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So sorry to hear about that. Our thoughts are with you.

I think this looks better that the Steam Deck and will perform better. I must disagree with @Debashis, I see windows 11 as an advantage over the simi-skimmed Linux that is Steam OS. And that armoury care system that can group together you games from multiple accounts rather than it turning playing games from EGS, GOG into something to feel guilty about is joy. Yes, I know it possible to add games from other launchers or even games that are individual installs into your Steam library, but it's a pain in the ass to so in part because the game itself to be instilled with a findable .exe file. This is just a far more user friendly solution.

Just because they've only announced it now, doesn't mean they've only just started working on it. Rockstar haven't actually released a new game in 10 years (That is maddening to think about), so they have likely been at work on this for a long time. Yes, a lot of that time and resources have been spent on supporting GTA Online, but trust me when I tell you you won't have that long to wait for RDR3, a year or two I suspect. Three at the absolute most. However, despite what I just said, I also wouldn't trust Rockstar to be an assurance for quality. They were happy to see the Definitive Edition of the PS2 era GTA games come out in a disastrous state. I know they didn't actually develop those ports, but it's still on them to care enough to properly oversee the project at least, but even better would have been to care enough to do the job themselves. Then there's the debacle over the recent port of RDR2 made for PlayStation 4/5 and PC. A game with less content and poorer performance than if you just used an Xbox 360 disk in an Xbox One or Series S/X. I personally don't think Rockstar are the same company that they used to be. Greed has overtaken passion in Rockstar, so thier name means nothing to me anymore.

Bandai Namco have confirmed that a DLC expansion for Tales of Arise is coming on November 9nth 2023. This is two years after the release of the original game. Shameless plug, I did review that game here on VGR, so click here if you want to check that out. It appears they have been working on this DLC for quite some time as "Beyond the Dawn" was filed as a trademark by Bandai Namco back in December 2022. More on that story here. No word yet on the cost of this expansion, but this will apparently add around 20 hours of playtime to the game, so I'd expect something in the region of $15-$20. However, I would expect people who bought the Ultimate Edition to receive this DLC at no extra cost, but we'll see. Here is the trailer for the new expansion: I enjoyed the game, despite a few issues with the story, so I have high hopes for this. The trailer itself sets this up well and it looks promising. What do you guys think?

If the fanbase of a certain game, movie, TV show or whatever develops an obsession over name pronunciation, it's a comparatively nice problem to have. If that is something to get one's tits-n-a-twist over, there can't be much worth complaining in the first place. so yeah, I see it as petty and puerile for the most part. People grow up in various places around the world with various languages and accents, so people are going to pronounce this in various ways. Even if it is a proper noun, like a name, so there is technically a "correct" way to pronounce it, is it really that important?

There's a big focus on FF16 on this issue (At least the article is focused on that, but since it's IGN, I'll do not take it that seriously), but there is more to this... surly. Yes, $6 billion is a lot to loose in share value, but it looks like Square Enix are taking a bit of pain in the short term for a gain later as they are restructuring and refocusing thier business to what looks like a more sensible and customer focused direction. And after some truly mind boggling choices that they have mad in thier recent past, I remain positive for them despite how this looks.

I think that's a great idea. They do something very similar to that over on JoyFreak whare the editor's articles get posted as topics. The problem over there is that one of those editors (who shall remain nameless) basically abuses the system and uses thier "articles" to peddle affiliate links, some of which are really shady. However, I am in support of this. I hope @DC can work that in in some automatic way, but in the meantime it might take either myself or @The Blackangel to update a sticky thread for it.

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A new trailer for this has dropped and a release date of October 19nth.

I'm not the biggest fan of this franchise, but this is certainly welcome news for fans. RDR3 will be a great game I'm sure, but I'm more interested in GTA VI to tell the truth.

Been playing a bit of Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy and Nights of Azure 2. Bit of an odd mix, but I just bought a new controller for my PC and wanted to test it out on a variety of games. I'm considering actually reviewing it as I do have quite a lot to say about it.

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By reading the article, I learned this same studio was Parralax before they changed thier name, the studio behind Decent, so I must say I am saddened by that more than the connection to Saints Row. Still, this is sad, but from a studio that hasn't really had a hit in around a decade, I can't say I'm totally shocked either. That Saints Row reboot was the final nail in the coffin it seems EDIT: I'm also going to move this to Gaming News.

Weird, I thought they had scrapped that a while ago. Still, it is a shady move, but not a surprising one.

I'm trying to get my Gamepass subscription sorted before Starfield launches. For a big, money hungry cooperation, I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to actually give them money. I'm cautiously optimistic, though. I love the look of the starship customisation and the story has potential. Sa with any Bethesda game, my biggest concern is if it will work at launch, but heard no horror stories from those who are playing it early so far, so fingers crossed.

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It might not have been the first, but the first I remember was a game called Screamer. It was a great looking game for it's time with a vibrant colour pallet and an impressive level of detail, even if as you can see in the video that the draw distance was pretty terrible. It wasn't exactly the most fun to control either with the cars feeling very stiff when turning slowly to then breaking loose big time and slide all over the place. And of cause, you had to use the keyboard, which made the idea of trying to use the manual versions of the cars to scary to even to try for me. Don't get me wrong, I loved it as a kid, but I know that would have pretty poorly. There wasn't much in terms of a verity of tracks and cars, but for 1995 I suppose it was acceptable and cars did feel district and the tracks had verity with very different demands and driving styles required to get the best out of them. There was one thing, though, that it did brilliantly. If you could set the sound up to use the CD tracks instead of the default sound font for the music (Oh yes, GONFIG and SETUP programmes for games, gotta love the 90's), what you would get is one of the best game soundtracks ever.

I actually can see the point to this. As @The Blackangel touched on, these old consoles can have reliably issues because of thier age, not to mention compatibility issues, especially with modern TV's. So if people want to play their old Atari games in a way that feels authentic without having to deal with the real world troubles of using original hardware, I can understand that. I will agree it's a little pricy, though.

Honestly, there's too little here to really generate much to say. I will say that I am a little concerned with the way this game looks. There's a difference between retro and dated, and this digital FMV stuff from the late 90's into the 2000's I'd definitely describe as dated because back then it was never a stylistic choice, that was thier best attempt to make a game look realistic. It's not the same thing as, let's say, pixel graphics because even though it was a style through necessity as the tech was limited, it was style none the less. The last few seconds in particular with the girl struggling with her lighter really do look like shit.

I'm suprised to find Sega were still making new games for Mega Drive/Genesis as late as 1995. The Saturn was already out. It's not like this is even Mega CD/Sega CD or 32X Game either. Anyway, the game looks cool. I like it's graphics and colourful design. I can see the Sonic DNA, so I do wonder how much effort really went to this. I mean, is it a game Sega really cared about, or was it something they quicky botched together to squeeze that little bit more money out of thier aging console?

@Shortie I've merged these two topics together as I feel that the topics are similar enough that were is no need to have two separate threads for responses. People can easily say that they've played the new season of Fortnite and share thier thoughts on it within the same post. I've also move the thread to the "Video Games" sub-forum as this is about a specific game instead of gaming in a more general sense.

In that case, they really do need to take some cues from Saints Row. You customised and collected vehicles and then called somebody to bring that vehicle to you whenever and wherever you wanted. Even Farcry 5 had a similar mechanic, so there really in no excuse Rockstar.

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