Valve decided to use an immutable file system for the Steam Deck’s OS - essentially, the core of the operating system, including the directories where system-wide apps are typically installed, is read-only. It’s a safeguard against people who’d accidentally end up making their OS unbootable by blindly following…

I got spoiled a bit pre-release on Captain Carter showing up, along with some version of the Illuminati, and obviously Patrick Stewart wasn’t at all subtle about his appearance. But honestly, I didn’t think we’d be getting any sort of Fantastic Four appearance until that universe’s Christine mentioned working for the…

I noticed that’s how it was credited, too, as the theme from X-Men ‘97. It’s really pedantic, but it kind of bugs me because the cartoon was on for years and ended in ‘97. I’m sure the actual X-Men ‘97 follow-up will use the same theme, or some variation of it, but it still feels off to me.

Honestly this game sounds like it takes some heavy inspiration from Shin Megami Tensei - production interviews from earlier this year mentioned things like morality-based route splits and negotiating with enemy Digimon to get them to join you.

Interesting twist in making Byleth a villain, at least for the early stages of the story (and let’s face it, there’s no way they’d actually let that stick), but the trailer pretty heavily implies that there’ll be split routes again, which makes me wonder... what’s the point in the first place?

It seems like a pretty obvious ploy, with the new version of PlayStation Plus coming up. Inevitably, people would start asking why they could download and play, on their PS4s and PS5s, only the PS1/PS2/PSP games they’re renting via Plus and not the ones they’ve long since bought and paid for. The simplest solution is…

Not necessarily a ‘joke’, but Landfall, the devs behind some other silly games like Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and Clustertruck, dropped a new title on Steam, currently free-to-own. It’s probably the best co-op horse-drifting-racer/gunslinging-knight-battle-royale that $0 will buy.

Having only ever seen the director’s cut, I thought the movie was fine. Little too much Seether and Evanescence in the soundtrack, Colin Farrell was a bit too over-the-top , but it wasn’t bad by any means.

Having picked it up in a previous Itch megabundle, I really enjoyed Lenna’s Inception, a semi-randomized, glitch-tinted love letter to the Zelda games of the early 90's. It’s far from the most polished game in the bundle, but I liked it enough that I went and bought it again on Steam just to make sure the developers…

You’d think, but I honestly have to wonder how much actual code is left from the SNES version at this point and how much has been rewritten from scratch. They very clearly and carelessly ported the PC release back from the Android version, which included new DS content and likely used it as a codebase, and as the DS…

It’s been going on since long before the Switch era - look at Dynasty Warriors Gundam or Dragon Quest Heroes, for example.

I mean, at least Astra started out as a pretty faithful adaptation of the original character, as minor of a role as it was. I think Zari has less in common with any version of Isis than Sara or her sister did with Black Canary.

I really want this to be the case, but given that there are next to no actual DC characters on Legends these days, I’m not getting my hopes up.

Yeah, Fata Morgana is fairly dark in places and even difficult to stomach at times, although as far as being ‘fucked up for a visual novel’ it’s only kind of scratching the surface. Admittedly, most of what’s out there that’s consistently darker is either censored on Steam or banned from it altogether.

This is an impressively needless article, since we’re clearly going to see more of Fisk in Maya’s show. He’s not going to just die offscreen after being brought in to walk away from arrows to the chest, a low-speed car crash, and a point-blank explosion. If he’s such a central figure in Maya’s life, it seems obvious…

I dunno, I think it’d be somewhat fair to think that Yelena’s ‘hunt’ might’ve been saved for some future Black Widow/Hawkeye film or something - think about how long it’s taken some other MCU setups to pay off. How many years was Thanos teased for? Would they really set up a stinger for something to be resolved in a…

Yeah, the Xbox app is complete garbage when it works at all, and the fact that all (or at least 99%) of the Game Pass games install as UWP apps is just icing on the cake.

$70 for a day-one, cross-platform release on multiple storefronts? I could get on board with that.

Honestly just clicked the article to see if someone had already posted this.

I’m not a fan of how locked down the M1 boards are (at least for the Mac Mini models, the RAM and SSD are soldered directly to the board), but I think a big part of the M1's success is that Apple can design and plan ahead, for years, to support one specific set of hardware and optimize for it. It’s the same reason…