Videogames have become like movies now, in a sense that the big blockbusters with the big explosions are what’s selling, but they’re usually following tried-and-tested formulas because studios don’t want any risk with the money invested.

I think part of the problem is they’re still doing the same shit they’ve always been doing. It doesn’t feel like the subsequent games change much apart from the setting.

I’m legitimately curious about the drawing power of the “XCOM” brand on people that mostly play mobile games like these. I mean, Marvel, I can understand (especially since the advent of the MCU), but I don’t see XCOM being a recognized brand to most players of these type of mobile games. So in a sense, most will just…

I think they may drop the prices a little bit, but not that much. We have to take into account that the recent GPD devices are quite more fleshed out than what Valve is proposing, in terms of functionality at least. I got a Win Max, and while games might run slightly better on the Steam Deck due to the AMD GPU, the…

but if people really wanted a PC gaming portable that’s not a gaming laptop, they would have caught on by now.

Interesting point. Personally, I don’t think it’ll sell anything over 10 million units, and I’m generous here. Unless I’m missing something. We have to put into perspective that Valve doesn’t need this to sell games as much as Nintendo needs the Switch to sell its games. The whole point of the Switch is that it is…

Same thing here. Not that I think it won’t be fine, but the last Valve hardware I bought (Steam Controller) didn’t have a rock solid build quality imo. It was ok, but nothing more. It felt a bit flimsier than all the other controllers I own.

It’s funny that everyone seems to act like playing PC games on a portable-console-sized PC is now just getting real while I’ve been doing it since many years already on various devices... Sure, this new model from Valve will probably make it easier to do so, and at an attractive price point considering the hardware,…

...budget phones tend to keep a lot of old-school niceties that flagships have abandoned, like expandable SD card storage and headphone jacks

...budget phones tend to keep a lot of old-school niceties that flagships have abandoned, like expandable SD card…

A wider issue that this highlights is how capitalism has been transformed throughout time. At some point in history, the way we were attributing value to things completely changed. Value was in some way loosely, more or less, tied to manufacturing costs. But then this shifted when some “genius” figured that goods…

Same thing for me. And you know what? Seeing all those people thinking this way is refreshing. Maybe they all all different reasons for thinking that, but still, I think that people realizing you don’t HAVE to buy the latest tech just for the sake of having the latest tech is healthy. Just realizing that you may be…

Both are stupid because both leave aside things that are kind of essential to humans.

I don’t think anyone in their right mind would say they were deprived of their consumer rights by EA. What we could say though, is that it’s a sad day for game preservation when a company that has proven many times that it cares about the issue has to remove games that won’t be available on its service anymore,…

Lol. I’d be interested in where you get your information. Fox News???
Maybe more U.S.-based companies (that are mostly shifting their profits offshore anyways), are investing in medical research, that may be true. But this doesn’t necessarily translate into a better health system for U.S. citizens (that is, when they…

What about countries that don’t need translation? This is weird because it’s not a language / translation issue but more like a fact that concerns practicaly only the U.S.A. At least in the modern civilized world. Everyone else around the world speaking english will have the same reaction to what they’re trying to…

And I don’t buy that it’s “almost impossible”, it’s hard, there has to be the desire to make it work, but there are always ways to find useful corridors that can be used for transit. It just takes work.

The problem with public transport, at least where I live, is that even as they try to expand it, they always do it thinking that users of public transport don’t have any other options. So they don’t even ask WHY people would take it in the first place. The persons in charge are strictly numbers-focused, and so they’re…

This reminds me of an old Dilbert cartoon where the Boss was explaining how they’re planning to match their competitors in 6 months, to which Dilbert replied that it’s pointless because:
A: Catching up to where they are NOW is not where they’ll be in 6 months, and
B: You don’t know where they’ll be in 6 months anyway,…

Game sizes have been factoring more and more into my purchase decisions these days. Like, a lot. And it’s not only the “download” aspect. It’s the storage concern as well.

The games I’m most interested in are around the corner, but even they’re not urgent must-plays in my book.