue took the site out due to some other changes on our backend.
It took some time to sort that out but the issue is resolved and steps have been taken so that the issue cannot happen again. Nirast was saying how every time we have a reveal season something goes wrong and yeah... he's not wrong.
I'm diving into some other performance related issues though this evening to help improve things even more since there are still a few slowdowns I'm seeing with the site, but the big ones are fixed and I'm glad for that to be the case.
Downtime is my #1 enemy.
Yo actually tho, where in the world is Monk? It would be interesting if they did that next year since this year seems to be all about a power level reset. It would give Monks a more even ground to stand on without making their cards just insanely overpowered.
Joke if you must but this article did pretty well!