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I am currently using the HD60S myself which I have had since around 2018 and it's still going strong, and I haven't had any issues with it at all which has been amazing. I know there are quite a few capture cards out there that you can purchase that are more affordable than the Elgato products but the one I know of that seems to be quite well known and I know someone who does use it is, AVerMedia. From what I understand they are great and quite reliable, and I haven't heard any complaints from those who are using it. If my Elgato was to die on me, AVerMedia would be one I would consider for sure.

I honestly did not think getting anything magnetic close to a PC screen would cause so much damage! It's good to know though as I have kids and sometimes, they do mess about with magnets around things like TV screens, so I know for future to tell them and keep they from doing it. I do know that my daughter for whatever reason decided to stick a suction cup to her phone screen, she was lucky to get it off without affecting the screen, but it did worry her. Safe to say she won't do that again!

Over the years, Fortnite has come out with some absolutely amazing skins. With skins such as LazarBeam, LoserFruit, Lachlan, SypherPK, Ninja, GrefG, Chica, Ali-A and so many more, I honestly never thought we would see content creators and streamers in a game such as Fortnite, but they made that possible. Out of all the skins I must say I am quite fond of anything cat related. Lynx, Vix and even Penny with her alternative Halloween skin with the cat ears have to be my favorites

I tried out this game when it was first released and it really is like a version of Super Smash Bros. Being that I am a huge fan of Super Smash Bros I had a lot of fun playing this game, the controls take a little bit to get used to but once you have the hang of it, much like any game it soon becomes natural to you and you find it easier to play. I haven't been back on this game at all for a few months now mainly due to other games taking over but again, it's another free game that I can go back to at any time if I am looking for something different to play. If you enjoyed Super Smash Bros, then I would highly recommend trying this.

I am often gutted that I can not always afford Amazon Prime as the deals they have not only for games but also for in game content as part of Twitch Prime is absolutely amazing and I often forget about them unless someone mentions it and I think to look. For the price you pay for Amazon Prime and they stuff you get through that it's well worth it just for that alone. I think one game I managed to snag once was YouTubers Life and that game was a ton of fun and I spent hours on it.

I remember playing this game back on PS1 and I had an absolute blast playing it. I got the remastered version of the game a few years ago, Spyro Reignited and as much as I have started it, I haven't had the time to fully play through it so that is a game I do need to go back to. I have heard many people saying that it doesn't give the same vibe and excitement as the first game and that they still enjoyed the game, so I am curious to see how the game feels for me when I play it more compared to when I played it on the PS1.

I absolutely love this game. It's like a cross-over of Halo and Portal and it's a ton of fun! I haven't played in such a long time with other games coming through and my time being spent on those, but Splitgate is a free game that I know is there and that I can always go back to. I love how it's very fast paced and how like Halo it feels as well. I often miss how Halo used to feel in the multiplayer and Splitgate brings that back which I love. I would highly recommend this game if you were a fan of Halo.

I am exactly the same when it comes to Call of Duty, I like to rush and run and gun when playing so that can often result in my K/D taking a hit. I just can't seem to sit and camp in one area of the map for the whole game, I find it very boring I guess just sitting and waiting for a shot to take and would rather be running and gunning. I feel now if I went back I would be rusty BUT with some time I could be back to where I was. Not going to lie, kinda tempted to jump on and just see where I get with my K/D if I am honest.

Mine was custom built by a company called Fierce PC back in 2018. I did have issues with it less than a year after I got it where my USB ports at the top of the tower slipped and I had to send it back for repair but to be honest, I have had a lot of issues with my PC and I am beginning to wonder about how it was built. Don't get me wrong it's worked for what I needed it for and it's still going now but I have had so many issues with it over the years that going back to Fierce PC is something I may not consider in the future.

Music streaming would be a great feature to have on Xbox. I know they have Spotify built in but again, what if you wanted to have subscriptions all in one place or just in one place? I really feel that if Microsoft were to do something in terms of music streaming it could be built in to offer more ways to mix it with game sound so that you are able to play and have music playing. There is so much they could add as part of a subscription service but whether they choose to would be a different story. Saying that though, who knows what Microsoft and Phil Spencer may surprise us with next.

Yeah, I would definitely guarantee that if someone found a way to mod and get the older dashboards on the current consoles, Microsoft would definitely hit people that did it with a ban for messing with stuff and mods. I even got to the point where I cleared my cache on my Xbox in hopes that it would speed up my console when it boots up but it still seems really slow loading when it comes to the dashboard and things popping up on the dashboard. It's tolerable but also somewhat frustrating that it takes as long as it does. I get jealous when my sons fire up their Xbox Series S and their dashboard boots up so fast with things loading in so quick. One day I will be on the new gen but for now, I just tolerate the slow loading.

It's so nice to hear that others find that gaming on a night helps their anxiety. I myself suffer with depression and anxiety and social anxiety is a big one for me. I find that gaming during the night when less is going on helps my anxiety so much and I feel more relaxed when my anxiety is a lot lower. Is it just me or do you find yourself feeling somewhat more guilty for gaming during the day if you are disturbed because your anxiety is so high? That is a big problem for me I found and always wondered if it was just a me thing or if others have the same issue.

As someone who is a huge Harry Potter fan and I used to love playing the games years ago on the PlayStation I was super excited to hear there was another Harry Potter game coming out and I have been really excited for its release. Since finding out what was said by J.K.Rowling as much as I am very much excited for the game, I feel that because of what was said, getting the game now would just not feel right. I don't know. It's something I would love to play, and the game wouldn't just help J.K.Rowling but would help anyone involved in the movies and the game so it's a difficult situation and one that means all parties suffer.

I remember when I was younger back in the 90's I would sit for hours on point and click adventure games and would get so hooked on these games because there was so much you could do in these games. Roll forward to now and I still love to play these kinds of games. I believe New World is one of the most recent games that had a point and click feature when you play. Unfortunately, as much as I do enjoy that game, with my PC being the way it is it's not handling some games very well so I have not been able to play that game as much as I would have liked. I love that they are still releasing games with the point and click.

Another big advantage with having Game Pass I guess as well, the points you can accumulate not just from Bing searches but also from completing quests for reward points that all go towards you getting another month or even more of Xbox Game Pass. It really is an amazing service with so many amazing perks. I wouldn't be without it now and the amount of money I have saved through Game Pass with games they offer, and rewards points is just amazing.

They sure do. The ones I have now, once I charge them fully I can game for example for about 6 hours if I am live streaming and still have quite a lot of battery power left from continuous usage, I can only imagine how many batteries I would go through if I hadn't of changed to rechargeable and being that the most decent batteries are way more expensive I wouldn't even like to guess how much that would cost me in the long run compared to the small price I paid for rechargeable batteries and the dock.

There was only one game that was an exclusive to Nintendo that I was really looking forward to this year and that was Nintendo Switch Sports. I bought that a few days after it was released and me and my family have had a ton of fun on it since and it's been amazing to play on family game nights as all the family can get involved. I am eagerly awaiting an update as they said one would be coming in the fall, so I am keeping an eye out for that now.

Have you looked into AVerMedia? They are another company who make capture cards and they are quite affordable. I myself have an Elgato HD60S which I have had now for around 4 years with no issues, but I do have friends who stream console games that use the AVerMedia capture card and they have not had any issues with it and say it's great as a more affordable capture card. If anything were to happen to my HD60S, AVerMedia would be the company I go with next for sure.

I only really use two email services and that is Google with their Gmail service and then Outlook with their Hotmail service as I use that for my Microsoft account. I do find that Gmail is the one I use more with me having my business emails and my personal emails firing to that service and I have never had any issues with my email storage getting too full or with spam getting through as they are really good with detecting spam which is what I like. I have only ever had to tell them that something wasn't spam a handful of times and it usually saves that and I don't have an issue again.

When I purchased the PC, I have now I think if I remember rightly, it cost me a little under £700 and its lasted me since March 2018. I have been able to game on it and also use it as a streaming PC to be able to live stream and it's done really well. I feel now that it is starting to get old, and the hardware is starting to get old and I do need an update at some point. I think when I update, I will go for a more expensive one so that I am able to do more on it when it comes to gaming and creating content and live streaming. It's going to take a little while to save up I feel but I am looking at definitely spending over £1000 when I upgrade.

I am subscribed to Xbox Game Pass, specifically the Game Pass Ultimate so that I have access to Xbox Live, Xbox Games and PC games and I think it's an amazing deal. With having access cloud gaming as well it just another added perk that I love, I just wish they would bring more games that I play to the cloud so that I had more use for it. When I do eventually upgrade to my Xbox Series X I have said that I will be going the All Access route so that I get the console and the Game Pass Ultimate for 24 months as well so that I do not have to worry about that for a while.

I did hear that the reason they haven't ever released a controller similar to what PlayStation have for theirs that is rechargeable is because of a deal they have with Duracell. I always did wonder why it was always Duracell batteries that would come with the console and the controller over any other make of batteries that they could use and now it makes sense. I personally myself get a charging dock and rechargeable batteries for mine as it's cheaper than having to go out and buy batteries all the time for my controller.

I guess when you think about it, some people prefer to keep their subscriptions all in one place and at the moment, Xbox only offer games for Xbox and PC as part of their Game Pass Ultimate for a small fee a month, but I wouldn't say that something like a subscription service from Xbox for TV shows and Movies wouldn't be a hit if they were to release something like that. Maybe having some kind of subscription service for just games on Xbox, PC and then something for Games and Movies and TV would be pretty cool for those who wanted to keep their subscriptions in one place. I don't think we will ever see anything like that though as Xbox seem to be focusing more on getting games out to more people at an affordable price right now.

That is a lot of TB for a hard drive and definitely not one I have ever seen for an Xbox 🤣 the highest I have ever seen for a SSD is 2TB and they are quite costly. This is definitely photoshopped unless the guy owns his own date center and is able to get access to that kind of storage. I mean, don't get me wrong I would love to have storag of that size but jeez! I wouldn't even like to imagine how much I would pay for that! Let's hope we never see sizes that high for games 🤣

Nothing will ever beat the Xbox 360 blade dashboard that we got and I often do miss the blade dashboard we had on the Xbox 360. I myself still being on the Xbox One X right now am starting to see a difference on the speed of how fast the dashboard loads up when I boot up my console and I do feel that it is getting a little too heavy for older consoles which is a shame. My Xbox will boot up and it will take a good minute for all the tabs to load on the home and often I feel like something is wrong with my Xbox. I would love to see the option to be able to choose your own dashboard so that it suits your console, unfortunately I feel that would be too much for Microsoft and Xbox so I don't see anything like that happening any time soon if at all.